last update 01 mar 10
* This page provides an index to back issues of MrG's weblogs, with short listings of articles in each monthly log.
* 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 spiral
BACK_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
spatters for science
butterfly family tree
self-powered electrical generators
the science of bug stings
e-waste calamity in China / gangsters & toxic waste
- US worries over Nightmaristan & 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
- mine emergency communications system (plates and hammers)
- 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
- 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
- swine flu, 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 laptop
BACK_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
conservatives for Obama
- 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, Hillary and Obama, 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 WiFi 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, PM Brown in the UK
- 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
- Betancourt freed, Tibet troubles, Iraq invasion 5th anniversary
- Sarkozy & Bruni in UK, US electioneering, 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 fabric
BACK_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 history
BACK_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 haiku
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