Month: August 2009

World's Oceans Set Temperature Record: Discovery News "July marked the hottest the world's oceans have been in almost 130 years of record-keeping. The average water temperature worldwide in July was 62.6 degrees, according to the National Climatic Data Center, the branch of the U.S. government that keeps world weather records." (tags: weather climate ocean science) […]

StopAutoDM.com – Please stop your auto direct messaging " So maybe you just recently signed up for your twitter account and started googling about how you should use it. You stumble across one of the way-too-many sites that claim to be run by self-proclaimed "twitter experts." They give you a tip that you should use […]

GM: Still Making the Same Mistakes – BusinessWeek "So GM has misfired on all three points, meaning it's made three promises that it can't keep." Does GM know how to sell cars. (tags: gm automotive marketing business apple branding technology greentechnology) Why LeRoy Carhart Won't Stop Doing Abortions | Newsweek Health | Newsweek.com "Carhart can't […]

Schneier on Security: An Ethical Code for Intelligence Officers "Preamble: Intelligence work may present exceptional or unusual ethical dilemmas beyond those of ordinary life. Ethical thinking and review should be a part of our day to day efforts; it can protect our nation's and our agency’s integrity, improve the chances of mission success, protect us […]

Textbook Publisher to Rent to College Students – NYTimes.com "Students who choose Cengage’s rental option will get immediate access to the first chapter of the book electronically, in e-book format, and will have a choice of shipping options for the printed book. When the rental term — 60, 90, or 130 days — is over, […]

NASA Panel Grapples With Cost of Space Plans – NYTimes.com "The United States cannot afford to send humans anywhere beyond the space station — especially Mars — unless it wants to spend more money." (tags: nasa space moon mars) BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | New planet displays exotic orbit "Astronomers have discovered the […]

Slashdot Technology Story | Chevy Volt Rated At 230 mpg In the City The Volt will run for 40 miles purely on battery and post that use a gasoline engine to charge the battery giving it 50 miles to the gallon at that point. (tags: chevrolet chevyvolt greentechnology) How to Compete Against Open Source Competition […]

BBC NEWS | Americas | LatAm alarm over US-Colombia plan "South American leaders at a regional summit have expressed fresh concerns over Colombian plans to grant American troops access to its military bases. But at the gathering in Ecuador, they rejected a proposal to formally condemn the proposals, which would allow US access up to […]

Ajaxian » Microsoft dips toe in HTML 5 water "To be honest there isn’t much to learn here though. This first set of feedback talks about some of the tags that are proposed… and there are a lot of them. It is quite easy to pick on the odd tag here and there to ask […]

Tesla Says It Is Now Profitable, Ships 109 Roadsters In July "Silicon Valley’s electric car company, Tesla Motors, says that it hit profitability in July. The private company reports that it made “approximately $1 million of earnings” on revenues of $20 million, and that it shipped 109 Roadsters, its $109,000 all-electric sports car." Good job. […]