http://www.megite.com Megite is the newspaper for anyone interested in what's happening right now by intelligently uncovering the most relevant items from auto discovered news sites and weblogs. Copyright 2009, Megite 30 2009-11-30T16:53:09-00:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/1#item_1 f5124a3f87d30919d9b023a31e3872e8 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T15:16:00-05:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/1#item_2 f5b680753661df0eae737925404c6d74 According to a report released by the Congressional Budget Office this morning, the average price of insurance premiums bought on the individual market—that is, premiums not purchased through employers—would go up by 10 to 13 percent in 2016 if Congress passed health care reform legislation now in the Senate. This tracks with state-level ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:30:43 PST http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/1#item_3 fe5df978fefa8cd3425d13acb17a660e The principle of pulse oximetry is based on the red and infrared light absorption characteristics of oxygenated and deoxygenated hemoglobin. Oxygenated hemoglobin absorbs more infrared light and allows more red light to pass through. Deoxygenated (or reduced) hemoglobin absorbs more red light and allows more infrared light to pass through. Red ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:08:00 -0600 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/1#item_4 7e31747276aaa92442c382b234e755b2 It's not just bloggers who are upset about both the content and secrecy surrounding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA); the Swedish government is displeased, the European Union has concerns, and 1,700 European ISPs have now expressed their opposition to the process. While the worst fears of the ACTA worriers have yet to be realized, ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:57:00 -0600 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/1#item_5 739058ef03662fbb3109022aa831753a WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to lay out a specific timetable for how he sees the American war in Afghanistan ultimately ending when he announces his decision this week to send more forces, senior administration officials said Sunday. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:02:12 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/1#item_6 d4765fae99bd05feb69487fd7a18a161 Steve Horwitz at the Austrian Economists blog has a good post based on Census Bureau data that were recently released on "Living Conditions in the United States, 2005." The chart above (click to enlarge) shows the percentage of all U.S. households owning various household appliances in 1971 and 2005, and the percentage of poor households (below ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T11:29:02 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/1#item_7 4f49871adbf84b34c33f98194d56556d Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T11:29:02 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/1#item_8 26ab43e944adbcd8acfb8df85ed4c154 I believe this is the first Windows CE pico projector I have ever seen. The MPJ-104WCE, is Lancerlink new compact LCOS projector with a size of 138.5x58.5x25mm, with a 0.5Wx2 speaker and a 640x480 resolution, which also happen to be a small “PDA” powered by Windows CE 5.0 with 4GB of internal memory, 64MB of NAND Flash, a ARM 9 CPU @ 400MHz, ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:32:57 PST http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/1#item_9 92a5a41bb2692c589f924b281264775a Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:28:20 PST http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/1#item_10 297f31ec6b6f4e07625572ecd00f958f Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:20:15 PST http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/1#item_11 eca36786f220d82ad57ad25dbd3f795d Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:20:15 PST http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/1#item_12 8af54c29a9c4bb76973c469d9c52f2b8 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:20:02 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/1#item_13 5d6f0d4686537ce6e96aa7561a73bf67 A man who hacked into accounts to steal virtual characters and their possessions on one of the world’s biggest multi-player online game has been arrested. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:20:02 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/1#item_14 e87fcec03a3c8cd1f61a85ef1f4318a9 Jen Phillips, at Mother Jones, wrote a great essay on a new product called Linger, an “internal feminine flavoring.”   Literally, a breath mint for your vagina.  How literally?  Literally. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T20:14:02+00:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/1#item_15 42b7402a3af25dcdb0f44818fc9eeeeb Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:10:02 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/1#item_16 62a255ec8a549e4ec750b354c8be6d61 The phrase “catching a few rays” might conjure up images of lying on a sunny beach.But Germany’s Renewable Energy Act has given that phrase a whole new meaning.. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:08:05 GMT http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/1#item_17 c5a67456a27ddf839d5e306239e93a69 Tiger Woods withdraws from this week's Chevron World Challenge, a tournament he has hosted for the past nine years, because of injuries sustained in a car crash. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/1#item_18 3af893cdc89dd7bd7d3a95a7e88b011e It was but a year ago that Samsung graced us with the original Behold. At the time it was more or less positioned to win the hearts of folks who wanted a luscious touchscreen but had no real truck with smartphones. So what do we have here? With the Behold II, the company has switched things up a bit: instead of a respectable feature phone, you ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:58:10 GMT http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/1#item_19 288a3cea131538e79fc0fe00d5b90dd8 Five Britons who were sailing from Bahrain to Dubai have been detained by the Iranian navy, the Foreign Office says. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:57:00 -0600 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/1#item_20 aa9a533d942799d12108900cf14239c4 Following its October 2009 removal report, AV-Comparatives has released its November 2009 retrospective/proactive comparative. This is actually the second part of the August 2009 comparative , where 16 products, last updated on August 10 (new samples were taken between August 11, 2009 and August 17, 2009), were set on the same highest detection ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:36:35 -0600 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/21#item_1 9c875d1736b5af1a49f1d4b08ebd883c Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T19:49:18Z http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/21#item_2 8c5dba9e82917266bf09cbc08de3733c The bug hunting and stabilization period is starting to pay off. Those days I've taken the systemtray and the notification system as a target and started hammering on it... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T14:46:10-05:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/21#item_3 acd43d17960eeb67496e3b93badccf76 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T19:41:02Z http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/21#item_4 44e47b07c2336bf9a95e44b8e60e4621 I don’ t know what sort of world NYT reporters live in, but I am now convinced that some like Paul Krugman have no clue about the real world people live in elsewhere. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:23:00 PST http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/21#item_5 4c21aabab943e8f9113cf2803fac849e Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T19:37:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/21#item_6 a33499adcaebb83c360e864e56280705 Theodp writes "Fortune's Dear Annie takes on the case of poor Dazed and Confused, an independent webmaster who's expected to be on call for his client at all hours of the day and night, but doesn't get paid for being on call, only for the 40 hours a week that he's in the office. Surprisingly, Annie throws cold water on the contractor's dreams of ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:36:11 PST http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/21#item_7 a87c97184f3005ab95360468ecfb7e58 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:35:12 -0500 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/21#item_8 579eaf77c05b741f182143904cfe743f Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:34:03 GMT http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/21#item_9 38f9eb81edda8c520311c0f15033ab15 A gunman who shot dead four US police officers as they sat in a cafe will be brought to justice, a police chief has vowed. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:33:00 EST http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/21#item_10 80fc0046685951b7df116a8c588d8400 Hey gang. Normally we're not very concerned with prizes or accolades; just getting to play with the latest and greatest gadgets is reward enough for us... though we're a little excited about this one. Adweek has just announced its "Best of the 2000s" awards, and Engadget is up for "Blog of the Decade"! We've got some pretty amazing -- and fierce - (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T11:29:02 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/21#item_11 5ebee4ff6f023522b1385d8922cc6884 When new users are first coming to Linux, the biggest thing that can confuse them is amount of choice. Most computer users are used to having one set UI (user interface) to do things. So with the amount of choice Linux throws up in front of a new user, it can be overwhelming. The first thing that new users need to know about UI in Linux is that ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:18:02 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/21#item_12 617bd20b94daaa637705878e838da19f Ove over Ivanka Trump, another celebutante couple is tying the knot. They have confirmed via text message that they were engaged over the American Thanksgiving holiday. They did not meet on Birthright Israel; they met in DC, where both were born unto political families. Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former U.S. President [...] (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:11:19 -0800 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/21#item_13 a8c59ca0553a5231a93d1fd477d9e1d1 I would like this. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Made On Earth | Digg this! (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:05:24 -0600 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/21#item_14 1ee738b469b5bde398cf1e7f836b1b69 In the second of our holiday weekend reading 'DVD' stories we share an extra double interview with Digital Domain and Svengali FX's work on the JJ. Abrams directed Star Trek . (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:05:20 -0600 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/21#item_15 b4fe4587d6a83f6844018104e25549ba Mystery and intrigue surround the disappearance of Roerderer's presence in Russia. He just vanished. Threads of time weave into a legend and unlimited possibilities exist. Where in the world is Roederer? (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:04:00 EST http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/21#item_16 7177aa4a6cd4e9c20ba803ae1a34dfa3 Be honest: you really want to crack open a magazine and find one of these paper-thin USB key ads, right? No? Well... here's the thing. We really think this is a cool concept -- made to order, super slim, die cut USB drives that can be tucked in the pages of a newspaper or magazine (if you know what those are) -- with whatever content a company ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T17:50:20-00:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/21#item_17 2de36ba44fb9d2a21012c67a6a6c275a This is the second part of the article series on Photo Compositing with The GIMP by Reynante Martinez. Read Photo Compositing with The GIMP: Part 1 here. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T18:54:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/21#item_18 29c22f0d4522c440239f0b1ad1140744 The LHC has become the world's highest-energy particle accelerator, weighing in at over one trillion electron volts. "Until now the LHC had been operating at a relatively low energy of 450 billion electron volts. On Sunday, engineers increased the energy of this 'pilot beam,' reaching 1.18 trillion electron volts at 2344 GMT. The previous record ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T18:51:32+00:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/21#item_19 5dbd34d8aeb5761544dd56874db35f26 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:50:53 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/21#item_20 5c2f359235d0f48d9dbe1fe11ba9f25e Everyday carry fans will love the Screwpop tool. It’s a 4 in 1 keychain tool shaped like a key, that has a Phillips screwdriver tip #2, flathead screwdriver tip #2, 1/4” hex. nut driver, and a bottle opener. At only $4.95, it would make a great little stocking … [visit site to read more] [...] Filed in categories: Gear , News , ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T18:47:31-00:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/41#item_1 b30f6649c5a6fb3d58e1eabf377e4dd4 There might be the situation, that your root filesystem runs out of space, so it has to be expanded. With filesystems other than the root filesystem this could easily be done for instance with gparted. With the root filesystem this is not possible, as gparted could only expand filesystems that are not mounted, which is impossible with the root ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T18:47:31-00:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/41#item_2 d28e8528d818d07209baa3f61d154811 This is a CD/DVD and folder catalogizer written in Gambas. It uses sqlite3 server for the database. All dependencies but one are invoked during the installation of the package: YOU MUST INSTALL the gambas2-gb-db-sqlite3 PACKAGE MANUALLY.It can browse inside the ARJ, ACE, TAR, RAR, and ZIP archives, but then it requires additional packages (unrar, ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:36:35 -0600 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/41#item_3 799258a9d98697d2d41d73fc469899fc It's another milestone that the ubuntu-fr French team has achieved this week-end. We had in Paris 5 000 attendees[1] at the Karmic Koala ubuntu party! After the ubuntu release party (just a few people, mainly ubuntu-fr directly related, joining to have a great time on a dinner) we finished to prepare the Ubuntu Party as our last sprint on Karmic. ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T16:29:08Z http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/41#item_4 afda979358633ae86c89ee5c9d5860fc Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:33:01 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/41#item_5 a166fec8f9dc8967bb1dd1aedfccf51e [Epokh] has release some homebrew software that uses a Nintendo DS as a voice reader for documents. This is extremely useful for blind and visually impaired folks who normally use screen readers but can utilize this technology for reading books, documents, and email on the go. Future versions look to add an email client and [...] (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T14:43:45Z http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/41#item_6 f9256b37095d475b0eb2cb5bdd16addb Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T13:26:00-05:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/41#item_7 4a0ce2373f35659faad1c7764368c340 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T14:39:39Z http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/41#item_8 3077910fe08c03a46d27d465b8cd7d69 On Saturday, I walked from Mandalay Bay to the Wynn, interviewing employees at hotels -- people who work on their feet -- asking them an open-ended question: (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:23:00 PST http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/41#item_9 dda428255084d150f1340c9f473d74b2 As one of its weekly new features for Hulu for the Holidays, the company has rolled out new advanced search functionality. Hulu's blog notes that the new feature is part of an ongoing effort to improve in the area of search. This is going to be crucial for Hulu moving forward as users have more and more videos to sift through in their ever ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:23:00 PST http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/41#item_10 37ea936cc2d037ba16c6d173de632bc5 This won't come as a surprise to, well, anyone who has spent considerable time on the Web, but a new study found that people act much differently online than offline. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:04:01 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/41#item_11 942b8272291d7f5a962fb466f23f504c We continue with our coverage of the 2009 Pinot Days in San Francisco, by spending some additional time at the focus tastings. These tastings examine the wines of different producers, each drawing fruit from a specific vineyard. The wines are bagged (single blind), then placed into individual flights and tasted by the [...] (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:01:45 GMT http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/41#item_12 d8ff9159f4b886ffd7d5087c83521b63 President Barack Obama issues new orders for the US military operation in Afghanistan, after deciding on new troop numbers. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:01:07 -0600 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/41#item_13 63fd8633760fecbf83f62872400a5c7c Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:36:45 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/41#item_14 67c7689b4ef4beaec761b4fcd346ce21 (UPDATED) Indie rockers Georgia Wonder are a lot like other struggling musicians. They wanted to record, but had no cash. Not even enough for a decent home studio; much less professional mics or all the extra gear and instruments. But this band turned that obstacle into an opportunity and added a new page to the indie d.i.y. playbook. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/41#item_15 cd58b3294875da13a7ca2402ac6d7d38 For years, Charlie Murphy was best known as Eddie Murphy's brother, but not anymore. He talks about his book, The Making Of A Stand-Up Guy, which traces his journey from jail, to the Navy, to his own career in stand-up. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T17:56:48+00:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/41#item_16 83bfef9f41f677217b506f0d23d523da Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T17:50:20-00:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/41#item_17 f91212005033c2f3cc85fcce3a92fb1c The world has changed; but China has not. China has responded to the world financial crisis with what seems to be great success. But this is an illusion. China’s solution – a surge in spending on investment – will create greater excess capacity. China’s high-savings, high-investment economy is costly for its people and destabilising for ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:36:35 -0600 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/41#item_18 61692c3bc136d889d78a2c970056496c Unsigned long prevMillis; void loop() {  while( millis() - prevMillis >= 1000){    prevMillis += 1000;    ss++;    if (ss==60) { ss=0; mm++; if (mm==60) {  mm=0;  hh++;  if (hh==24)    hh=0; }    }  }  // rest of loop code here.&# ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T17:25:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/41#item_19 d6a67ba4ad11f6a49fe18b939cd5b6b2 Blackbearnh writes "The work of making high-volume web sites perform well is an ongoing challenge, and one that continues to evolve as the nature of web content changes. According to Google Performance Guru Steve Souders, fat JavaScript libraries and rich content are creating new problems for web site tuning, but one of the biggest problems lies ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:16:22 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/41#item_20 079f23696719218c843df970e7e7648c The Clickfree C2 Portable Automatic Backup drive is the go-to option for those looking for a hardware backup solution with it’s own easy, but option rich software interface that works with both Mac and PC. As a Mac user, already using Time Machine to securely backup my data, C2 might appear useless and a bit overkill, [...] Filed in ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:08:32 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/61#item_1 de318a56865a1f4aacf36b910fc9f499 One of OpenOffice.org's greatest strengths is its emphasis on styles. Some users balk at styles, claiming they are restrictive, but no other feature repays a little organization with so much ease of use and saving of time. Yet even those who are used to styles in Writer tend to overlook the styles used in other applications. That is especially ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:02:12 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/61#item_2 1436536d030151b57f099c950c4e75b8 Ord from Israel is that the death of Shtreimel Envy has been postponed for the time being. Since this Summer, there has been a Knesset bill that would restrict the importation to Israel of fur products from dogs, cats and rabbits that were raised and “harvested” in not so pleasant ways, especially in Asia. [...] (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:00:00 GMT http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/61#item_3 38148c30b51431e8d2cd1cabef0f9e13 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:00:00 GMT http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/61#item_4 7e291efd0b12c87dc7a9a56afde20c17 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T17:00:00Z http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/61#item_5 572ad355dc9b8eb2dcb3cccea657fc87 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:54:00 -0500 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/61#item_6 adee06092d9d36852407cb3c682951bd In the late 1960s, Tommy and Dick Smothers challenged those who tried to tame their wildly popular show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. TV critic David Bianculli joins host Terry Gross to talk about the legendary comedy duo who tackled political issues and censorship. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T14:43:45Z http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/61#item_7 1eb2369ae6632279862db78928442302 A new book by Shlomo Sand, a professor at Tel Aviv University, aims to discredit Jewish claims to the land of Israel by "demonstrating that they do not constitute 'a people,' with a shared racial or biological past." Titled The Invention of the Jewish People, the book spent months on the best-seller list in Israel and is now available in English. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T16:53:09-00:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/61#item_8 238847c40720cfc30886016b7804d9d8 There was a time when Netscape’s internet suite was pretty popular. The Mozilla Foundation, which was born out of Netscape, originally released the Mozilla Suite. Now renamed SeaMonkey, the internet suite has recently hit version 1.x… (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:24:30 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/61#item_9 27abdbbd3f6fa9e92ae5438411fb688f Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:45:33 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/61#item_10 02350abff40ccb6f5fa67a10dfbabab2 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:45:33 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/61#item_11 daaacb55881e0dbe1945674aedef8759 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T15:09:22+00:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/61#item_12 4c50849597f5e9ae4c1cace8bbef81a5 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T15:06:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/61#item_13 31114c65c2be664e5fe35d9e1daaa56d Eldavojohn writes "With the problem of moving conventional rocket fuel to the moon and mars on their minds, researchers from Purdue and Penn State successfully tested and demonstrated the use of aluminum-ice (ALICE) as fuel. In a paper from last August they outlined how it would work [PDF] and now they know it does. Space.com also had more ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T15:00:00Z http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/61#item_14 f22f0dd1292116d01100b818cbeccd01 As much as anything else, a user's impression of a web site has to do with how fast the site loads. But modern Web 2.0 websites aren't your father's Oldsmobile. Chocked full of rich Flash content and massive JavaScript libraries, they present a new set of challenges to engineers trying to maximized the performance of their sites. You need to ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T15:00:00Z http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/61#item_15 9aa0a44dfb6e999eb36a6df6f50488c8 "Our radiologists said that it's not needed for a thoracic spine area, and we don't like injecting people with extra dyes" "Perhaps the radiologists aren't aware that I have a small pile of titanium in my spine. My surgeon specifically requested these two scans in this configuration." (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T15:00:00Z http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/61#item_16 1424f96509814cf749a46abdda46e975 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:45:02 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/61#item_17 d84deed2caab55982fa81e30784ba06c Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T14:43:45Z http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/61#item_18 743c3e2b8cb1b8a7b51bd8dedf41c04a Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T14:39:57Z http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/61#item_19 624ec6ed793df5ab33147a964731bd11 Even the most anti-social person needs to be protected against the aggression of others and seeks the active cooperation of others. It is his interest to defend and uphold a set of moral rules. FULL ARTICLE by Bettina Bien Greaves (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T14:39:39Z http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/61#item_20 00ff648cd32d5e8f5773d0d34de1d031 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:36:45 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/81#item_1 f2c1069cdfb0b2fe31d08854615a13da Michael Giberson Last year thousands of Florida consumers called the state to complain about price gouging on gasoline after Hurricane Ike.  This year, hoteliers, gas stations, and other business owners are saying they are being price gouged by the Florida Department of Transportation.  The issue: the fee the state charges business owners who ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:17:34 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/81#item_2 004455d37f38cca8bff70de5252eb671 manicured nails, diet coke not included Looks like a giant BlackBerry.  Requires three REALLY big AA … [visit site to read more] Filed in categories: MiscellaneousTagged: What is that? originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on November 30, 2009 at 9:17 am. Filed in categories: Miscellaneous Tagged: What is that? originally appeared on The ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T14:17:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/81#item_3 3069e703b074ca0fb0e1f55463540990 J-beda writes "In June 2009, Dr. Neil Johnson published a paper titled 'Human group formation in online guilds and offline gangs driven by a common team dynamic' in Physical Review E that found the way in which WoW 'guilds' form can be described by a mathematical model that can also be applied to an unrelated group of people: street gangs in Los ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:13:42 -0600 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/81#item_4 6f4e6fa562870f3ca20e1167a57e8552 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:00:03 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/81#item_5 4a50dcf6f00c448e7a7d586730fc3861 This interesting use of Lego popped up on the mailing list of the University of Bergen. Build by a group of Norwegian students, it’s a simple computer that implements Alan Turing’s design from 1937. Having both read and write functions, it implements its own (somewhat inefficient) medium of non-volatile memory. What we find ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:51:33 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/81#item_6 fc45765126d32a958cb7b22317eef32c Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T13:41:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/81#item_7 78eaac3f602b82bb7699bdaf4cb4bf33 Unexpof writes "A man has been arrested by the British Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) accused of stealing the usernames and passwords from players of the RuneScape MMORPG. Security experts report that this is one of the first occasions when a Brit has been apprehended for "virtual robbery", although incidents have happened in the past. For ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:37:00 GMT http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/81#item_8 46b6b9eee9c1babacb05439b80e74b0c Barnes & Noble says it will delay shipments of its newly launched Nook electronic reader to stores as the company strives to deliver preordered devices to consumers before the holidays. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:08:00 GMT http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/81#item_9 d7622a8611b9cea9d8aaeb25bace2881 The Large Hadron Collider sets a world record by accelerating protons to 1.18 TeV, surpassing the previous record of 0.98 TeV held by Fermilab's Tevatron. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T13:04:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/81#item_10 32dac675c1e743c2ed7be5fdc0d17d86 An anonymous reader recommends a piece up at Augmented Planet that makes a couple of points about privacy in the realm of geotagging and augmented reality that haven't been discussed much. First, once you geotag and upload, say, a photo to the Net you can lose ownership over the data and especially its metadata. Second, data on the Net is long- ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T05:00:00-08:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/81#item_11 5458f50afa1540006c19b74672622700 This is the best source for buying small quantities of chemicals -- always a challenge in these days of chemical hysteria. Elemental Scientific will sell to individuals, online, with no paperwork or license needed. They have a very respectable selection of about 300 reagents and compounds. More than enough for most educational purposes, or for ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:58:52 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/81#item_12 70aa50452c3cb49eb4d509b98f9ce444 I have been pondering upgrading my stock car stereo for a fancy new one with some of, if not all, the bells and whistles; touch screen, navigation, iPod interface, HD radio, USB connection, etc. The real sticking point has been the cost. While the stereo may only cost between $350-$1000, the installation and additional parts [...] Filed in ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:58:52 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/81#item_13 1899d650c2018b335015feef2a1a9f79 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:43:46 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/81#item_14 479c09ce744c1a2b74f2842edbc7411f Some may think that linking an Xbox 360 controller to an original NES console is overkill. [Francois] would not count him self among that group. When the robotics team at his school was done using the controller with one of their projects, [Francois] used a Cortex M3 processor to get it to run with one of Nintendo’s 8-bit consoles.  ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:32:46 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/81#item_15 d543e6d8fbab2e3a55b8d7f650c01d42 M-Edge is now offering their e-Luminator2 lights for the Sony PRS-600 and PRS-300 reader cases, available to ship in 1-3 days.  The beauty of these lights is that they store inside (most) of the M-Edge cases, so you always have your reading light with you without having to carry an extra piece of equipment.  These lights [...] Filed in ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:27:32 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/81#item_16 ed1915ed8beba42e01f4ca3984bc2f8d Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:27:32 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/81#item_17 5378c394e59095cccf510ab7358cc2eb Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T12:13:54Z http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/81#item_18 82d6287e1fd7bd10b57355d585edccc6 This cranberry brie crepes recipe , both savory and sweet, is delicious year round, but it is particularly irresistible after big holiday meals. Refreshing, tangy cranberry sauce combines with creamy, flavorful melted Brie cheese to make a perfect appetizer or light dinner. Adding succulent pieces of roasted turkey or chicken makes a marvelous ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:07:09 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/81#item_19 304ad8960437162473c03d64cc0814b3 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:45:18 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/81#item_20 14f16af26ceb2ea42ef2ffdf39dbd975 Michael Giberson In August we took note of stories indicating that appliance sales were going to get a “cash for clunkers”-like boost.  James Hamilton at Econbrowser offers updated discussion, links, and commentary: Here is the description of the program from the Energy Department (hat tip: King Banaian): In late 2009 or early 2010, ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:45:18 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1259614531/101#item_1 04a7b5c9e7f00020fd037428017e0cd2 The UK's Times Online called this "the chart that the music industry didn't want you to see;" and I've been hesitating publishing it without adding context and analysis. But the more I stare at it, the more it speaks for itself. 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