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Netflix Watch Now! Netflix started rolling out their WatchNow instant video feature in January. If it hasn’t shown up in your account yet, try the link above to activate it. Oh, but try it in Internet Exploder. It doesn’t work in Firefox. Netflix WatchNow tests your connection speed to choose what video quality to stream. Other computers on your network can take away bandwidth, so if you plan to do any downloads or play interactive games online, well, don’t. Wait until the movie is over. By way of Uneasy Silence .

Molex 54819-0572 USB On-The-Go (OTG) Mini-B Receptacle, Right Angle, SMT Solder Tails and Shell Tabs, with Cover Tape, Lead-free FYI, this is a drop-in replacement for the miniUSB connector in the RCA Lyra RD2850 MP3 player.

Philip Morris USA Supports Medical Research and Business Leadership with $25 Million Gift to U.Va. We are pleased to receive this gift from Philip Morris USA. The gift supports research that may ultimately prevent or cure addictions and serious diseases, such as lung cancer, heart disease and emphysema, said U.Va. President John T. Casteen III. “Faculty researchers here are engaged in ground-breaking molecular research aimed at identifying the genes that make certain people susceptible to chemical and nicotine dependencies, and others apparently not susceptible, and at developing medical-imaging techniques to enhance medical understanding of smoking-related illnesses. This generous gift will provide the means to continue that research and to expand on it. $5M of that gift is earmarked for the business school. I guess Philip Morris expects U.Va. to produce graduates who are capable of coming up with marketing strategies for selling tobacco in a world where cigarette smoking is ban...

ThinkGeek :: Dear Timmy Win a $50 gift certificate from ThinkGeek. Ask Timmy a question and if he answers, you’re in! Help, Timmy! My smooth-foreheaded mother-in-law is on an extended visit and I’d like to serve her a Klingon delicacy that is so unappetizing to her Terran palate that she leaves in dishonor and *never* comes back. And she can take her pahtk of a son with her – he’s not worth the effort of sharpening my ba’tleth . Do you have a good recipe for qach ?

YouTube – Robot Ride Part of my engineering curriculum was a very fun hands-on robotics course. A robot like this one can move so fast that you don’t have time to get out of its way. Factories that use robotics will have black-and-yellow danger lines on the floor around around each workstation and flashing lights on top of the robots. The factory floor looks like a crazy Christmas show, especially when the lights are low. A workstation ideally is defined as the maximum reach of the robot, not the extents of its motion in a given job, so that if there is a mechanical failure or a glitch in the program nobody gets surprised. For the clueless, there are also multiple emergency stop switches. I can’t tell whether the fellow twirling around on the robot-ride end effector in this video has an emergency stop switch within reach. I kind of doubt it. Not that he’d have time to actually use it. Breaking the rules is fun.

Googlism for: banth Thought I’d look up my nick. Apparently I’m pretty damn scary.

EE Times: Star Trek’s ‘tricorder’ realized The 20-pound, battery-powered unit combines a mass spectrometer with a desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) source. This device, which doesn’t have a cute name yet, is a general purpose sniffer that can take samples from the air and identify just about any substance known to man. The 300+ pound explosive detectors in use now require that samples be placed in the unit, and they are looking for just a few specific, common substances. Considering that my PDA is much smaller than the electronic tablets in the original Star Trek series, I suspect a pocket-sized version will be available soon.

MIT researchers uncover mountains of private data on discarded computers . The article above points out that it is not enough to format your harddrive before discarding it. A format only removes directory information, it doesn’t actually remove the data. In 2003, some MIT students obtained 158 used hard drives from eBay and other sources. Most of these drives had recoverable data, and some weren’t even erased. One drive appeared to be from an automatic teller machine and contained records of thousands of transactions. If you’ve ever recovered data from a hosed Windows system you know this is true. Professional data recovery applications such as Norton Ghost can recover entire filesystems, while any of a number of free utilities will search out and recover family photos. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) assumes that it is possible to examine a hard drive with a very sensitive magnetic head to restore each magnetic bit to the last state it was in before an all-...

Got bored at lunchtime and went surfing in Germany for Concept Cars . Scarab (Mistkäfer) Mikrogeländewagen sollte in den Asia auf der Grundlage VW New Beetle (2008) gebaut werden. The VW Mistkafer sport-utility vehicle should be built on the New Beetle undercarriage. I want the 4WD version.

Carmen Miranda on crack?

All the faults of our mind – our selfishness, ignorance, anger, attachment, guilt, and other disturbing thoughts – are temporary, not permanent and everlasting. And since the cause of our suffering – our disturbing thoughts and obscurations – is temporary, our suffering is also temporary. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche, “Ultimate Healing” From Daily Wisdom: 365 Buddhist Inspirations ,” edited by Josh Bartok.

The StressEraser is a handheld biofeedback unit. Unlike my favorite computer game, Journey to Wild Divine[

The man says this new toy is for toddlers. The little buggers will have to fight me for it. Laser Light Paint Bucket Go ahead and let the kids draw on the walls.

I have been meditating – oops, first wrote “medicating” – on the word post-modern recently. Ken Wilber says (and I paraphrase), that in the context of Transpersonal Psychology, post-modern means that your personal evolution has carried the human race past the sterile pragmatism and/or atheism of the Computer Age into the next stage. My understanding is that in the next stage, the romantic and the pragmatic will be integrated into a way of looking at the world that retains the best elements of both. Not “your world” but “the world.” Unlike the theistic, mystical/magical thinking of the Age that preceeded both of these, the Post-modern Age will be made up of inclusive, open minds. The theistic stage seems to prevent further personal evolution in those who embrace it, so don’t expect the anima mundi as a whole to be transformed any time soon. On the TV show “Criminal Minds,” one of the characters stated that a post-modern...