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832. Google Earth given celestial view

The Google Sky add-on to Google Earth allows astronomers to glide through images of more than one million stars and 200 million galaxies. Optional layer...

1815. Service Turns Snail Mail Into Online E-Mail

For $13 a month, you can never get paper mail again. A service called Earth Class Mail MAKES YOUR SNAIL-MAIL ELECTRONIC. You file a change of address with the post office and have all your mail sent to the company. They scan the outside of the envelope, and you view the scans online. Click on a piece of mail, and choose to recycle it, have it scanned so you can later read it online, or -- GASP! -- have the physical paper mail forwarded to you at any address. You can then "archive" the originals (they have a massive warehouse). (props to The Red Ferret Journal).

1762. Gadget Makes Trip Tracking Truly Trivial

A company called Telespial Systems makes a product called the Super Trackstick, which makes tracking your trips and entering them into Google Earth super easy. A combination 4 MB flash storage drive and low-power (runs on two AA batteries for a month) GPS receiver fits into a compact holder, which has magnets on it. Just stick the unit on your car, motorcycle or RV, push the button, and off you go. When you get home, just plug the unit into your PC, then suck the data out using Google Earth. It records altitude and even temperature! Then you can take advantage of all that Google Earth 3D goodness. Sadly, it's also ideal for stalking people. Here comes the VIDEO! (Super Trackstick is now available here.)

1889. Google wants you for the first private Moon mission

google-moon.jpgWe've already had the X-Prize space flight contest that saw SpaceShipOne become the first private craft to orbit the Earth - now Google is offering a prize fund of $30m to the first private company that can stick a ship on the Moon. They won't be able to fake it again, though  

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2001. Google testing "My World" for launch later this year

Rumors of Google's plans to create a virtual world that rivals that of Second Life have popped up once again. It would be a 3D social network tied into Google's current applications of Google Earth and Google Maps. A virtual world is a natural ...

2057. Cult Watch 2007: Who's Drinking the Kool-Aid?

As we wind down another year in technology, it's a good time to check in on the cults and see how they’re doing. For companies who inspire them, user cults are nice because they motivate customers to overlook strategic blunders, exaggerate product successes and -- most importantly -- walk the earth “virally” marketing products without pay.

Cult members themselves get an enhanced feeling of self-worth through group association. "I'm better than you! I have an iPhone!" Consumers can become one of the “chosen people” for $399, plus a two-year contract.

Let's have a look at the major tech cults -- Apple, Microsoft, Linux, Google, Amazon, Palm and BlackBerry -- and see how they're doing on the KOOL-AID SCALE.

2585. Chinese Moon Photo Doctored, Crater Moved

mytrip writes "A controversy over last week's photo of the lunar surface, allegedly from China's lunar spacecraft Chang'e, appears to be resolved. It's real but it isn't. An expert says the photo's resolution shows that it is of recent origin. However, for some inexplicable reason, someone on Earth edited the photo and moved a crater to a different location. 'In the week since the picture was released amid much fanfare in Beijing, there have been widespread rumors that the photo was a fake, copied from an old picture collected by a U.S. space probe. The photo from China's Chang'e 1 orbiter is clearly a higher-resolution view, with sunlight streaming from the northwest rather than the north. The mission's chief scientist, Ouyang Ziyuan, told the Beijing News that a new crater had been spotted on the Chang'e imagery — a crater that didn't appear on the US imagery. Lakdawalla determined that the crater in question wasn't exactly new — instead, it appeared to be a crater that had been moved from one spot on the picture to another spot slightly south.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

2743. Playboy announces their picks for Hottest Cars of 2008

The 08 car of the year, the sultry Audi R8, it’s a work of art, a real thing of beauty on par with whoever your favorite actress is. It has a 4.2-liter V8 cranking out 420BHP, which for a car that small, is a lot of ponies. The best luxury sports coupe goes to Maserati and their GranTurismo pushing 405 ponies, and I am sure, just like all of Maserati’s other vehicles, looking simply stunning. The smartest purchase of the year (wait for the pun) is the SMART ForTwo, sure, its not all that attractive, but the gas mileage is impeccable, and the crash test ratings are off the charts, Top Gear, the British car show, literally took one and ran it into a cement wall at 70km per hour, sure it had dummies in it, but there wasn’t any physical damage to them, just the car was really messed up. The best sports sedan is the Cadillac CTS and the best SUV is the Land Rover LR2. the best convertible is the BMW 335i (how did a 3-series BMW make it on this list?) and the best Earth Day car was the MB E320 Bluetec. The best pint-sized performance whip was the Volvo C30 and the best crossover was the Buick Enclave CXL. So, there’s a few tips if you were looking for a new vehicle. Playboy Picks the Hottest Cars of 2008 [via i4u] Relevant Entries on SlashGear


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2839. Mars Rover Investigates Possibility of Ancient Microbial Life

Riding with Robots writes "The robotic geologist Spirit, now scurrying to reach a safe haven before the harsh Martian winter sets in, has found signs that explorers say point to hot springs or fumaroles in the Red Planet's distant past. That possibility is not only interesting geologically, but potentially biologically, since those kinds of environments on Earth teem with microbial life. Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, Opportunity continues its descent into a deep crater, where it has found other clues about the ancient waters of Mars."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

2849. NASA Snaps Mysterious "Night-Shining" Clouds

coondoggie writes to tell us that NASA has captured some pretty impressive images of the Alluring noctilucent (or "night-shining") clouds. These clouds are made up of ice crystals and dust and are formed at high altitudes near the poles. "Very little is known about how these clouds form over the poles, why they are being seen more frequently and at lower latitudes than ever before, or why they have been growing brighter. AIM will observe two complete cloud seasons over both poles, documenting an entire life cycle of the shiny clouds for the first time. 'It is clear that these clouds are changing, a sign that a part of our atmosphere is changing and we do not understand how, why or what it means,' stated AIM principal investigator James Russell III of Hampton University, Hampton, Va. 'These observations suggest a connection with global change in the lower atmosphere and could represent an early warning that our Earth environment is being changed.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

2886. Epcot's Spaceship Earth reopens with a cameo from Woz

Filed under: Disney just finished refurbishing the iconic Spaceship Earth attraction at Disney World, and it looks like a certain board member gave a little shout-out to a friend: there's (animatronic) Woz in the garage, diligently hacking away on what appears to be the mutant offspring of an Apple I and the Lisa. Anyone else see this yet? We're dying to know if there's a check made out for $350 with "Breakout" listed in the memo line. Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

 

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