Category: Resources
SLAM.
Post date: Wednesday, May 24th, 2006.
Methane hydrates.
Scientists discover frozen methane gas deposits on ocean floor.
Post date: Sunday, January 29th, 2006.
Moonrakers.
Russia is planning to build a mine on the moon to harvest helium-3.
Post date: Thursday, January 26th, 2006.
Trace Archive.
Genetic database that stores DNA sequences records its billionth entry. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, January 18th, 2006.
Leftovers to Lights.
California utility considering using food waste from restaurants to produce methane gas. (via)
Post date: Thursday, December 29th, 2005.
Lernu!
Free website for learning the Esperanto language. (via)
Post date: Monday, December 19th, 2005.
Million solar roofs.
California to initiate aggressive solar energy plan.
Post date: Wednesday, December 14th, 2005.
Cooking by numbers.
Website that generates recipes for the food you have in your fridge and cupboards.
Post date: Tuesday, December 13th, 2005.
Undersea mining.
Mining companies consider prospecting for gold and silver on the ocean floor.
Post date: Wednesday, December 7th, 2005.
Non-renewable resource.
Kuwait’s largest oil field is beginning to run dry. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, November 16th, 2005.
Wave farm.
Ocean waves are being tapped as a resource for renewable energy. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, November 16th, 2005.
Traffic Vizzion.
Service lets you monitor traffic cameras from your cell phone. (via)
Post date: Thursday, November 10th, 2005.
Encyclopedia Brown.
Boy uses his spit and the Internet to track down biological father. (via)
Post date: Thursday, November 3rd, 2005.
Aluminum oxynitride.
US Military is developing see-through aluminum armor. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, October 18th, 2005.
Search: “aliens”.
Google partnering with NASA to help search for alien life. (via)
Post date: Monday, October 17th, 2005.
Tomb raider.
Robot will be used to explore narrow shafts in the Great Pyramid to find hidden crypts.
Post date: Wednesday, October 12th, 2005.
The Lord’s name in vain.
Young boy to teacher: Why did Mary and Joseph name their baby after a swear word? (via)
Post date: Thursday, October 6th, 2005.
Buddy system.
RentmyDVR.com: Hire someone to digitally record your favorite TV show for you to download. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, October 4th, 2005.
GooGhoul.
Search engine that finds upcoming Halloween events in your area. (via)
Post date: Saturday, October 1st, 2005.
Sorry, gotta go.
A Web site that plays sounds to help you get off the phone faster with someone you don’t want to talk with. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, September 28th, 2005.
Esquivalience.
Investigator exposes a made-up word in the New Oxford English Dictionary. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, September 27th, 2005.
Recognizing phonies.
To combat a growing scamming problem, the city of Shanghai has created an illustrated guide on how to tell real beggars from from fake ones. (via)
Post date: Monday, September 26th, 2005.
Maim that tune.
Counteract the tune that you have stuck in your head with an even catchier tune using the Maimograph Machine. (via)
Post date: Thursday, September 22nd, 2005.
SaveMyAss.com
Guys: ‘A personal assistant that keeps your girlfriend or wife happy by sending her flowers on your behalf, on a regular but semi-random basis‘. (via)
Post date: Thursday, September 22nd, 2005.
World Wide Wiki.
Some insights into Wikipedia, ‘the most detailed collection of information in history’. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, September 20th, 2005.
Bat rope.
British scientists have invented a high-speed rope that allows climbing of high buildings or cliffs at more than 10 feet a second. (via)
Post date: Sunday, September 18th, 2005.
BorrowMe.com
Web startup aims to be ‘the product lending library for the world’. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, September 13th, 2005.
Rock beats fire.
“Rock Paper Scissors” matrix with twelve additional gestures. (via)
Post date: Monday, September 12th, 2005.
tgsttttptct.
Translate Internet slang and IM acronyms into readable text with the Internet Slang Dictionary & Translator. (via)
Post date: Friday, September 9th, 2005.
Find-A-Human.
The portable and continually-growing database of major companies and how to bypass their automated answering to get a real person on the phone. (via)
Post date: Thursday, September 8th, 2005.
Renewable resource.
Scientists in Singapore have developed a battery powered by urine. (via)
Post date: Thursday, September 8th, 2005.
M.S. Interactive Entertainment.
University of Central Florida starts video game graduate school program. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, September 6th, 2005.
Bullet with butterfly wings.
Army develops coloring book to teach kids living living on military base the dangers of ammunition they may find.
Post date: Tuesday, September 6th, 2005.
PocketMod.
A Flash application which makes organizational booklets that fit right in your pocket. (via)
Post date: Thursday, September 1st, 2005.
Model for quitting.
Fill-in-the-blank letter of resignation generator. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 31st, 2005.
Time is relative.
Find out your age and your birthday on all the planets in our solar system. (via)
Post date: Thursday, August 25th, 2005.
Ticket Assassin.
California: Beat your speeding ticket(s) by mail with Ticket Assassin. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 24th, 2005.
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