Saturday, October 27, 2007

Oh, Man…

I’m salivating. Yes, I know...that makes me a geek. Whatever.

Researchers have developed a low-cost, low-power computer memory that could put terabyte-sized thumb drives in consumers’ pockets within a few years.

Thanks to a new technique for manipulating charged copper particles at the molecular scale, researchers at Arizona State University say their memory is, bit-for-bit, one-tenth the cost of—and 1,000 times as energy-efficient as—flash memory, the predominant memory technology in iPhones and other mobile devices.

“A thumb drive using our memory could store a terabyte of information,” says Michael Kozicki, director of ASU’s Center for Applied Nanoionics, which developed the technology. “All the current limitations in portable electronic storage could go away. You could record video of every event in your life and store it.”

This means hard drives may go the way of the 8 track. Of course, solid state memory isn’t as fast as hard drives yet, but if they can make a terabyte thumb drive, they will fix that, too.

What I love about this is I will be able to back up my files more easily and take them anywhere. Right now I have a bunch of 1 gig thumb drives I use to transfer files between computers. But, oh to have something like this. I could store my music and video collection on them. I would be able to archive a lot more stuff like comic art.

Hurry up, guys!

Friday, October 26, 2007

The Superest

Superheroes that cancel each other out.

B.D.S.

Blackwater Derangement Syndrome

It never ceases to amuse and simultaneously sadden me how bent out of shape the left is these days. They now see Blackwater as the boogieman behind everything. I guess Cheney and Bush are old hat now. 

New Background

I’ve been playing with some new photoshop brushes I found here and created a new web background. 

Now You See It, Now You Don’t

Israel knows how to deal with Radical Muslim nuclear programs. Check out the pictures here. Looks like Mr. Clean was in town.

New commercial satellite photos show that a Syrian site believed to have been attacked by Israel last month no longer bears any obvious traces of what some analysts said appeared to have been a partly built nuclear reactor.

Two photos, taken Wednesday from space by rival companies, show the site near the Euphrates River to have been wiped clean since August, when imagery showed a tall square building there measuring about 150 feet on a side.

The Syrians reported an attack by Israel in early September; the Israelis have not confirmed that. Senior Syrian officials continue to deny that a nuclear reactor was under construction, insisting that Israel hit a largely empty military warehouse.

But the images, federal and private analysts say, suggest that the Syrian authorities rushed to dismantle the facility after the strike, calling it a tacit admission of guilt.

If you need further evidence Israel serves a useful purpose in the middle east, there you go. 

A History Lesson

For those of you over 45, this will be nostalgic. For those of you younger than that, here is your history lesson of the day. 

Pulp Simpsons

I saw these years ago when a friend in animation showed them to me. A bunch of Simpsons animators went to see Pulp Fiction when it came out, so they drew up scenes from the movie using Simpsons characters.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Pictures of Ghosts?

Some spooky stuff. Just in time for Halloween.

Aha!

That explains some things.

8 Weird Plants

Really strange