LED
Next time you screw in a cheap incandescent light bulb, ask yourself this: Do you ride a horse to work? Still churning your own butter?
Palm
As useful as the Treo 600 & 650 are, they are not without their faults. Just about every Treo owner will find themselves nodding in agreement with most of all of the items alleged in this class action suit (PDF link). Looks like someone is finally gettin’ their cumuppins…
Feds
New drivers have enough things to worry about without adding cellphones and other wireless devices to the mix, federal safety regulators say. They want all states to make it illegal for teenagers and other novice drivers to jabber on phones.
Cell
An “electric nose” that can smell individuals’ own personal scents may begin to replace four-digit pin numbers and secret passwords within the next decade.
ITunes
ITunes 5.0.1 popped up on my Software Update menu today.
Hacking
Watch how a team from Johns Hopkins University break the encryption of the ExxonMobil SpeedPass system.
How
Throwing cards as deadly weapons seems impossible. Little bits of cut-out cardboard suddenly becoming capable of piercing hard fruit, drywall, or even a brown paper lawn bag is beyond the believable unless you are open to anything you’ve seen on TV-or anything, period
The
A rich vein of city records from Sept. 11, including more than 12,000 pages of oral histories rendered in the voices of 503 firefighters, paramedics, and emergency medical technicians, were made public on Aug. 12. The New York Times has published all of them.
NSFW.
September
Using Google maps to highlight submissions from witnesses and survivors of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York City. Submissions include photos taken and personal accounts of the attacks.