Apr 22 2005
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Title: Ultra Chicks Volumes 1–6 Artist: Various Style: French “ye ye” girls of the sixties, most famously Francoise Hardy Review: Ye Ye Girls Site My Rating: 7/10 |
Ultra Chicks Vol. 1–6 Compilations
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Apr 22 2005
Google listened to my idea! January 7th, I sent this email to their ideas factory:
I often search for multiple things and find the answers I am looking for. However, it is rare that I bookmark the pages or the search strings I entered after gaining the knowledge I seek. My history keeps only a limited number of searches made and sifting through the past proves time consuming. So; say I wished to once again find the page which held the information I searched for over a month ago — if I did not remember the site or the search term, or say the site appeared on page 90 of results, it could once again be awfully time consuming finding the page again.
My suggestion is some sort of history that is saved to your google profile (much like the wonderful froogle wishlist!). Something that
saved the search string, the pages clicked and possibly some way of highlighting the page that had the answer.
Development of this could allow people to make their lists public (e.g. through an atom feed) and compilations of search strings and
answers could further aid the google search engine through some sort of additional ranking.
Anyway, this is my idea and I hope you like it.
Two days ago they released this:
Google Personal Search History
Who should I vote for?
Apr 18 2005
Who should I vote for?
Your expected outcome: Conservative
Your actual outcome:
You should vote: Liberal Democrat
The LibDems take a strong stand against tax cuts and a strong one in favour of public services: they would make long-term residential care for the elderly free across the UK, and scrap university tuition fees. They are in favour of a ban on smoking in public places, but would relax laws on cannabis. They propose to change vehicle taxation to be based on usage rather than ownership. Take the test at Who Should You Vote For
Labour –20
Conservative –21
Liberal Democrat 40
UK Independence Party 17
Green 38
PhysOrg: Optical computer made from frozen light
Apr 15 2005
PhysOrg: Optical computer made from frozen light
Scientists at Harvard University have shown how ultra-cold atoms can be used to freeze and control light to form the “core” — or central processing unit — of an optical computer. Optical computers would transport information ten times faster than traditional electronic devices, smashing the intrinsic speed limit of silicon technology.
This new research could be a major breakthrough in the quest to create super-fast computers that use light instead of electrons to process information. Professor Lene Hau is one of the world’s foremost authorities on “slow light”. Her research group became famous for slowing down light, which normally travels at 186,000 miles per second, to less than the speed of a bicycle.
Using the same apparatus, which contains a cloud of ultra-cold sodium atoms, they have even managed to freeze light altogether. Professor Hau says this could have applications in memory storage for a future generation of optical computers.
But Professor Hau’s most recent research addresses the issue of optical computers head-on. She has calculated that ultra-cold atoms known as Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) can be used to perform “controlled coherent processing” with light. In ordinary matter, the amplitude and phase of a light pulse would be smeared out, and any information content would be destroyed. Hau’s work on slow light, however, has proved experimentally that these attributes can be preserved in a BEC. Such a device might one day become the CPU of an optical computer.
Traditional electronic computers are advancing ever closer to their theoretical limits for size and speed. Some scientists believe that optical computing will one day unleash a new revolution in smaller and faster computers.
Professor Lene Hau is Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics & Professor of Physics at Harvard University.
Venetian Snares — Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett
Apr 15 2005
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Title: Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett Artist: Venetian Snares Style: ““Sikertelenseg” has Funk opening a body bag to show a disbelieving piano its deceased lover. “Szerencsetlen” walks a rickety plank with stacco violin stabs and a grinding “Amen” jungle breakbeat. “Masodik Galamb” indulges in more breakcore delirium and nearly sacrifices the visceral impact of the melodies struggling to pull through. The brooding string piece “Felbomlasztott Mentokocsi” and the chase-sequence dramatics of “Hajnal” are deftest songs that Funk ever recorded.” Review: Pitchfork My Rating: 8/10, Pigeon why can you scare me? |