When I see a new Orson Scott Card book pop-up on Audible.com, I snatch it up and give it a listen. So when Folk of the Fringe came up, I recognized it as a suggestion from my brother and was rather excited about it. Folk of the Fringe is actually a collection of themed short…
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Recently, a well know scientist suggested that Mars is a perfect terraforming target. Lowell Wood, a noted physicist and a former employee of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said, “I suggest that the near-term outlook is that Mars will be terraformed.” Notice that he didn’t say eventually or someday. He said “near-term.” He explains that he…
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Designing your own home just got a lot easier. Suite75 (from the Netherlands) has created a fantastic application which allows you to not only create your own floorplan, but also design what goes inside. Buying a new home, rearranging your room, or moving into a new office? You can save time and have more fun…
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As you may recall, I wrote about Celestia a while back. Celestia just got some serious competition. The new version of Google Earth, 4.2, will include a feature many have dubbed “Google Sky.” And if you haven’t guessed it from the name, Google Earth can be “turned around” to show you the stars. And it…
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Does anyone else feel a little uncomfortable about unleashing eight-million-year-old bugs into our current ecosystem? This is nothing to worry about, say experts, because the process has been going on for billions of years and the bugs are unlikely to cause human disease. Still seems a little risky to be doing something like that on…
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Dale Murphy recently fired out at Barry Bonds for his “unknowingly” taking performance enhancing drugs. I was shocked at the public display of, well, hatred he has toward Bonds. “… I’ve heard the last few weeks, that that he’s being treated unfairly. You know, life just usually isn’t like that. You don’t usually get treated…
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Taking the advise advice of my brother (which I usually ignore), I pulled “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” from Audible.com and started listening. Doris Kearns Goodwin does a masterful job of portraying Lincoln with all his goodness and still showing some of his weaknesses. Her inclusion of records and quotes from…
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A recent study highlighted the influence of marketing on children by taste testing food wrapped in McDonald’s food wrappers. The study had youngsters sample identical McDonald’s foods in name-brand and unmarked wrappers. The unmarked foods always lost the taste test. Is this something we need to start looking at regulating more? Should advertising by junk/fast…
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As I mentioned before, I succumbed to the seduction that is the Apple iPhone. Two coworkers purchased it the day it was released and I promptly began drooling over the device. The beauty of the screen and the ease of the interface lured me to it. I couldn’t help myself and visited the AT&T store…
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