stalebread writes "MSNBC has an article looking at an internet-based 'many hands make light work' approach to data sifting. From the article: 'The federal government is making public a huge trove of documents seized during the invasion of Iraq, posting them on the Internet in a step that is at once a nod to the Web's power and an admission that U.S. intelligence resources are overloaded. Web surfers have begun posting translations and comments, digging through the documents with gusto.'"

it's about time! Intel wants replacing and upgrading notebooks components to be easier. With the company's new Interchangeability Initiative, components including the optical drive, LCD screen, battery, power adapter and keyboard would all be upgradeable and can be swapped between notebooks.

Missing its target date for the holiday season gives Microsoft breathing room to push back Vista's release even further into 2007.

Try this for Job Hunting on Google!!!

On Mars, northern spring began on January 22nd. Still in northern springtime, the Red Planet currently has a similar appearance to this composite of images from previous years taken by the long-lasting Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft

Take one part googlemaps, one part image analysis (of various traffic maps), throw in AJAX (so that the map is auto-updated every two minutes), and you get a traffic page that tells you where the highway is clogged, and where it isn't. Useful to know if you need to take a detour.

conq writes "BusinessWeek has an interview with the heads of George Lucas' gaming and movie divisions, and discusses with them how they are getting closer and closer to integration. From the article: 'Pre-visualization, which is a big thing that George has been pushing lately. It's a tool that directors would use to quickly mock up the ideas of a story and see what's going to work. It's really like building up a preview of a movie in a video game world. Instead of using static story boards, you can really just get in and create 3D content and camera moves directly. It's the best example of the kind of collaboration we've got going on.'"

Watch screenshots of Magnolia (magnolia.com) bookmarks scroll across on an infinite conveyor belt! Open interesting looking sites right away or bookmark them for later.

Your mom was wrong... You WON'T get a cold just from low temperature.

What do you digg? Fill in the blank with whatever you want. Mine is going to say "I digg dupes".. come on, you know that's kinda funny..

Great piece by the NYTimes (registration free link) on how Microsoft, by generating a culture of backwards compatibility, has put itself in a tough position for the future.

Apple's problems in Europe look to be getting worse, not better. Following on the heels of France's legislative push for DRM interoperability comes word that Denmark is thinking along the same lines. Reportedly, Maersk and the country's largest telecommunications company, TDC, are speaking out in favor of such interoperability.

Bernard Golden of SearchOpenSource.com writes with Xen "I can use Linux as my main operating environment and still have the option of Windows available to run applications not yet ported to Linux."

Will multiple processors or a dual core processor be beneficial to you, and what are the differences between them? These are the questions this article will attempt to lay to rest.

"Monolith's Jeff Orkin pulls the veil back and shows how F.E.A.R.'s AI really worked." It's acctually fairly simple, it makes you think why nobody else thought of it before.

I made a video demonstrating the upgrade and reassembly of an Apple 12" Powerbook G4. Upgrades include a 16X Dual Layer DVD burner, a 100GB hard drive, new speakers with a louder bass response, and a new Apple rainbow logo on the lid. All of this in about a minute and a half! Check it out and let me know what you think.

1Eye wrote to mention that well-known SF author Stanislaw Lem passed away today. The Polish author was 84, and was probably best known for the novel 'Solaris'. From the AP article: "Solaris, published in 1961 and set on an isolated space stations, was made into a film epic 10 years later by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky and into a 2002 Hollywood remake shot by Steven Sodebergh and starringGeorge Clooney."

Someone stuck a camera in a tree, hooked it up to an encoder, and pointed it at a wild Bald Eagle nest. Strangely captivating.... Probably the closest any of us will ever get to one of these birds ;)