Randy Alfred over at Wired writes: “Bill Gates and Paul Allen create a partnership called Micro-soft. It will grow into one of the largest U.S. corporations and place them among the world’s richest people. Allen was 22; Gates was 19.“
Destroy the Car in Front of You
Volvo has the reputaion for being on the forefront of safety. I saw this piture in a forbesautos.com article on, The top 10 safety features for the future.” It shows Volvo’s collision mitigation technology that uses radar to anticipate a potential crash. I thought is was a laser system for destroying the car in front of you.
Researchers Transmit Optical Data at 16.4 Tbps Over 1,500mi.
oboy, over at Digg writes, “FiOS, you ain’t got nothing on this: Alcatel-Lucent researchers in France have successfully transmitted optical data at an absolutely blazing speed of 16.4 Tbps over a distance of over 1,500 miles.“
read more at Gizmodo | digg story
(Fiber optic photo courtesy of [luis]’s)
Google Sites
I just got an email from Google about their new offering from Google Apps: Google Sites. It seems to be a collaborative kind of thing. There are three editions.
Maybe I’ll try it with lesliewong.net or lesliewong.org, which I now have just redirecting to this site.
FreeRice.com
Turner Classic Movies is currently airing its 31 Days of Oscar, a run of Oscar nominated movies.
I turned on the TV to see Hawaii, and while looking at the cast, I saw that Richard Harris plays a character named Rafer Hoxworth. I remembered Richard Harris also played another Rafer in The Wild Geese.
That got me to googling rafer, which lead me to Scott Rafer’s Twitter page. Scott twittered that he “was pointed at Freerice.com last night over dinner,” so I went over there. (I don’t Twitter that much, because I don’t really talk to anybody)
FreeRice.com is vocabulary game. You are given a word and pick the correct definition from four choices. “For each word that you get right, we donate 20 grains of rice through the United Nations to help world hunger.” The rice is paid for by sponsor’s advertisements. I got up to level 45, then realized that I inhale 1200 grains of rice in one mouthful.