New Intel Solid-State Drive

Intel Corp.'s X25-E Extreme SATA SSD (model SSDSA2SH064G1GC) is an enterprise-class drive meant for use in data centers, not run-of-the-mill laptops. But the drive has become one of the better known SSDs because Intel was early to the market with it and because of its sophisticated architecture, screaming performance and stalwart reliability.

Singularity University

http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=/news/news_single.html?id%3D10795

WhisperStation-PSC

WhisperStation-PSC is a personal supercomputer featuring Tesla GPUs and the CUDA SDK. It contains up to four Tesla C1060 GPUs, two AMD or Intel processors, 64 GB memory and optional RAID storage.

The supercomputer is designed for computationally-intensive OpenMP applications that employ hundreds of parallel threads to speed up floating point operations, such as industrial design, financial modeling, space exploration, CFD simulation and medical imaging.

Learn more @ www.microway.com

Google Speed

Google has created a Web site for developers that is focused exclusively on making Web applications, sites and browsers faster @ http://code.google.com/speed.

Check it out!

3D Tissue Printing

A more effective way to build plastic scaffolds on which new tissues and even whole organs might be grown in the laboratory is presented in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology.

Researchers explain how a technique known as rapid prototyping, or three-dimensional printing, could enable tissue engineering that replicates the porous and hierarchical structures of natural tissues at an unprecedented level.

Check it out @ http://www.physorg.com/news164525294.html

John Lear: Secrets Revealed

In his first interview with George Noory, retired airline pilot John Lear spoke on a variety of topics which included his experiences as a pilot, NASA's secret space missions, and life on other planets. A fourth astronaut died in the Apollo 1 fire of 1967 but the reason it wasn't made public was because he belonged to the "secret astronaut corps," Lear claimed, based on information he received from a "true insider" (now deceased). This secret program actually started going to the moon in 1962 and landed on Mars in 1966, apparently using covert antigravity technology, he continued. Publicized space missions such as the Shuttle are actually a cover-up for what is really going on, added Lear.

Also kept from the public, is the fact that there is life similar to ours on most of the planets in our solar system, he declared. For instance, Mars has a population of 660 million (mostly underground) and Venus is actually "green and beautiful." Further, the sky is blue on both Mars and our Moon, Lear said.

Earth, he asserted, is a "farm for harvesting souls," and when people die their souls travel to the moon where they are processed by a huge machine (likely the miles-high "glass tower" spotted by Richard C. Hoagland in NASA photos) that erases their memory and eventually sends them back to Earth to be reincarnated. Lear's controversial disclosure briefing from 2003 was replayed during the show. He now believes that MJ-12 appears to want UFO/alien disclosure to take place, but seeks to put their own less-than-truthful spin on it.

See http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/lear-john/6252 as well as http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/leir-dr-roger/5743

Color Picker Pen

Designer Jin-Sun Park from Korea has come out with a simple tool called Color Picker.

Place the pen against an object and press the scan button, the color will be detected by the color sensor and the RGB cartridges in the pen will mixed the required inks to create the target color.

Summarizer Tools

The following tools summarize web pages and documents in order to pinpoint relevant information. They are relatively inexpensive (~ $ 100).

http://www.contextdiscovery.com/

and

http://summarizer.intellexer.com/

and

http://www.sinope.info/en/Online_help_full_version


There is also the free tool:

http://search.iiit.net/~jags/summarizer/index.cgi

Innovation in Government

From the Brookings Institution:


http://www.brookings.edu/events/2009/0617_public_sector_tech.aspx

and

http://www.brookings.edu/events/2009/0617_government_innovation_chat.aspx

Creative Business Cards

Requirements

HIPerWall

HIPerWall is a wall built of numerous high-definition monitors, each with its own imbedded computer for displaying standard and large (up to one gigabyte or larger) graphic images, high-definition (HD) digital movies, and streaming content from video cameras and other live feeds.

Built at Calit2 (California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology) at UC Irvine, the Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Wall (hence HIPerWall) has the ability to display 200 Megapixel images.

It is designed to visualize enormous data sets and allows viewers to see detail, with 100 dots per inch on the screens, while retaining the context of an overview by seeing surrounding data (also in high detail). This allows a group of scientists to collaborate, share detailed information, while still keeping the big picture.


Learn more @ http://hiperwall.calit2.uci.edu/

More on Parallel Processing

I found the various comments posted at the GCN Government Computer News blog (http://gcn.com/Blogs/Tech-Blog/2009/06/New-parallel-processing-languages.aspx ) quite insightful.

Take a look!

Interactive View of The Church of Maria Treu

The Church of Maria Treu is a parish church and the church of the Order of the Piarists (Patres Scholarum Piarum) in Vienna. It is located in Vienna's 8th district (Josefstadt). The Piaristenkirche has been elevated to the rank of Basilica Minor.

You can scroll up, down, side wise 360 degrees.

Use the displayed arrow keys to move around the chapel, don't forget to look at the ceiling.

Also, click the end button to enlarge the image to full screen.

http://photoartkalmar.com/Photoart%20Kalmar%20high%20res/Gigapixel/Piaristenkircheflash.html

Clicky - An Alternative To Google Analytic

Interesting alternative to Google Analytic Web site evaluation tool:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/clicky-a-great-alternative-to-google-analytics/

An Example Of Machine-Vision in Life Sciences

In the article titled "High-throughput ethomics in large groups of Drosophila" we read:

"We present a camera-based method for automatically quantifying the individual and social behaviors of fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster, interacting in a planar arena..."

There is free supplementary material – including videos –available @

http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v6/n6/suppinfo/nmeth.1328_S1.html

Matzohball Game

http://www.jewishtvnetwork.com/matzohball/

Website Magazine Subscription

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Animal Pictures

Things That Happened

Since Duke Nukem Forever was announced.