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September 04 2010

rubbd
02:30

Fast Trains to Connect US Cities, Alleviate Highway Congestion

TechCrunch

The Obama administration back in January promised $8 billion in funding for cities and states to build high-speed, intercity rail projects.

This week, the Department of Transporation issued its specifications for the manufacture of new fast trains, namely double-decker coach, dining, baggage, and business class passenger rail cars that can travel between 79 MPH and up to 220 MPH.

Bi-level rail c...

September 03 2010

rubbd
17:30

Motorola Pulls Out Another Full Page NYT Ad Aimed At Apple’s Head

TechCrunch

Oh my, how I love some good ol’ fashion mudslinging.

“Flash Websites? There’s A Phone For That.”

To any ne’er-do-blog-read layman, the full page ad that Motorola just put in the New York Times might just seem oddly worded. To anyone who has even considered considering themselves a gadget geek — or has, at least, turned on their TV anytime in the past year and a half and seen Apple’s “There’s An ...

rubbd
09:13

Concréte Sound System – autechre.bÆts

Resonance FM - Everything

We start September in fine style with an exclusive guest mix from one of our presenters, Primus Luta under the new guise of his Concréte Sound System (CSS) live setup. The mix is a retrospective/homage to Autechre and the 90′s IDM scene (regardless of what you make of the name). It’s quite a superb mix that deserves your full attention especially if, like me, your knowledge of Autechre’s back c...

September 02 2010

rubbd
19:30

Earth's Magnetic Field Flipped Superfast

Wired Top Stories

Magnetic minerals in 15-million-year-old rocks appear to preserve a moment when the magnetic north pole was rapidly on its way to becoming the south pole, and vice versa.

rubbd
19:00

Mass Extinctions Change the Rules of Evolution

Wired Top Stories

A reinterpretation of the fossil record suggests a new answer to one of evolution's existential questions: whether global mass extinctions are just short-term diversions in life's preordained course, or send life careening down wholly new paths.
rubbd
18:00

String Theory Finally Does Something Useful

Wired Top Stories

String theory has finally made a prediction that can be tested with experiments — but in a completely unexpected realm of physics: quantum entanglement.
rubbd
17:00

Alcohol Is Healthy

Overcoming Bias

My health econ students love to hear that our best data suggests moderate drinking is good for health.  New better data continues that trend:

[We study] the association between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality over 20 years among 1,824 older adults…. Controlling only for age and gender, compared to moderate drinkers, abstainers had a more than 2 times increased mortality risk, heavy ...

September 01 2010

rubbd
23:56

Love Vs. Conversion

Overcoming Bias

A key pillar of modern morality is the sanctity of romantic love.  We reel in horror at the thought that “backward” societies, and our ancestors, arranged marriages without intense emotional romantic love.  While it was nice if arranged partners had such romantic feelings, if that did not happen they were not to look for it elsewhere; a life without romantic love could be a fine life.

An...

August 31 2010

rubbd
17:48

Resort Attracts Men With Virtual Girlfriends

Slashdot

disco_tracy writes "Long a favorite of lovers and honeymooners, a Japanese beach town with fading sparkle has found a new tourism niche in the wired age. A resort based on a game called 'Love Plus,' encourages players to develop long-term relationships with virtual women.From the article: 'Local souvenir shops in the resort town have caught on and capitalized on the love-struck new clientele...
rubbd
16:00

Why Technology Is So Addictive, and How You Can Avoid Tech Burnout [Technology]

Lifehacker

We're surrounded by gadgets that demand our attention, constantly fragmenting our ability to properly focus on the task at hand. Living with technology doesn't mean we have to live with an addiction, however. Here's how to beat tech burnout. More »


rubbd
14:00

Get Past Your Childhood Doubts by Simply Starting [Motivation]

Lifehacker

You've got a web site idea, a mobile app concept, or just a loose video concept. You could let your mind shout you down and convince you how complicated those endeavors are, or you could take some take inspiration from Van Gogh. More »


rubbd
10:20
rubbd
09:16

We are the World – Not in Death [Scripts]

CreativeApplications.Net

Daniel Franke and Andreas Fischer recently finished the post & effects on a video for the band “We are the world” from LA. Using custom scripts for After Effects which generate a mapping of the fft-analysis of the audio data of the song, the distortion of the dancer were controlled using the slitscan technique. The higher the audio values are, the greater is the range of frames sampled for one ...

August 30 2010

rubbd
18:18

Apertus, the Open Source HD Movie Camera

Slashdot

osliving writes "This article takes a tour of the hardware and software behind the innovative Apertus, a real world open source project. Led by Oscar Spierenburg and a team of international developers, the project aims to produce 'an affordable community driven free software and open hardware cinematic HD camera for a professional production environment'."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

rubbd
17:53

MySpace Tries To Pollute Facebook’s Stream

TechCrunch

MySpace is launching Facebook sync today, allowing MySpace users to sync their status updates with their Facebook profile or Page. The social network launched a similar functionality for Twitter last year.

Once you’ve synced your Facebook account, you can update status on MySpace and it will automatically be shared with friends on Facebook. MySpace is touting this feature as a big win for the...

August 27 2010

rubbd
08:36
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rubbd
06:43

Trace the Dollars Behind the Story with Poligraft

ProgrammableWeb

PoligraftIt seems that news pieces are rarely written from a neutral point of view these days, and political news can be especially prone to bias. But how can the average reader, who probably has no idea of the political ties between those mentioned in a news piece, see the larger picture? Sunlight labs, who are dedicated to creating tools that make government data more accessible, have a new service...

rubbd
03:03

Just favorited “FACT Mix 156: Kode9 ” by FACT Mix Archive on Mixcloud.com

rubbd
02:15

Smart Phones Helping to Move Business from the Boardroom to the Bathroom

Google Android News Android Forums

Smart phones have drastically changed the world, putting the power of the internet in the palm of our hand. They’ve expanded our horizons, fostering relationships through social networking, keeping us informed up to the minute, and accelerating the pace at which we do business. A recent survey conducted by Kelton Research for Samsung Mobile proves that final point. The survey...

rubbd
01:57

Just favorited “FACT Mix 144: The Black Dog ” by FACT Mix Archive on Mixcloud.com

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