Here are some amazing photos of the devastation caused by Hurricane Ike in Texas.
Monthly Archive for September, 2008
Haven’t I seen these guys before somewhere?
To further test their hardiness, Ingemar Jönsson of Sweden’s Kristianstad University and colleagues launched two species of dried-up tardigrades from Kazakhstan in September 2007 aboard ESA’s FOTON-M3 mission, which carried a variety of experimental payloads.
After 10 days of exposure to space, the satellite returned to Earth. The tardigrades were retrieved and rehydrated to test how they reacted to the airless conditions in space, as well as ultraviolet radiation from the Sun and charged particles from space called cosmic rays.
BERLIN (Reuters) — Police are trying to track down a man filmed riding a skateboard down a steep stretch of south German motorway at 100 km an hour (62 mph), far above the speed limit.
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Google has released a web browser of their own. Dubbed Chrome, the program is set to compete with Mozilla’s Firefox and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Wired Magazine has an interesting article detailing the people and rationale behind Google’s newest endeavor.
Being very happy using Firefox, I have yet to try Chrome, but you can download it for yourself here. So far, the reivews seem to conclude that while Chrome is simple and fast (or not so fast), it still has a long way to go if it wants to compete with Firefox and IE8. We will have to wait and see what the future holds for the browser market as Chrome matures. This could end up being yet another instance of Microsoft’s competitive edge slipping away.
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