Stalking Venus

This just in from our Canadian correspondent, Jeremy Swanson. Thanks J! This is a photo of the Global Hawk UAV that returned from the war zone recently under its own power. (Iraq  to Edwards AFB in CA) – Not transported via C5 or C17….. Notice the mission paintings on the fuselage. It’s actually over 250 [...]

Alright, this is just too much now. I may be naiëve, but I honestly expected there to be a big Apple fanfare announcement at the last minute that Adobe Flash would, indeed be installed on the new generation iPhones. I thought that they were just going to pretend they weren’t installing Flash Player, so that [...]

I’m trying to pipe the picture from my MacBook Pro 17 ” to my Panasonic Viera 50″ television, because I do most of everything in my lounge. I’m a stay-home dad, writer and photographer, and my coffee table is pretty much where I do all my work, so I was wondering if there wasn’t some [...]

Fujitsu have just launched the world’s first colour e-book reader that makes use of e-paper technologies, meaning that the display can hold 250,000 different colours and the battery will last 40 hours when fully charged. I’m not sure I’d want to spend US$1000 for the extra colours though – after all, I’d mostly be reading [...]

There’s an interesting article over at The Silicon Alley Insider that states the New York Times could buy every single subscriber an Amazon Kindle e-book reader and it would still cost them only half of their existing publishing costs. From the article: According to the Times’s Q308 10-Q, the company spends $63 million per quarter [...]

Nasa: In the year 2020, NASA will be back on the moon. This time NASA will explore thousands of miles of the moon’s surface with individual missions lasting six months or longer. Just as we did during the Apollo program, NASA will be developing new concepts and technologies that also will benefit life on Earth. [...]

I have a new office chair. I’m not getting my hopes up just yet, because I’ve never had an office chair with which I have felt truly comfortable, but there’s a first time for everything. The day I joined my present company, I complained about my chair. Now no matter what anyone tells you, I’m [...]

Interesting post by Fayyaad over at Utter Insanity on the drawbacks of current legislation over the online world. Basically, he follows up on a few different articles discussing the fact that progress online is far out-pacing the legislation in the real world to manage it. What do you do if you create a virtual object [...]

It was only a matter of time before a phone came out that made me drool more than the Apple iPhone… And here it is. The Blackberry Storm. Mike Lazaridis of RIM (who manufacture the Blackberry) has this to say about the new beauty: “We took a state of the art multitouch capacitive touchscreen… and [...]