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It ain't over until it's over, but there are several reports that the IBM/Sun Microsystems merger has hit the skids. Sun shares plummet, and Om Malik suggests that the company consider going private instead.
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Eric Raymond takes to the air in the first trans-European flight in a manned solar plane to prove "electric airplane" isn't an oxymoron.
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The new Diggbar ? a toolbar appearing at the top of a browser when users click a link at Digg ? has some internet purists grumbling about what they see as a suffocating eyesore. "When you call it 'framing someone else's site,' everyone agrees it's bullshit," said John Gruber, writer of DaringFireball, on his Twitter. "When you call it 'The DiggBar,' it's Web 3.5 Awesome."
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Via Flavorpill San Francisco Events - 7 months 22 days ago
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Via Flavorpill San Francisco Events - 7 months 22 days ago
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Your next piece of designer furniture could cost less than an Ikea chair—as long as you're willing to make it yourself. Taking a cue from the Linux community and file-sharing services, Berlin-based design guru Ronen Kadushin has started a furniture free-for-all he calls Open Design. It allows crafty consumers to download the instructions, photos, and AutoCAD files needed to knock off his work.
Kadushin's tables, chairs, and shelves sell for upwards of $5,000 each, but he's as...
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You don't have to be a big-time money manager like Bernie Madoff to execute a successful scam. They all start the same way: with one really good line of BS.
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While visiting Bungie Studios as its developers finished work on Halo 3 two years ago, I saw something very interesting. Occasionally, to help debug the videogame, they'd play a level in wire-frame mode ? where all the environments and characters were rendered onscreen as glowing outlines.
"Check this out," said one of the programmers as he called up a scene for me.
What he showed me was gorgeous. The enemies ? two massive hunters ? suddenly turned into glowing lattices...
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After hitting the headlines last year, successful pirate attacks have been on the wane in the early months of 2009, despite a failed attack on a British cruise ship earlier this month. Experts disagree about what has led to the reduction, with some suggesting that bad weather had played its part, but Rear Adm. Terry McKnight of the U.S. Navy attributes the "dramatic" reduction in the number of attacks to the deployment of a British warship, the Royal Navy frigate HMS Northumberland, and the...
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1938: Fiddling around in the lab one day, Roy Plunkett accidentally discovers polytetrafluoroethylene, soon to be known as Teflon, a slippery substance that will have practical applications in everything from non-stick cookware to a presidential nickname.
Plunkett, a chemist at DuPont's Jackson research lab in New Jersey, made his discovery in the time-honored scientific way: as the result of a mistake, and with an assistant's help.
Plunkett and his assistant, Jack Rebok,...