Scientists say they're closer to invisibility material

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people and objects invisible. ...

Bin Laden's driver found guilty in a split verdict

"GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - A jury of six U.S. military officers convicted Osama bin Laden's former driver of supporting terrorism but cleared him of conspiracy Wednesday in the first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay. A...

Drug case axed over violation of rights

Opinion I know many people will blame the judge for this criminal going free but COME ON don't the police get training on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?  This document, The Canadian Charter of Rights...

How to render lard

Lard. I have to admit that for most of mylife that I’ve been terrified of the stuff. Be it schoolyard tauntsthat used the word, or the absence of it at both the grocery store andin my childhood home—I believed...

Jim Webb, writer - and also a senator

• A writer is supposed to "render to the audience things they haven't seen." So says Jim Webb, writer. He's also a senator.

"MySpace Celebrity": Social Networking for the Stars

With an appropriate nod to Seinfeld, perhaps we can remix a 90s slogan to work in the new millenium: Celebrity now! Myspace Celebrity will allow celebs to communicate directly with their fans, via the social...

Canada/USA: Demand up for Cell phone jammers

Boy ,would I love to have one of these toys under my Christmas tree.  Drivers on cell phones holding up traffic make me nuts."Only cops can use them legally. But there's a growing demand among residents south...

Six Factors To Reconsider About Microsoft Office Communications Server

"Remember the old philosophical puzzler: If a tree falls down in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, are we sure it made a sound? With Tuesday's launch of Office Communications Server 2007, Microsoft is trying to render centuries of existential debate moot. Because as...

Lethal injection challenge could halt Florida executions

 "The U.S. Supreme Court decided Tuesday to hear a case that challenges the constitutionality of death by lethal injection, putting Florida’s on-again, off-again death penalty back in limbo and potentially...

Artists Confront the Culture of War

The artblog, LIMK1, reports on two shows, opening this weekend in Chinatown, Los Angeles, that directly confront the culture of war: A German group show at Chung King Project focuses on war, sex and oppressive doom as the nature of male fantasy. At High Energy Constructs,...

It’s like a CT scan, but for an individual cell!

[via China View] "BEIJING, Aug. 14 (Xinhuanet) — An imaging technique that could set a new standard in dozens of fields from immunology to neurology allows scientists to scan a living cell and render it as a 3-D...

Making the Grade: Timothy Bukumunhe of Sunday Vision

"Have you ever played the game of imagining that you were in someone else's shoes? That being said, this post puts me in the mind of an investigative journalist, who by the way just so happens to be writing for...

Auto ID > Symbology > Biometrics > Photo Pattern Recognition :: Symblogogy

"What is Photo Pattern Recognition (PPR)? PPR is the ability to render a still photograph into an algorithm discernable identification symbol that then can be used for all of the cellphone applications that are...

How to REALLY do Page Preview in Java with Embedded HTML Rendering

Hands on page preview with JRex (with code).

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