* This page provides an index to back issues of MrG's weblogs, with short listings of articles in each monthly log.
* JAN 2012
JFK assassination future directions in aviation dysfunctional California direct democracy recycling refrigerators winter cold snaps not incompatible with global warming bark and ambrosia beetles versus trees fecal transplants banning cars from city centers lithium mining in Bolivia product carbon footprinting scanning forests with lidar for carbon surveys Achaean impacts - Obama revives Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal - calculating odds on presidential elections - logistics of US withdrawal from Iraq - multispectral scanner for examining old manuscripts - Tamaggo 360-degree camera - BookCrossing.org library for the world - South Korea space program - genomic analysis of horizontal gene transfers - partly restoring the Aral Sea - law enforcement in pursuit of ClimateGate hackers - shrimp farming - stretchy touch sensor - Amazon.com smart lockers - Alt/1977 realizations of 21st-century tech - adventures with LED Christmas lightsBACK_TO_TOP
* DEC 2011
JFK assassination antibiotic resistance plant genomes LED lighting e-cigarette controversy new GP medical services models low-cost glasses quasicrystals artificial leaf plus polymer and paper solar cells drug shortages in USA shrinking icecaps loyalty cards as a global phenomenon - Moscow demonstrations - illegal immigration into USA on the decline - US states into lotteries to deal with budget shortfalls - modeling impact of modern Laki volcanic eruption - parasitic flies versus wasps - USAF RLV competition - contact memory buttons - helium shortages affect military balloons - US Postal Service threatened by secure email schemes - UC Berkeley climate study - tinkering with Wolbachia bacteria to control dengue - Seurat rendered in soft-drink cans - playing name games at McDonald's
* NOV 2011
JFK assassination smart structures future of world food production laser enrichment of nuclear fuel USPS going broke Paris Autolib car networking scheme 3-cylinder piston engines flexible AC transmission for smart grids cancer screening questioned dust and climate change solar ultraviolet and climate change lunar X-prize using bacteria to refine ores obtaining metals from geothermal plants - US-Vietnam rapprochement - violence with information requests in India - campaign of sabotage against Iranian WMD program? - solar powered ferry for China - "super sand" for filtration system - using solar power for oil recovery - SpaceX reusable booster - fossil of precursor baleen whale - anger at CFS researchers - old newspapers as biofuel feedstock - solar power integrated into windows - set-top boxes as power hogs - STAR WARS dog for Halloween - total body eating - destructive early snowfall in Loveland - articles for blog piling up
* OCT 2011
JKF assassination future of world food production examining functionality of bacterial genome bacterial endosymbiosis in mealybugs silicon carbide for power electronics temporary halt in sea rise & shifting storm tracks e-books becoming popular & Amazon.com introduces Kindle Fire floating solar panels & Atacama solar power furor over HPV vaccine jute back in fashion satellite servicing programs - death of Qaddafi - Bodog sets odds on politicians - ObamaCare headed for Supreme Court - 747 SOFIA observatory tracks Pluto occultation - seedlessness in sugar apple and cherimoya - protofossils found in ancient Australian sandstones - GRAIL lunar gravity mappers launched - Chinese Tiangong 1 space station launched - UARS & ROSAT satellites fall to Earth - implantable wireless cancer tumor sensor - digital tattoos to help diabetics monitor blood glucose levels - "stick on" biomedical monitoring system - "smart bandages" that change colors - Winter the dolphin's prosthetic tail - bacteria digesting oceanic plastic? - breeding better bees to fight colony collapse disorder - arthropod genome initiative - fossil wasp larvae in dinosaur egg fossils - Milky Way Transit Authority map - getting out of online disputes - new Bravenet guestbook & video captchas
* SEP 2011
JFK assassination food production for 9 billion bioluminescence genetic analysis for tracking fisheries CIA as combat force Microsoft Computational Science Lab new Boeing 737 MAX jetliners electric vehicles for delivery fleets induction motors for electric vehicles reusing old drugs for new applications tablet computer wars in transition ESA Vega light booster - US mercenaries heavily employed in Iraq - Israel & Turkey getting along better than they sound - India & Bangladesh resolve border enclaves - Iranian authorities against water fights - 911 ten-year anniversary - adding touch to flat keyboards - Logitech solar wireless keyboard - waterless car washes - Fermes Lufa rooftop farms in Montreal - plesiosaur live birth - deep-underground nematodes - clams for tracking water pollution - LifePlayer digital music player for developing world - spectroscopic signatures to validate whiskey - Geo-Replicator system to reduce military networking bandwidth - DARPA backpack wireless transmission system - UFOs disguised as jetliners - Loveland helicopter formation flight - replaced my flooring - trip to Spokane, burned on hotels, brothers fighting fine
* AUG 2011
JFK assassination bioluminescence history of multicore computing selling products in India Indians & the taxman 3D printing for manufacturing Archaean explosion bureaucracy of South Sudan statehood cargo theft DARPA battlefield medicine initiatives global vaccine more intelligent planetary rovers threat of fuel leaks from sunken vessels - McCain versus Tea Party Hobbits - Malthusians versus Conucopians - SULSA printed UAV - intelligent robot pallets for cargolift aircraft - India's government uses Hotmail and Gmail - ARVs help prevent HIV infection - rose-ringed parakeets infest British cities - vine provides sonar beacons for pollinating bats - Army Marketplace military cellphone apps store - wireless-enabled inhalers to track asthma epidemiology - 3D printing of chocolates - MACON airship RC model - Lego Curiosity rover - watering my own lawn with graywater
* JUL 2011
JFK assassination disease eradication more than voice phone services for the developing world fake Chinese fossils the age of the Anthropocene evolution of shells and skeletons bottom of the pyramid economics in the USA NuSTAR X-ray satellite nuclear zero option more on machine vision taxing Amazon.com - regaining stolen loot from deposed dictators - gangsters into CD-DVD piracy - billions of dollars in unclaimed funds - tentacled snake - navigation of seals and rats via whiskers - plant that fakes fungal infection to attract fly pollinators - SAC-D launch - DMC-3 constellation - US government NSTIC security effort - LeapPad tablet PC for kids - growing mushrooms using disposable diapers - prinia bird frustrates nest parasite with variable egg colors - intracellular symbiosis in salamander eggs with algae - dry ice deposits on Mars - Airdrome Aeroplanes replicas - trashing my old backup CD-ROMs - setting up a Flickr account
* JUN 2011
JFK assassination more than voice tech for developing world difficulties with digital census incinerating trash with plasma torch to produce energy the peculiar gold business Canadian tar-sands oil Raytheon AT-6 light attack aircraft extracting water from fog reusing graywater inspecting the human virome maritime automatic identification system (AIS) software for electronic discovery and blocking cheats - Obama announces Afghanistan pullout - modifying bribery laws in India - rename al-Qaeda contest - cellphone charge card readers - Lumexis fiber-optic inflight entertainment system - Tobil Technology low-cost eye-tracking scheme - Word Lens instant sign translator for camera smartphones - Toshiba uSB Mobile portable display - Polaroid Instamatic camera tech lives on - NASA begins work on OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample-return mission - reducing cattle flatulence by diet - landfill methanogen identified - short sleepers are rare, sleep machismo isn't - NASA setting up automated system to track meteor trails - creating rival virus to keep HIV in check - preserving data from old physics experiments - getting by on vending machines in Nippon - schlocky $100 tablets already here - another Spokane trip, staying in better motels
* MAY 2011
JFK assassination
India development
shoplifting as global issue
radio astronomers against radio noise
finding storage for genomic data
diamond for quantum computing
diminishing returns for supercomputing
green funerals
Juno Jupiter orbiter
intestinal flora versus diet
nuclear cleanup at Hanford
dubious economics of nuclear power
- Qaddafi weakening
- ideas for taxes
- the end of the world
- printed battery
- fast-recharge battery tech
- Mantis LED lamp
- China space station plans
- bats find home in pitcher plants
- bladderworts as predatory plants
- metagenomic analysis of cow digestive organisms
- DARPA investigates tactical nuclear reactors
- DARPA investigates fuel-efficient gas turbines & energy storage
- USMC embraces renewables, seeks APUs or wotnot for vehicles
- obtaining water from exhaust of diesel vehicles
- Kindle library program
- amusing flash drives
- iCade game system for iPad
- tidying up passwords, power usage, and other picky stuff
* APR 2011
JFK assassination EMBRAPA & Brazil farm boom responsive space tilapia business high-tech vending machines bedbug resurgence renting out cloud-computing resources possible new resistant staph threat governmental reform in Mideast EVOFIT facial recognition system improved voice recognition tech tablet PC enthusiasm - Obama Birther controversy - General Maggie Woodward leads Libya strikes - Hydowatt of Italy obtains power from aqueducts - Bloom Energy fuel cell systems - Swedish virtual air traffic control tower - advanced washing machine from UK - SpaceX Dragon crewed space capsule & Falcon Heavy booster - decadal survey for space science - European cuckoos imitate sparrowhawks - gonorrhea bacterium has chunk of human DNA - plantago reverts to wind pollination - SkyTug airships - TI powerline inspection robot - RoboEarth online data sharing system for robots - Copehagen trash incinerator provides ski slope - converting MP3 files to MIDI - recording music off PC - conversions spreadsheet
* MAR 2011
JFK assassination responsive space nuclear insecurity influenza Libya strike rebuilding Japan after quake evolution of the marsupials boom in rare earths mining city bicycle renting systems Supreme Court rules on vaccine case Nautilus-X space cruiser Microsoft Kinect gesture-recognition system a big hit Air Force finally selects new KC-46A tanker - Obama's Guantanamo quandary - India's ipaidabribe.com takes on corruption - hydroponic gardens for Antarctica and space - Manhattan Science Barge hydroponic garden - maglev tube delivery system - multiple historical surveys all show global warming - cuckoo nest parasites mimic host coloration - DARPA SCENICC soldier smart imaging system - blue agave biofuel - electronic glasses - OLED TV - Japan's hundred-yen shops - raising bugs as a food source - shuttle history release
* FEB 2011
JFK assassination influenza bearded goby thrives in a dead sea UK trims back on packaging healthy vending artificial pancreas smart systems for battlefield surveillance USAF airship rising ocean acidity city of Kristianstad goes green wireless medicine - Libya uprising - Obama stimulus program - energetic activity in Crab Nebula - Stardust-NeXT revisits comet Tempel 1 - US peat moss all one geneline - Chinese Permian fossil bed - CommStellation comsat network - Liberty booster - California schools go solar - US Marines in Afghanistan go solar - what to do with leftover EV batteries - soot contribution to climate change - smart software to search for gravitational lensing - rinderpest eliminated - giving up on longhand - TRON / ALEGRIA - my new DVD player with memory
* JAN 2011
JFK assassination war on the deficit Alzheimer's challenge Commodore 64 PC resurrected campaign against illegal logging copper theft dung beetles inspected assassin bugs raid spider webs South Africa gets serious about AIDS using probiotics to prevent pneumonia probing the virome GigaPans - the logic behind ObamaCare - smart vision / audio systems - smart police vision system to check license plates - tweeting by jurors disrupting trials - internet spam on the decline - Swarm magnetic mapping satellites - Orbital Taurus II booster - giant lungfish tooth - venomous dinosaur - mojosaurus ceratopsian - semi-solar-powered Oriental hornet - EMAV PRU diesel-powered hybrid trailer for electric vehicles - EU road train concept in development - acoustic landslide detection system - DIA conspiracy - my new Vizio LED TVBACK_TO_TOP
* DEC 2010
JFK assassination summer Northwest road trip Bangladesh braces for global warming energy for the developing world National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) reprogramming cells to behave like stem cells handheld blood testing unit Raman spectroscopy for medicine increasing prevalence of counterfeit drugs lack of morphine for Africans wind power on Indian reservations potential pollution reductions in China by cleaning coal the "uncanny valley" in robots and digitally-modeled humans - US healthcare industry backs ObamaCare - California state government reform - hive organization of trematodes / flukes - plants emit volatiles in response to caterpillar attacks - Harry Potter causes run on owls in India - the ruin of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN - fruit flies resist roundworms thanks to symbiotic bacteria - Chinese Tianhe-1A - Camioncyclette cargo bike - modern fallout shelters - hints that climate may have killed off Neanderthals - giant fossil penguin & stork - tiny frogs that live in pitcher plants - DARPA working on drugs for high-altitude acclimation - DARPA working on fast-reaction vaccines - Replenish refillable spray cleaner - Lovecraft versus insanely expensive audio cables - Apture bar, online flash games
* NOV 2010
JFK assassination system updates revisited Bangladesh versus global warming solar power from Stirling engines DNA drugs Japan sells products to the developing world cellphones from India's Micromax anomalous black hole and giant pulsar Triassic extinction hybridization reconsidered Richard T. Whitcomb AIDS in Russia - move to Right in midterm elections - California abandons gerrymandering - US farmers doing well these days - power from gases in Lake Kivu in Rwanda - regenerative braking system for Philadelphia's subways - forward air controllers getting direct control over strike platforms - chimps get wise to snare traps - lantern sharks use bioluminesence for camouflage - NIST experiment on general relativity - Egyptian crater found on Google Earth - EATR biomass energy robot - Nokia bicycle-powered cellphone charger - nanomotors driven by laser - power towers in the form of giants - bizarre CONTAINMENT Lego construction - crane suction gripper head - CD-ROM with games in cereal box & rise of store brands - updating reviews on website
* OCT 2010
JFK assassination US fast rail versus freight rail system updates revisited improving cassava as foodstuff overblown Arctic methane scare domesticating oysters spider silk from GM silkworms GM EN-V bubble cars digital biopsies Obama space plan finalized dining in space evolutionary adaptation to disease - turnover at Obama White House - Liu Xiaobo gets Nobel peace prize - Bangladeshis like paying taxes - stop soot to slow climate change - terror birds examined - radioactive German boars - laser pacemakers - vending machine video games - houses made of straw - wide variation in dog skull structures - antibiotic resistant bacteria help non-resistant siblings - bornavirus sequences common in human genome - Ig Nobel prizes - visit to RC aircraft show
* SEP 2010
JFK assassination Boeing 787 Dreamliner & 747-8 CSI gives jurors unrealistic ideas about forensic science Volvox genome versus single-celled algae genome RoboBees cadavers in safety tests Dutch difficulties with Q fever cause of severe winter of 2009:2010 Belyaev's experiments in fox domestication swarm algorithms - Ahmadinejad hints that 911 was a government conspiracy - Hugo Chavez gets setback in Venezuelan parliamentary elections - Japan finds large numbers of centenarians unaccounted for - giant fossil soaring bird with toothed beak - details on behavioral effects of Toxoplasma parasite - cacao tree genome decoded - GOCE satellite problems - NASA Solar Probe Plus program - muscle degeneration in long-term spaceflight - mission to an asteroid - SpaceX promotes Mars mission - quantum dot camera - hydroponic grocery store - cleaning up marine diesels - Humane Reader electronic book for developing countries - wheat plant genome decoded - epidemiology of 1889 Russian flu pandemic - ancestral squid fossil discovered - ant traffic management - elderly scamsters - Chinook flyby - sleeping through warm summers
* AUG 2010
JFK assassination system update adventures Crystal Palace solar fuel synthesis poor countries with lots of disease obtain low IQ scores safety hazards of highly automated systems controversy over palm oil production fungicides lead to resistant fungal infections? US Army LEMV surveillance airship adjuvants explained Franklin Chang-Diaz and VASIMR rocket propulsion system - US combat forces out of Iraq - shaky Iraq oil business - election fever in Africa - vibrating automotive blind spot detection system & cars for the blind - MoveIt carton moving kit - microneedle hypodermic scheme - lithium / carbon nanotube battery - US weathersat politics - Galaxy 15 comsat goes rogue - cheapo TubeSat satellites - kudzu causes air pollution? - life in Trinidad hot asphalt lake - why early Earth didn't freeze over - origins of parking meter - blood bank for dogs in Madras - heart pacemakers for animals - USB mailbox and other silly tech gimmicks - creationist Granville Sewell's fantasy Earth simulation
* JUL 2010
JFK assassination Crystal Palace Ug99 mutant stem rust fungal plague spring Northwest road trip Panasonic Fusion advanced airliner seat EADS hybrid helicopter DASH7 remote RFID communications scheme natural gas glut Despommiers on farm towers movie theater business booming thanks to 3D flics Snowball Earth scenario not popular US JPATS prisoner air transportation system Evil Overlord versus conspiracy theorists - joint US-ROK military exercises engrage North Korea - Russian imperial pretensions a sham - colored gloves aid gesture recognition - MIT invisible mouse gesture recognition - Lotus rebuilds Toyota Venza to cut a third of the weight - portable hydroponics farming unit - giant Britannia wind turbine - symbiosis between ants and acacias - CNES Picard satellite - Falcon 9 selected to orbit Iridium satellites - ISRO future plans - cucumber mosaic virus manipulates hosts to attract aphids - anoxic multicellular animals - low star-formation rates in galaxies due to central black holes - DARPA work on healing wounds without stitches - French research on regrowing teeth to get rid of cavities - SCRAM booze-detecting ankle bracelet - Shiva impact crater? - Win7 upgrade difficulties
* JUN 2010
JFK assassination fight over global warming spring Northwest road trip other diseases caused by prions? wireless power in theory and practice Earthscope / USArray geoscience network obtaining uranium from coal ash and seawater Moscow Mars mission simulation the difficulties with corruption NASA SOFIA flying observatory - G20 summit & deficit cutting - Chinese leadership not pushing "China Model" - crop yields boosted by symbiotic fungi - Homeland Security cellphone CB attack detection crowdsourcing scheme - malevolent hacking into automotive digital systems - BioLite advanced campstove - nanotube RFID tag - DNA extracted from ancient eggshells - worms make ant abdomen look like berry - tiny bubbles against global warming - China plants trees - STER UV water sterilizer - MusicLite wireless speaker / light - lidar sensor for wind turbines - radars tweaked to null out wind turbines - Nassim Haramein rethinks physics with solar stargate
* MAY 2010
JFK assassination fight over global warming Monsanto revisited Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption imaginary elements Beech King Air 350 in combat IAEA working on nuclear repository schemes truffles investigated firefly flashes ad-hoc wireless networks - David Cameron becomes PM - fuss over sinking of South Korean Navy corvette CHEONAN - Robert Gates plays hardball with the military - EADS competing in USAF tanker deal after all - US troops march in Moscow victory parade - new BXDL and IH-BD Blu-Ray disk formats - new scheme for recycling PET plastic with organic catalysts - Sony Dash programmable alarm clock - DARPA REPAIR brain implant program - USAF reusable booster system - 1.8 gigapixel ARGUS-IS camera - South Korean catamaran wind power generator - soccer ball to generate electricity - plant sociability - gene transfer in intestinal flora of Japanese - cellphone use reduces risk of Alzheimer's? - tetris as a means of reducing post-traumatic stress - Guild of Calamitous Intent - adding ALT text to website illustrations
* APR 2010
JFK assassination the fight over global warming Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) verification schemes CDMS dark matter search India versus China as market for Western goods McDonald's in India periodic dimming of Epsilon Aurigae rogue brown dwarf star discovered product counterfeiting on the increase microbanking & microinsurance printing replacement organs aging in place at home Microsoft medical house-call scheme bias against girl babies & its effects - Eyjafjallajoekull volcano eruption - US reluctant to use force on Iran - Bangladesh newspapers reprint fake Moon landing hoax story - collapsing shipping container - US windpower map - micro-hydro technology - Obama clarifies space policy - Lockheed Martin revives Athena booster - Aussie stingless hive bees mummify intruders - sunflower plant genome being decoded - Foraminifera Sculpture Park in China - ancient giant pachycormid filter-feeding fish - NREL's lost algae samples - Infinite USB stackable connectors - EMP for punching holes in sheet metal - smart pill technology - dealing with frostbite - no taxes to pay - IMAX Hubble movie
* MAR 2010
JFK assassination intracellular immune mechanisms parasitic wasp genome history of the pacemaker silent mutations not so silent after all advances in optical metamaterials neural connectomics extensive amounts of computer code in cars Craig Venter focuses on algae biofuels & other biofuel efforts who needs democracy? Chagas disease and schistosomiasis carbon planets - national health care legislation passed - EADS drops out of USAF tanker race - Army bacteria-based water purification system - Mobile Digital TV - Empire State Building refurbished for energy efficiency - RFID scheme for tombstones - Iran presents Simorgh rocket - Globalstar offers science payload space on next-gen comsats - fossil bornavirus code found in human genome - symbiotic luminescent bacteria in bobtailed squid - Dark Energy Camera (DECAM) - Adobe Flash targeted by malware makers - gesture recognition for consumer gear - CO2 capture used to provide geothermal energy - self-climbing crane for wind turbines - puzzles about website traffic - low priority tasks at home
* FEB 2010
JFK assassination phosphorus depletion & agriculture domestication of the housecat the problem with state referendums chocolate instead of cocaine in Peru forecasting solar storms agricultural robots 3D printing systems Himalayan glaciers not melting? Deb Roy monitors his baby son to learn about language development Obama space plan ORS-1 reconnaissance satellite for field warfighters Northrop Grumman Hybrid Launch Vehicle (HLV) HIV resistant hosts - new Pluto images - XMRV apparently not linked to CFS - see-through Japanese goldfish - LADEE Moon orbiter - manned missions complementing robot missions - invisiblebracelet med ID scheme - RPI nanotube paper / cloth batteries - Swedish virtual autopsy system - thumb flash memory drives in the dry cleaners in the UK - hammerhead shark head supports 3D viewing - evolutionary specializations of raptor claws - corn genome decoded - buying a Blu-Ray player - site illustrations update complete - smart answers to dumb queries
* JAN 2010
JFK assassination evolution of nervous system domestication of the housecat OA-X light turboprop attack aircraft for USAF Scorpion small smart bomb power from sewage graphene electronics genome conservation apparently unrelated to function Chinese wind power Genome 10K plan to obtain 10,000 genomes schlock mockbuster movies antibiotic threat to our intestinal bacteria - AQAP and Guantanamo - US military TISC software in Haiti relief operation - Desertec Industrial Initiative for solar power from Africa - Siemens pursues offshore wind power - Philips tries to keep an edge in LED lighting - using mushrooms to grow biodegradable packing material - Virgin SpaceShipTwo LauncherOne - JAXA ASR booster - honeybees smarter than traditionally believed - deep-sea bone-eating worms - mining peridotite rocks to stop global warming - EU road train concept - AIDA dashboard robot - wi-fi on buses encouraging ridership - going overboard on BOINC - troubleshooting a plastic santa - Norway space spiralBACK_TO_TOP
* DEC 2009
immune system Southwest road trip battlefield lasers infrared fluorescent proteins fake relics on eBay SMOS satellite digitizing old astronomical plates phytoplasmas ecstasy for PTSD sterilizing feral pets Big Pharma embraces generic drugs. - Copenhagen global warming conference - riots in Iran - China imprisons Liu Xiaobo - World Wide Lightning Location Network - giant pliosaur found in UK - filarial worms and symbiotic bacteria - CFS suspect identified - Iridium satellites to offer science payloads - innovative ideas in air transport - airlines and airports lag in recycling - power sockets with USB plugs - silkworm genome decoded - golden cloth made of spider silk - spider web in amber - vegetarian spider - Mythbusters at the White House - checking blog archives - David Icke
* NOV 2009
immune system Southwest road trip Second Life disappointment falling global population growth farming mushrooms toxic risk assessment reconsidered Demand Media churns out cheap data biochar against global warming seabases biohacking - disappointing Obama, North Korea spats - Nissan EPORO fish schooling robots - MultiPlayer YouTube-like intelligence collection system - US Army PyTec waste-to-energy system - growing algae for biofuels in old mines - global temperatures flatlining for now - forams used to track climate data back 20 million years - automatic antibiotic tests with nematode worms - Rosetta comet probe makes last Earth flyby - ancient China bilaterian fossils - 2D barcodes for camera phones - Pirelli smart tire - shape memory alloys help accident-proof bridges - 911 truther annoyances, Twitter following picks up
* OCT 2009
parasites Southwest road trip Augustine Committee on human spaceflight Jill Price remembers all, flu frenzy combined-effect EMP munitions bug spatters for metagenomics butterfly family tree self-powered electrical generators the science of bug stings e-waste calamity in China - US worries over Afghanistan, home-grown Islamic terrorism - spysat imagery for science - new tyrannosaurid fossil - new pterosaur fossil - muddled multitaskers - prepaid cards for relief in Pakistan - solar-powered satchel bags - SpeedWay electric car scheme - Spitzer IR satellite runs out of helium but keeps on ticking - pterosaur tracks discovered in France - microecologies of pitcher plants - updating blog archives, Twitterspamming
* SEP 2009
parasites smart grids HAARP NASA human spaceflight options possible HIV vaccine P-8 Poseidon sub-hunter hydrogen fuel for cars examined carbon capture examined antibiotics maybe not toxins after all scrubbing systems against global warming Qaddafi survives and prospers the origins of photosynthesis - health-care politics, scaling back ABM deployment, Obama black ops - UK fire-fighting robots - gadgets based on paper and thermochromic ink - networked horn honking alarm system - 50th anniversary of 3-point seat belt - pea aphid genome decoded - artificial Golgi apparatus - linkages between organisms from North & South Poles - drug-dispensing contact lenses - scattering earthquake waves - Jedi lightsaber chopsticks - constructing 3D shapes with DNA - updating household flooring, adding pix to blog archives
* AUG 2009
parasites smart grid the origins of flowers wireless recharging global access to fresh water software agent groups SpaceX booster efforts next-generation ICs the Russian gas business geared turbofans terrorist Bryant Neal Vinas - Iraqis enthusiastic about security, light fighter effort, Yugosphers - USAF light fighter competition - the Yugosphere - tunicates as carbon sinks - jellyfish and ocean circulation - squid plague off San Diego - Bell hybrid tandem rotor VTOL - PANOPTES flat camera array - NIST memristor - Jupiter impact - blood fluke genomes decoded - water flea genome decoded - why the toucan has a big bill - organic foods not healthier - The 99, Twitterspam, Wings of Freedom, BOINC revisited
* JUL 2009
parasites green military NASA-ESA collaboration in Jupiter exploration agricultural colonialism end of business-methods patents voice websites for illiterates via cellphones biodiesel from coffee grounds, duckweed biofuels, banana briquettes India national ID effort DARPA shape-shifting machinery effort fluctuating oil prices - Indonesia terror, F-22 production ended, New Jersey corruption scandal - broadband over power lines - wind power at Belgian Antarctic station - RFID tags for airline baggage tracking proven cost-effective - termite antibacterial saliva - X-raying for fossils in opaque amber - cosmic rays not responsible for global warming - millennial data-storage system using carbon nanotubes - virtual hospital on Second Life - V Communicator Mobile on iPods for the US military - freeze-dried rations with built-in water filter - dental plasma torch - WIRED Online blog gimmicks - organ transplants from murderers, car show, Batman Adventures
* JUN 2009
parasites Russia in the 21st century new lightweight smart missiles smart infrastructure cellphones in prisons DNA from mammoths AQIM terrorists in North Africa hunting for dark matter high-altitude airship UAVs extreme pollinator adaptations vaccines and autism - Americans drop Iraq security, Iran elections, Japan weapon export ban - cellphone-based reward systems for taking medicines - GE micro-holographic disk mass storage - hybrid vehicles using compressed-air supercharging boost - survey of skin microorganisms - using dyes to mark cancer cells for surgery - recycling comsat dishes as radio telescopes - Burj Mubarak skyscraper - Honda walking assist systems - UK national surveillance TV network - dirt bike ambulances in the Sudan - local elk and auto classics, Americans watch 5 hours of TV a day
* MAY 2009
parasites Russia in the 21st century elevators explained nanotube radio evolution and cooking sexting BWB cargolift aircraft business in Iraq observing worlds around distant stars FBI spyware - Sri Lanka crushes Tamil Tigers, North Korean nuke, Saberi released - quiet sun - mockingbird & rook intelligence - proto-seal - solar power car park - online wanted posters - building underground in Amsterdam - mine emergency communications system (plates and hammers) - view-master phased out - killing older mosquitoes to halt malaria - photosynthetic mollusc - Antarctic extremophiles - government gives away supercomputer time - Twitter, LegoToons
* APR 2009
parasites evolution & information smart bots for computer games smarter cars machine vision apps ADS-B Bhopal disaster at 25 runaway stars Future Combat System cancelled geothermal power in Africa's Rift Valley mainstream money laundering science instrument systems for ferries - Iranian leadership - automated ocean oil platforms - Miniatur Wunderland train set - Wired Gadget Lab gimmicks - constructing artificial proteins - sampling a fallen asteroid - Quaker parrot heroics - tiny houses - 747 hostel - rotating structures - USA Flight 1549 splashes into Hudson, getting caught up, personal stats
* MAR 2009
evolution & information North & South Korea smart bots for computer games GPS phone applications USAF X-37B spaceplane DARPA MEMS program global domination of English better stoves for developing nations data mining futuristic German hotel ESA Earth Explorer satellite series mutant "fancy" goldfish. - cricket team attacked in Pakistan, ICC indicts Sudan boss - genomic diversity of dogs - barreleyes and spookfish - Minoru webcam - cutting drag of ocean vessels with bubble layer - Spokane trip, COAL BLACK
* FEB 2009
AIDS at 25 North & South Korea dealing with IEDs alternate Bibles Greenland glacier slowdown evolutionary computing feral hogs DARPA walking robots interfacing the brain to machines ASDE-X runway monitoring system electric airplane nuclear reactor for the Moon presidential superphone George W. Bush's presidency reviewed - Obama stimulus, Rachida Dati - hurricane curtains - self-cleaning drain - demolishing buildings a floor at a time from the bottom - Dubai World Trade Center wind turbines - white trash supremacists for Obama, Proboards message board, DC185
* JAN 2009
CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE AIDS at 25 China's global hunt for resources dealing with IEDs the evolution of the Earth's minerals battlefield insect robots nervous optimism over Iraq Energy Star questions Universal Bulletin Board Code solar power plants with hot salt storage green cities military solar power satellites economic worries for 2009 - Obama inauguration - cyberknife X-ray machine against cancer - rubber tank tracks - Sansa clip music player - Philips DC185 digital boombox - Army wall coverings to protect against blasts - auto anti-theft systems in Brazil - Ocean Observatories Initiative oceanic sensing network - McAfee Siteadvisor, clock screensaver on laptopBACK_TO_TOP
* DEC 2008:
CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE new PC adventures China's global hunt for resources tasers smell sensors Somali pirates KOMPROMAT.RU maintaining old tech cellphones & epidemiology agritech and Thanksgiving dinner Obama's challenge with Guantanamo video surveillance that reads minds electric trucks - Mumbai attacks, Israeli blitzes Gaza - Obama in the wings for the White House, Iran baffled by Obama win - single-seat tiltrotor aircraft - zeppelins for San Francisco tours - plastic refrigeration system - e-cigs - ADAS helicopter situational awareness system - carbon nanotube speakers - selling stuff through Amazon.com, Maschinen Krieger, Timecube
* NOV 2008:
CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE new PC adventures 4D flight trajectories Luke Skywalker prosthetic arm advice for aspiring scientific geniuses cruise ships multitouch touchscreen tech biofuels from algae shell shock reconsidered NLOS PAM precision strike system cosmetic medicine - Obama wins the election - water-cooled computer chips - MODERN MECHANIX website - fuel cells for tractor-trailer rigs - concrete that soaks up CO2 - Caltech digital microscope - finally got all my pix archived
* OCT 2008:
CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE new PC adventures the war against al-Qaeda / the long war farming in skyscrapers medical tourism on the rise steampunk amusements Brazilian ethanol solar superstorms Saudis against high oil prices troublesome classification of prokaryotes companies setting up their own clinics less to Russian assertiveness than meets the eye - Chavez makes trouble, global financial meltdown, racists and Obama - Go-Tag smart card tags - Micro 4/3 cameras - ice-pack vest for athletes - soccer ball Mars rover - Brazil wireless networks - electronic fencing systems for cattle - AIDS denialists, leet, Flip 3D
* SEP 2008:
DOCTOR TATIANA the war against Islamic terrorism antennas for solar power more emphasis needed on energy efficiency fourth-generation cellphone systems intelligent surgical implants improved mosquito nets in-flight entertainment systems resistance against vaccination possible horizontal gene transfer in fish mysterious migraine headaches open-source hardware movement Bush II Administration learns from mistakes - Zardari becomes PM in Pakistan, Pakistan bombings - McCain selects Palin, bad economic news - quiet electric cars threaten pedestrians - cable cars for London Olympics - skyscraper made of erector sets - graphics processor boards for home supercomputing - ultrafast USB 3.0 - network enabled TVs - dual trips to Spokane
* AUG 2008:
DOCTOR TATIANA the war against Islamic terrorism Florida road trip again genetically non-identical twins telemedicine keeping the Beijing Olympics fed ingenious small UAVs traffic control software & improved transmissions building up farming in Russia & US inner cities Bruce Ivins & anthrax terrorism difficulties with food aid new developments in airships the business of wind power in the USA cyber spies - election campaigning, Georgia versus Russia, Russians against US ABMs - Musharraf's hold on power weakening - electronic lockup for truants in Texas, international graffiti criminals - underground automated delivery system in Ruhr - more use of fingerprint ID systems - FBI computer forensics lab - Design Against Crime Center at Saint Martin's College in London - nice day trip to Denver
* JUL 2008:
DOCTOR TATIANA Florida road trip again CERN Large Hadron Collider online nuclear warhead reductions eco-friendly road-building runway foreign-object detection drugs to increase intelligence Flip video camera minimally invasive surgery expose on background-checks companies race to build computer data centers freeing Ingrid Betancourt pico-projector systems confusion over conservation policies - Sudan boss indicted, Israelis rattle sabre at Iran, Betancourt speaks - more USAF tanker troubles, US elections - Katrina Hodge, Brother Cesare - JPADS GPS-guided parachute system - Buffalo anti-mine vehicle - wetware networks - evolution insanity, banner ad and domain name scams
* JUN 2008
Yellowstone menace Florida road trip again computer-aided fashion free-standing water turbines Naxalite rebels in India VOIP eavesdropping racial genomics Monsanto on a roll with GM crops Bluetooth surveyed Renault-Nissan plans for electric cars network distributed supercomputing rising oil prices new ideas for saving forests - Zimbabwe violence, overheated oil prices - conflict in Afghanistan, sudoku players in Aussie jury - drug-runner submersibles - companies subsidizing employee use of mass transit - Blu-Ray, who cares? - USB gadgets
* MAY 2008
waste and recycling infrastructure Yellowstone menace Florida road trip again math word problems a bad idea success of French TGV trains using online microcredit systems in-store advertising retreading tires for ore-hauler trucks printed microcircuit fabrication technology geothermal power from ordinary locations new defensive network for Manhattan quarreling over fatness solar variation versus climate change - Myanmar cyclone & China earthquake, Nuri al-Maliki - high oil prices, hundred-billion-dollar check - pepper-sized RFID chip - microchip product counterfeiting - Bum Bot bouncer - wider use of fingerprint ID systems - Lifestraw water purifier - power surges in turning fluorescent lamps on and off - restarting ANOTHER MONTH, Morton's demon
* APR 2008
shipping & waste disposal infrastructure Florida road trip again technology & government survey renewable energy in Germany hemispherectomies (removal of a brain hemisphere) city wi-fi sees some successes early electric bus fiasco squabble over unclaimed gift card money phone phreaking Aptera electric car freeconomics Boeing loses KC-45 tanker deal to EADS Airbus no more cheap food genetic ethnic tracing global struggle against smoking - Zimbabwe chaos, outgoing Bush Administration, Princess Di inquest - Canadian Dextre arm for International Space Station - gun-fired GPS ID unit for high-speed chases - wireless mousetrap - high-speed flash memory - wheelie shoes
* MAR 2008
shipping infrastructure Pacific coast road trip augmented reality systems Arab unhappiness consciousness examined (sort of) toilets for the developing world a short history of the census ethanol versus water supplies electric drive for ships and planes online games to do work using terrorists to fight terrorism solar America plan - Venezuela versus Colombia, Iraq invasion 5th anniversary - Sarkozy & Bruni in UK, Spitzer scandal, dumb whales - cellphone femtocells - Sensium chip for body patches - digital photo frames - Intel Tukwila quad-core CPU - Wii for physical therapy
* FEB 2008
aviation infrastructure Pacific coast & Florida road trips the fall of the hunter-gatherers Nabaztag smart bunny Virgin's SpaceShipTwo commercial spacecraft smart TV systems in stores Lawrence Lessig crash-test dummies smart car electronic systems manned mission to an asteroid Toyota problems Blu-Ray wins the super-DVD wars - Castro retires, McCain nominated, Chavez gets sued and so does MSoft - parachute birdmen - BUG labs configurable system - Fentix Cube input device - marijuana vending machines - Japanese smart sheet for desktop power and communications hookup - flex electronic circuitry - LED lighting takes off
* JAN 2008
aviation infrastructure Florida road trip relationships among the cat family materials harder than diamond potential nanotech health hazards US space exploration policy reconsidered huge extinct rodent free-space optical datalinks changes in car sales rivalry between the Bible & the Koran the disastrous eruption of Laki in 1783 obtaining methane from depleted oil fields with bacteria the organizational & financial challenge of developing video games evolution of pygmies - US primaries, Kenya riots, Jerome Kerviel scandal, Voytek the war bear - Bic micro fuel cells - mass storage servers for the home - new GM transmission for hybrid trucks - shoplifting gangs - military green power - solar-powered light-emitting fabricBACK_TO_TOP
* DEC 2007
bridge & tunnel infrastructure Florida road trip tracking one's life online alien life-forms on Earth Monsanto wins big with genetically modified crops no drugs being developed for kids Chinese product piracy revisited open-source insurgency the Earth after humankind Guantanamo being phased out mysterious natural stone circles weak bite of the sabretooth tiger pollution from livestock wastes steampunk laptop - Chavez loses referendum, Putin man of the year - US intelligence report lifts Iran - Indian judge calls gods into court, second year of blog - flash card with wireless interface - electric power plug congestion - testing company for mobile phones - RTGs for remote locations
* NOV 2007
bridge & tunnel infrastructure Florida road trip Danone bacterial biotech for yogurt FBI DCSNet wiretap system danger moose geoweb technology USA red tape Chinese clone manufacture improved oil platforms warning schemes for nuclear depositories wind-based power networking India's railroads Chinese military buildup Alex the genius African grey parrot - added news summary, trouble in Pakistan, troop surge working maybe - Democrats running for office, Sarkozy gets tough with strikers - King of Spain tells Chavez to shut up, Aussi election pranks - Dutch hybrid buses - military solar power satellites - ceramic / microwave light source
* OCT 2007
railroad infrastructure Florida road trip Chinese corpse brides African micro-hydro astronaut attitude problems natural house construction new San Francisco Bay Bridge algorithms as business tools the law & electronic discovery Ethiopian commodities exchange RFID introduction delayed Boeing 787 Dreamliner third-world economic benefits of cellphones shady DNA analysis by mail immobots Chick tracts - iridescent plastics - cellphones for kids - electronic RF sensor networks for conservation
* SEP 2007
railroad infrastructure California road trip resurgence of dengue fever wind power in India medical potential of symbiotic bacteria personal rapid transport contention over North Pole's resources Virgin America review animal microtags KGB in charge of Russia cowbird protection racket name-analysis software for security tracing city population shifts through cellphones fuzzy memories Canon Powershot camera - standardized virtual online environments - low-light camera - TinWiki for the fringe
* AUG 2007
railroad and road infrastructure California road trip home hybrid power-heating systems genetically modified mosquitos prenatal genetic testing controversy emissions trading controversy updating the Panama canal phone card ripoffs ICBMs for conventional strike personal supercomputing coin hoarding in India Alpine & Gibraltar tunnels user interface for XO computer forensic shoeprint analysis risks of being an archaeologist - using Wii with Second Life - recycled PCs for the developing world - McDonald's home delivery
* JUL 2007
road infrastructure THE MAKING OF THE FITTEST Chinese social problems trees & global warming cybersafety rethought hemp for victory DNA analysis for conservation more on Second Life bogus statistical analysis in medicine money transfers for developing-world cellphone users carbon nanonets North Korean intranet vaccines against recreational drugs fuels from algae varmints in space - motion-sensitive cellphone games - reassembling shredded East German secret records - military casualty evacuation robot
* JUN 2007
communications infrastructure THE MAKING OF THE FITTEST voice input on the rise Estonian oil shale Swiss bomb shelters smarter radiation therapy against cancer Google bashing Frananglais in Cameroons reviving the 1918 flu counterfeiting holographic seals gift card scams revisited Moscow casinos indirect tests for drugs eyeglasses for poor countries - solar powered system to convert CO2 to O2 and CO - automotive box that tracks car payments and shuts down delinquents - fast rail for China
* MAY 2007
communications infrastructure THE MAKING OF THE FITTEST XO security systems domain-tasting scams local money in Germany biofuel versus food mediation services cellulosic ethanol considered neglected tropical diseases surrogate reproduction recycling paper Marine space assault vehicles medical ID theft nonobviousness & patents ultracheap cars tort reform in US states - Jott service for transcribing cellphone messages - Mexican digital education systems - Venezuelan police using UAV blimps to fight crime - toroidal robot propulsion - microtech sensor based on diatom skeleton
* APR 2007
power grid infrastructure THE MAKING OF THE FITTEST radiation therapy versus the war on terror indian tribes rising reliable replacement warhead cheap inhalers for administering drugs questionable food activism sudden infant death syndrome artificial sweeteners national driver's license format controversy machine translation techniques proxy servers versus censors geo-engineering against global warming fake priests in Japan Kennedy assassination - R2D2 mailboxes - RFID system for boating anchorages - LED toys
* MAR 2007
power grid infrastructure UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon future cellphones RFID tagging luggage Chinese sweatshop practices Boeing versus Airbus ethanol in Latin America Bigelow commercial space station's cheating with online scoring systems using the internet in Baghdad improved geothermal energy technology modular home construction art of bribery space pen myth - wind turbines between highway lanes - energy from trash for military forces in the field - web browsers with phishing scam alerts
* FEB 2007
power grid infrastructure short history of wheat gene chips MySpace fakery Hillary for president ZUMWALT destroyer global warming lawsuits pythons in Florida automotive black boxes Iranian oil drought traffic roundabouts in Canada tracking spam 21CN for the UK - iPod vending machines - reverse vending machines (recycling machines) - FreeAgent pocket USB disk drives - emulators and replicas for antique computers - bizarre warning labels, THE HIGH CRUSADE
* JAN 2007
power plant infrastructure medical infosystems PC interfaces & networking clean coal Randi challenge money cards green business bubble modifying intestinal flora future energy tech online jihadism Japanese balloon maker Bell Labs fumbled the microchip new Yaris Airborne quackery recycling airliners emerging economies - Japanese experimental wireless rechargers - flash-aided hard drives, quad-core CPUs - Google solar power system - iron oxide panels to electrolze water - Kansas bans evolution, my Civil War historyBACK_TO_TOP
* DEC 2006
power plant infrastructure PC interfaces & networking global warming survey click fraud details North Korean nuclear dud power from trash high-tech concrete Second Life virtual environment cellphone malware hydraulic hybrid vehicles US population reaches 300 million LED lighting for developing countries Earth's shifty magnetic field industrial recycling - using viruses for nanofabrication - Universal Control System virtual environment for UAV piloting - GamePark grow-your-own videogame system - digital graffiti - laser etching of eggs - skeletons of cartoon characters - fancy Japanese wave interference tank, laser mouse & other gadgets
* NOV 2006
oil & gas infrastructure global warming survey brain games Orion space capsule extended warranties store security systems ZigBee home networks H2S doomsday AIDS in the USA business investment in Africa fraud-spotting software green building certification cybercrime foot soldiers electronic textbooks six word stories - ball-mounted robot - snake robots - 4D flight planning system - wireless sensor network in the UK - Segway scooters - blog a year down the road, bogus scientific arguments
* OCT 2006
oil & gas infrastructure another road trip fisheries quota system THE ONION Sunni versus Shiite in Iraq 100 MPG cars Africa@Home network the problem with NOCs deep oil wells Chinese ecopolis energetic Amazon.com alternative computing for the developing world Russian building boom declining Russian population palm oil biodiesel falling oil prices optimistic Iran - fog-producing burglar alarm - Dutch superbus concept - microreformer to convert methanol to hydrogen for micro fuel cells - Internet Explorer 7 - changing fonts & colors on website, recycling STAR TREK, 911 debunking
* SEP 2006
farming infrastructure Operation MUSKETEER genetic toolkits ISS progress defense contractors and Iraq ethanol considered Athabasca tar sands crooks against car security systems robot surgeons Freedom tower 911 conspiracies smart buildings fighting AIDS London Ring Of Steel Moscow spammer GI blogs - ruggedized Hitachi disk drives - Babbage engine made from Lego - wireless USB - photo archive, vote-smart, ZOG
* AUG 2006
food & farming infrastructure a history of PET enduring skyscrapers potential return of bacteriophage therapy arctic seed repository Indian call centers corporate nurses 747 fire tanker Pluto demoted sleazy adware companies inside-out surgery electronic ICUs pachislots war in Lebanon nano-rolls reformed Veteran's Administration intestinal bacteria web-based microfinancing greenery in China - rotokites for wind power - termites help make cellulosic ethanol - using pedestrian traffic to generate energy - thermoelectric conversion systems for autos - superconducting power grid
* JUL 2006
waterworks infrastructure a history of the slide rule another road trip Texas wind power extreme weight measurement internet server farms smart space probes games on cellphones shrewd Hugo Chavez Russian Moon probes cellphones in Africa ID theft exaggerated air traffic control controversy SOP superchips Japanese assertiveness electricity-producing bacteria - cargo loader system for 747 large cargo carrier - Japanese phones with breathanalyzer - solar-electric generator for developing world - sudoku
* JUN 2006
mining & waterworks infrastructure another road trip alternative fuels compared Orbital Express space mission holographic solar concentrators combat armor changes in US War on Terror policies new digital camera features gas prices Chornobyl disaster at 20 automotive thermophotovoltaic systems saving power in NYC medical cost-effectiveness death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq self-powered sensors smart sensors synthetic diamonds changes in Saudi society voice-activated laptops for recuperating GIs - fun with C programming
* MAY 2006
mining infrastructure alternative fuels compared bringing tyrants to justice dot xxx domains intimidation cyberscams Three Gorges dam biology modeling language barcoding nature advertising & Tivo flash memory & flash environments bear mutts $100 laptop disease mongering American Airlines North Korean & Chinese authoritarianism San Francisco versus earthquakes pricetag for Iraq energy availability power from manure - built-in tire gauges - wings for skydivers - using zinc oxide nanowires to generate power - using titanium dioxide nanotubes to produce hydrogen from sunpower - physics modeling chips - my new car, fun with business cards
* APR 2006
mining infrastructure a short history of life welcome to 2006 universal vaccines against flu cancer vaccines recycling PCs 747 homestead Fibonacci poems COSMIC satellites Hofstader's paranoid style essay lawn GM green tags urban gaming mandarin & panda diplomacy implantable RFID cosmic rays versus astronauts methane hydrates microdrives getting scammed by ISPs - concrete bridge with plastic reinforcements - self-powered backpack - gold nanoparticles to detect toxins and pathogens
* MAR 2006
a short history of life welcome to 2006 video placeshifting caller ID abuse solar concentrator blinds pet gene analysis Denmark governs with the web responsive space tidal & wave power vertical wind turbines consumer product standby power TAML synthetic catalysts gold as medicine web-based microfinancing secret Lockheed airship infrared imagers for cars regenerative automotive systems nanocars brain implants Russian consumerism Canadian butter wars - 802.11n wi-fi - Excalibur home game console - USB flash memory drives - dry urinals
* FEB 2006
a short history of life battle for global health renewable energy excitement Coast to Coast AM New York organleggers virtual human models resurrecting the thylacine modern trains smart trash recycling breaking up ice jams navsat traffic monitoring micro-windpower near-field datacom lingering worries about prions medical lawsuits overblown robot military vehicles Russia versus NGOs hard and soft diplomacy against Iran - electronics for toddlers - unusual advertising venues - improved product coatings - quick kill system - Jim Gary scrap dinosaurs - robot rebellion - phishing scams - fake eBay page scam, misadventures with digital music
* JAN 2006
a short history of life
Dawkins' THE BLIND WATCHMAKER
digital broadcast TV arriving
Delgado's brain implants
The Movies machinima
terrorist threat to chemical plants
Chinese net censorship
C.K. Prahalad's economic ideas
backhoe threat to fiber-optic lines
e-gold troubles
junk patents
US Army training grounds
technology for old Japanese
OLEDs
click fraud
tsunami alert system
ultra-tech Smartwrap house
medical malpractice lawsuits
political issues over vaccine production
gift card scams
fun and games with product rebates
military blogs
- virtual conferencing systems
- space Learjet
- Electroplankon digital environment
- microdot ID systems
- shatterproof Xmas ornaments, Xmas visit to DIA
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* DEC 2005
Dawkins' THE BLIND WATCHMAKER smart sensor networks a history of barbed wire Arabs less keen on terrorism Iraq elections possible exaggeration of flu scare robot surgery oceanic oil rigs & nodding donkey pumps clean coal a colder Europe shifting magnetic poles adjusting years with seconds terrorism as a business Iraq exit super container ships Detroit seeks energy-efficient cars Brazil's EMBRAER airliner defensive systems UN relief needs money businesslike NGOs estimates of oil peak - US military greenery - Kinkajou projector for developing world - education by podcast - checking for duplicate words
* NOV 2005
McCain blasts Bush II Administration Dawkins' THE BLIND WATCHMAKER the IGLOO WHITE program bubonic plague return of aggressor squadrons Ahmadinejad blasts Israel Bill Buckley turns 80 France & US get along Japan likes robots machinima videos airlines on the upswing CIA extraordinary rendition terrorist finance tracking fiasco terrorist attacks in Jordan antibiotic-resistant staph crossbar nanocomputing arranged marriages online Charity Navigator H5N1 flu precautions Transdimensional - Indian Ocean tsunami defense network - spam blogs - peanut butter for developing world - Rocket Racing League - my own blog
* OCT 2005:
Dawkins' THE BLIND WATCHMAKER global water supply the black death resurgent volcanic calderas 1918 flu deciphered figuring out crowd crush supercapacitors banana horticulture, battle of Palmdale 1956 Afghan opium virtual machines against digital decay Japans rises Democrats be careful underground coal fires London Underground map Dick Feynman Bretz floods suburban wildlife problems
* SEP 2005:
global water supply Ronald Reagan's war on terror the internet-scale operating system Norden & Sperry bombsights voice-IP catching on storms and global warming ghost town at Chernobyl product lifecycle management biofuels reviewed advanced wristwatches the rise of hybrid autos LeTourneau's overland train US Air Force space warriors hyper-precise measurement 18th-century clockwork androids cranberry agriculture time spammer Robby Todino
* AUG 2005:
Ronald Reagan's war on terror a survey of the global oil business Curta mechanical pocket calculator solar power potential computer games as advertising barcodes & cellphones malware for cellphones BAE Systems Wolfpack sensor network Tambora eruption of 1815 intelligent clothing fish farming cellphones for the developing world classic farm windmills chemtrail conspiracy the internet of machines and products bogus ABMT cancer therapy jetliners with robot pilots Russian problems with radioactive materials rejection haikuBACK_TO_TOP