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Science and the Environment [BBC NEWS Can robots ever be like humans?](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8064397.stm) – Check out the two videos. Somewhat “scary” what these little guys can do. [Slashdot Towards Artificial Consciousness](http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/23/199251&from=rss) - Details on a brain...

So what’s my beef with Web browsers? It’s all the wasted space at the top of the damn things. Internet Explorer is perhaps the biggest offender. It’s default configuration is very wasteful (I couldn’t figure...

Hey, it’s been a year of links already. Hard to believe. To celebrate the event I’m posting 2 days late this week. OK, I’m kidding, the holiday messed with my schedule so I’m a bit...

I’ve never been a fan of thick borders of Vista’s Aero theme. It’s always struck me as a bit cartoonish. The height of the title bar is also larger than I like. The other night...

I’ve updated my Windows Vista Sidebar gadget, “Simply Weather”. Many of you have sent overwhelmingly positive feedback on how fun and useful, “Simply Weather” is. The 20,000 plus downloads over the last month are also...

Top 10 improvements for a future Kindle - MobileRead Forums – I really like my Kindle but it’s not without it faults. Carve your own wooden Kindling device - MobileRead Forums – I have no...

Depending on the project, Visual Studio sometimes wants to build more than is necessary to actually debug/run the project. Sometimes even, it will continue building the other project dependencies after the debugging session has ended....

Digital Recovery of Moon Images - Behind the counter of an abandoned McDonalds lie 48,000 lbs of 70mm tape the only copy of extremely high-resolution images of the moon. Those images include a high-resolution version...

I’ve been using my Kindle 2 for about two months now. The verdict, it’s a winner. It’s not perfect but easily good enough for most reading tasks. To be clear, the Kindle 2 is still...

Vista (and now Windows 7) Sidebar gadgets are nifty little programs that run on your desktop. They’re mostly convenience programs for monitoring bits of information like stocks or weather. The Vista Sidebar gadgets have a...