Frank Medrano. Joefentonart. What's a Bike Good For? Churning Ice Cream, Apparently - Sarah Goodyear. We’ve heard of bicycle-powered televisions in an "eco-minded" U.K. hotel, and we’ve seen bicycle-powered blenders in action making smoothies at the local farmers market.
Vintage workwear: Street Art. Google kills Google Reader, says it will go offline on July 1, 2013. Google is doing a second round of spring cleaning — its euphemism for small projects it finds unworthy of its time and efforts — and is killing off a whole bunch of projects, the biggest of them being Google Reader.
In a blog post Wednesday afternoon, Urs Hölzle, Google’s senior vice president of Technical Infrastructure, announced the pending closure: Everyone has a device, sometimes multiple devices. It’s been a long time since we have had this rate of change—it probably hasn’t happened since the birth of personal computing 40 years ago. To make the most of these opportunities, we need to focus—otherwise we spread ourselves too thin and lack impact.
So today we’re announcing some more closures, bringing the total to 70 features or services closed since our spring cleaning began in 2011 The other projects that are being euthanized include Google Voice for Blackberry, Calendar API, Snapseed for desktop, Search API for shopping and others. Harare, Zimbabwe Forecast : Weather Underground. Free Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Fireworks. Print Friendly & PDF. Scores of Tulsa dental patients tested for hepatitis, HIV exposure. Health officials say a dentist may have exposed thousands to HIV and hepatitisThe screenings began Saturday; by Monday, nearly 1,000 patients had been testedDr.
W. Scott Harrington has surrendered his dental license (CNN) -- Testing continues for patients who may have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis from their visit to Dr. W. Second Life - The Online 3D Virtual World. Ask.com Launches New Visual Q&A App "Pollroll" It seems like there are a million apps launching or promoting themselves in connection with the upcoming SXSW conference in Austin, Texas.
Among them is Pollroll a new Q&A mobile app from Ask.com. Pollroll, according to Ask, “is designed to facilitate the creation, distribution and sharing of poll questions and results.” In addition to answering polls users many annotate their responses with comments. And polls can be shared on Facebook and Twitter. There is a location element here (“Where’s the best Austin BBQ spot?”) Last year for SXSW Ask released a “local conversations” app called Ask Around, which was ultimately shuttered.
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Plain Philosophy Center - Funnies Page. Endangered Species of the Week: Mountain chicken. Image courtesy of ARKive.org media library Species: Mountain chicken (Leptodactylus fallax) Status: Critically Endangered (CR) Interesting Fact: The oddly-named mountain chicken is so called because its meat is said to taste like chicken!
The curious mountain chicken is one of the largest frogs in the world, with adult females growing up to a remarkable 21 centimetres in length. A sit-and-wait predator with a voracious appetite, this gluttonous frog consumes almost anything that can be swallowed whole. An unfortunate victim of hunting, disease, natural disasters and habitat loss, the mountain chicken population has recently undergone catastrophic declines, estimated at around 80 percent since 1995. Read more about the mountain chicken on the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust website. View images of the mountain chicken on ARKive. 4shared.com - free file sharing and storage. How a virus invades the body. B'More Green: Archives - Going Green: Environment, energy, living green, conservation and more in Baltimore, the Chesapeake Bay and beyond. A new report says the industrialization of poultry farming over the last several decades is a major source of pollution fouling the Chesapeake Bay and other waterways around the country.
" Big Chicken ," released Wednesday by the Pew Environment Group highlights how poultry production has increased and become more concentrated, taking an environmental toll. And despite heavy government subsidies to farmers to reduce runoff of animal manure from their fields, the report argues tighter limits are needed - including a cap on the density of birds being raised in places like the Delmarva Peninsula. Nationwide, the number of broiler chickens raised annually has soared 1,400 percent in less than 60 years, the report says, while the number of farms raising birds has dropped by 98 percent in the same time. The growth in production is driven by rising consumer demand for what the group says has become the most popular meat in the United States. Darwin's Jellyfishes. Palau's remarkable marine lakes are portraits of evolution in action 08-01-2006 // Pamela S.
Turner FLOATING in a silent world the color of milky green tea, I am enveloped by an undulating horde of 10 million jellyfish, some the size of cantaloupes, others the size of apples and a few no bigger than blueberries. All dance the two-step jelly ballet: pulse in, pulse out; pulse in, pulse out. Their simple rhythm is as soothing and vital as a heartbeat.