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From USA Today: Jacy Borlik and her sixth-grade classmates watched as a curator for the Indiana State Museum showed how a 30,000-year-old dinosaur bone is excavated and then catalogued. “It was cool,” Jacy said. But the students never left their school 15 miles southwest of South Bend and the curator never left the museum in …
Why bother seeing the world for real? I first saw this mentioned on Ed Bott’s blog. The sight is very neat. Using the Google Keyhole data, the blogger is showing interesting shots of earth (army testing grounds, odd colours, etc.). Check it out at http://www.shreddies.org/gmaps/
From TechWeb News: “Intel is looking for a copy of the 1965 magazine where co-founder Gordon Moore first laid out his famous ‘Moore’s Law.’ And it’s willing to pay ten big ones. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip maker on Monday posted a $10,000 reward on eBay for a “mint condition” copy of the April 19, …
From CBC: “The songs on U.S. President George W. Bush’s iPod have been revealed, and two Canadian tunes are among them. In all, Bush has a playlist of about 250 songs, a fraction of the device’s 10,000-song capacity. Bush received the iPod as a birthday gift last July from his daughters. His songs are downloaded …
From TechRepublic: “A tax originally created to pay for the Spanish-American War may not be extended to Internet connections after all. Sen. George Allen on Monday announced a bill to prevent the IRS and the Treasury Department from levying a 3 percent federal excise tax to e-mail, broadband links or voice over Internet Protocol services. …
From SC Magazine: “People may not like spam, but they are increasingly learning to live with it. A new report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project suggests users do not hate spam as much as they did a year ago and that their reaction to it is softening.”
From TechRepublic: “Dell not only wants to move beyond its image as just a PC maker. The company needs to do it. Central to that shift are plans to continue expanding into markets adjacent to the PC, such as printers, servers, storage and even televisions, company executives said on Thursday at Dell’s annual financial analyst …
From USA Today: “Ethiopia, one of the poorest nations on earth, will expand Internet coverage from a handful of users to the entire country in three years, the prime minister said Tuesday. Premier Meles Zenawi said information technology lay at the heart of transforming the impoverished country where millions are dependent on foreign aid.” I …
From Yahoo! News: “Online search engine leader Google has unveiled a new feature that will enable its users to zoom in on homes and businesses using satellite images, an advance that may raise privacy concerns as well as intensify the competitive pressures on its rivals. The satellite technology, which Google began offering late Monday at …
From Wired: “For most people who spend a lot of time online, impulsively typing queries into a search engine has become second nature. Got a nasty infection in an embarrassing spot? Look up a treatment on your favorite search site. Obsessing about an ex? Try Googling his or her name. Chances are the queries will …