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 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:48:00 EST http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/1#item_1 67ed6e9021193512337b1cf83c7f716a For those who've never really understood the mystique and allure surrounding Leica 's retro-styled cameras (and their stratospheric price tags), here's a gallery of shots that might just lend a little insight into the fixation. The outfit's X1 was announced back in September, though initial shipments aren't expected to begin across the pond ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:36:04 GMT http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/1#item_2 a35368ca8ca2ba138338a41bde68e915 New Zealand fly-half Dan Carter is cited for a high tackle on Wales scrum-half Martin Roberts in the All Blacks' 19-12 win in Cardiff. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-08T16:21:58Z http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/1#item_3 03b6b6993e2523c1c3c1b2d47eb1e854 Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:07:00 GMT http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/1#item_4 1de2f77b4429be708684d5a6aff07ff4 A security guard checks my driver’s license as I drive into the entrance to Moffet Field, a disused naval airbase that hosts the nascent Singularity University. Night has fallen, but it still feels like entering a top-secret installation out of a James Bond movie, crowned by with strange domed buildings and adorned by sculptures of airships. (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:07:00 GMT http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/1#item_5 2de0152fa13194731b0cc3677874a3e7 It provides 64 bidirectional I/O using I2C on analog 4 and 5...you can have 64 outputs, or 64 inputs, or any mix of the two. There are programmable pullups, bitmasks, and other functions. The I/O are wired to 2x10 headers, with a ground channel and a common channel that can be wired to a custom voltage. The chips themselves can also be switched ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:00:00 EST http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/1#item_6 51d05846a77788d6cbbe153d6c622201 Researchers have discovered a fungal protein that plays a key role in causing disease in plants and animals and which also shields the pathogen from oxidative stress. (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:00:00 EST http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/1#item_7 4513b1720cc73f96df6863b5a74ffc27 Deep under the sea, a fossil the size of a sand grain is nestled among a billion of its closest dead relatives. Known as foraminifera, these complex little shells of calcium carbonate can tell you the sea level, temperature, and ocean conditions of Earth millions of years ago. That is, if you know what to look for. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-08T15:58:09-00:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/1#item_8 03eff8d8a35457abd4a1a7dd4ad5fa38 CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Al Gore, a self-proclaimed "wanna-be geek," is on the road talking about solutions to multiple problems. The former vice president gave a speech at the First Parish Cambridge Unitarian Universalist church here on Saturday to promote his latest book, Our Choice. Whereas Inconvenient Truth documented the reasons for global warming, (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:36:18 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/1#item_9 f9c0302b845212e7c8c817f66aaecca0 This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Motorola Droid for VerizonFinally, the review. I have spent just over a week with this app phone, and I have really enjoyed it. I am a current G1 user, so I came to the phone already familiar with the Android OS. It was interesting to [...] Filed in categories: Android related Tagged: Android , droid , ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:29:47 PST http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/1#item_10 aa3f020307b4cbc28d2188a4677ca01a Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:01:00 EST http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/1#item_11 e025cf754fdc06698ea782acd5615778 We've seen plenty of carefully staged press shots of Bowers & Wilkins' new Zeppelin mini iPod dock , but we're guessing that anyone about to shell out $400 for one of these is going to want a considerably closer, more unvarnished look at it. Thankfully, the folks at iLounge have now stepped in and provided just that and, while the agree it's ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-08T15:00:00Z http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/1#item_12 dbc15a13141495f8c1542031883680c6 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-08T15:00:00Z http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/1#item_13 caa27b7d7fac01639a4cc25695f46603 The TechCrunch Japan TokyoCamp 2009, a demo event for web startups that took place this Friday, was a total blast. No less than 350 people came to the demo pit and meetup, which were co-organized by DESIGN IT!, LLC (a Sociomedia group company that runs TechCrunch Japan) and Nikkei Digital Core (a community under the umbrella of the Nikkei, Japan’ (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-08T15:00:00Z http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/1#item_14 abd363d93849da948577bf8056cc4fd0 大量高精細映像コンテンツへの高機能なインタラクティブ視聴を可能とする次世代映像配信技術 『fabric video（ファブリック・ビデオ）』を研究開発しています． (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:00:00 GMT http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/1#item_15 97eabc042feae3765a79bc68d3350af5 Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:00:00 GMT http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/1#item_16 dcdb00bcaee9ec87eca0e1a09d313156 Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:00:00 GMT http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/1#item_17 efdd5197c1b9f1bbc339de84237d8948 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-08T08:16:11-05:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/1#item_18 ba128a5a7e3d29da4a30e9a231aa287d Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:02:00 EST http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/1#item_19 aa30b78e6d082eb72122cec9d54e0851 Thinking maybe you can't live another day without finally breaking down and purchasing a pen scanner ? We can sympathize. There are plenty on the market, but the newly hatched DocuPen X Series is mildly more interesting than most out there. They've managed to cram 64MB of memory, Bluetooth, a tiny OLED screen and a lithium ion battery all in ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:02:00 EST http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/1#item_20 9b87cd6ded396276f4d8128909503568 ILike & MySpace offer free tracks to promote new enhanced Google music search. And artists are finding ways to use to improve their results on the new search engine. (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:53:02 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/21#item_1 7fde08027e2d4e0891e6b5ad953ea262 As much as possible, the pillars of KDE and existing KDE infrastructures are/will be used, and constructive feedback provided to the respective projects. (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:38:58 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/21#item_2 f0ad80a670013db1960a163086ff5a68 Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:38:58 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/21#item_3 79412e0e356f3b624ca8a2947aff5fbe This is so cool: because we only look at things we want to look at, only talk about things worth talking about, the amount of fabulous in the world continues to rise exponentially. (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:13:17 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/21#item_4 eb3a9f07ff5450bcab64039f6441bcca Two photos today. My partner, Pauline Powell and I visited East Germany and West Berlin in 1984. The first picture is a shot of the Berlin Wall from the western side, and seems appropriate as tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of its fall. The second shot, taken inside the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig, announces [...] (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:13:17 +0000 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:13:17 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/21#item_6 021ec2c662b7ee65560210cb9a6c9ee2 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-08T07:46:33-00:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/21#item_7 f4a8785322bd9236c3d6c6f16b424180 You probably know that to use a Launchpad PPA repository, you must also import the GPG key. Lately, keyserver.ubuntu.com which we need to import the GPG key goes down quite often, so how can we solve this? (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-08T06:49:22-00:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/21#item_8 1c4410ec3e3a458857bddce16a725ebc Amahi version 4.2 is released. Amahi Linux Home Server is a server targeted for home and home office environments. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-08T06:49:22-00:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/21#item_9 05c3b3576525933351d02696f3f4a5bc People seem determined to stick a USB plug on just about everything, so why not stick a 2GB memory chip in the handle of a comb and make it a thumb drive? It helps you look good and saves your precious data at the same time. We shouldn’t be asking “why”, we should be asking, “why not?” (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-08T06:14:40Z http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/21#item_10 6a00a84323d6ccc7bbabd2aab54ef90b Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-08T06:14:40Z http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/21#item_11 b6ac2d90c4fbb59ec81ee3f79bbef886 Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:33:00 -0500 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/21#item_12 e9cf1f3b344cd9a496146fb792727ffd The 2000 U.S. census was the first to give Americans the option to check more than one box for race. Nearly 7 million people declared themselves to be multiracial, a number that's expected to shoot up in the 2010 count. As more of the nation's population identifies itself as of mixed race, the authors of a new book say Americans' ideas of racial ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:07:44 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/21#item_13 7d6fedd67870940f98ebdba2b511f2f1 KOR ONE water bottles are BPA free 25 ounce bottles with flip top lids, threadless spouts and are dishwasher safe. An added benefit is the fact that a portion of the sales from each bottle are donated to select water related causes such as the Wetlands Initiative, Marine Research … [visit site to read more] [...] Filed in categories: Gear , ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:07:44 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/21#item_14 8bf7a428b358ec8dc4a3856c5617976f ABSTRACT: BOOKS review of two biographies of Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand died twenty-seven years ago, at the age of seventy-seven. This month, the first two full-length biographies of her that were not written by disciples or apostates of her movement are making their appearance. These objective looks at the first Objectivist, Anne C. Heller’s “ (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:07:44 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/21#item_15 aba3f46cf6f8435197fb606009297dbc Smug that after two weeks of me suggesting that social media might not be an unequivocally Good Thing in terms of privacy and human decency, the news has delivered the perfect example to support my view. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-07T18:48:28 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/21#item_16 531f81da2939b6d3752d3805063ceb34 (November 7, 2009 06:48 PM, by Arnold Kling) Inside Higher Ed reports, A small number of colleges have become much more competitive over recent decades, according to Caroline M. Hoxby, an economist at Stanford University. But her study -- published by the National Bureau of Economic Research --... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-07T18:48:28 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/21#item_17 086f7af372d8c0454017891b1be6fef0 Mozilla just released the first official beta of Firefox 3.6, featuring built-in support for themes (Personas), improved performance, and more. Early adopters, your download is ready. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-07T18:48:28 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/21#item_18 2c862c936301edbc4e3f93082b17529b If you're a fan of the free OS X software offered at MacHeist, you'll want to scoot over there to grab some free software before their software giveaway expires. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-07T17:44:41-05:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/21#item_19 815fdefd9f6b476e6579123104c713ad Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-07T22:23:13Z http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/21#item_20 4bb435f9cde6c2067d7e9dde08c5212d Someone in a comment box the other day mentioned that Mises.org had not yet posted Franz Oppenheimer's The State. That is fixed . It's interesting how easy it is to overlook sometimes the most obvious additions. Of course this is the great book that inspired Albert Jay Nock, who inspired Frank Chodorov, who inspired Rothbard, who inspired you. ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:03:56 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/41#item_1 a6a8ce96f5eb9ad5da38164245cb3f50 Check out this cute little robot keychain from TOKYObay. This one is the DJ. He is only 1.5″ tall, functions as an analog clock on a keyring and has moveable arms. He comes in gift packaging and a variety of colors. I reviewed one of the Filed in categories: News , Spotlight Gadgets , Watches and Clocks Tagged: Robots , Watches and Clocks ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:59:00 -0500 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/41#item_2 34964ee699d24208d0ae778a05c9a8c7 American history is filled with powerful men who have have honed their competitive strategies around the card table. In Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker , author James McManus details how the game's logic is reflected in our history of battles and business. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-07T13:50:50 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/41#item_3 5e5ec8e45af4c50d3b4541b551015200 (November 7, 2009 01:50 PM, by David Henderson) As Bryan has mentioned, Monday, November 9 will be the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In Chapter 3 of my book, The Joy of Freedom: An Economist's Odyssey, I tell that story and integrate it with... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-07T21:32:57Z http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/41#item_4 3822f440544803c1b8918584e91e4aae Just in case you didn't get to the end of this wonderful article by Murray, please have a look at this point that just about knocked me out of my chair when I read it. The explanatory power is striking. He addresses why it is that the conservative Republicans like to talk about free markets, cite Mises and Hayek, proclaim devotion to laissez- ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:30:57 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/41#item_5 e0806160baed8a0a4097a82848972f9d Maybe we’re just imagining things, but it seems to us like brainwave control is the latest trend in toys. Similar to Uncle Milton’s Force Trainer, Mattel has recently released the MindFlex, a game that involves moving a plastic ball up and down through an obstacle course that you control using your brainwaves. Naturally when [Alpha] [. (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:30:27 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/41#item_6 b53c55bf48b538da50ac478c89d9b7bf Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:30:27 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/41#item_7 3f2fff3601fd0ea00ded857605778323 LogicBUY offers the most comprehensive coupon codes, deals and price drops from hundreds of popular merchants to save you the most money possible. (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:30:27 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/41#item_8 cfea0268f5b5ee9e8112279ac563e30e Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:18:00 -0500 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/41#item_9 246beadeb72a1da0d6577c45e08dc55d At the Ocean Charter School near Marina del Rey, Calif., 40 percent of the 2008 kindergarten class received vaccination exemptions. Author Michael Specter says the parents in this upscale enclave are prime examples of what he calls "denialism." (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-07T12:41:04-08:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/41#item_10 deb0a4c2afddaa8e894450571679c725 Thanks to all of our readers who have written in to notify us about malware warnings that the site has prompted in the past couple days. I wanted to update you that the malware was all removed by Thursday afternoon, although it took a bit longer for the warning messages to come down. Please accept my apologies for not publishing this notice ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-07T12:36:15-08:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/41#item_11 abad608ef68e8431fa638530bfede676 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-07T12:36:15-08:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/41#item_12 16d5375112a6b0ece8d265731636f077 As we prepare for our next RealTime CrunchUp on November 20th in San Francisco, we’re seeing if anything an acceleration of the phenomenon known as RealTime. Startups, cloud platform vendors, the open standards community, and virtually every software and hardware category are being refreshed and reinvented in the new model. And while there ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-07T12:29:10-08:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/41#item_13 e8f592986f2c7131751d4a2e8d3e1d4c Keith Smith published Non-Adhesive Binding in 1990. At the time there were few other bookbinding manuals in print (and in comparison with other crafts, there still aren’t many). Books by Arthur Johnson, Edith Diehl and Douglas Cockerell offered instruction according to specific craft tradition. These manuals told how to bind a book with ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-07T12:29:10-08:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/41#item_14 d2cecc89991ebe23b88a0d80a929b66c Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:56:59 -0600 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/41#item_15 ac893383eb1308d9fa66e40b1de56c83 In its first feature film project, Brickyard VFX was called upon to create more than 300 invisible effects shots for Anne Fletcher's The Proposal . Brickyard visual effects supervisor Sean Devereaux talks to fxguide about adding mountains, roto-ing hair and puppeteering an eagle. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-07T13:25:00-05:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/41#item_16 438a3d2bd1ec36a3149913f271e9d221 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-07T13:25:00-05:00 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/41#item_17 c4b3d9d3a027956ac9ba45ee7fb76fc1 <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong> (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:17:53 GMT http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/41#item_18 b1a760346a5a5cf774feca39eb6bc5e9 Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:23:04 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/41#item_19 70d940d834fc5bbd0686e8b8b029bc53 Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:23:04 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/41#item_20 d8fdf2420ba6153a36859ca7cac75915 The dawn of the 21st century brought us a problem: we had lots of data, but no real way to bring that data into the real world. We could feasibly lug laptops and phones around, but did they ever do exactly what we needed them to do? Don’t answer that. (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:23:04 +0000 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/61#item_1 2190e338e97b88255942d05566a93ce7 Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:19:00 -0500 http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/61#item_2 306b53e09844cdf8c0cee9c13362d49b Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.megite.com/jrideout/1257712732/61#item_3 507eca65ffc84bae90eb8aa312c71145 Read on Source) ]]>