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Andrew writes -Our favorite new iPhone
hack, the duiPhone, will let you know for sure whether you should hand the car keys to a
friend after a long night in the bar... Once you blow into the mouthpiece, the application will
determine your blood alcohol level - either telling you you’re good to go, or that you
should consider calling a cab. We built this from a store-bought-and-hacked breathalyzer attached
to a 3G iPhone - our first experiment with Tellart’s newest Sketchtool: NADA Mobile. Yes, this video was taken at
our office. Yes, those are real 40s on the table.
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newVideoPlayer("/bruceleenokia_gizmodo.flv", 506, 423,""); A couple of weeks ago, a ten second clip
called “Bruce Lee's secret training video,” featuring someone looking like the famous
Kung Fu...
Michael’s here at MIT and just gave a great talk. While he was preparing for it, apropos of
conversations I’ve had recently with him and Beth Cardier, I wrote something that I think
is a story generator, and which is a self-contained 1K python program. Here it is: story.py
Let me know if you think it’s a story generator, and, whether or not you think it is, if
you think of anything interesting about stories and computation as a result of looking at the
program and running it.
Matthew Rothschild / The
Progressive Magazine Feed: Obama Throws No Bones to
Progressive Base — When is Obama going to appoint someone who
reflects the progressive base that brought him to the White House? — He won the
crucial Iowa caucuses on the strength of his anti-Iraq War stance, and many progressive peace and
justice activists worked hard for him against John McCain.
Rockstar Games have released the first details of the upcoming download material for Grand Theft
Auto IV. Time to join a biker gang and take on Liberty City from...
This evening we've added our official review for Summit Entertainment's Twilight, the hotly anticipated
adaptation to Stephenie Meyer's teen vampire drama. "This entire adaptation was carried through
by my wonderful Catherine Hardwicke, who took a shiny little turd and transformed it into a
watchable, slightly enjoyable film." You can read the full review, with minor spoilers, by
clicking the title above. Don't forget to write your own review and
tell other B-D readers what you thought! The film is about a high school girl named Bella falls in
love with a vampire. The new couple leads a rival vampire clan to pursue them and attempt to force
her to decide if she, too, wishes to become one of the undead.
You probably recall that two days ago, when the new Xbox Experience launched, sadly, about 300 Sony
Pictures films were
unavailable for Netflix Watch Instantly on NXE, thus quashing your hopes of streaming The
Karate Kid series. At the time, it seemed possible that missing titles were due to the fact
that Xbox 360 manufacturer Microsoft and Sony are direct competitors. Well, according to a Sony
spokesperson, the problem isn't specific to the Xbox, nor is their beef competition-related in any
way. Sony also says it is in talks with the several "relevant parties" to work out these vague
licensing issues, though there was no word on when the issue would be resolved. We really do hope
it's soon because we're dying to see how everything turns out with the Cobra Kai.
Only a few days ago it was announced that SHq and noth1ng are leaving aAa to join up with former
emuLate player mSx, leaving aAa shocked with a three man lineup. Now they decided to remove the
three remaining players Geno, MarM and TDSI in order to pick up eSport-eu which qualified for this
years World Cyber Games.
In a continuing series of articles highlighting that GNU/Linux is a viable replacement operating
system, I want to spend a bit of time talking about data encryption, focussing on how...
The Trail / Washington Post: Obama
Raised Half a Billion Online — Barack Obama raised half a billion
dollars online in his 21-month campaign for the White House, dramatically ushering in a new
digital era in presidential fundraising. — In an exclusive interview with The
Post, members of the vaunted Triple O …
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night, while fears of a long and painful economic slump continued to stalk the markets./ppBoth
stockmarket indices in the US - the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and Standard Poor's 500 index -
closed the day at levels not seen since before the burst of the dotcom bubble in 2000. And the
price of oil dropped below $50 a barrel for the first time in 3frac12; years./ppYesterday
afternoon, what little confidence remained in the market was sapped by a record rise in US
unemployment, and Washington's refusal to offer a financial bail-out to the country's so-called Big
Three carmakers./ppIn the final two hours of trading, the sell-off was brutal: the Dow plunged
444.99 points - or 5.6%- to 7552.29. The SP 500 slid 6.7% to 752.44, its lowest close since 1997.
Banking shares were perhaps the hardest hit, with Citigroup closing the day down 26%. This latest
share collapse left Citigroup - once the biggest bank in the world - with a market value of $25bn.
Less than two years ago, the group was worth more than $250bn./ppGM And Ford both closed up but
lost massive gains made earlier in the day when the prospect of a bail-out was still on the cards.
Their share prices plunged as Paulson revealed his distaste for government intervention in the car
market ./pp"No one thinks a failure of any company in [the auto] industry would be a good thing.
It's something to be avoided," Paulson said. But: "It doesn't make any sense to put any money in,
if there isn't a clear path to viability."/ppThe slumping markets were further buffeted by the
worst unemployment data in the US for 16 years. /ppInitial claims for state unemployment benefits
were a seasonally adjusted 542,000 in the week to November 15, compared with 515,000 a week before,
the biggest weekly increase since 1992. /ppCalifornia had the worst increase, with 15,000 more out
of work over the week. New York also posted record gains, with 3,700 newly unemployed people as a
large number of layoffs from Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs and Citigroup begin./pp"These
numbers are rotten," said David Wyss, chief economist at Standard Poor's in New York. He said
California's losses were so high because many businesses had been affected by the recent wildfires.
America's national unemployment rate is running at 6.5%, while total claims lasting more than one
week broke through the 4m mark, to hit a 25-year high./ppTo compound it all, the dollar weakened
further still against major currencies. A euro cost $1.2534, up from $1.2526 on Wednesday. /ppIn
the oil market, the cost of a barrel of benchmark Brent crude fell by almost $3 to $49.83 on
commodity markets. US light crude, which tends to be slightly dearer than Brent, briefly dipped
below the $50 level in New York trading./ppThe slump means British motorists are likely to see
petrol prices come down by a further 7p a litre before Christmas./ppThe Opec oil cartel is
contemplating supply curbs when it meets in Cairo next week, but oil analysts said the prospect of
tumbling demand for oil outweighed any possible cut in production. /ppThe RAC said the tumbling
cost of crude - dropping almost $100 a barrel since its July peak of more than $147 - would mean
that it would be pound;17 cheaper to fill up the average car. But AA spokesman Luke Bodset warned
that, while wholesale prices were being pushed down, "they are not necessarily being passed on to
the consumer, because the pound has lost a quarter of its value over the last year"./pdiv
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Incroyable, mais vrai : c’est hier que fut annoncé qu’un radar de la
NASA avait détecté un glacier caché sous de la roche sur Mars. Ca me
rappelle une autre découverte sur cette planète, récente… Pour ceux
qui ne comprennent pas l’histoire, c’est
ici.
Rekrut.ru will host an international tournament as an opener of their site on December 14th 2008
inviting 8 top teams as well as 8 local teams can qualify on December 13th. So far mTw, Alternate,
HAHA and k23 have been invited to the $24,000 tournament.
Paul Walsh / Minneapolis Star
Tribune:
Recount, Day 2: Coleman, Franken trade gains, losses — Today is
Day 2 in the Minnesota recount of ballots in the overtime election struggle between Republican
incumbent Norm Coleman and Democratic rival Al Franken. The candidates traded modest gains
and losses throughout the day.
Well having just read a pretty technical article regarding Nehalem (Core i7) CPU's on Anandtech, I
came across an interesting tidbit of information. It looks like we are not going to see Nehalem
chips in mainstream notebooks until 2010.
Quote: Without mainstream mobile Nehalem until Q1 2010, next year will be a very long wait for a
serious mobile upgrade. But if you can wait it out, or buy something cheaper today, the time to
upgrade will be in Q1 2010. I’m going to go ahead and revise my Apple notebook recommendation
given that we probably won’t see a Nehalem based MacBook until 2010. Buy the cheapest MacBook
you can today and make it last, upgrade again in 2010. Ooh, that rhymes. It looks like I will be
picking up my Alu Macbook on Black Friday.
...with the scenes of some destroyed couch sitting on an off-level porch with cans and bottles
scattered around and a nearby pile of refuse rotting into the dust. Then, walking through a slummy
part of town, what do I see but this couch with torn up upholstery and padding sitting there on
this deck that isn't even close to level any more with scattered beer cans stuck underneath it, and
in the corner back of the yard there was this pile of junk with pipes, an old bike or two and a few
rotting mattresses trying to become one with the earth again. No nuclear apocalypse needed...
Sadly, no camera with me as I was just coming back from the hospital.
Kozar_The_Malignant writes Scientific American is reporting that data from the Mars Reconnaissance
Orbiter point to vast glaciers buried beneath thin layers of crustal debris. Data from the
surface-penetrating radar on MRO revealed that two well-known mid-latitude features are composed of
solid water ice. One is about three times the size of the City of Los Angeles. This certainly makes
the idea of establishing a station on Mars far more plausible.pa
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So I have recently come across several of my grandfather's old letters, most of which are in French
or Yiddish. There is one postcard, however, that I can't translate or even determine the language
it is written in. The handwriting is unusual which doesn't help. Any ideas?
I'd be happy to share some of the others if anyone is interested in this sort of thing.
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