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The discover magazine blog has an interesting article showing the awesome picture taken by Ralf Vandebergh of the ISS. He took the picture using a video camera through his 25 cm Newtonian Telescope. It is much more detailed than I would expect a shot from the ground to be. The blog’s author takes the time [...]

I have always been concerned about electronic voting. Even when the whole chad thing was going on in Florida and e-voting started to really come up as a subject it seemed very dangerous to me. Even as a or maybe because I am a tech geek I saw many nightmare scenarios of wide spread vote [...]

According to an article posted on Arstechnica, the Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force believes the majority of adults who play Animal Crossing: City Folk are actually trying to molest, kidnap, kill, or in some other way hurt children. “There is no reason an adult should have [Animal Crossing: City Folk],”says Andy Anderson, Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task [...]

After 9/11 many chemicals used by hobbyists for such things as children’s chemistry experiments were reclassified as dangerous and criminal substances by the US government for fear that everyone and their cousin was in a terrorist cell and mixing up big things that go boom. Ammonium Perchlorate composite (which is required in model rocket fuel) [...]

According to Gizmodo, “V-Moda, one of the manufacturers who announced shuffle-compatible headphones last week, just confirmed to us that yes, an authentication chip IS “required to enable to volume control functionality with the new shuffle (as well as the latest gen of iPod and MacBooks).” The difference here is that iPods and MacBooks worked with [...]

I was thinking about buying one of the new ipod Shuffles. I haven’t bought an ipod in the past, instead using more generic mp3 players. I really liked the look and tiny footprint of the new Shuffle though so I thought I’d take a minor plunge. The EFF has changed my mind though with their [...]

In light of the recent terms of service debacle at facebook and their U-turn on their rights to perpetually own all the rights to anything you put on your Facebook page and the criminal charges recently made against a person related to the breaking of MySpace TOS it is about time some decent satire has [...]

I was looking around online for a technology related gift that would go over great with the foodie in my life when I happened over the Nostalgia Don-100 Dough-Nu-Matic Doughnut maker from Amazon. I thought this would be the best gift ever. Who doesn’t love a freshly baked hot soft doughnut for a super snack. [...]

Cnet news has an interesting video taken at the Demo 09 conference of a new netbook coming out in a few months from the company Always Innovating. Basically it is a small tablet laptop in which the screen can be easily removed from the keyboard and used completely as a touch screen. In fact it [...]