Perhaps my biggest interface pet peeve is alarm clocks in hotels. I stare at the controls for about ten minutes, give up, unplug it, and use my BlackBerry as my alarm clock. I have to unplug it because the last guy might have accidentally set it for 3 AM.

—Scott Adams on bad interfaces

The audiobook reviewed here is ‘The Brain: A Very Short Introduction (Unabridged)’ by Michael O’Shea (who I think is Professor Michael O’Shea who has a webpage here –  I couldn’t identify biographical details on the audiobook).

O’Shea starts by describing the work of Galen and the suggested impact of the humours on the body – a model which endured until the seventeenth century before moving onto later models developed. He also looks at some of the landmark events such as the discovery of electrical conduction in the nervous system as well as the structure of the neurons. O’Shea then looks briefly at the evolution of the nervous system explaining some of the consequences of symmetrical body plans on the evolution of the nervous system. He also covers embryological development very briefly and then neuroanatomical structures with a description of the known functions of these structures. I thought this was one difficulty with the audiobook – that it refers to structures which should ideally be visualised particularly in the case of a general audience. A visual aid is obviously difficult for an audiobook and so either it is assumed that the reader is familiar with the structures previously or will access visual aids to help them better understand the material in the book. The author then goes onto discuss cellular physiology and the influence of axonal diameter on conduction velocity and the leakage of current in a salty fluid. He also discuss the work of some of the scientists involved in neurophysiology.

He then looks at the evolution of the hominid brain examining the changes in brain size that have occurred in the transition across species. O’Shea also considers the role that neural prosthetics could play, reviewing some of the research in this area. To introduce the brain in the relatively short space of 4 hours is a difficult feat and O’Shea does a nice job, taking the reader through some of the principles of neurophysiology, neuroanatomy and evolutionary development while drawing attention to some of the prominent figures in neuroscience research and their works. He also highlights some points with a description of the relevant studies. This introduction to the brain is an engaging look at robust conclusions about the brain and its functions and some of the research that has led to these conclusions.

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On our last podcast I said that now is the “perfect storm” for the ARM processor platform. The architecture is more capable than ever while remaining power efficient, and is good enough for random bites of Internet and mobile application functionality. ABI Research seems to agree and even went one step beyond — it believes that more ARM processors will power Ultra-mobile Devices than x86 chipsets just three years from now. ABI’s definition of Ultra-Mobile Devices is fairly broad: netbooks, MIDs, smartbooks and UMPCs all fit the bill. Call them what you want, I’d agree that these device classes are poised for ARM acceptance.

Why is that? There’s a change in the mobile winds. Mobile used to mean a crappy experience for the web or software as compared to the traditional desktop experience. So to meet needs, we looked for that same desktop experience in a smaller form factor. Compared to solutions available today, that’s not exactly the definition of mobile — or at least it’s not the only mobile game in town. The real growth has been outside of the desktop world — in ARM-powered handsets and other mobile devices.

The mobile experience is better than ever and part of the reason is that hardware has caught up. Instead of slow, clunky processors, we’re now seeing robust platforms that enable the mobile world to be useful and fun. If nothing else, the tremendous growth of Apple’s iPhone has proven that, much like the speedy Snapdragon in my Google Nexus One. That same ARM processor is the driving force behind the HTC HD2 — it has given Microsoft’s Windows Mobile new life and a fresh breath of excitement unlike any I’ve seen in the past few years. And my colleague Stacey over at GigaOm adds another factor: porting desirable functionality like Flash to ARM makes the platform even more compelling.

Netbooks are probably the lone exception to my thesis, of course. You can’t argue the fact of this x86 phenomenon. But if ARM-powered smartbooks or Chrome OS computers can come in at a compelling price-to-value ratio, I think ARM will even make inroads here too. Thoughts?

Oversight Panel Sees Biofuel Crops Helping Chesapeake Bay CleanupNew York TimesThe commission is urging farmers to plant more winter crops for biofuel production on fields that otherwise lie fallow. The crops could act as a nutrient …Biofuels can gre…

MTV is putting the kibosh on reports that Kanye West has been blacklisted from participating in tomorrow night’s Haitian Earthquake Relief telethon. On Thursdaym PopEater’s “Naugthy But Nice Column” scooped that producers for Friday’s Hope For Haiti Now charity special didn’t want the impulsive “Golddigger” star anywhere near the event after his infamous “Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People” rant during a 2005 television event to help survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Not to mention his near career-ending Swift stage-crashing at last summer’s Video Music Awards.

“After what he said on the Katrina telethon and the way he behaved at the MTV Video Music Awards, everyone agrees it’s just best that he does not participate…..Kayne has to make everything about himself. He will do anything to steal the spotlight and, well, this night it’s just not about him,” a source was quoted as saying.

A rep for MTV, who is producing tomorrow’s telethon, says that simply isn’t true, adding that the network has indeed reached out to Yeezy.

Opening Ceremony continues their Fall/Winter 2010 collection with a second delivery entitled, Norman Invations. This time around, OC tells a story behind the second part of the range: “we imagined an English counterpart to our young Frenchman: a long lost brother born and raised across the channel.” As the story is told, Savile Row-inspired tailoring provides a contrast to the softer suits of the first collection. Influences from past military and hunting garb is infused within the collection reflecting modern youth of Britain. “Suits in glam rock colors, Mod-inspired parkas for layering over slim jackets and trousers, subtle punk references like pyramid stud buttons, and skinhead fit jeans. Camel cashmere, military-grade wool, waxed twill, high dimension corduroy, fluorescent Fair Isle knits, and other Anglo-centric fabrics comprise the collection.” Look towards the later part of Fall 2010 to see these pieces.

Continue reading for the rest of the collection.

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21 JAN 2010: REPORT

The Electric Car Revolution

Will Soon Take to the Streets

For years, the promise and hype surrounding electric cars failed to materialize. But as this year’s Detroit auto show demonstrated, major car companies and well-funded startups — fueled by federal clean-energy funding and rapid improvement in lithium-ion batteries — are now producing electric vehicles that will soon be in showrooms.

by jim motavalli

Electric cars are a green movement that is finally moving. Shunted to the side as the public indulged its love affair with gas-guzzling SUVs and four-wheel-drive trucks, history has finally caught up with the plug-in vehicle.

The North American International Auto Show in Detroit is the domestic auto industry’s biggest annual showcase, and the new models have traditionally been brought out in a son et lumière of dancing girls, deafening music, and dry ice smoke. The few green cars that made it this far were usually for display only — very few actually made it to showrooms.

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The Tesla Model S electric vehicle at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

But not this year. It’s become a race to market for green cars, and soon you’ll be able to buy many of the electric vehicles that were on display last week in Detroit. The auto show featured one hybrid and battery electric car introduction after another. Although the only truly road-worthy, plug-in electric vehicle you can buy today is the $109,000 Tesla Roadster, by the end of 2010 it will be joined by such contenders as the Nissan Leaf, Coda sedan, and the Think City.

Indeed, the entire auto industry — from giants such as Ford, GM, and Renault-Nissan to startups such as Fisker Automotive — has joined the movement to build and market affordable electric vehicles.

There’s a reason the automakers in Detroit are finally plugging in as something more than a greenwashing exercise. Spurring them forward is a historic confluence of events. Chief among them are Obama administration green initiatives, including Department of Energy (DOE) loans and grants, as well as economic stimulus funds that provide $30 billion for green energy programs, tax credits for companies that invest in advanced batteries, and $2.4 billion in strategic grants to speed the adoption of new batteries. (Much of that money is going to Michigan, which despite record unemployment is emerging as something of a green jobs center.)

Other factors behind the push to manufacture electric vehicles are a federal mandate to improve fuel efficiency to an average of 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016, concerns about global warming and peak oil, and sheer technological progress building better batteries.

Even without federal largesse, some companies are moving aggressively into the electric vehicle market. A prime example: Coda Automotive, a

A key factor in making electric vehicles possible is the rapid development of lithium-ion batteries.

southern California start-up, has raised an impressive $74 million in three rounds of private funding. CEO and President Kevin Czinger is a former Goldman Sachs executive, as is co-chairman Steven Heller. Among the company’s investors are Henry M. Paulson, who was Goldman Sachs’ chairman and Treasury Secretary under the second President Bush. Clearly, these former investment bankers see electric cars as a good bet.

A key factor in making today’s electric vehicles possible is the rapid development of the energy-dense lithium-ion battery. William Clay Ford Jr., the executive chairman of the company that bears his name, told me in Detroit, “Five years ago, battery development had hit a wall, and we were pushing hydrogen hard. But now so much money and brainpower has been thrown at electrification that we’re starting to see significant improvements in batteries in a way we hadn’t anticipated. Now we have the confidence that the customer can have a good experience with batteries.”

Drawing a huge crowd, Tesla Motors Chairman and CEO Elon Musk showed off his company’s 1,000th electric Roadster at the auto show. “For a little company, it’s a huge milestone,” he told me. “A year ago, we had built only 150 cars. We had two stores then, and now it’s a dozen.”

For a major automaker, 1,000 cars would not be much to show for a year, but electric vehicles are still in their infancy. And since the electric car’s

An e360 discussion with Tesla’s Elon Musk.

first swan song in the 1920s — when the widespread availability of petroleum ushered in the era of the gasoline-powered car — very few start-up companies have reached the milestone of making green vehicles, especially battery-powered ones.

Here’s a look at some of the prime contenders bringing battery cars and plug-in hybrids to market:

• Renault-Nissan Alliance. This is the one automaker with a truly global plug-in strategy and the means to carry it out. Under the Nissan banner, the company will deploy the Leaf battery sedan, with 100-mile, all-electric range. Nissan isn’t just dumping its sleek entry into the market — it’s also building a home charger with new partner AeroVironment and partnering with local, state and federal governments — both in the U.S. and abroad — on public charging stations. In partnership with Better Place, the company will deploy a second Renault electric vehicle as part of its plan to wire up Israel with charging stations for electric cars. Renault-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn predicts that electric vehicles could constitute 10 percent of world car sales by 2020.
• Ford Motor Company. Ford’s green strategy includes a plug-in version of the new Focus for 2011 and a “next-generation” hybrid — based on its global compact-car platform, or C-platform — in 2012. The company announced in Detroit that it would invest $450 million in Michigan as part of its electrification strategy. Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm told me at the auto show that until recently the state “wasn’t sure it had a viable auto industry.” Today, she said, the state is enjoying $1 billion in new auto-related investment, much of it jump-started by a combination of federal funding and state tax credits.
• General Motors. GM’s big news is the Chevrolet Volt, which has definitely helped the company’s image. The Volt, which uses a small gas engine to generate electricity for its electric motor, is a lot of fun to drive if the version I drove recently in Michigan is any indication. Until now, GM has stumbled in its hybrid strategy, and it really needs this car — which will go on sale at the end of the year for a hefty $40,000 — to be a hit. But success may be more a matter of perception than actual sales. “In terms of numbers, the Volt will be pretty small for the first couple of years,” says product chief Bob Lutz. A Cadillac version of the Volt is also a possibility.
• Tesla Motors. This California start-up launched at the top of the market with its $109,000 Roadster, which combines sexy looks with supercar performance (zero to 60 in 3.9 seconds). The company is on something of a roll, having sold 10 percent of itself to Daimler for $50 million, and landed $465 million in DOE funding for its forthcoming Model S sedan — a Maserati-like, more practical version of the Roadster. Tesla’s Musk says that the company’s strategy has always been to use its sale of performance cars to finance its third vehicle, a mass-market electric vehicle. The company is currently looking at California locations for a Model S factory.
• Fisker Automotive. Perhaps Tesla’s closest competitor when it comes to glamour electric vehicles, Fisker – whose CEO is Danish-born automotive designer Henrik Fisker — is preparing to debut a high-performance plug-in hybrid (zero to 60 in 5.8 seconds, with 67 mpg fuel efficiency) known as the Karma at the end of the year. Al Gore is on the waiting list. Fisker also has a lower-cost car in the wings, called Project Nina. Fisker won $528 million from the DOE to build the Nina in a former GM factory in Delaware.
• Coda Automotive. This start-up will deliver, in late 2010, a small battery-powered sedan with batteries from its own joint venture in China. The car is based on the Saibao, a Chinese car, but Coda has put a host of western companies to work honing an

  Electric vehicles will be built in hard-hit Elkhart, Indiana, once the ‘the RV Capital of the World.’

  electric drivetrain for it. “A large part of our mission is to accelerate adoption of all-electric vehicles,” Coda CEO Kevin Czinger told me. “We have put together a core group of auto and battery engineers, and are leveraging specialty automotive firms that we think can get us to the right price point.” Coda will launch with an Internet marketing strategy in California only, but it will have the capacity to produce 20,000 cars a year.
• Think Global. Think is a survivor, with perhaps the longest and most colorful history among green automakers. It is a Norwegian company that attracted Ford Motor Company investment in the late 1990s with its plastic-bodied City commuter car. Ford sold the company in 2003 and it went through bankruptcy proceedings in late 2008. It has since emerged under the partial ownership of U.S. battery company Ener1, which snagged $118 million in DOE funding to expand its battery production in Indiana. Think electric vehicles will also be built there starting in 2011, in hard-hit Elkhart — once proudly known as the “RV Capital of the World” — and now suffering the effects of the recession. The two-seat Think City (with approximately 100-mile range on lithium-ion batteries) will sell for less than $20,000 in the U.S., but that price does not include the leased battery pack and includes the $7,500 federal tax credit for electric vehicles.

The list of players in the electric vehicle race goes on. Toyota is building

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After years of false starts and failures, the electric car may finally be poised to go big-time. With automakers from GM to Chrysler to Nissan preparing to roll out new plug-in hybrids or all-electric models, it looks like the transition from gasoline to electricity is now irreversible.

plug-in hybrids and fuel-cell vehicles, and showed off a small cousin of the Prius in Detroit. Chrysler has an ambitious electric vehicle rollout that’s been stalled by the company’s bankruptcy and merger with Fiat. Honda continues to deploy clever hybrid cars, including the upcoming two-seat CR-Z it showed in Detroit. BMW has electrified the Mini for a test program, and has similar intentions for the Concept ActiveE, a plug-in version of the Series 1 BMW coupe. And Audi has shown sudden interest in this segment, debuting the second of its electric e-tron vehicles.

By this time next year, electric cars will no longer be just on auto show stands, but will have arrived in showrooms at last.

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In an effort to help those in need in Haiti, General Motors announced today that it will auction off a limited edition 2008 Chevrolet Corvette at his weekend’s 39th annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction with all the benefits going to help earthquake relief efforts.

“The proceeds, which will be donated to the American Red Cross relief fund, are in addition to a $100,000 contribution from the GM Foundation to the Red Cross,” GM said in a statement.

The limited edition 2008 Chevy Corvette seen here was the last of the 427 units built for the North American market and the only model to feature Crystal Red Metallic Tint Coat. Power comes from a 7.0L V8 engine making 505-hp. The Corvette also features spider design chrome Z06 wheels, Z06 plates, a Stinger-style stripe on the front hood and fascia, chrome exterior badges and a painted Z06 spoiler and body color door handles. Inside, the Corvette contains a Dark Titanium leather-wrapped interior and special Crystal Red center trim plate.

The Corvette is Lot #1318 and will be auctioned on Saturday evening, Jan. 23.

2008 Corvette 427 Special Edition Z06:

– By: Kap Shah

The above card skimmer, found on a Citibank ATM in Woodland Hills, CA, secretly scans your account information and PIN number, which it then wirelessly sends to a scammer. Would you have spotted it?

Card skimmers have been around for a while now, but they’re only getting more sophisticated and hard to detect. This one features a tiny pinhole camera that records victims’ PIN as they punch it into the keypad, and it was clearly molded to fit and work with this exact ATM.

What can you do to protect yourself? Just be aware. Look at all the ATMs in the bank you’re in to make sure they all look the same. Look for hidden cameras or extra seams that seem out of place. Look for odd protrusions or elements that have colors that don’t match the rest of the machine. If you’re paying attention, you should be OK. But if you aren’t, you’re at risk for giving up your checking account to a scammer. [Krebs on Security via Cynical C]

Big banks have already begun poking the holes in Obama’s new rules—holes they expect their banks to pass through basically unchanged.

The president promised this morning to work with Congress to ensure that no bank or financial institution that contains a bank will own, invest in or sponsor a hedge fund or a private equity fund, or proprietary trading operations unrelated to serving customers for its own profit.

But sources at three banks tell us that they are already finding ways to own, investment in and sponsor hedge funds and private equity funds. Even prop trading seems safe.

A person familiar with the operations of one big Wall Street bank said it expects that new regulation will affect less than 1% of its overall business.

The key phrase is “operations unrelated to serving customers.” The banks plan to claim that much of the business in which it engages is related in one way or another to serving customers. Even proprietary trading, for instance, can become related to customer service if it is done through internal hedge funds in which some outside clients are permitted to invest.

One insider at a bank pointed to JP Morgan Chase’s ownership of the hedge fund Highbridge Capital. It is thought that under a strict “no hedge funds” rule, Highbridge would have to be sold off. But under the rule proposed by the Obama administration, Highbridge can be retained by JP Morgan because outside clients are permitted to invest in it.

A still more devious way is to have a banks own employees be the customers who are invested in the internal hedge funds. That way trading operations can remain closed to outsiders while the regulatory requirement of relating the trading to customer service is met. Goldman Sachs is rumored to be considering this approach. (Goldman isn’t commenting on the regs right now.)

“This thing is about showing the public that Obama is standing up to Wall Street. So the rhetoric is heated. But the implementation will require far less change than people think right now,” a person familiar with the thinking at the upper echelons of one of our largest banks said.

“The market is getting this wrong by selling off the megas,” a person at another bank said.

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• The ‘Volcker Rule’ Will Be A Body Blow To Hedge Funds And Private Equity!
• Wall Street Big Shots Mull Buying Merrill Lynch Out From Bank Of America

For every Android phone, the hacking process comes in waves: it’s tinkered with, then rooted, then flashed with totally new ROMs. At under a month old, the Nexus One‘s landed its first native multitouch hack, and soon, much, much more.

Virtuoso Android hacker Cyanogen, who maintains the definitive custom Android ROM for the G1 (among others) just posted an installable version of the native Android browser with multitouch enabled. (If the ADB install instructions don’t make sense to you, just read this—they’re not as complicated they looks.) This is big news! But not nearly as big as what’s coming next, probably within a matter of days. Says Cyanogen, echoing the sentiments of other Nexus One developers:

I won’t be releasing a full ROM until Google drops the 2.1 source code into AOSP.

The AOSP is the Android Open Source Project, which Google has been slow to update, and which will give modders the information and code they need to issue a full Nexus One overhaul, including multitouch for all the stock apps. The Nexus One has already been rooted, so Google’s tardiness is the only thing standing in the way. And, uh, guess what!

Google’s been making Android 2.1 code available all morning, so the first custom ROMs worth downloading could be here by this weekend. As is, the Nexus One is a spectacular phone. But man, just imagine what’ll happen when modders can open the hood on its software. [XDA, TheseAreTheDroids]

A small meteorite, about the size of a tennis ball or so, crashed into a Lorton, Virginia doctor’s office on Monday, according to several reports including one in the Washington Post. No one was hurt, but there was some damage — not surprising, since it must have hit at a couple of hundred kilometers per hour (it’s a Hollywood myth that small rocks hit at huge speeds with flames drawn out behind them; they slow down to highway-like speeds while they are still dozens of kilometers off the ground). The Maryland Weather blog has a picture of the interplanetary interloper — there’s a clear fusion crust (the blackening of the surface from heat), which is a giveaway it’s a meteorite.

There were hundreds of eyewitness reports of the fireball reaching as far north as New Jersey, so the rock must have been traveling southward. There may be other pieces along the path, most likely near where this one hit. I wonder if there were other people who may have seen small debris hit but haven’t put the story together? If you live in that area (it’s actually near where I grew up, which is neither here nor there, but still makes me faintly jealous) then keep your eyes and ears open for any stories. It’s still pretty rare to be able to collect specimens from recent falls, making this a very valuable find– both scientifically and financially!

[Update: Nancy Atkinson has video on Universe Today, too.]

Tip o’ the Whipple Shield to Bill Smith.

Filed under: Sedan, Ford, Toys/Games

About a year ago, Saab got 500,000 eyeballs on its 9-3 Convertible using an online game tied to the show “Burn Notice”. Ford is now doing the online game dance with the USA Network – the very same channel that aired “Burn Notice” – this time based on its new show “White Collar.” The vehicle of choice: the Taurus.

You’ll be using that Taurus – which is actually black, not red – to chase The White Shadow, the evilest white collar criminal around. And you’ll need a suite of Ford features to do it: SYNC, SecuriCode, Collision Warning and Adaptive Cruise Control, among others. The game will take seven weeks to solve, so you’ll be spending a lot of time in your sedan, but every week five winners will get a White Collar “gentlemen’s bag,” and the grand prize winner will get a new Ford Taurus. That one will probably will be red.

You can find the press release after the jump, or you can get straight to playing by clicking the link below.

[Source: Ford]

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Sure, your trusty PreCentral pals have already put up a Palm Pixi Plus Review, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get a little excited about a Verizon Palm Pixi Plus sighting out in the wild.

This Blurrycam comes from an anonymous teacher thanks to his even more anonymous student. (Students seem like a good demographic for the Pixi, actually.)

Anyhow, it’s got us wondering: will you be picking up a Palm Pre Plus or a Palm Pixi Plus?

Thanks, Mr D!

Após vários tremores no Haiti, o último sentido ontem (20) com magnitude de 6.1 na escala richeter, Fiat, Chrysler, GM, Audi e Volkswagen se ofereceram para ajuda financeiramente as vítimas do terremoto tanto por doações quanto por arrecadações de fundos com leilões e amistosose.

A Fiat irá doar de início uma quantia de US$ 250 mil de um total de US$ 1 milhão além de se deixar a disposição recursos e apoio técnico para ajudar organizações humanitárias e a população local.

No caso da GM, ela disponibilizou uma quantia de US$ 100 mil para a Cruz Vermelha americana, que também está na força tarefa de ajuda no salvamento das vitimas do terremoto. Além disso a GM passou um comunicado em todo o grupo para que seus funcionários também possam contribuir financeiramente em prol do mesmo motivo.

Já a Chrysler irá levantar fundos leiloando alguns Chrysler 300C Eco Style. A iniciativa partiu do CEO do grupo, Oliver François, que leiloará o seu 300C ecologicamente correto. O carro conta com a exclusividade de ter sido autografado por mais de 300 celebridades durante a 67ª edição do Globo de Ouro. Além do 300C Eco Style do CEO da Chrysler, celebridades como Christina Aguilera, Meryl Strip, Felicity Huffmann, Colin Firth, Tom Hanks e Leonardo DiCaprio foram indicados pela Chrysler em conjunto com a ONG Estrelas por uma Causa para doarem seus 300C Eco Style para a mesma causa. A idéia é arrecadar cerca de US$ 5 milhões para ajudar o país devastado.

A Audi e a Volkswagen também irão ajudar o Haiti, ambas as montadoras patrocinam os times de futebol Wolfsburg e Bayern e irão promover um amistoso entre os dois times. A idéia é levantar uma quantia de 1 milhão de euros para ajudar as vitimas do país caribenho. Os dois times europeus ainda informaram que estarão dispostos a complementar a quantia pretendida caso as montadoras não consigam levantar o valor com o amistoso.

Fonte: Autoblog.it e Carro Online