DHS Hopes to Equip Police With “The Barf-Beam”

Via FOX:

Flashlight Weapon Makes Targets Throw Up

The handheld device using light-emitting diodes to emit super-bright pulses of light at rapidly changing wavelengths, causing disorientation, nausea and even vomiting in whomever it’s pointed at.

“There’s one wavelength that gets everybody,” says IOS President Bob Lieberman. “Vlad [IOS top scientist Vladimir Rubtsov] calls it ‘the evil color.’”

Well, Snap!

Snap Preview Anywhere™ WordPress Beta is now featured on PoliTech.
What is Snap Preview Anywhere? Snap Preview Anywhere enables anyone visiting PoliTech to get a glimpse of what other sites we’re linking to, without having to leave our site. By rolling over any link, the user gets a visual preview of the site without having to [...]

The Year in Review; 2006 Top Ten Lists

It’s almost 2007, and who doesn’t like looking back at the previous year by perusing the various Top Ten lists? Here are some of my favorites…
From Wired.com we have the 9th annual presentation of the Wired News Vaporware Awards, their ode to the year’s top technology products promised, hyped and scheduled, but not delivered. Click: [...]

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 [...]

For Humans, it’s Food Food Food

Wisdom from the toons…

Stupid in America

A 20/20 John Stossel special.
Update: This video is 15 or 20 minutes long … fair warning

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It’s Done! One Red Paperclip Bartered For House.

The town that offered him the key to the city, mayor for a day, etc. has thrown in a house to sweeten the deal. Looks like he’s moving to Kipling, Saskatchewan.
Story here…
Kyle MacDonald’s one red paperclip blog

Congrats!
Previous: Hints of the new economy
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Soldier sings solo ballad. Now on Google Video

Soldier sings of being led into an ambush. Dark gallows humor. Illustrates the difficulty of fighting non-uniformed terrorists. This video has been the focus of some controversy.
Judge it for yourself.

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Update:
Now on Google video, YouTube, MySpace, just about everywhere at this point. The censors just Hate the internet!

Zuiikin Gals II

What can anyone really say about something like this?

Hat Tip: Boing Boing

Bush Rocks Out to U2

I don’t know if this is pro or anti Bush, and I don’t really care.
It’s just cool!

Anti I think, because it’s an anti war song.
Still cool…
Update:
Songfacts:
The lyrics are a nonpartisan condemnation of the historic bloodshed in Ireland. Politics is not something you want to discuss in Ireland.
Bono used to introduce this [...]

FedEx Ant Hill (Video)

A FAA Radar track sequence of a bank of FedEx aircraft getting into Memphis as thunderstorms pass over the airport.

This is a small airport. Imagine what O’Hare radar looks like!

Sony promotes the XBox 360

By announcing PS3 pricing that puts the Sony console a full $200 dollars more than a comparable XBox 360, Sony gives Microsoft a marketing gift.

200 bucks more than the XB360 … will it be worth it?
Sony Announces PlayStation 3 Pricing
A PS3 model with a 20GB HDD will retail for USD $499 USD, while a 60GB [...]

694 Million Potential Readers of this blog

Worldwide survey estimates 694 mln adult Web users
Seeking to standardize global online measurements, comScore Networks Inc. introduced on Friday a new global survey with an estimate that 694 million people, age 15 or higher, used the Internet during March, or around 14 percent of adults.
So increasing blog readership should be a cake walk!

Mars Spaceman spotted in North Dakota Badlands

Mars Spacesuit Prototype Trials Underway in North Dakota

Read more about modern spacesuit developments here:
High-Tech Spacesuits Eyed for ‘Extreme Exploration‘

“Field tests for the Mars prototype suit began May 1, with space studies graduate student Fabio Sau tucked inside the prototype”.
Update:
UND Press Release here:
Prototype Mars Space Suit To Be Unveiled at Badlands Test Site Saturday, May 6; [...]

Best Nano picture blog

I’m blogrolling Nanotech | Buzz because they have some of the best pictures to go along with the articles. Whoever edits the page has a very good eye and always seems to find corresponding high quality images from sometimes obscure sources.

You would do her … admit it!
And Nanotech | Buzz has some good posts too [...]

Barbarians at our electronic gates

Spammers are getting much more aggressive these days.
Spammers turn on antispam vigilantes An effort to force spammers to stop soliciting certain e-mail addresses went bad on Monday, after at least one spammer began sending large volumes of unsolicited e-mail to members of a “Do Not Spam” list run by Israeli firm Blue Security.
In recent [...]

The Elephant in the room

You know the old saw about the elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about?
As I said here, “What I find most interesting about this whole (immigrant movement) chain of events is the fact that hostile forign interests (communist, islamic extremist, etc) have ordered forign insurgents (AKA Illegal aliens) to act against [...]

Microsoft, Yahoo, Google … It’s getting ugly now

This is going to be a good fight. My question is, which one is the bad guy?
Microsoft, Yahoo Take a Swipe at Google
High-profile employees at Microsoft and Yahoo say rival Google’s complaints to authorities about a supposed unfair Microsoft practice is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
These are relatively new voices to [...]

Scientists create black hole in laboratory

Black Hole In Big Apple

Black Hole graphic courtesy of Drake University
Scientists used a particle accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, to shoot two beams of gold nuclei at each other at the speed of light.
The intense heat of the collision breaks down the nuclei into quarks and gluons, the most basic building [...]

A step closer to Auto Pilot for your car

Teams will compete to build an autonomous vehicle able to complete a 60-mile urban course safely in less than 6 hours.

Google gets slapped … That’s gotta hurt!

Amazon switches to Microsoft from Google
Microsoft Corp. scored an important win against rival Google Inc. over the weekend, as Amazon.com began using its technology to power the Internet retailer’s A9 search unit.
Microsoft’s new Windows Live is at the core of the company’s efforts to win online advertising dollars away from Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. [...]

Illegal immigrants celebrate the Communist Revolution today

Monday, May Day, is International Worker’s Day and the communist celebration of the Bolshevik Revolution. It is also a day when illegal immigrants plan to boycott work, school and shopping in an effort to show the contribution of undocumented aliens to the U.S. economy.
Protesters will march in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles to urge [...]

What is your Brain Age?

Nintendo Brain Age
What is Brain Age?

Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day for Nintendo DS is a fun, rewarding form of entertainment everyone can enjoy, as it helps players flex their mental muscles. Brain Age is inspired by the research of Professor Ryuta Kawashima, a prominent Japanese neuroscientist. His studies evaluated the impact [...]

Yahoo stock, and the internet search engine roadmap

From the Joe Duck blog:
I’ve been waiting for a “sign” to buy Yahoo (well, some SHARES of Yahoo ) which seems due for a huge surge when their publisher network revenues kick in later this year. Yahoo has more traffic than Google but you sure wouldn’t know it from the buzz, even among industry insiders. [...]

Italy now assigning civil rights to seafood!

Italy restaurant fined for “cruel” lobster display
The real prey here is the poor restaurant owner. (oh! and also … human rights).
An Italian restaurant was fined 688 euros ($855) for displaying live lobsters on ice to attract patrons, in an innovative application of an anti-cruelty law usually affecting to household pets.
A court in the northeastern city [...]

The Politics of Oil - making sense of it all

The Politics of Oil: The Discourse Must Change
by The Oil Drum Editors
Leaders of both political parties are expressing concern about the high price of gasoline. President George Bush announced yesterday that he was suspending deliveries to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in order to make more oil available to consumers as well as putting on hold [...]

Regressor luddites in the recording industry

A fine example of our favorite regressor luddites “the recording industry” desperately clinging to the past, but now with even more draconian govenrment help.
Congress readies broad new digital copyright bill
For the last few years, a coalition of technology companies, academics and computer programmers has been trying to persuade Congress to scale back the Digital Millennium [...]

Hints of the new economy

Man using Web to barter paper clip for house

Kyle MacDonald had a red paper clip and a dream: Could he use the community power of the Internet to barter that paper clip for something better, and trade that thing for something else — and so on and so on until he had a house?
After a [...]

Adult Stem Cells … positive clinical results.

Adult stem cell implant first in orthopaedic patient
The Royal Melbourne Hospital has performed the world’s first implant of cultured specialist stem cells into an orthopaedic patient who suffered a broken femur nine months ago which failed to heal.
Mr Richard de Steiger, the Director of Orthopaedics at the hospital, performed the operation as an alternative to [...]

Orderly Nanofibers

This is admirable, take a 72 year old methodology and with it create something that is on the very bleeding edge of the technology world.
Nanofibers Created In Orderly Fashion
For 72 years, scientists have been able to use electric fields to spin polymers into tiny fibers. But there’s been just one problem: Like worms that won’t [...]