Chang DÃaz believes that VASIMR could usefully glean its electric power from solar panels if it was operating close to the sun (Mars would be the extreme outer limit) or from onboard nuclear reactors further away. He calculates that a nuclear VASIMR craft could get to Mars in just 39 days, as opposed to the …
Friend and occasional-commenter c-square sent me this video link. It does seem that the Roomba and Pac-Man go together remarkably well. 🙂
…instead of latching onto them and bleeding them like a parasite. It’s about time! 🙂
Interesting psychological information, but an even more interesting practical application: put some baby pictures in your wallet, even if you don’t have any children. 🙂
Hm. I guess it’s a good thing we didn’t immediately attack North Korea as some people were suggesting.
As a member of this “little-understood group,” I have to recommend this article.
Honest, that’s what it says! 🙂
I’ve been using the free Read It Later add-on (RIL from here on) for Firefox for quite a while now. It’s really great for marking pages that I want to read, but don’t want to take time out from whatever I’m doing when I find them. It’s also very nice because I often have my …
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This will look good next to my Virgin Mary USB Flash Drive. Now all I need is a velvet-covered USB Elvis Michael Jackson painting to complete the Holy Trinity. 😉
Someone recently asked me what I thought about the Google ChromeOS announcement. I think a lot of things about it, but this article sums them up extremely well, and adds several more that I hadn’t considered too. The bottom line: like the Chrome browser, I don’t see it as necessary. Neither will put much added …
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