Adrienne Carey Hurley

Katy sent me a link to this blog saying it has some good J-lit info. Seems way to the left, which is not my style at all, but I'll link to it here so I don't forget about it. The taser video was interesting....

Interesting News Links

Most around the world still believe in America (?)

Why the Republicans need to lose the midterms

Insourcing? - The only reason companies do this is to avoid tariffs!

The sun had sisters?

Dilbert cartoonist recovers speech

HDD Speaker

If one's into low-fi, apparently someone cooked up a way to mod an HDD voice coil into a speaker. Demented, but it comes with a video....

Munchies in Peru

News

Invention firms

Google earnings

CNN Money 25 rules to grow rich by

Internet addicts as ill as alcoholics? - Well, it's not a chemical addiction, anyway.

Wisdom of non-crowds - Yeah, crowds are dumb. Are non-crowds any better?

Samsung's hybrid HDD

Single pixel digicam - Interesting, but of questionable practicality.

Demented and Depressing Article

Scenarios of Earth without people

CNN News

Bigger families on the rise

Teaching students to fight back - Sweet!!

Scalia says Constitution silent on abortion, etc.

Sara Evans divorce - She always seemed like a good girl, but this seems too weird to just be the ex at fault!

Various Linx

These linx (bastardized plural as with "pix") are quite dated. Too busy to blog these days.

From 9/1.
How to prevent lost luggage

From 9/8.
Requirements for HD video on PCs
A distributed system where HDD servo systems are used to predict tsunamis
Xerox's reusable paper: "transient documents"
More than 2.5 billion cell phone lines in use in the world
Fastest Microsoft patch ever: 3 days ... for their DRM

From 9/14.
Next-gen DNS info on Wikipedia: Extensible Name Service ; XDI

From 9/21.
Sourced from a combination of CNN, Slashdot, and other....
Attempting to reach space on the cheap
Impressive cabling
Book that apparently has some stuff on Galois
Ansari arrives at space station
USB-rechargeable batteries
The "Methusela Foundation" has an M-Prize with regard to aging.
Strangely amusing 1st person fiction by Bruce Sterling on teenage angst in a Net world

From 9/26.
CNN special on Japan's new prime minister: article

From 10/5.

Sleeplessness and health: CNN

On Sarbanes-Oxley: Wikipedia ; sarbanes-oxley.com ; bio.org

Investment Company Act of 1940? Wikipedia

Havaria Information Service Alert Map

I received an interesting link from my uncle pointing to this alert map for the U.S. It shows seismic activity, biohazards, power outages, epidemics, storm reports, air accidents, etc. One has to wonder how they aggregate this information.

Other Random News

Aztec ruin unearthed in Mexico City

Teleportation demonstration using quantum entanglement

Hitachi Maxell develops < 0.1mm storage disc

Dual-screen Vista laptops coming

Corporate espionage howto

U.S. population nears 300 million

Top ten geek wallets

VC Blog

This was Slashdotted today, but what the hey. VC Ron Garret's blog has an entry entitled the "Top ten geek business myths". Pretty interesting read.