Friday, September 22, 2006
Recaps and nightcaps
ANTM: I think we've seen how the season is going to go. Surprising standouts were Brooke (bubbly 18-year-old blonde from Texas) and the twins from Anaheim (very Fiona Apple). Tyra is getting crazier and crazier, but I guess that also means she's getting more and more reintegrated into the real world.
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In other news, a group at Cambridge University has developed a "shape-shifting" metal that can potentially be used to make roll-up computer monitors. The substance, made of copper alloys, can be bent, twisted or rolled while keeping structural integrity. Read the story here.
Best keep an eye on that laptop in the future, especially if you've got an IBM ThinkPad. A traveler at LAX reportedly had his computer burst into flames (some report that it the computer was dropped, others that it was smoking before combustion).
Think all privacy has been lost due to government surveillance? Not if you have a Torpark. The free portable browser, released by Hacktivismo, can be downloaded, carried around on your jumpdrive and then used on any computer with Mozilla Firefox (also free), which encrypts your online activities. One downside: browsers at even the highest speed connections will probably slow down due to the extra work involved.
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In other news, a group at Cambridge University has developed a "shape-shifting" metal that can potentially be used to make roll-up computer monitors. The substance, made of copper alloys, can be bent, twisted or rolled while keeping structural integrity. Read the story here.
Best keep an eye on that laptop in the future, especially if you've got an IBM ThinkPad. A traveler at LAX reportedly had his computer burst into flames (some report that it the computer was dropped, others that it was smoking before combustion).
Think all privacy has been lost due to government surveillance? Not if you have a Torpark. The free portable browser, released by Hacktivismo, can be downloaded, carried around on your jumpdrive and then used on any computer with Mozilla Firefox (also free), which encrypts your online activities. One downside: browsers at even the highest speed connections will probably slow down due to the extra work involved.
# posted by ange : 11:04 AM
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