Okay, you guys can stop calling it the PlayStation Move’s “Nunchuk” now. Sony’s secondary controller for its motion technology apparatus now has an official name: Navigation Controller.
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It’s not the "PS3 Nunchuk", it’s the "Navigation Controller"
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Alicia Silverstone “Butter” Casting
She’s a proud vegan, but Alicia Silverstone may be ready to add some Butter to her diet.
The Clueless actress is in negotiations for the role of Brooke in the upcoming comedy, set to star Ty Burrell, Jennifer Garner, and Ashley Greene.
According to Production Weekly, the film features Ty as a butter-carving champion who steps aside from his title as his wife (Garner) gears up to compete in their small town contest.
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Lunch Special: Tuna Fish Salad, Anyone?
Tuna fish gets a bad rap for smelling up shared kitchens and having no respect for cubicle walls. But still, tuna fish salad persists as one of the most popular lunch food items! What do you think makes the best tuna fish salad?
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MI5 Firing Non-Techie Spies Who Don’t Know How To Tweet [Spies]
Not every MI5 agent can be as tech-savvy as James Bond’s Q was, but the security service is demanding that they can at least switch on a PC, making redundancies based on computer literacy. More »
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Amazing DIY projects to create electricity at home
We all need electricity to power the infinite set of energy-sucking appliances that we depend upon so much. However, the rise in the cost of electricity has made homeowners think about means to fuel their technology-driven lives with alternative sources of energy. Though there are a variety of renewable energy generators available on the market, there are several DIYers who use their skills to create energy generators at a fraction of the cost of market available products. Check out a list of 12 such projects that can allow you to generate free electricity at home after the break:
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Play StarCraft on your Windows Mobile Phone
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World’s Greenest Concept Skyscrapers – Video
If all goes according to plan we will soon get to see pioneering activities in sustainable architecture in the realm of super skyscrapers. Here are green concept designs for the worlds tallest skyscrapers that present a utopian vision for green urban planning.
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Sharp to Make A 3DTV [3dTv]
Sharp looked kind of foolish at CES when all their rivals announced 3DTV sets…and they had only discovered the color yellow. Playing catch-up, they’ve unsurprisingly announced they’re working on 3DTVs for a Japanese launch this summer. More »
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Early Evening Blaze Injures Three
On Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 8:08 PM, 10 Companies of Los Angeles Firefighters, 5 LAFD Rescue Ambulances, 2 Arson Units, 1 Hazardous Materials Team, 2 EMS Battalion Captains, 3 Battalion Chief Officer Command Teams, 1 Division Chief Officer Command Team, under the direction of Battalion Chief Rudy Hill responded to a Greater Alarm Structure Fire at 532 North Cummings Street in the Boyle Heights area.Within three minutes the Los Angeles Fire Department arrived on scene to find a 50X100 two-story four-plex with smoke and fire showing from the first floor, then swiftly summoned additional help. Firefighters forced entry through security gates to enable hand-lines to be extended while simultaneously performing vertical ventilation to battle the well-entrenched blaze.
The flames ran through the center hallway and burned three separate units on the first floor and lapped up to the second story. 75 Firefighters extinguished the early evening, stubborn blaze in 37 minutes.
Smoke Alarms were present in the 4,896 square-foot building, but their functional status and role in alerting occupants could not be immediately determined. There were no window security bars or obvious non-fire factors to impede egress from this 83 year old building.
Unfortunately this very hot blaze injured three people. One adult male Firefighter and an adult female civilian suffered burns and were transported to local hospitals in minor condition, and an adult male civilian suffered burns to the face and respiratory tract and was taken to a hospital in critical condition. An additional 10 adults and 10 children were displaced but were housed at Fire Station 2 where Firefighters and Council Member Jose Huizar comforted the families and provided hot cocoa and ice cream to the children while they awaited relief from the American Red Cross.
Monetary loss from the fire is estimated at $195,000 ($145,000 structure & $50,000 contents). The cause is undetermined.
Submitted by Erik Scott, Spokesman
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Would HTC really buy Palm ?
So the big shocking news (or non-shocker, depending on your view) is that Palm is making itself available for sale. It’s a little too early in the game to jump to wild conclusions but Bloomberg sources say that HTC and Lenovo are both in the mix to make a bid to buy Palm. And though Lenovo has some Android ties, no company has backed Android like HTC. HTC buying Palm would be epically huge in this smartphone world of ours. Epic. -ally. Huge
Think about it. HTC produces stellar hardware for both Android and Windows Mobile. Some could say that HTC is half the reason why Android is so successful and why Windows Mobile is still alive. If HTC suddenly bought Palm, would HTC start building webOS devices as well? Or would they stop manufacturing devices for Android and Windows Mobile and go strictly webOS? Or would nothing happen, and HTC simply let Palm stay Palm and just continue to build for Android and Windows Mobile? There are questions abound and the ramifications would be huge because half of the players in the smartphone space are involved (other half being: Apple, RIM, and Nokia).
And we’re not familiar with patent law, but could HTC buy Palm and use Palm’s library of patents against Apple in Apple’s lawsuit? Ammo for a potential don’t sue me because I can sue the pants off you type move? But if Palm’s patents are that valuable, wouldn’t everyone be interested? There’s so many more questions to ask that we can’t wait to see this thing develop. The smartphone world as we know it is going to change.
So, would HTC really buy Palm?
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Avalon Stakes Claim as Survivor Among San Diego Biotech VCs
Luke Timmerman wrote:Nobody will ever confuse San Diego’s Sorrento Valley for Sand Hill Road. And that’s not a bad thing if you’re one of the guys at Avalon Ventures.
“The story is really that Avalon is now one of just two really active life sciences venture funds in San Diego, which is the third largest biotech hub in the world,” says Jay Lichter, a managing director with Avalon.
I sat down with Lichter, one of four managing members at Avalon, to talk about this phenomenon during my visit to San Diego in December, and followed up with him again a couple weeks ago. A lot was being written then, and still is, about the decline of the entire venture capital industry, and its impact in particular on San Diego’s longtime stalwarts of the life sciences community.
San Diego’s Forward Ventures, which has shed several partners, has shifted its strategy to an ultra-lean model, as Bruce recently reported. Enterprise Partners Venture Capital hasn’t said for sure what it plans to do when it is time to raise a new fund. While other national firms have individuals who are well-connected on the ground in the local life sciences scene—Venrock Associates’ Bill Rastetter and Sofinnova Ventures’ David Kabakoff come to mind—the only two firms left with sizable operations in San Diego and do a lot of local investing are Avalon and Domain Associates, Lichter says.
(Drew Senyei, a managing director for Enterprise Partners, challenged the assertion that his firm has gone quiet. “We have made small investments in seed companies this year. We have two companies in registration for an IPO and four companies in active M&A process at venture multiples. Yes, we are busy.”)
Still, new venture funds have been hard to come by. Domain, spearheaded by partners Eckard Weber and Jim Blair, is one of the rare VC success stories of the past year, having raised a new $500 million life sciences fund back in August. It has flexed its muscle through a string of sizable investments, including VentiRx Pharmaceuticals, Meritage Pharma, and Sequel Pharmaceuticals.
While Domain often seeks out specialty pharma companies moving through the middle stages of clinical trials, Avalon has carved out its niche in the really early-stage, startup phase. It has placed smaller bets on companies like Zacharon, Otonomy, and aFraxis. Back in December, Lichter told the story about how Avalon flew in some top biologists for a retreat at The Lodge at Torrey Pines, just to talk about some of the big problems in biology, and some elegant experiments to test new concepts.
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Lichter is fully aware this runs against the current in venture capital, where funds are scrambling to gin up some quick returns in late-stage companies to spruce up their balance sheets just in time to hit up pension funds and endowments for another round of fundraising. This isn’t a trend that Avalon is seeking to follow, Lichter says.
“We get involved at the cocktail napkin stage,” Lichter says. “It’s pure venture investing. Early stage. High-risk. High-reward. Most people don’t want to do it anymore.”
A poster child for the popular style of venture funding is Cambridge, MA-based Gloucester Pharmaceuticals, which was a story I covered last fall. I recounted for Lichter how Gloucester raised $29 million in August, just a week before it was scheduled to go before an FDA advisory committee hearing with pivotal clinical trial data for a new cancer drug. The panel vote was a slam dunk in favor, the FDA approved the drug as expected a couple months later, and Gloucester was acquired for $340 million in December by Summit, NJ-based Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG).
Presto, it was a return on investment inside of six months for biotech VCs, who ordinarily would have to wait a decade or more for an early investment to bear fruit.
It’s almost like venture capitalists woke up one day and decided they wanted to become fast-money hedge funds, I said. Lichter didn’t disagree. “Good for them. But …Next Page »
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Viewsonic launches two new e-readers
Viewsonic has thrown two new products into the e-reader ring with the release of the 6-inch VEB620 and VEB625. Both e-readers include 800X600 resolution, E-ink monochrome displays, 1.5 GB of internal memory and a G-Sensor for orientation while the VEB625 gets a touch screen and WiFi connectivity…
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2010 Audi TT restyling
The Audi TT gets a new look in 2010, with a restyling destined for its mid-career period, that will appear on the coupé, roadster, TTS and TT-RS models. The restyling has been presented at the Leipzig motor show and features larger air intakes, chrome elements around the fog lights, larger exhaust outlets, and more LED lights. The new restyling makes the Audi TT slightly larger, now at 419 cm long, 184 cm wide and 135 cm tall. The wheelbase measures 247 cm.
On the inside the Audi TT restyling includes more aluminium finishes and new colours, while the exterior also has four additional colour options. The engine range includes the 1.8 TFSI with 160 hp and the 2.0 TDI with 170 hp. The 2.0 TFSI that had 200 hp, now has 211 hp and has a fuel consumption of 6.6 litres per 100 km and CO2 emissions of 154 g/km. This particular engine has the new six-speed S Tronic gearbox and also comes in all-wheel drive. The top of the range options are the 2.0 TFSI with 272 hp (on the TTS), and the 2.5 TFSI with 340 hp on the TT-RS.
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Occasionally, it all works out for the best
Via Crooks and Liars it turns out it was a bad weekend for Fred Phelps and the Westboro Church of Hate.
A family of six carrying signs that read “God hates fags” faced more than 500 counter-protesters singing “All You Need Is Love” on the Drake University campus this morning.
Charleston, WV (see video, classy of the Phelps clan to bring small children along for brainwashing purposes):
…the church sent a small group to Charleston, W. Va., to highlight their belief that the 25 miners killed in a recent cave-in were killed by God because we’re all entirely too tolerant of people living alternative lifestyles. Word of their protest got out, and they were completely overwhelmed by counter protesters organized by the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce, the state AFL-CIO, and local church and community groups, many carrying signs saying things like “GOD HATES SIGNS” and “THIS IS A SIGN”.
Left and Right coming together.
GOD, INDRA AND THE GREAT SPAGHETTI MONSTER ALL HATE FRED PHELPS.
As for me, I just point and laugh derisively. Maybe to celebrate “Yuri’s Night” we send Fred Phelps on a rocket to the Sun?
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Adobe Creative Suite 5 Now Available [Adobe]
As expected, Adobe’s Creative Suite 5 has officially become available. Including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash Catalyst and 11 more products, it’s pricey—but reaming with the goods needed for any designer serious about their work. More »
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iPhone OS 4.0 – new features plus another kick in the pants for Adobe
Apple yesterday released information about the upcoming revision to its iPhone operating system – iPhone OS 4.0, which is due for release in June. It offers major enhancements like multitasking, the iBooks eBook reader app, a centralized gaming service, performance and battery life improvements. But while the new software will be a boon for iPhone 3GS and iPad owners, as well as buyers of the next-gen iPhone HD expected to debut sometime this year, it seems that iPhone 2G, 3G and older iPod Touch owners might be left behind on the upgrade trail. Oh – and the new developer kit contains another nasty surprise for Adobe…
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Wolves and Men
There are those who have made a career out of ‘demythologizing’ wolves. In its place they are attempting to produce another mythology in which man and wolf is some sort of brother. I think that the main thrust is the reaction to the image of trigger happy hunters conjured up in which these splendid animals are mercilessly hunted down. It is hard not to feel sympathetic.I consider the reintroduction of wolves as unnecessary and potentially a large problem. The pioneers hunted them to extinction for one very good reason, and it was not for the stew pot or the hide. A wolf is a direct competitor of humanity. They will take down a cow every second day or so.TheWolves will kill horses and cattle and unwary humans. They kill often.The depredations of all other carnivores are easily controlled or they are small enough to not pose a significant threat. Bears in particular can be constrained to hunting ranges without too much fuss because of the limitations imposed by hibernation.We cannot control wolves in quite the same manner. They can and will travel hundreds of miles in packs. Fortunately, we presently travel in safe vehicles.Author, “Liz Claiborne: The Legend, The Woman”Posted: April 7, 2010It was of little concern to the aging Nunamiut Eskimo hunter and the research biologist the day they met in 1976 that events in the outer world were troublesome: Watergate, Vietnam, the emergence of the new lioness, Margaret Thatcher: all nothing to the hunter and the wolf. Caribou were their concern. “The wolf,” the old man said, “is my fellow hunter. We speak the same language, have the same needs. We know the blizzard and how to step forward even though blinded by the whipping weather, being sure of each step. We follow our brother, the raven because he leads us to caribou. If we falter, we die. We learn from each other. We are both animals in need of life.”Barry Lopez was the research man in converse with the Eskimo. His monumental book “Of Wolves and Men” traced the brotherhood over time, of these two predacious species: the top predators of the world, the most widely dispersed species on this planet.This essay is a reminder of how we learn about wildness and how the loss of wildness diminishes us all. The grey wolf, accused of being a savage killing machine, has much to teach us. As a social being we try to replicate the sense of family that is natural to the wolf. The rearing of the young and the unfailing attention to the development of the social group is imbedded in the nature of the wolf. In that sense we are brothers, embarked on the same journey through life. Thus when 31 grey wolves were reintroduced toFrom that beginning and the reintroduction of wolves into Idaho and Wyoming and the natural recovery of wolves in northwestern Montana that started in 1986, the northern Rocky Mountain wolf population steadily grew to its current level of at least 1706 wolves: 843 in Idaho, 524 in Montana, 320 in Wyoming, and a handful in Oregon and Washington.The grey wolf’s reputation is under severe pressure these days. It seems that each day brings negative headlines in wolf country: negative from the outfitters who feel that wolves deprive them of deer and elk, negative from academics who feel that presence of wolves can lead to infertility in deer and elk, negative from the public and negative for good reason from ranchers who lose livestock to wolves. There are state compensation programs inThe wolf was reintroduced intoMay 4 of this year marks the second anniversary of the states, except forAldo Leopold, conservationist, philosopher, author of “AYears later, in 1993, Mollie Beattie was sworn in as the first woman director of theMollie was a close friend of another champion of wolves, Renee Askins. Our foundation supported her until she closed shop. Renee organized The Wolf Fund in 1986, mandated to reintroduce wolves intoThere are people who work with children to demythologize the fairy tales about wicked wolves: “The Three Little Pigs,” for instance, and “Little Red Riding Hood.” Our foundation worked for a number of years with two of these people, Pat Tucker and Bruce Weide, two Montanans living a few miles south ofWhat have these poets of nature taught us – Aldo Leopold, Mollie Beattie, Renee Askins, Barry Lopez and others? That our children must care about the natural world, about the beauty of creation, about the life that is enriched through the knowing that we travel through time and space as a part of an evolving overall plan. -
Kik Chat: A Free Texting App For BlackBerry and iPhone
An amazing new app called Kik Chat has hit the market today. Kind of like Skype for texting, Kik Chat allows you to text anyone for free, regardless of carrier or device. Currently the app is available for BlackBerry Bold 9000, Bold 9700, Tour, 8300, 8500, 8800 and 8900 with Storm and Storm2 being added in the next couple of weeks. And for those of you rocking an iPhone or with iPhone friends, it is available for them as well, with Android devices to follow in the near future.With a smooth UI and very intuitive controls, I had Kik Chat set up and I was sending my first free texts in just a couple of minutes. This app seamlessly integrates into your messages inbox, and if you use BlackBerry Messenger you will feel right at home in the chat. Kik has implemented the “D” and “R” indicators so that you know if your text was delivered and read, just like in BBM! No more excuses like “I didn’t get your text”.
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Norah Jones interviewed by Jian Ghomeshi on Q TV
Norah Jones is charming and Jian Ghomeshi is one of the best music interviewer I know of. So what more can you ask for? 🙂 Check this out,
“Norah performed/sat down in Studio Q with host Jian Ghomeshi to talk about her latest album ‘The Fall’.”
‘Young Blood’ by Norah Jones on Q TV. Enjoy.
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