Company develops virtual meal technology

"Harvey Bumpus doesn't like to eat alone. But his wife died more than a year ago and his family is scattered across the country. Most nights, he heats up a simple meal of oatmeal or hot dogs and eats alone. "I don't have much choice," said the 82-year-old retired correctional...

Links to Sustainability Resources

" Links to Sustainability Websites There are many hundreds of websites related to sustainability issues around the world, only a few are listed here. WA Museum - Sustainability WA United Nations Sustainable Development Sustainable Energy Development Office Essex...

NASA, Google aim for virtual space travel on Web

Google bravely goes where no search engine has gone before..."Web surfers may soon be able to explore the canyons of Mars and experience a virtual flight over the surface of the moon thanks to a deal announced on Monday between Web search company Google Inc. and the NASA Ames...

My So-Called Second Life

"I thought I'd want to have lots of sex. Meaningless, multipartnered, degrading sex. After all, if Second Life is a virtual community in which you can look however you want, do whatever you want and use the fake name you want, then I could make all my fantasies come true. And...

From its grey-flannel grave, IBM discovers Second Life, Web 2.0, and virtuosity

This is an extremely interesting article - really, a manifesto calling for an "Open Source Second Life".  Its author, Glynn Moody, includes the musings of I rving Wladawsky-Berger, vice president of technology strategy and innovation at IBM."We see this people-centric...

Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Compiled by Sai.R

"Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Contents 1. Quota system: Beginning of the end for IITs and IIMs Bhamy V Shenoy, Gulf Times, May 26, 2006-------------------------------------- 2. Meeting the challenge of Mandal II, Satish Deshpande & Yogendra Yadav, Hindu...

Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Compiled by Sai.R

"Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Contents 1. Quota system: Beginning of the end for IITs and IIMs Bhamy V Shenoy, Gulf Times, May 26, 2006-------------------------------------- 2. Meeting the challenge of Mandal II, Satish Deshpande & Yogendra Yadav, Hindu...

Virtual Toll: Pay Per Mile Drivers are Less Likely To Drive

A study of volunteers in a Seattle experiment revealed that traffic jams and congested driving could be greatly reduced by having a toll system for drivers.  "....... motorists' behavior might change if they had to pay tolls — not just on a few bridges or highways,...

World of Warcraft is a Series of Taxable Tubes

"When money is being exchanged for goods, even if the currency is make believe and the products are virtual healing potions and rides on gryphons, if enough of it is happening you can bet our government will perk up its little ears. The smashing success of World of Warcraft...

Michigan is done with 'affirmative action'

Michigan voters have rejected 'affirmative action' by adopting the Civil Rights Initiative, notes Instapundit.  I commented here a few days ago.  Michigan joins California and Washington in banning such discrimination at state-supported schools and in state...

New Microsoft feature competes with Google Earth

"San Francisco and San Jose was one of 15 American cities that went online today in a new Microsoft Corp. mapping site that goes head-to-head with Google Earth. Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) new feature shows high-resolution 3-D cyber replicas of cities. So...

"A bonfire for the 21st century"

The Guy Fawkes celebration has traditionally involved as large a bonfire as the community could put together; the regulatory apparatus that has been erected to 'manage' such events, however, has grown so opaque that many places have elected to scrap the fires altogether; the...

The ever-expanding metaverse

"Metaverse Evangelist" is not a title you expect to see on a business card, let alone one from an employee of a century-old technology company. But then Roo Reynolds of IBM is not a normal employee. Living a double life, one as a twenty-something software engineer and...