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Google Street Views: Caught In the Act

People who've gone poking around Google's newly-unveiled "Street Views" have found a whole lotta stuff, some of which has been at the top of the Drudge Report, others of which made it into Mike Nizza's post at the New York...

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May 31, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (4)

Touch

"Sigh... What an incredible innovation!" wrote an entrepreneur we know--with just a touch of sarcasm. Microsoft made a splash with its "Surface" tabletop screen Wednesday, but what got lost in the hoopla is that it's late to the party. The...

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May 30, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (4)

What Do You Do About a Lost Whale?

Day after day, for nearly two weeks now, we and other media outlets have been diligently reporting the progress of those two whales lost on the Sacramento River. NOAA, the Coast Guard, the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, and...

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May 29, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (5)

The Creation Museum

If you're passing through the Cincinnati area, and are so inclined, the new Creation Museum opens Monday, down the road in Petersburg, Kentucky. "Prepare to Believe," says the logo on its WEBSITE. "This center will equip Christians to better evangelize...

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May 25, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (26)

The Shattered Rings of Saturn

This image of Saturn's rings actually came in a couple of days ago, but it's worth savoring at about the speed at which Saturn orbits the Sun. Click on the image to enlarge. The colors are false. The image, based...

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May 24, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (2)

Get a Second Life

Second Life, you'll recall, is a phenomenon of the online world in which some 6.6 million "residents" create avatars, or representations of themselves, and move around in a virtual environment, making virtual friendships and spending virtual (or sometimes real) money....

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May 23, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (3)

U.S. Objects to 'Urgently Needed' in Climate Statement

Jeremy Lovell of Reuters reports that in the usual, ugly jockeying for position that happens before the Group of Eight meeting of world leaders, the U.S. has suggested striking two paragraphs from an early draft of a statement calling for...

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May 21, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (8)

Scotty's Ashes

Just want to be on the record: They've found the rocket containing the ashes of James Doohan, the actor who played Scotty on the original Star Trek; Gordon Cooper, the Mercury astronaut; and about 200 other people whose families had...

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May 19, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (5)

Sex and Google

The Internet is described, time and again, as a "disruptive" technology--one that changes the way business is done, the way people learn things, the way they get information, they way they view the world, the way they satisfy their most...

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May 16, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (4)

A Dark, Dark Matter

Take a look at the picture to the left of a galactic cluster called CL0024+17, and click on it to enlarge. (There's a high-resolution version HERE.) See the dark ring around the center? Astronomers say that's the best proof they've...

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May 15, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (3)