Archive for the 'News' Category

The fun begins on the iPhone

07Aug07

Here are some great tools, tweaks, hacks, and other cool stuff for your iPhone.
I’ll probably be posting more stuff like this so stay tuned.
If anyone has any good tools that may be useful, feel free to drop a comment with the url(s).

199 wallpapers for the iPhone by ^manicho on deviantART

iWeathr - iPhone Doppler Radar

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Professor proposes theory of unparticle physics

11Jun07

Howard Georgi, a physicist at Harvard University, has recently published a paper on so-called unparticle physics, which suggests the existence of “unparticle stuff” that cannot be accounted for by the standard model. Appearing in a recent edition of Physical Review Letters, the paper says that unparticle stuff would be very different than anything seen […]

World’s Largest Living Organism

11Jun07

The fungus Armillaria ostoyae, commonly known at root rot, has become the world’s largest living organism thanks to an outbreak in Prairie City, Oregan.
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The Final Days of Google : An inside job?

27May07

A recent article on PBS’s website has raised an interesting scenario about Google’s inevitable fall.
The idea of a company beating Microsoft was in Bill Gates’ mind back in the 1990’s. Gates himself predicted the inevitable rise of a company, yet to be founded, to threaten Microsoft. He had the right idea. But what […]

String Theory - So is it just a Thoery or could it be real ?

26Apr07

String Theory has been the dream of many post-Einstien scientists and theoretical physicists to try to combine Einstein’s world of the large (planets, galaxies, the universe) with the ideas of the quantum world of the small (uncertainty principle, subatomic particles) into one unifying law that can describe absolutely everything that we see and even things […]

Lockheed Martin subsidiary on the verge of sustainable fusion

26Apr07

Extensive computer simulation and real tests have been underway at the Sandia National Laboratories on the device called the ‘Z Machine’ which is the world largest producer of man-made X Rays and has been used to produce fusion neutrons. Rapid bursts (in the nano second range) are necessary for future generating plants to produce electrical […]

“Raise shields Scotty!” - Real Plasma Deflector Sheilds

20Apr07

A recent article on BBC Science News stated that British scientists presented details at the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, UK of a plan to see whether a Start Trek-style deflector sheild could be built to protect astronauts from radiation.
If you guys think Star Trek is for nerds and geeks, you […]

5 annoying habits of entrepreneurs

20Apr07

Having started 2 startups in the last 3 years, I’ve come to benefit greatly from understanding and reading material from the venture capital realm, former clients of mine who started the same way, and experts such as Guy Kawasaki. Even with the most brilliant of ideas to launch a new venture, no amount of planning […]