I could hear live music filtering through to me from the Steinbaugh Pavilion. People were spilling out of the white tent area next to the pavilion and from the pavilion itself. Almost everyone had a glass of locally brewed beer in their hands. Small counter-high tables dotted the street, crowded with half-empty glasses of beer, hot dogs, burgers and popcorn. I couldn’t wait to get nearer to the music cos the lead guitar was belting out some smashing tunes.
The recently opened Steinbaugh Pavilion is named after my numerous relatives who live in Lousville. Previously, the only local institution bearing the Steinbaugh name was the local hardware store, which has since closed.
Now you can enter a friend’s email address into the To: line when you send a message or share an album, and Facebook will email them the message. Your friends will be able to reply without signing up, and they will be able to see content you share with them. Keep in mind that all rules of privacy still apply; some Facebook content that you share (photos, groups, notes, etc.) won’t be visible to your friend.
I’m sick of people using Facebook as a messaging platform. Every time someone sends me a message or posts on my wall, I get an e-mail that tells me I have to log into Facebook. The e-mail does not contain any meaningful information regarding the message, simply that I need to log into the site.
Feature “enhancements” like the one posted above clearly show that Facebook is trying to become the new e-mail platform, at least with the hipster crowd. I for one am not comfortable with Facebook retaining that level of information. Therefore, I disabled my wall. If I could disable Facebook messaging entirely, I would do that as well.
Today that same market is telling rappers to please shut up. While music-industry sales have plummeted, no genre has fallen harder than rap. According to the music trade publication Billboard, rap sales have dropped 44% since 2000 and declined from 13% of all music sales to 10%. Artists who were once the tent poles at rap labels are posting disappointing numbers. Jay-Z’s return album, Kingdom Come, for instance, sold a gaudy 680,000 units in its first week, according to Billboard. But by the second week, its sales had declined some 80%. This year rap sales are down 33% so far.
Mainstream, big label rap artists released mediocre albums this year, and consumers have responded by saving their money. The RIAA will probably try and spin the downturn as a result of piracy, but it really boils down to content quality.
In the first known comprehensive analysis of whether antibacterial soaps work better than plain soaps, Allison Aiello of the U-M School of Public Health and her team found that washing hands with an antibacterial soap was no more effective in preventing infectious illness than plain soap. Moreover, antibacterial soaps at formulations sold to the public do not remove any more bacteria from the hands during washing than plain soaps.
Because of the way the main active ingredient—triclosan—in many antibacterial soaps reacts in the cells, it may cause some bacteria to become resistant to commonly used drugs such as amoxicillin, the researchers say. These changes have not been detected at the population level, but e-coli bacteria bugs adapted in lab experiments showed resistance when exposed to as much as 0.1 percent wt/vol triclosan soap.
Veerle has a great tutorial on properly formatting HTML tables and styling them with CSS.
As the video shows, you simply split them open to reveal EIGHT 1.5V button-cell batteries, each one worth around $5. And as these 12V batteries come in pairs that gives you a grand total of 16 new batteries worth around $80. Not bad for an initial investment of $1.66. Kipkay also goes on to split a 9V battery for use in a battery emergency. You could say these hacks are literally “power to the people.” (Sorry, couldn’t resist).
I have a remote for my AirTunes that requires those little cell batteries. If this trick turns out to be true, it will save me some money.
Exactly 25 years ago the world’s first compact disc was produced at a Philips factory in Germany, sparking a global music revolution.
More than 200 billion CDs have been sold worldwide since then and it remains the dominant format despite the growth in digital downloads.
The CD was jointly developed by Philips and Sony and the disc has also become a key storage method for computer users.
The University of Michigan tied with UCLA for 25th in the nation in annual rankings of the top national universities by the U.S. News & World Report.
U-M fell one spot from last year’s ranking. Among public universities, U-M is now tied for the third spot, behind the University of California - Berkeley and the University of Virginia.
With the Office Open XML Converter, you can convert Office Open XML files to a format that is compatible with Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac and Microsoft Office v. X for Mac. You can choose to convert and open one file, or convert a large number of files.
Currently Mac users cannot open Word 2007 documents without this utility. The next version of Office for the Mac, expected in 2008, will include native support for Office Open XML.
Skim is much better than preview for viewing scientific PDFs. However, the program lacks proper support for selecting text in columns. Also, the highlight and underline tools need to be improved because often annotated text is hard to distinguish. The same goes for notes, whose appearance could be improved to resemble actual sticky notes. Adobe Acrobat does a better job of annotation but is a slower, bloated piece of software.
“If it is up to me, we are going to explain that an attack on this homeland of that nature would be followed by an attack on the holy sites in Mecca and Medina,” Tancredo said. “That is the only thing I can think of that might deter somebody from doing what they would otherwise do. If I am wrong, fine, tell me, and I would be happy to do something else. But you had better find a deterrent, or you will find an attack.”
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is still in the majority (53%), following by Firefox (34%), and Safari (7%). I think it’s safe to say that in a couple of years, alternative browsers will outnumber IE. This is a blessing for the web design community since Microsoft’s browser has a buggy rendering engine.
The closing of Pfizer’s Ann Arbor, Michigan, research facility, announced in January, has affected over 2,100 of the pharma firm’s employees. Many have turned adversity into opportunity, however, finding jobs at smaller firms in the area or creating new companies from scratch—with nearly 30 startups launched to date.
The Trojans, 11-2 last season but loaded as 2007 approaches, picked up 1,481 total points, easily outdistancing No. 2 LSU (1,372 points) and No. 3 Florida (1,278 points). The Tigers picked up four first-place votes and the defending national champion Gators grabbed nine.
Texas is No. 4 (1,231 points), with Michigan — which received two first-place votes — fifth (1,218 points).
UCLA is ranked 17th.
Examples given include “Thumb & 1 Finger” combinations producing on action:
and “Thumb & 2 Finger” combinations producing different actions:
Netflix has streamed more than 5 million movies this year. Now let’s say I watch an average of 8 DVDs a month on Netflix’s (recently lowered) $13.99 a month plan. That’s $1.75 per movie. And at 5 million free movies, that’s nearly $9 million lost over two quarters. And since Netflix ate the costs of those free movies, most of that $9 million would go directly to profits, split over two quarters.
For simplicity’s sake, let’s add $4.5 million to the first quarter of 2007. That raises the EPS from 14 cents to 20 cents. In the second quarter, the same adjustment raises the EPS from 33 cents to 39 cents a share. That’s a lot of money that Netflix could have theoretically made, but didn’t.
The math behind that statement is wrong. You may rent 8 DVDs a month from Netflix, but the number is limited by how many are shipped to your house during that period. If you watch a movie on demand from their site, you will have watched 9 movies that month. Netflix does not “eat the cost” of the free movie. Netflix only pays for the bandwidth. So $9 million in lost profits is completely inaccurate.
Diaz decided to do a little investigating on his own and rewound the surveillance tape back even more, and what he found surprised him. On the tape, the same woman, in the same aisle, minutes before her ’slip and fall’ accident. On the tape, the woman appears to be trying to open a bottle of olive oil unsuccessfully. The woman puts it back on the shelf, leaves the aisle only to return a few moments later and pick up a new bottle. The tape shows her opening this bottle and pouring some of the oil onto the floor, then she puts the bottle back on the shelf and leaves the aisle.
Minutes later, she returns to aisle and ’slips’ on the oil.
Diaz’s surveillance system saved him the hassle of dealing with a frivolous lawsuit.
For instance, if you open your browser and search for Italian Hotels, and followed that with keyword search for weather, the results will show “Italian Weather related” advertisements next to them. Wojcicki said that no user information is stored by Google, and this is on-the-fly ads that are displayed. Close the window (or the search session), and the relevance goes away, she said.
I think a logical extension of this would be for ads displayed on third party pages through the AdSense program. The majority of traffic to my site comes from search engines, namely Google. Google AdSense could pull up the search query through the HTTP_REFERER informationn and display targeted ads based on the user’s original search. This would be great for new blog posts that haven’t yet been indexed by Google’s web crawler.
After a rough measure, I found out that the Shuffle cord was about 8 inches shorter. Of course it makes perfect sense given the potential placement of the Shuffle on someone’s clothing, but it’s interesting to know that 8 was the magic number. Holding the two side by side doesn’t seem like it would make that great a difference, but it does.
I noticed this too when I mixed up the headphones from my iPod and iPod shuffle.
