Digital magnetic map goes global

The first global map of magnetic peculiarities - or anomalies - on Earth has been assembled by an international team of researchers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6982485.stm

Noise annoys

"silence is necessary in order to perceive and understand things."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7078882.stm

OOXML : The converter hoax

"If these converters were actually able to do what they promise to do, they would be unnecessary."

"[...] Microsoft focusses on MS-OOXML, which it promotes on the grounds of technical superiority and wider range of features. But if Microsoft's claims to technical superiority of MS-OOXML over ODF are true, how could one ever be converted perfectly into the other?"

http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/92735

As you wish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH26ag7FfL4

Where Do You Go To My Lovely - Peter Sarstedt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqLH2Sjatn0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Do_You_Go_To_%28My_Lovely%29

The Charge of the Ultra - Capacitors

In 1995, a small fleet of innovative electric buses began running along 15-minute routes through a park at the northern end of Moscow. A decade later, a few dozen seaport cranes in Asia, a couple of light-rail trains in Europe, and a battalion of garbage trucks in the United States have joined their high-tech ranks.

A smattering of mass-transit vehicles and industrial machines may seem like one wimpy revolution, but revolutionary they are. Unlike most of their electric relatives, these vehicles all share one key attribute: they don't run on batteries. Instead, they are powered by ultracapacitors, which are souped-up versions of that tried-and-true workhorse of electrical engineering, the capacitor.

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov07/5636

Earth Clock

Stats - as they say, read ‘em and weep. While the figures can’t be taken as absolutely accurate, they are drawn from many sources and do give a ‘best guess’ real time example of some of the issues we’re grappling with (sources include United Nations, EPA and the US Census Bureau).

http://www.celsias.com/2007/11/04/earth-clock/