If you are familiar with String Theory, or at least interested in the concept… here is an interesting animation to take a look at. It sums up the first chapter of a new book entitled Imagining the Tenth Dimension. Now, I’m not advocating the book, but I’m advocating watching the animation on the website… I’d [...]

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The internet is a powerful tool. It is also being used as a means of repression in many countries. People are being persecuted and imprisoned for expressing their views on websites and blogs. Amnesty International has built a site called Irrepressible.info that calls attention to these injustices. According to AI, “Freedom of expression is a [...]

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Yvonne De Carlo has died. Known to us Gen Xers as Lily Munster, and to the older crowd as Moses’ wife Sephora in Cecile B. DeMille‘s ‘The Ten Commandments,’ De Carlo last appeared on TV in 1995. Now I have that damn theme song stuck in my head… the Munsters, not the Ten Commandments. Technorati [...]

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Steve Jobs and Apple have done it again. This morning’s keynote at the MacWorld Expo launched the next killer gadget… the iPhone. An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator… in one amazing device. Revolutionary user interface – “Multi-touch” using your fingers on a large touch screen. Runs OSX Multi-tasking, networking, power management, graphics, security, [...]

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It’s gonna be a busy tech week. The Consumer Electronics Show & the MacWorld Expo both open today. Look for several big announcements over the next couple days. One announcement that is a for sure is the Mac tablet computer called the Axiotron ModBookâ„¢ from Other World Computing (OWC) – we just don’t know what [...]

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With the Macworld keynote still on the horizon, the last thing Apple needs is a few more lawsuits and federal investigations. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Apple faces a new shareholder lawsuit along with twin investigations by the San Francisco’s US Attorney’s office and by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Apple’s internal investigation, led [...]

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CNET is reporting that Earthlink CEO Garry Betty died yesterday at the age of 49 as a result of complications from cancer. Betty was first diagnosed with what was reported only as a “serious form of cancer” in November, after which took a medical leave from the company he had been with since 1996, with [...]

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Incoming Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) is due to be sworn in tomorrow along with the rest of the freshman class of Reps. Ellison is notable because he is the first Muslim elected to Congress, and because he announced last month that he’d take the oath of office on the Q’ran / Qur’an / Koran. This [...]

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