Apparently there is a bill being presented that would give President Barack Obama, or any current president I suppose, the power to shut down the internet by shutting down a few private networks in a cyber-related emergency. A Senate bill would offer President Obama emergency control of the Internet and may give him a “kill…
Everyone remembers Clippy, right? The old friend of Word ’95 days. When spell-check came with irrelevant chatter and obnoxiously intrusive and cumbersome software? Well fear not! He’s made a return in an especially delightful article on Cracked.com. Check it. It gave me a good laugh.
(Edit: Their widget isn’t working in a post form. Please go to the site & check it out. It’s worth your time.) A friend of mine named Alexa posted this and I found it highly informative & at the same time irritating. It’s a small snippet on the going-ons of the largest ISP providers and…
Few things to post today, going to do them all at the same time.
Found another neat site called Visual Thesaurus. I don’t know too many grammar nazis so I’m not sure this would appeal to any of my friends but I do find this to be an interesting project. They’ve created a visual reference guide for using a Thesaurus. You can type in a word and it will…
Some boys over at Oxford have managed to discover what they are calling a “new exotic state of matter”. The experiments involved shooting a short pulse from a FLASH laser, whatever that might be, at aluminum. It apparently turned the aluminum clear and then an ultravoilet radiation. ‘What we have created is a completely new…
So I found a website called Dream Lines. It’s a rather neat project that I stumbled upon today. If I were to take a mildly educated guess, I would say the basic function of it takes any one phrase that you type. It takes this subject and searches for images of it. I’m not sure…
I will finish the second part to the previous post still, but this was too interesting not to post. So I got wind that Google Chrome OS is in development. As I don’t read the geekiest online resources these days, this might be old news for some. But I heard it today so I’m posting…