What Your Car Says About Your Style
refinery29.com — What would James Bond be without a sporty two-seater that drives women crazy and dispatches enemies with concealed hellfire missiles? Whether you're real or fictional, a car that speaks to your personality and style extends your taste beyond the clothes on your back... (Submitted by RandomEyes) More…
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Ignoring Tale of 3 Little Pigs, Ford Builds Car Using Straw
greenbiz.com — The 2010 Ford Flex will include the auto industry's first use of wheat straw, a waste byproduct from wheat production, and is sure to make green car fans squeal. The straw adds to Ford's growing list of bio-based and alternative materials it has added to vehicles, including soy-based seat foam, and seats made of recycled bottles. (Submitted by absolutelytrue) More…
Reliable, Efficient Fusion Power A Reality?
sciencedaily.com — In the quest to produce nuclear fusion energy, researchers from the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have recently confirmed long-standing theoretical predictions that performance, efficiency and reliability are simultaneously obtained in tokamaks, the leading magnetic confinement fusion device, operating at their performance limits. (Submitted by divinediva) More…
The Death Of Mistakes Means The Death Of Rock
npr.org — The gift that modern digital technology has given pop music is the ability to fix every nagging inconsistency in a recording, note by note and beat by beat. If you hear a contemporary mainstream rock record, you're almost certainly hearing something that has been digitally nipped and tucked and buffed until it shines. (Submitted by 0ldB0y) More…
Verizon tests sending RIAA copyright notices
news.cnet.com — Verizon, the second-largest phone company in the United States, is expected to begin issuing "copyright notices" on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America to those accused of illegally downloading songs from the Web, according to sources with knowledge of the agreement. (Submitted by DiggUnderground) More…
Bizarre Lives Of Bone-Eating Worms
sciencedaily.com — It sounds like a classic horror story -- eyeless, mouthless worms lurk in the dark, settling onto dead animals and sending out green "roots" to devour their bones. In fact, such worms do exist in the deep sea. They were first discovered in 2002 by researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), who were using a robot submarine. (Submitted by oteque) More…
SPDY: Google wants to speed up the web by ditching HTTP
arstechnica.com — Google isn't content with providing us with fast search and a fast browser: we need a faster protocol between servers and browsers. The search giant would like us to start forgetting about HTTP:// and learn to love SPDY://. Ars takes a look at the proposal as well as its strengths and weaknesses. (Submitted by DiggUnderground) More…
Billionaire Bill Gates says Wall Street pay too high
reuters.com — By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bill Gates said on Wednesday he believes Wall Street pay is ''often too high'' and that U.S. government ownership of American International Group Inc worries him because it has devalued the giant insurer. The... (Submitted by pezangel) More…
Rats as Heroes?
care2.com — As a child, Bart Weetjens, from Belgium, bred rodents to sell to pet shops. Now he’s the founder of a group that trains rats to detect landmines. A manual de-miner can do up to 60 square yards in a day, while a rat can do that in 15 minutes. Rats are happy performing repetitive task, once they know a trick, they like to do it endlessly for food. (Submitted by redwolfwalker) More…
The Fed bans overdraft fees on ATM and debit-card transactio
latimes.com — Flexing newfound muscle as consumer protector, the Federal Reserve today banned overdraft fees on automated teller machine and debit-card transactions unless consumers have actively opted for an overdraft protection service. (Submitted by BuzzEdition) More…
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