links for 2007-09-29
Posted by derickson on Sep 29th, 2007
2007
Sep 29
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Sometimes it seems that the only way to make sense of the Bush administration is to imagine that it’s a vast experiment concocted by mad political scientists who want to see what happens if a nation systematically ignores everything we’ve learned over
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A pet store has bought a two-headed turtle from a collector and plans to keep it on display, the store manager said. The 2-month-old turtle, actually conjoined red-eared slider twins, fits on a silver dollar.
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Dominated by home-cleaning gadgets, the consumer robotics market is expanding with the arrival of ‘bots that can spy inside your home when you’re away or arrange virtual meetings of family or friends.
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As the school year starts, colleges around the country are applying the lessons of Virginia Tech and using high technology to get the word out fast in a crisis.
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Our political discourse is so debased that the term is typically applied where it is least appropriate and never applied where it most fits the case.
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The Democratic Congress has yet to muster the votes or courage to repeal a series of noxious measures — rubber-stamped by the previous Republican majority — that pushed presidential power to dangerous extremes in the name of fighting terrorism.
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The $3.1 billion purchase of the online advertising firm DoubleClick by Google received no outright opposition from United States senators at a hearing on Thursday that focused on the deal’s potential threats to competition and consumer privacy.
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is accepting research proposals to create the first system that actually knows what it’s doing.
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Makes consumer and industrial robots.
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The Semantic Web is a mesh of information linked up in such a way as to be easily processable by machines, on a global scale. You can think of it as being an efficient way of representing data on the World Wide Web, or as a globally linked database.
