The U.S. Air Force has confirmed to Aviation Week the existence of the so-called "Beast of Kandahar" UAV, a stealth-like remotely piloted jet seen flying out of Afghanistan in late 2007. http://www.aviationweek.com/aw...
"the suggestion that pharmaceutical companies make vaccines hoping to pocket huge profits is ludicrous to Offit. Vaccines, after all, are given once or twice or three times in a lifetime. Diabetes drugs, neurological drugs, Lipitor, Viagra, even Rogaine — stuff that a large number of people use every day — that’s where the money is.... In 2008, Merck’s revenue from RotaTeq was $665 million. Meanwhile, a blockbuster drug like Pfizer’s Lipitor is a $12 billion-a-year business."
I'm not sure that's entirely rational. It seems like the sort of thinking that would result in not hiring James Bach. Anyone can acquire a domain name for a small fee. Gmail works fairly well. If it serves your need, why would it make economic sense to waste money on something that you don't need?
- SuezanneC Baskerville
You have to be kidding! You put Gmail on that list? You of all people should know that Gmail is used as as a professional tool. I can offer you a contract that paid between $200k to $300k a year. We both live in the Seattle. Your place is in walking distance from my place. So would you refuse an offer from me because I use Gmail to conduct my business on? Though I know what you are saying. I'm annoyed with Hotmail, Yahoo, and AOL addresses.
- Captain Jack
I agree with Captain Jack. It's probably more for "intuitive" rather than for "scientific" reasons, but Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL do appear to me as less "professional" email addresses than gmail ones. Go figure!
- Pierre-Philippe Martin
I use Gmail for all my personal and business mail. I have added domains to my Gmail account, and it works fine. OK< open the header, and you can see the gmail stuff in there, but most people don't do that, and don't care either. It works so much better for me than expensive eye-candy bloatware such as Outlook.
- Ian May
Any of these are better choices than an ISP-provided email address. People cut Gmail slack only because Google is still trendy these days, and everyone else is SO last year. But yes, at least get apps for your domain if you're going to use Gmail. A business should have a domain. People should have domains for that matter.
- LogEx
I do have both business and personal domains. Not found a need to set up Google apps yet though. I build my own web sites on my domains, and I can do what I like with the email and routing of course. Using Gmail as my email client is easy and convenient.
- Ian May
Governments, religions, and used car dealerships generally have custom domains to use for their email addresses. Clearly, having a domain does not mean you can trust the entity that has it. :P
- SuezanneC Baskerville
Suezanne, absolutely, a domain is a necessary but not sufficient condition for conductung business on the internet.
- LogEx
So the free domain and email address I got from microsoft made me more credible, in a business offer sense, than the free email address I got from Google. That's logical.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
No, it's not credibility, it's marketing. You're selling your brand, and a domain provides many ways to help reinforce it.
- LogEx
People who make medical decisions for their kids in contradiction of the best available medical evidence make me angry. Also: sending death threats to people like Offit pisses me off.
- David Rothman (☤)
"At a meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an anti-vaccine protester emerged from a crowd of people holding signs that featured Offit’s face emblazoned with the word terrorist and grabbed the unsuspecting, 6-foot-tall physician by the jacket."
- edythe
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this is a very, very good article in this month's Wired.
- edythe
"“I don’t think he wanted to hurt me,” Offit recalls. “He was just excited to be close to the personification of such evil.” Still, whenever Offit gets a letter with an unfamiliar return address, he holds the envelope at arm’s length before gingerly tearing it open. “I think about it,” he admits. “Anthrax.” So what has this award-winning 58-year-old scientist done to elicit such venom?...
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- edythe
"The 20th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray and DVD of Say Anything came out yesterday, and to mark the occasion, numerous men with lots of free time dressed up in trench coats and hoisted boomboxes above their heads and marched throughout New York City serenading people with the strains of Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes," and a cover version of the same song by The Lloyd Dobler Effect."
- LogEx
from Bookmarklet
"Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. on Tuesday agreed to buy Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., making a $34 billion bet on the future of the U.S. economy."
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
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"It's here! Fox has finally debuted the epic 3 ½ minute trailer for James Cameron's Avatar in glorious high def today on Yahoo. This is the trailer we've been waiting for, the one that finally shows that there's more to Avatar than just giant blue Na'vi aliens, that it's a story about love and survival and the importance of life. And it looks absolutely incredible. I think this could be one of the best trailers of the entire year, it's truly epic, and truly exciting. Many of you may have seen this trailer in theaters over the weekend, but now is your chance to voice your opinion and see it again. Without further ado, watch the new trailer below!"
- Amani
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I really wasn't impressed with the teaser, but after watching this (and getting the chills several times) I am getting excited for this movie. Really has the potential to be great, and I see the underlying message of the film. Nice.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Odd, I have an opposite reaction. The "underlying message" is so ridiculously heavy handed and blatant that i don't see any potential for this movie. I mean, I saw Pocahontas already. Edit - well, I do wonder if soldier boy actually gets all up in that blue girl, but I can just read the movie spoilers for that.
- Richard Lawler
This trailer has piqued my interest even more. Looks to be very interesting and exciting.
- Amani
I was meh on the teaser and I'm still meh. I'll see it out of curiosity, but hope springs eternal.
- Derrick
I got to see the video game in person this week too. Looked like a bland FPS. Wonder if the non-interactive version will be any better ;)
- alphaxion
Just saw this on the news. That was a big chunk of steel that fell on a car! I'm beginning to think they should put those machines at each approach to the bridge, like the ones that sell flight insurance for air travel. These would have special extra coverages for each trip across the Bay Bridge.
- Mark Jepsen
I heard about this on the radio. Traffic must be horrendous
- Rodfather
çekmeceli basamaklar demek daha dogru olacak sanırım^^
- mayamisa
holy guacamole! Looking at the many additional photos on toxel.com, these are really awe-inspiring ... a few in the spirit of MC Escher too. Nice find!
- Dan Freeman
bazılarına insan basmaya çekinir, havada asılı resmen :))
- Hande Ünver
thanx Dan Freeman:)) i think about the similarity of MC Escher too, at the first time. mostly they are useful and creative :)
- Hande Ünver
cekmeceli olan epey kullanilan bir tip esasen. hatta ben de bir tane uygulamistim 2 sene evvel.
- Boran Biriz
Hande, you're welcome & thanks for this great stuff! LOL at a comment in the toxel.com post: "Great designs, no doubt. Lots of people will die though."
- Dan Freeman
en sondaki diğerleri kadar kullanışlı değil ama merdivende cam çok şık ve ferah duruyor bence, oyüzden çok sevdim, kitaplık olanlarda acaip kullanışlı :))
- Hande Ünver
u wellcome Dan Freeman:)) he thought that stairs are so much similar to MC Escher style so he will lose his balance (i guess) :D
- Hande Ünver
Wasn't there something like this in the movie "Sweet Home Alabama" with Reese Witherspoon? My daughter rented the DVD and I watched it with her. One of the characters had an eccentric grandfather who was always blasting something into the air... I don't think it was anvils, but something similarly "thud-worthy." Hilarious!
- Mark Jepsen
They're "incredible" because they've finally caught up with the rest of the Intel-based computer world? I don't see much incredibleness in this announcement.
- Kenton
+1 Kenton. I've been saying this for a while, now. When I'm able to order a Macbook Pro with a quad-core processor, 8 gigs of RAM and a 1-gig dedicated video card, then I'll be impressed that Mac is finally providing what I've been able to get in my Windows-based laptop for over a year.
- Curtiss Grymala
just display nicer.The hardware specs r mediocre @ best.1can build a hackintosh for less, more powerful & performs better.WHY THE HYPE I DON'T get.
- Baba
It's a mouseless mouse, detects your finger motions on your desktop. And recharges your finger wirelessly.
- LogEx
the freight is going up because the product is heavier and/or larger than a normal apple product... it's a TV
- Chris Heath
If it's a TV, that's really dumb. Display technology, cable boxes, and computer technology are all evolving at different rates. Bundling them all together is bound to cause something being obsolete quickly.That would be one Apple product I wouldn't be buying.
- Cristo
Now a media server/DVR for the home that could handle live cable/satellite would be something I might want.
- Cristo
It's a BIG ASS TAPE DRIVE with lots of BLINKING LIGHTS.
- Internet's Tad
You're probably right that it's not a TV Cristo, but it was the first thing that jumped into my head since i'd heard the rumor of appleTV in a TV many times over the last year or so
- Chris Heath
The new iRock. The 21st century Pet Rock. It has an apple sticker on it. $25 or $500 for iBoulder
- Internet's Tad
We built WebTV into an RCA TV once, called eTV. I thought it was a terrible idea then. The only advantage you get is the remote only needs to control one device (assuming there's not a separate cable box), but the lack of ability to upgrade one component without the other is a huge minus for me.
- Cristo
Pulling #Arsenal.com fixtures calendar into Google Cal. Go to the page, copy the link for the fixtures calendar you want (e.g. context menu), then go to gcal, click "Add", add from URL and paste the URL. I used the version to get auto-update if fixtures change. - http://www.arsenal.com/fixture...
I've heard you can just add a calendar named "Arsenal", and Google figures it out for you(?) Haven't tried it myself since I used the "official" site calendar
- Uche Ogbuji
LOL http://chakopaul.com "It should be noted that despite claims made, the Citadel has only ordered the deaths of a dozen or so individual males who entered the city without proper authority. Either you are known to our people or your life is forefit."
- Gus
Love this post as mush as I would love to know where is there a village full of hot lesbians...
- Eric Gagne
Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff–like callousness by the world’s fisheries. Beginning in the 1950s, as their operations became increasingly industrialized--with onboard refrigeration, acoustic fish-finders, and, later, GPS--they first depleted stocks of cod, hake, flounder, sole, and halibut in the Northern Hemisphere. As those stocks disappeared, the fleets moved southward, to the coasts of developing nations and, ultimately, all the way to the shores of Antarctica, searching for icefishes and rockcods, and, more recently, for small, shrimplike krill. As the bounty of coastal waters dropped, fisheries moved further offshore, to deeper waters. And, finally, as the larger fish began to disappear, boats began to catch fish that were smaller and uglier--fish never before considered fit for human consumption. Many were renamed so that they could be marketed: The suspicious slimehead became the delicious orange roughy, while the worrisome...
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- Eric Logan
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Calamari. I mean, who the F thought 'hey, look at that thing, it'll taste great'.
- Andrew Leyden