For the last month of his stay on the International Space Station, Koichi Wakata has been wearing the same pair of underpants to test a new odor-busting fabric called J-Wear. "My station crew members never complained for about a month, so I think the experiment went fine," says Wakata.
You may have heard about 13 year old Dena Christoffersen of Cheyenne, Wyo. She's the teen who rang up a nearly $5,000 cell phone bill by overzealous texting. Well, now she has to pay up. And Predicto Mobile has come up with a creative solution to help her do just that.
Toyota's high-tech hybrid has a host of electronic hooks that you can fiddle with. These videos demonstrate how to turn your car into a true plug-in hybrid of the sort not yet available in showrooms; put the dashboard computer into diagnostic mode and muck around in its guts; or, if you're feeling really ambitious, control the car's drive-by-wire steering wheel from your laptop.
If numerical coincidences are your thing, you were probably overjoyed last week when the number of the month and the number of the date were the same number, and if you multiplied them together, you got the number of the year!
Having spent his teen years writing botnet programs that break into bank computers, the New Zealand computer whiz who went by the handle AKILL has returned his ill-gotten gains and is now working as a security consultant.
When it comes to the ideal spinning blades for a flying machine, "Nature has worked on this for millions of years and perfected it and it has optimal dynamic properties," says Darryll Pines, dean of the University of Maryland's Clark School of Engineering.
If there's one thing that geeks like, it's t-shirts with witty/ironic/inscrutable designs. But what if nobody out there is selling precisely what you want to declare in t-shirt form, and you're tired of CafePress's dodgy quality? This video from Make magazine will teach you how to put your own wacky designs on the shirt or shirts of your choice, for fun or (since ironic screen printed t-shirts are America's last growth industry) profit.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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On a typical day, weather.com, the Web site for The Weather Channel in Atlanta, serves up between 15 million and 20 million page views. But in September 2004, when back-to-back hurricanes ransacked Florida, the peak traffic on one day more than tripled: over 70 million page views by more than 7 million unique visitors. Read the full success story now.
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Japanese astronaut to finally put on clean underwear
For the last month of his stay on the International Space Station, Koichi Wakata has been wearing the same pair of underpants to test a new odor-busting fabric called J-Wear. "My station crew members never complained for about a month, so I think the experiment went fine," says Wakata.1I like it!
Law firms are newest victim of SEO, marketing
Look out Dewey Cheatem & Howe, the search engine marketers have their sites set on you. Or at least they would if they could find you.