Quote:
"A village of small houses that may have sheltered the builders of the mysterious Stonehenge, or people attending festivals there, has been found by archaeologists studying the stone circle in England. Eight of the houses, with central hearths, have been excavated, and there may be as many as 25 of them, Mike Parker Pearson said Tuesday at a briefing organized by the National Geographic Society."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070131...enge_village_11

Quote:
"Nonetheless, the developers of the Chinatown garage are confident with the technology and are counting on it to squeeze 67 cars in an apartment-building basement that would otherwise fit only 24, accomplished by removing a ramp and maneuver space normally required.

A humanoid robot valet won't be stepping into your car to drive it.

Rather, the garage itself does the parking. The driver stops the car on a pallet and gets out. The pallet is then lowered into the innards of the garage, and transported to a vacant parking space by a computer-controlled contraption similar to an elevator that also runs sideways.

"
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/t...ge_x.htm?csp=34

Quote:
"New computerized casts of abnormally small Homo sapiens brains are reigniting the debate over the skeletal remains nicknamed "The Hobbit."

Ever since the 18,000-year-old remains of the three-foot-tall adult female hominid were unearthed in 2003 on the remote Indonesian island of Flores, scientists have argued whether the specimen was a human with an abnormally small head or represents a new species in the human family tree. The diminutive creature [image] had a brain approximately one-third the size of modern adult humans."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience...debatecontinues

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/bl...ewsitemID=65997

And BTW Ennio Morricone will be performing at the Radio City Music Hall next month his first US concert EVER.

_R

Quote:
"Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, said Saturday that the wildly successful site will start sharing revenue with its millions of users.

Hurley, who along with the site's co-founders sold YouTube to Google for $1.65 billion in November, said one of the major innovations the site is working on is a way to allow users to be paid for content."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070127...2MwBHNlYwM3Mzg-

Quote:
"Forty years ago today, Stephen B. Clemmons was assigned to Launch Complex 34 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The events that would unfold on Jan. 27, 1967, would forever change the course of the United States' space program and Clemmons' life."
http://<br /> http://www.space.com..._interview.html

Quote:
"The US military revealed a heat-ray gun, the Active Denial System (ADS), to reporters this week.
The technology brings a new, more disorientating dimension to crowd control.

Rioters know where they are with a water cannon: they can see where the cooling is coming from.

Likewise, tear gas smokes before it stings and baton rounds are meant to bounce before they hit the crowd.
"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6300985.stm


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Here is a compilation of some of the best sites to start learning the Microsoft XNA Development Infrastructure.

XNA is a development Infrastructure that makes possible Home brew games for Vista Machines & the XBox 360.

IF you ever wanted to learn how to code a console game now it is the time!

Check it out.

http://www.gamecareerguide.com/feat...ofts_xna_a_.php
http://www.riemers.net/eng/Tutorials/xnacsharp.php

and do check out the Shawn Hargreaves' blog:
[URL]http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnhar/archive/2006/12/12/ technicolor-julias.aspx[/UJRL]


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Popular science magazine has named the best hardware shown at the Comsumer Electronic Expo in las Vegas this mothn.

http://<br /> http://www.popsci.co...ecbccdrcrd.html

Quote:
"Intel Corp. and IBM have announced one of the biggest advances in transistors in four decades, overcoming a frustrating obstacle by ensuring microchips can get even smaller and more powerful. The breakthrough, achieved via separate research efforts and announced on Friday, involves using an exotic new material to make transistors -- the tiny switches that are the building blocks of microchips."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070127...TdmBHNlYwM3NTM-

Quote"
The Wii News Channel, scheduled to debut Saturday, will primarily feature top news stories and photographs from The Associated Press.

Consoles with a broadband Internet connection and the Opera Web browser will be able to access the free news channel, which will offer AP news in multiple languages. Japanese-language news will come from a separate agency.

"The beauty of it is it zooms in and out of areas of the world," she said. "So if you really want to focus on regional news or national news versus international, you just blow up the map of the U.S."
"

http://<br /> http://news.yahoo.co...ii_news_channel

Relax it is not a Megalodon.

Quote:
"A species of shark rarely seen alive because its natural habitat is 600 metres (2,000 ft) or more under the sea was captured on film by staff at a Japanese marine park this week.
The Awashima Marine Park in Shizuoka, south of Tokyo, was alerted by a fisherman at a nearby port on Sunday that he had spotted an odd-looking eel-like creature with a mouthful of needle-sharp teeth.
"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...in_page_id=1965

Quote:
"Linden Lab's virtual world -- a much-hyped online amusement arcade of cartoon porn, avatars of IBM executives and frog bands -- has an annual GDP of about $220m, according to Fortune Magazine's David Kirkpatrick. That's only the size of the economy of Guinea-Bissau, one of the world's poorest countries, but pretty impressive for a virtual economy, no? No. Many transactions within Linden Lab's environment are circular, more akin to stockmarket volume rather than GDP. "

http://valleywag.com/tech/second-li...heme-230813.php

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Hey guys Roberto here,
if you have nt seen it runt dont walk to your local cinema to see the film
Pan's Labyrinth. It is an amazing film.

And you can catch a sneak peek of the soundtrack
here:

http://www.panslabyrinth.com/soundtrack.html

-R

Quote:
"Warner Bros. has provided CBR News with a "300" video journal from actor Rodrigo Santoro, who plays the Presian Emperor Xerxes in the film.
"

http://www.comicbookresources.com/n...tem.cgi?id=9404

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Quote:
"Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs was questioned by U.S. investigators about stock options backdating at the company, according to several reports citing unidentified lawyers.

The company behind the popular iPod digital media player has said it was under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission for its past option-grant practices.

"
http://today.reuters.com/news/artic...&src=rss&rpc=23

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Quote:
"A ship from the 8th century discovered off Dor Beach in the Mediterranean is thought to be the only vessel from that era ever found in the region. "

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience...inmediterranean

Quote:
"The extraordinary amount of heat seething below Earth's hard rocky crust could help supply the United States with a significant fraction of the electricity it will need in the future, probably at competitive prices and with minimal environmental impact, scientists now claim."
http://www.livescience.com/environm...rmal.html<br />

Quote:
"An expert on the "Mona Lisa" says he has ascertained with certainty that the symbol of feminine mystique died on July 15, 1542, and was buried at the convent in central Florence where she spent her final days. "

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/2007011...ly_070119105449

R

Get it before it comes down:
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/31279
-R

This is a LOT of fun..
http://www.becomeanmm.com/

Veterna animator Floyd Norman talks to Jim HIll about his work in Toy Story II

http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/floyd...us-the-way.aspx

-R

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/31262

-R

Quote:
"A 40,000-year-old skull found in a Romanian cave shows traits of both modern humans and Neanderthals and might prove the two interbred, researchers reported on Monday."


http://today.reuters.com/news/artic...&src=rss&rpc=22

-R

Quote:
"A 40,000-year-old skull found in a Romanian cave shows traits of both modern humans and Neanderthals and might prove the two interbred, researchers reported on Monday."


http://today.reuters.com/news/artic...&src=rss&rpc=22

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Cnn discusses how business world is making inroads into the virtual reality worlds.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/01/15/...y.ap/index.html

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Director Luc Besson talks about Arthur and the Invisibles, and discusses childhood influences.

http://movies.ign.com/articles/755/755052p1.html

http://www.hfpa.org/

Quote:
"If the "enfant terrible" of Gallic filmmaking is making movies for "les enfants," big changes must be afoot in French cinema. Luc Besson, the director reviled by some fellow citizens for Paris-goes-to-Hollywood action films such as "La Femme Nikita," "The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc," and "The Fifth Element," has entered the lucrative market of digital animation. His new pic, " Arthur and the Invisibles," about a boy who enters the miniaturized world of backyard creatures to save his grandparents' farm, and featuring the voices of Madonna, David Bowie, and Robert De Niro, opens nationwide Friday.
Already a hit in Europe, "Arthur" signals an important milestone in French animation: with a reported $80-million price tag, it's the first big-budget French export vying to compete with American animated features.

"

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0112/p15s01-almo.html

Quote
"Fast boats have their appeal, but hard pounding and massive fuel consumption would leave them useless as practical maritime surface transport - nor much fun for our landlubber friends. Maritime Flight Dynamics' solution is to fly just above the wave crests, on proprietary shock dampened 'foils'. Literally, a boat with a full-functioning suspension system, similar in capability to Baja desert racers. A lifting-body airfoil design carries the craft above the sea surface in ground effect, radically reducing hydrodynamic drag. This requires less power and uses a fraction of the fuel consumption."

http://www.seaphantom.com/

This looks incredibly cool,
check it out:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/31247

This looks incredibly cool,
check it out:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/31247

Quote:
"Despite all of the noise about the amazing potential that a touchscreen pocket computer with all sorts of fancy sensors could have as a gaming device, the truth of the matter is that like everything Apple, the iPhone is likely not going to be very game friendly.

That is because Apple wants to keep tight control over everything that goes on to their platform. Shocker!

Water Cooler Games reports that Apple reps are already referring to the iPhone as a "closed platform" and say that there will not be any public SDJ released. The reps did say you could call up the company if you're interested, but it sounds like they are going to be pretty damn strict about not letting in on their private money-making party.

"
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/iphone...ndly-227948.php

Quote:
"Chong Ahn, an associate professor in the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering, has developed a method for using MEMS technology (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) to build plastic microchips suitable for medical and other biological applications.

Ahn presented a paper summarizing his findings Sunday, Sept. 24 during "BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology World 2000" in Columbus, Ohio. The paper is "Novel Structually Programmable Microfluidic Systems (sPROMs) Technology for Plastic-based Disposable Smart Microchips."
"
http://www.uc.edu/info-services/biomems.htm

Quote:
"SRIHARIKOTA: In a "wonderfully" successful multi-mission, India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C7) majestically took off at 9.23 a.m. on Wednesday from its beachside launch pad at Sriharikota and injected four satellites one after another into precise orbit. "

http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/11/sto...11104750100.htm

Quote:
"They helped open the public's eyes to the wonders of space when they were first photographed in 1995, but a new study suggests the famous Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula might have already been toppled long ago, and that what the Hubble Space Telescope actually captured was their ghost image.


A new picture of the Eagle Nebula shot by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, presented here at the 209th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, show the intact pillars next to a giant cloud of glowing dust scorched by the heat of a massive stellar explosion known as a supernova ].


"The pillars have already been destroyed by the shockwave," said study leader Nicolas Flagey of The Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale in France.

"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/pilla...dbystellarblast

Quote:
"Peru's government, seeking to boost tourism in the Andean country, is urging residents and visitors to vote for the ancient Inca site of Machu Picchu as one of the world's new seven wonders.
"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070109...cchu_wonders_dc

Quote:
"Archaeologists in the Netherlands have uncovered what they believe is part of the military road Roman soldiers patrolled nearly 2,000 years ago while guarding against hostile Germanic tribes at the Roman Empire's northern boundary.

Known in Latin as the "limes," the road was in use from roughly A.D. 50 to A.D. 350, before it fell into disrepair and eventually disappeared underground, said archaeologist Wilfried Hessing, who is leading the excavations in Houten, about 30 miles southeast of Amsterdam."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070105...ands_roman_road

Quote:
"It looks like a dolphin, and it can fly up to '10' feet...check it out"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/..._wm_6228191.stm

Quote:
"The billionaire founder of Amazon.com has released the first images of the launch of a private spacecraft that could bring space travel to the masses.
A video of the cone-shaped Goddard vehicle shows it climbing to about 85m (285ft) before returning back to Earth"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6230245.stm

Quote:
"Two months after Apple failed to find options irregularities at Pixar, the SEC is double-checking.

The Securities & Exchange Commission is investigating whether the animation company backdated options during a period before the company was bought by Disney, according to the Financial Times in London.

Backdated options essentially allow an employee to receive options for a date known to be a stock-price low, allowing the employee to benefit from the stock's rise. They are not always illegal, but failure to disclose them to the board or to investors can, in some cases, be considered a criminal activity."

http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=14086
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