CNN:
The Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, has been testing a device intended for the space station that would recycle astronauts’ sweat, respiration and even urine into drinking water purer than any found in a tap.
“They just breathe and exercise, urinate into the urinal and our system handles the rest,” said Robyn Carrasquillo, chief [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on March 21st, 2005 | No Comments »
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Life contains many little annoyances. They’re not enough to make the world go ’round, but they enrage some people.
There’s only one thing in the article that I find post-worthy. It’s a website called Bug Me Not.com. If you’ve ever been annoyed by those “free signups”, you’ll find this site usefull. For [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on March 15th, 2005 | No Comments »
BBC: IPTV. Internet Protocol Television. Ever since 1992, some people in some places have been trying to get TV working over the internet. Up till now, the internet just has been incapable of supporting it. A number of companies are researching IPTV, Microsoft among them. They hope to have Internet TV working in the next [...]
Filed under: Telecommunications on March 14th, 2005 | No Comments »
CNN: The Norwegian Prime Minister criticized IKEA for showing only males or androgenous blobby people in its instruction manuals. IKEA responded that they did not want to offend the Muslims in whose countries IKEA furniture was sold.
Suggestions for sprucing up the manuals:
-Depict Hot Swedish Models setting up furniture, Female and Male
-Use Spongebob Squarepants
-Put a woman [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on March 10th, 2005 | No Comments »
The New House (13.3MB)
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