Sexual Consent Form

This is funny…

I saw this at Glumbert first.
Here is the Sexual Consent Form for those who wish to play along at home!

Paging Doctor Cylon, Paging Doctor Cylon

Shape Of Things To Come – Cylons Among Us?

Robots will soon pass scalpels to surgeons, retrieve blood from hospital blood banks and even answer the phones at busy unit desks – all so that nurses can spend more time with patients.

A researcher examining the future of nursing says breakthroughs in robotics could completely revamp the [...]

Scientists Research Brain Implant Chip

Scientists Research Brain Implant Chip

Researchers at the University of Washington are working on an implantable electronic chip that may help establish new nerve connections in the part of the brain that controls movement. Their most recent study showed such a device can induce brain changes in monkeys lasting more than a week.

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When awake, the brain [...]

Dome Day!

Dome Day! Go Rockford!

Rockford College Football Clinches the UMAC South #1 Seed

The Rockford College football team clinched the UMAC South’s #1 seed for the conference’s ‘Dome Day’ by defeating Blackburn College 61-0 on Saturday October 14.
The Regents (6-1, 4-1 UMAC) surpassed their season high for points in a game when they bulldozed through the Beavers [...]

This tech boom has legs…will probably last many years.

For several reasons – especially growing demand in developing countries – tech’s run most probably will last many years.

The tech boom now underway is profoundly different from any that has come before. It is broader and probably longer-lasting in its impact on tech companies, and more transformative macroeconomically. There are two reasons. First, everybody wants [...]

First space supercomputer

HAL may soon be getting some company. But unlike the famous computer companion in Stanley Kubrick
’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the first space-based supercomputer — so described because it will be by far the most powerful computer in space — is already nearing reality.The UF-Honeywell computer aims to upgrade both satellites and probes with a [...]

Digg This: Talking to Gen Y

Digg.com CEO Jay Adelson’s tips for communicating with the younger generation in your workplace.

According to research compiled by RainmakerThinking and quoted in USA Today, Gen Y—the millennium generation—has high expectations for itself and its employers, seeking highly engaged managers to help them grow and develop their professional skills.
read The whole thing…
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Futbal Ballet

Who doesn’t think that all sports officials are subconsciously just like this one?!

Futbal (AKA Soccer)… not to be confused with Football.
On topic for this site? No.
Funny? Yes!

Turing Test Proves 2-Year-Olds Not Human

Turing Test Proves 2-Year-Olds Not Human

Mason said, “This began as a study in human communication, but one of our Computer Science friends mentioned the whole concept of the Turing Test to us, and we decided to give it a go. Little did we know that we’d reach such an astounding result.”
The “Parenting Test” proves that [...]

Enjoying YouTube video while it lasts…

And so it Continues: YouTube Adds “Hate Speech” Flag To Its Videos

This is not good…Who defines “Hate Speech? Are we to depend on the “wisdom of the group” to regulate what “is” and “is not” appropriate speech? Browse Digg.com for a few minutes and let me know how you think it will go.

YouTube Adds “Hate Speech” Flag To Its Videos
Posted by Noel Sheppard on [...]

And so it begins: YouTube nukes 30,000 videos

YouTube has removed nearly 30,000 videos after being contacted by the Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers.

And so it begins: YouTube nukes 30,000 videos
Long before Google swooped in to buy up YouTube there were questions about the video sharing site’s future. In particular, concerns relating to copyright infringement have persisted: can YouTube [...]

A photo of himself every day…

vallywag almost made me spray coffee all over my desk with this post…

A photo of himself every day — no really, you’ll like this one

Ahhh Internet in-jokes, how we love you

The recent popularity of “photo of me every day” projects (like the ones by Ahree Lee, Noah K, Jason, and others) inspired this clever video:
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Whoops! iPods Ship With Virus

Some 5.5 gen iPods ship with Windows virus

This certainly isn’t amongst the new features that Apple has touted for their latest rev of iPods. It would seem that a ’small number’ of iPods shipped after Sept. 12, 2006 may be carrying a Windows virus by the name of RavMonE.exe. Apple says that less than 1% [...]

Are Laser HDTVs on the Horizon?

From ExtremeTech:

High-definition laser televisions have been popping up at various trade shows and industry events for more than a year. Now, on the heels of yet another prototype appearance — this time at an event for Arasor International, an Australian company that produces a key component for the semiconductor lasers.
Of course all of this means [...]

Intel to Launch Quad-Core Chips on November 13

In a race with rival Advanced Micro Devices, Intel will bring its quad-core chips to market in a new line of Hewlett-Packard workstations due to be introduced on November 13.

AMD plans to release its own quad-core chips in the middle of 2007, and claims its monolithic design is superior to Intel’s plan, which essentially glues [...]

Good question: why doesn’t the Xbox 360 have its own browser?

joystiq answers a darned good question:

Good question: why doesn’t the Xbox 360 have its own browser?

We don’t want a complicated solution that requires an operating system (though, at any given time, we’ve got all kinds of computers on around the house). We just want to turn on the dang console and be able to browse [...]

Happy 45th Birthday Message

Video of a message machine … with a nice birthday message for Bob.

Interesting mix of technology here…

More “Fizz” Than “Pop”

A toast to good foreign policy gone bad!

U.S. officials doubt Korean test was nuclear

U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that seismic readings show that the conventional high explosives used to create a chain reaction in a plutonium-based device went off, but that the blast’s readings were shy of a typical nuclear detonation.

“We’re [...]

YouTube Tags Political Video as “Inappropriate”

Wasting no time joining those champions of free speech, Google; YouTube has also now gotten into the business of censoring political speech. But they don’t limit the censorship to China.
First amendment? What’s that?
This video may contain content that is inappropriate for some users, as flagged by YouTube’s user community.
Well the video will make you [...]

NES Games on Your Browser

Virtual NES…

Here, you can play NES Games in your browser.

Using Java Applet Technology. All you need is Java 1.5.0 or higher.

Before you begin, please make sure you understand the controls. The controller at top will always remain there, for reference. We are not affiliated with Nintendo in any way. This is an emulator. It was [...]

GooTube

This is just too funny to pass up, Gizmodo has named the YouTube / Google deal…

Google buys YouTube: GooTube.
Apparently the rumor that Google was buying YouTube was less of a rumor than someone on the inside letting it slip out to the entire world. But now that Google’s paid $1.65 billion in an all-stock acquisition—which [...]

Jihad on Apple Computers!

MEMRI is all in a tither over the Apple Store in New York!

Apple’s “Mecca Project” Provokes Muslim Reaction
On October 10, 2006, an Islamic website posted a message alerting Muslims to what it claims is a new insult to Islam. According to the message, the cube-shaped building which is being constructed in New York City, [...]

Study: 64% of Online Gamers are Women

And more than half of nation’s total gamers play online.

You wouldn’t realize it while playing with most of the jerks that play Halo 2, but 64% of the nation’s 117 million online gamers are actually women, according to Nielsen Entertainment’s third annual Active Gamer Benchmark Study, released this morning.

The study’s announcement release doesn’t break down [...]

Are you ready for a cell phone implant?

Check out this fun bit of speculation form the St. Petersburg Times Floridian Website…

In-your-face interface
Wrap your head around this: As technology gets smaller, faster, more futuristic, imagine yourself connected to a device that doesn’t just lamely hang on your ear but invades your skull. Not yet. Soon.

“We’re going to wind up in essence with ‘intelligent [...]

Free Appz: Free Software Magazine

Added to the PoliTech Reading List:

Free Software Magazine
Free Software Magazine is the free online magazine about free software. It is free to subscribe, free to download and free to read online. Please, feel free to read all of the issues, book reviews, newsletters, and blog entries. There are hundreds of articles online, so you are [...]

Fight DRM: Ten things you can do today

“If consumers even know there’s a DRM, what it is, and how it works, we’ve already failed” – Disney Executive.

Defeating DRM is all about awareness.

The direct actions that we have taken are all about this. Today we are asking you to let the people around you know that DRM is bad for our society. [...]