Blog Heap o' Transport Links
Blog-Heap links regarding transportation and related infrastructure,
also energy, because it takes energy to transport,
and virtuality, because telepresence saves on transpresence.
Energy
countywidenews.com Fri 2009 Jun 26, 10:34pm
Passing President Obama's "cap and trade" energy program would cost the average Oklahoma family $3,200 a year, Sen. Jim Inhofe said Friday, but he's confident the measure will be killed in the Senate no matter what happens in the House of Representatives.
newson6.com Fri 2009 Jun 26, 10:11am
Darren Brazeal has a spectacular backyard with an outdoor kitchen, fireplace and a beautiful pool and spa. He has created his perfect environment and he's done it in the most energy efficient and environmentally safe way he could. Dennis Daniel with Vivian Pools designed the pool system. "Instead of using chlorine in this pool, it doesn't use chlorine at all it uses purified water softener salt.... And, the other cool thing is it monitors itself...." The pool and the house are heated and cooled geothermally.....
Digital Future is Now
sciencedaily.com Thu 2009 Jun 25, 7:25pm
Computer systems that dynamically create, monitor, manage or suspend online contractual agreements are being developed to deliver greater reliability and security to service-oriented e-business applications.
Spacecraft
sciencedaily.com Thu 2009 Jun 25, 7:18pm
The mysterious 1908 Tunguska explosion that leveled 830 square miles of Siberian forest was almost certainly caused by a comet entering the Earth's atmosphere, according to new research. The conclusion is supported by an unlikely source: the exhaust plume from the NASA space shuttle launched a century later.
Transport Tragedy
bloomberg.com Thu 2009 Jun 25, 9:58am
Their bodies were among the 49 that French and Brazilian military boats have plucked from the Atlantic since the plane crashed June 1
Transport Incident
reuters.com Wed 2009 Jun 24, 9:04pm
Operators of an unauthorized New York airport van service that took five French tourists on a high speed chase in an attempt to evade police
Spacecraft
msnbc.msn.com Tue 2009 Jun 23, 4:07pm
In "Magnificent Desolation" Buzz Aldrin recounts his experience — from takeoff to splashdown — in breathtaking detail, and his harrowing return to normal life after the moon mission, when the astronaut battled depression and alcoholism.
Transport Disaster
latimes.com Tue 2009 Jun 23, 3:47pm
Nine fatalities have been confirmed in the worst accident in the history of Washington's Metro subway system, authorities said Tuesday morning... Among the dead was the operator of the train that crashed into the stopped train...
Digital Future is Now
sciencedaily.com Mon 2009 Jun 22, 10:45pm
"When the human eye searches for an object it looks globally for the rough location, size and orientation of the object. Then it zeros in on the details," said Jiang, an assistant professor of computer science. "Our method behaves in a similar fashion, using a linear approximation to explore the search space globally and quickly; then it works to identify the moving object by frequently updating trust search regions."
Transport Tragedy
wusa9.com Mon 2009 Jun 22, 7:12pm
four dead from the collision, and officials say there are 67 people injured... may be as many as three more dead in the part of the train that was the most severely damaged.... trains were traveling in the same direction when one rear ended the other when one train stopped and the other did not
Spacecraft
reuters.com Fri 2009 Jun 19, 11:54pm
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson broke ground on Friday on construction of Spaceport America, the world's first facility built specifically for space-bound commercial customers and fee-paying passengers.
Digital Policing
reuters.com Fri 2009 Jun 19, 11:51pm
Dutch twin brothers who mugged a teenager in the northern town of Groningen were arrested after being caught on camera by a car gathering images for Google's online photo map service
Digital Privacy
examiner.com Fri 2009 Jun 19, 11:53pm
As part of routine background checks, the city asks job applicants to provide their usernames and passwords for their social-networking sites. And it has been doing it for years... City officials maintain the policy is necessary to ensure employees' integrity and protect the public's trust, but the American Civil Liberties Union of Montana says they may be crossing the line.... [MAY be crossing the line? MAY BE????!!!!!]
Transport Tragedy
dailymail.co.uk Thu 2009 Jun 18, 6:27pm
Even some of the drawers, containing a selection of ready-meals for passengers, remained wedged securely inside the unit
Digital Future is Now
sciencedaily.com Wed 2009 Jun 17, 6:34pm
Scientists have discovered a "magnetic superatom" -- a stable cluster of atoms that can mimic different elements of the periodic table -- that one day may be used to create molecular electronic devices for the next generation of faster computers with larger memory storage.
Infrastructure Failure
online.wsj.com Wed 2009 Jun 17, 4:40pm
Technical problems are degrading the accuracy of signals from the latest GPS satellite launched by the Pentagon, sparking worries about the next generation of satellites.
Digital Policing
sciencedaily.com Wed 2009 Jun 17, 6:47pm
A new type of robot being developed will make it easier to detect drugs, weapons, explosives and illegal immigrants concealed in cargo containers.
Digital Privacy
washingtonpost.com Wed 2009 Jun 17, 4:47pm
A Nevada newspaper says it has been served a federal grand jury subpoena seeking information about readers who posted comments on the paper's Web site. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Tuesday that its editor, Thomas Mitchell, plans to fight the request, which the newspaper received after reporting on a federal tax fraud case against business owner Robert Kahre.... prosecutors told the judge in the case that some comments hinted at acts of violence and the subpoena was issued out of concern for jurors' safety....
Transport Rights
reuters.com Wed 2009 Jun 17, 4:49pm
Many women taking the crowded train in Tokyo opt for women-only carriages during the rush hour to avoid gropers. Now, for fear of being accused of groping, some are asking for carriages reserved for men....
Digital Privacy
technology.timesonline.co.uk Tue 2009 Jun 16, 4:31pm
Thousands of bloggers who operate behind the cloak of anonymity have no right to keep their identities secret, the High Court ruled today... [OMG! Imagine Britain ruling this on print during the Revolution!]
Transport Tragedy
timesonline.co.uk Sun 2009 Jun 14, 8:38pm
THE Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic with 228 people on board broke apart before it hit the water, throwing out some passengers at high altitude, investigators believe.... Their conclusion is based on the discovery of two trails of bodies more than 50 miles apart, suggesting that the Airbus split in two after going out of control in bad weather...
newson6.com Sun 2009 Jun 14, 12:35am
It's called a ghost bike. It is a somber reminder on the side of the road, an informal memorial marking the scene of a crash where two bicyclists were killed. ...painted all white.
Energy
chron.com Sat 2009 Jun 13, 9:57pm
About 15,000 customers, most of them in Dallas County, remained without electricity Saturday after severe storms pounded the North Texas area earlier in the week.
reuters.com Sat 2009 Jun 13, 9:57pm
Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced on Friday plans to restart the country's first clean coal power project, scrapped by the previous Bush administration as too expensive. [BUT NOTHING IS TOO EXPENSIVE FOR OBAMA! IMPEACH!]
Transport Tragedy
nytimes.com Sat 2009 Jun 13, 9:09pm
A transcript makes clear how many details the investigators have about the last minutes of its flight — and how little it tells them.... routine message about a malfunction in one of the plane's lavatories is followed by a worrisome one that says that the speed sensor has a problem, but the cascade that follows is hard to parse....
Animals and Transport
wcbstv.com Thu 2009 Jun 11, 10:51pm
New York City plans to trap and kill up to 2,000 Canada Geese this summer in an attempt to avoid the type of collision that caused an airliner to ditch in the Hudson River last winter. The hunt will take place on dozens of city properties located within five miles of Kennedy and LaGuardia airports. Aviation officials have culled the bird flocks on airport property for years, but this will mark a major expansion of the effort into other parts of the city, including about 40 public parks.
Transport Tragedy
newson6.com Wed 2009 Jun 10, 2:44pm
Two cyclists are dead and a third was treated and released from the hospital after being hit by an SUV on Highway 51 in Sand Springs Tuesday afternoon.... Catron says the accident had a profound effect on her and the other witnesses who stopped to help. "Very tight knit group of people who came together, who were complete strangers and now I don't think any of us will forget the other,"
tulsaworld.com Wed 2009 Jun 10, 2:16pm
driving east on Oklahoma 51 when she swerved onto the south shoulder... hit three bicyclists [two killed]... continued driving for a quarter-mile before stopping... open container of alcohol in the SUV...
Digital Future is Now
popsci.com Tue 2009 Jun 9, 7:20pm
27 hydraulic cylinders bring the mechs to life, its movements matching those of the person inside it
ledge.fleetwoodmac.net Tue 2009 Jun 9, 1:31pm
Snake broadcasts pictures, sound to soldier with laptop [video]
Transport Tragedy
google.com Mon 2009 Jun 8, 10:05pm
recovered the vertical stabilizer from the tail section... could help locate its black boxes... Eight more bodies also were found, bringing the total recovered to 24...
Mass Trans can be Dangerous
breitbart.com Mon 2009 Jun 8, 1:56pm
taking public transport may not be as green as you automatically think.... These are hidden or displaced emissions that ramp up the simple "tailpipe" tally.... it could be more eco-friendly to drive into a city -- even in an SUV.... than take a suburban train....
Transport Tragedy
google.com Sun 2009 Jun 7, 8:21pm
Ten undocumented immigrants "stacked like wood" in the back of a sports utility vehicle crammed with at least 22 people were killed when the driver lost control and rolled over on a remote southern Arizona highway.... "If they had had the right number of people in there and they all had their seat belts on, they would have lived....."
Transport Tragedy
foxnews.com Sat 2009 Jun 6, 2:20pm
Brazilian Air Force: Bodies of Air France Flight 447 Passengers Found, Bodies of passengers of the doomed Air France flight that plummeted into the ocean have been found, Brazil's Air Force said Saturday.
Transport Future
google.com Fri 2009 Jun 5, 5:25pm
Nearly 70 percent of the world's airspace is not radar-controlled, and the existing radar system is likely to remain for at least another decade.
Energy
thestreet.com Fri 2009 Jun 5, 3:03pm
The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the United States fell by 12 this week to 887, down roughly 1,000 from a year ago. Of the rigs running nationwide, 700 were exploring for natural gas and 179 for oil....
Animals and Transport
breitbart.com Fri 2009 Jun 5, 5:20pm
Busy beavers were on Friday blamed for a train derailment that spilled more than 20,000 liters of diesel fuel into the Ottawa River
sfgate.com Fri 2009 Jun 5, 3:20pm
The dog's owner, an 18-year-old man, rode a bicycle around the crossing arms as the train approached... dog apparently began following its owner and pulled the woman into the train's path... both died...
Transport Tragedy
breitbart.com Fri 2009 Jun 5, 5:13pm
France's transportation minister said Friday that French forces have found no evidence of an Airbus A330 airplane that vanished over the Atlantic and urged "extreme prudence" about suspected debris fished from the ocean. Dominique Bussereau said he regretted that an announcement by Brazilian teams that they had recovered plane debris from Air France flight 447 turned out to be false.
google.com Fri 2009 Jun 5, 12:47am
The case had been unraveling in recent months because of a lack of eyewitnesses and physical evidence. Last month, a gravel truck driver gave a sworn statement acknowledging he might have accidentally run over McClelland.
Digital Convergence
weirduniverse.net Fri 2009 Jun 5, 5:36pm
Scientists at the University of Florida are developing a neural implant that can think independently. This is not just an implant that deciphers brain signals, but one that can learn, adapt to various scenarios and help the host achieve certain goals.
Transport Threat
foxnews.com Thu 2009 Jun 4, 3:03pm
Handgun Found on Plane at Philadelphia Airport , Police say someone waiting to board Flight 1195 around 7 a.m. Thursday noticed another passenger handing a carry-on bag directly to the airline employee, bypassing a security screening.
Transport Tragedy
nypost.com Thu 2009 Jun 4, 2:46pm
First, the autopilot disengaged, and then an alarm warned passengers that all hell was breaking loose on doomed Air France Flight 447. PHOTOS: Air France Flight 447 Search & Rescue It was...
alertnet.org Thu 2009 Jun 4, 2:45pm
The Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Monday was flying too slowly ahead of the disaster, Le Monde newspaper said on Thursday, citing sources close to the inquiry.
Transport Pleasures
weirduniverse.net Wed 2009 Jun 3, 2:28pm
Don't you hate it when someone steals your parking space? [video]
Transport Whoops!
newson6.com Tue 2009 Jun 2, 10:17am
Thousands of Oklahoma motorists are getting blindsided when their PikePass tells them they're breaking the law... PikePass is confused by the state's new license plates
Transport Business
nytimes.com Tue 2009 Jun 2, 10:19am
A day after seeking bankruptcy protection, the automaker said that it had tentatively agreed to sell the unit, and that the deal would probably save more than 3,000 U.S. jobs.
tulsaworld.com Tue 2009 Jun 2, 10:06am
the Perryman Ditch, a 1 1/4-mile concrete tunnel that will drain stormwater from the Peoria Avenue area into the Arkansas River
Transport Tragedy
news.yahoo.com Tue 2009 Jun 2, 11:50am
no signs of life... An airplane seat, a life jacket, metallic debris and signs of fuel were found in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday by Brazilian military pilots searching for a missing Air France airliner.
Spacecraft
upnorthlive.com Mon 2009 Jun 1, 2:01pm
A NASA Boeing 747 carrying the shuttle took off from Edwards Air Force Base at 8:07 a.m. PDT Monday. NASA spokeswoman Leslie Williams said the first stop will be at Biggs Army Airfield in El Paso, Texas. Weather will determine how long it takes to reach Florida.
Transport Tragedy
nytimes.com Mon 2009 Jun 1, 2:13pm
A search was under way off the Brazilian coast after Air France lost contact with a plane carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
Energy
marketwatch.com Fri 2009 May 29, 7:11pm
Oil futures rallied Friday, posting the biggest monthly gain since 1999, as sharp weakness in the U.S. dollar and hopes of an economic recovery boosted demand for crude.
Transport Tragedy
newson6.com Fri 2009 May 29, 8:09pm
MIDWEST CITY, Oklahoma -- Just days after graduating, Carl Albert High School students are mourning the loss of classmate Ashley Parham. Parham was picking her brother up from football practice when she hit another car in the parking lot.
Transport Near-Tragedy
newson6.com Fri 2009 May 29, 8:12pm
A Tulsa driver is lucky to be alive after a pole fell on his car on Highway 75. He says a man hit the light pole with a tractor.
Transport Trouble
nydailynews.com Thu 2009 May 28, 4:49pm
A chain-reaction collision Thursday involving a school bus [empty], a casino bus and a tractor-trailer injured nearly 60 people and shut down the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway for hours
Transport Future
monorails.org Wed 2009 May 27, 10:58pm
The Monorail Society is an all-volunteer organization founded to foster more awareness and promote this unique method of transportation. Monorails are NOT just for theme parks and zoos! Our aim is to inform people of the many possible uses for them....
Transport Liberty
ohio.com Wed 2009 May 27, 7:22pm
James Stacy has done his share of pothole patching during his decades in the asphalt business. ... He insists his intentions were pure Tuesday morning, when he took a broom and pickax to a menacing chuckhole outside his home on East Crosier Street. An Akron police officer sees it differently and has charged Stacy with criminal damaging, a second-degree misdemeanor.
Transport Law
usatoday.com Tue 2009 May 26, 10:59pm
Four states are ordering people to wipe the grins off their faces in their license photos. "Neutral facial expressions" are required at departments of motor vehicles (DMVs) in Arkansas, Indiana, Nevada and Virginia. That means you can't smile, or smile very much. Other states may follow.
Digital Policing
washingtonpost.com Tue 2009 May 26, 5:11pm
President Obama is expected to announce late this week that he will create a "cyber czar," a senior White House official who will have broad authority to develop strategy to protect the nation's government-run and private computer networks, according to people who have been briefed on the plan.
Transport Tragedy
chicagotribune.com Mon 2009 May 25, 1:18pm
veteran Chicago police officer accused of being drunk behind the wheel while causing a fatal hit-and-run accident that killed a 13-year-old boy on the South Side.
Transport Trouble
wyff4.com Mon 2009 May 25, 2:44pm
ELM GROVE, Wis. -- A father and a police officer were injured Monday when a minivan was hit by a southbound freight train in Elm Grove. Police said traffic was backed up because of a parade that was supposed to start within the hour and that when the gates came down, two vehicles were stuck between the gates....
Transport Pre-Automation
newson6.com Sat 2009 May 23, 4:13pm
"The black and white stripe is basically a contrasting stripe that's kind of a safety enhancement project that we're starting to do," said Paul Green, Oklahoma Department of Transportation construction engineer. The alternating stripes make it easier for drivers to see which lane they are in.
Transport Business
greenrightnow.com Fri 2009 May 22, 4:50pm
new service in Northwest Houston, uses a water-based cleaning solution that is non-hazardous and biodegradable.
Spacecraft
science.howstuffworks.com Wed 2009 May 20, 7:07pm
We aren't really at the point yet where we can send human beings to Mars. The first and most important reason for that hesitation is our track record -- different nations have sent more than 30 probes toward Mars, but fewer than one-third of those probes have survived the trip. It's not a very good track record, and certainly not one that would encourage us to replace those robotic probes with human beings, at least until we've improved the odds of success.
nytimes.com Wed 2009 May 20, 7:07pm
A NASA Mars rover, the Spirit, is stuck. The rover drove into soft ground a couple of weeks ago, and when it tried to get out, its wheels slipped and it moved only a couple of inches. The Spirit has been stuck before, and mission managers have been assiduously driving it around potential hazards. But they did not see the soft spot, which was hidden under a veneer of normal-looking soil.
Transport Tragedy
euronews.net Wed 2009 May 20, 3:03pm
The number of people killed in this morning's military air crash in Indonesia has risen to 98, including two on the ground. The C-130 Hercules barrelled into the ground a few kilometres short of its intended destination, a nearby air base. Most of the plane exploded in flames but remarkably 15 people survived, albeit severely injured. The plane was carrying 99 passengers and eleven crew.
Transport Threat
cnn.com Mon 2009 May 18, 1:35pm
Privacy advocates plan to call on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to suspend use of "whole-body imaging," the airport security technology that critics say performs "a virtual strip search" and produces "naked" pictures of passengers
Transport Pre-Automation
cbs13.com Mon 2009 May 18, 10:09pm
charges of evading police with disregard to public safety, driving with a suspended license, throwing objects from the vehicle while moving, driving under the influence, possession of a controlled substance, reckless driving, and felony hit and run.
Spacecraft
astrophoto.fr Sat 2009 May 16, 5:58pm
Image of the solar transit of the International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle Atlantis (50 minutes after undocking from the ISS, before return to Earth), taken from the area of Mamers (Normandie, France) on september 17th 2006 at 13h 38min 50s UT.
Animals and Transport
bangordailynews.com Fri 2009 May 15, 7:07pm
CLINTON, Maine — Police in Clinton say a 500-pound moose fell 18 feet to its death when it apparently leaped a guardrail on an Interstate 95 overpass and landed on Hinckley Road. Officials learned of the incident when a motorist called the town office shortly after 8 a.m. Tuesday and told Assistant Town Clerk Shirley Bailey that "a moose just fell out of the sky."
Nature vs Infrastructure
newsok.com Thu 2009 May 14, 12:00pm
OKC -- High winds early Wednesday broke in two a piece of granite that is part of the fallen law officer monument...
Transport Business
liveleak.com Thu 2009 May 14, 10:57am
As thousands of General Motors workers await word on more U.S. plant closures, reports that the company plans to import Chinese-made vehicles to the U.S. have created a political problem for the automaker and the White House.
Spacecraft
breitbart.com Wed 2009 May 13, 4:27pm
The Atlantis astronauts have captured the Hubble Space Telescope. ... now face five days of treacherous telescope repairs to the 19-year-old Hubble. That's because Atlantis and Hubble are flying in a 350-mile-high orbit, which is littered with space junk. ...
Spacecraft
breitbart.com Tue 2009 May 12, 7:28pm
Space shuttle Atlantis is now in a rough orbital neighborhood—a place littered with thousands of pieces of space junk zipping around the Earth at nearly 20,000 mph. There are more pieces of shattered satellites and used-up rockets in this region than astronauts have ever encountered. And the crew must be there for more than a week to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. As soon as the job is complete, the shuttle will scamper to safety.
breitbart.com Tue 2009 May 12, 7:27pm
computer generated image, supplied by NASA, shows objects that are currently being tracked in Earth orbit. Approximately 95% of the objects in this illustration are orbital debris, i.e., not functional satellites [incredible illustration]
news.yahoo.com Tue 2009 May 12, 4:41pm
The Atlantis astronauts have uncovered a long stretch of nicks on their space shuttle, the result of launch debris. ... where the right wing joins the fuselage. ... does not appear to be serious...
Transport Pre-Automation
abcnews.go.com Tue 2009 May 12, 4:29pm
The Boston-area transit authority trolley driver who allegedly slammed into another train while text-messaging his girlfriend Friday had three speeding tickets on his driving record in recent years and could face criminal charges.
Nature vs Infrastructure
breitbart.com Fri 2009 May 8, 2:01pm
It's time for the sun to move into a busier period for sunspots, and while forecasters expect a relatively mild outbreak by historical standards, one major solar storm can cause havoc with satellites and electrical systems here....
Energy
sciencedaily.com Fri 2009 May 8, 9:19pm
a technique that uses sensors and computational software to constantly monitor forces exerted on wind turbine blades, a step toward improving efficiency by adjusting for rapidly changing wind conditions.
sciencedaily.com Fri 2009 May 8, 9:18pm
UK researchers have published a new estimate... of how much crude oil we have extracted from the planet
Infrastructure Threat
sciencedaily.com Fri 2009 May 8, 9:15pm
Distributed and intermittent electricity generation, such as wind power, is rapidly expanding, new smart meters are giving consumers more control over their energy usage, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles may someday radically increase the overall demand for electricity. The evolution of America's energy needs has forced scientists and engineers to re-examine the operations, efficiency and security of the national power grid. The creation of a more secure and efficient national power grid requires significant innovations in the way we transmit electricity and monitor its use.
Transport Tragedy
examiner-enterprise.com Thu 2009 May 7, 8:09pm
Details of the school bus accident that claimed the life of an Owasso man ... swerved to the right in an attempt to avoid the accident, striking the bus in the rear. The report states that the Malibu became caught under the bus and was sent into the ditch after the bus made a quarter turn....
Nature vs Transport
newson6.com Sun 2009 May 3, 8:07pm
"She went around a barrier, and we don't understand that, because she knows, she's always known how dangerous that road was," said Kendrick's aunt.... 911 call: a desperate woman calling for help after flood water swept her car off the road. "Seemed really calm. Level headed. But, she knew she was in trouble, right off the bat...."
Transport Near-Tragedy
komonews.com Sat 2009 May 2, 6:15pm
A small plane crashed into a storage yard full of portable potties Friday afternoon near Thun Field just minutes after taking off from the field. Pilot Clifford Howell of Lake Bay told investigators at about 150 feet in the air, his engine quit. He banked and tried to make it back to the runway, but came up short.
Spacecraft
newscientist.com Thu 2009 Apr 30, 3:40pm
A 1/10th-scale model of a NASA Saturn V rocket launched successfully on Saturday, becoming what is thought to be the largest amateur rocket ever to take off and be safely recovered. The feat could herald the arrival of the first amateur rockets to reach orbit.
Transport Threat
politico.com Thu 2009 Apr 30, 1:01pm
"So, from my perspective, what it relates to is mitigation. If you're out in the middle of a field when someone sneezes, that's one thing. If you're in a closed aircraft or closed container or closed car or closed classroom, it's a different thing." That contradicted more restrained advice from President Barack Obama and the federal government — and the last thing the White House wants to do right now is shut down the airline industry and big-city subways out of mass panic.
nbcnewyork.com Thu 2009 Apr 30, 12:57pm
Vice president Joe Biden said Thursday he would tell his family members not to use subways in the U.S. and implied schools should be shuttered as the swine flu outbreak spread to 16 states. His remarks quickly caused a stir, drawing a rebuke from New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and later leading the White House to apologize.
Transport Tragedy
news.sky.com Thu 2009 Apr 30, 1:09pm
It was a really nice day. Then you hear a bang. Everyone looks up and you see people flying through the air
Transport Near-Tragedy
adn.com Thu 2009 Apr 30, 3:45pm
After a cliffhanger of a plane landing in the Talkeetna Mountains earlier this month, 21-year-old Matthew "Jake" Soplanda of Anchor Point and a skiing buddy managed to climb away from Soplanda's dated, single-engine Taylorcraft as it hung perched over a 1,500-foot drop.
Digital Privacy
theregister.co.uk Thu 2009 Apr 30, 9:26pm
appears yet another administrative account on the micro-blogging site has been breached, giving world+dog an inside peek at the accounts of Barack Obama, Ashton Kutcher, and other celebrities.
news.bbc.co.uk Thu 2009 Apr 30, 3:44pm
described as "broken" by one industry expert and as "childlike" by another...
Energy
wizbangblog.com Tue 2009 Apr 28, 4:03pm
Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK), an independent producer of natural gas founded twenty years ago by Aubrey McClendon and Tom Ward.... third largest producer of natural gas in the United States (behind majors BP and ConocoPhillips), and at one time they were one of the fastest growing companies in the Southwest....
Digital Future is Now
pcworld.com Mon 2009 Apr 27, 7:33pm
General Electric Global Research says it has figured out a way to put up to 500GB of data on a regular-sized DVD disc under laboratory conditions. GE says its breakthrough was achieved by writing 3-dimensional patterns that represent data onto a disc made of highly reflective material. The disc then acts as a mirror that makes it possible for a laser to pick up the entire piece of data. GE's process doesn't just put information onto the surface of the disc -- as DVDs and CDs do -- but etches the micro-holographic patterns below the surface of the disc as well.
Transport Incident
upi.com Sat 2009 Apr 25, 9:25pm
A plane en route from New York to Tel Aviv was diverted to Boston after an Israeli citizen allegedly began banging on the cockpit door
Digital Privacy
breitbart.com Wed 2009 Apr 22, 2:13pm
Plans by Internet service providers to deliver targeted adverts to consumers based on their Web searches threaten online privacy and should be opposed, the founder of the Web said Wednesday.
Digital Future is Now
mcclatchydc.com Tue 2009 Apr 21, 7:50pm
Thanks to exponential increases in computer power — which is roughly doubling every two years — robots are getting smarter, more capable, more like flesh-and-blood people. Matching human skills and intelligence, however, is an enormously difficult — perhaps impossible — challenge. Nevertheless, robots guided by their own computer "brains'' now can pick up and peel bananas, land jumbo jets, steer cars through city traffic, search human DNA for cancer genes, play soccer or the violin, find earthquake victims or explore craters on Mars.
Transport Safety
wtop.com Tue 2009 Apr 21, 7:50pm
why is a local transportation agency painting crooked lines on the road on purpose? The Virginia Department of Transportation says it's part of a safety campaign to get drivers to slow down in a high pedestrian and bicycle area.
Transport Trouble
brownsvilleherald.com Tue 2009 Apr 21, 7:46pm
A woman was paralyzed and two other people were injured during a turbulent flight from Houston that arrived here early Saturday morning. The woman, 47, was using the plane's bathroom when the aircraft encountered turbulence and descendent rapidly, throwing her against the ceiling.... suffered a fractured neck....
Transport Tragedy
cnn.com Mon 2009 Apr 20, 3:45pm
A Texas man has been charged with intoxication manslaughter in the Saturday drownings of four children who were in his car when it veered into a Houston bayou.... A fifth child who was in the car, a 3-year-old girl, was missing ...believed to have drowned also.... three were [his] children, and the other two were friends of the family....
Transport Tragedy
google.com Sun 2009 Apr 19, 5:13pm
OAKLAND PARK, Fla -- A small plane sputtered and dove into a house shortly after taking off from a local airport Friday morning, slicing the home down the middle into two charred pieces. The pilot was killed. ... The owner's nephew barely escaped the catastrophe, leaving just before the aircraft hit to visit his aunt.