Shark-finning gangsters assault celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay: \”If you\’ve ever watched shows like Hell\’s Kitchen or Kitchen Nightmares, you\’d know not to cross incendiary celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. Well, maybe his shows don\’t air in Taiwan, because a crew of Taiwanese shark-fin smugglers wasn\’t too impressed by Ramsay\’s reputation, holding the TV host at gunpoint […]
A Mystery: Why Can\’t We Walk Straight? from NPR on Vimeo. A Mystery: Why Can\’t We Walk Straight? from NPR on Vimeo. Try as you might, you can’t walk in a straight line without a visible guide point, like the Sun or a star. You might think you’re walking straight, but as NPR’s Robert Krulwich […]
A flight data recorder is a crashworthy device that records data about an aircraft\’s flight, such as airspeed, heading, and the procedures of the pilot. It\’s also called a black box. Bill Hammack of the University of Illinios opens up a vintage black box from a Delta airlines jetliner.
Anime News Network has indicated that Bankuruwase: Keishi-chÅ Keibi-bu Tokushu SharyÅ Ni-ka slated for January 31 by Mamoru Oshii. For those not familiar with Patlabor, the story takes place in what was, at the time of release, the near future of 1998-2002. Robots called \”Labors\” are employed in heavy construction work. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police […]
Ignore the fact that Ghostbusters is one of the best movies of all times, but remix the trailer for Ghostbusters with the \”Mind Heist\” music from Inception elevates it to the next level!
I just noticed that Bit Micro has a web page discussing the issues of SSD Longevity… In a recent article on write endurance published in STORAGEsearch.com, editor Zsolt Kerekes provided theoretical computations on the longevity of solid state flash drives deployed in enterprise server applications. His test solid state drive had the following specifications: total […]
The BBC\’s official Torchwood channel on Facebook and Twitter has confirmed that Torchwood: The New World will broadcast in both the United Kingdom and United States on 1st July 2011. The UK broadcast time has been listed as 9:00pm on BBC1/BBC1HD.
The newly launched Mac App Store may sport a familiar, iTunes-like face. But there’s still plenty to discover with Apple’s new source for buying Mac software. We asked if you had any questions about the Mac App Store and came up with a list of our own. Then, we spent Thursday diving into the Mac App Store to […]