Hydrogen Fuel Factories Getting Closer to Becoming a Reality?

Seeded on Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:42 PM EST (Wired News)

University of California at Berkeley is working on a program to use special algae they created that has a photosynthesis by-product of hydrogen. So far the scientists are not seeing the output that they would expect, but are hoping to improve the process.

energy, fuel, science, hydrogen, photosynthesis, algae, alternative-fuels, university-of-california-at-berkeley

Vikings put Culpepper on trading block

Seeded on Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:29 AM EST (The Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Culpepper being traded for a 2nd round draft pick after asking for a better contract? Is this going to be a good or bad trade for the Vikings?

nfl, football, vikings, sports, trade, culpepper, dante-culpepper

Two strikes for NWA this spring?

Seeded on Sun Feb 12, 2006 12:26 PM EST (The Minneapolis Star Tribune)

It has already been reported that the NWA pilot's union might strike this spring, but now the flight attendent's union is also considered a strike. If both strikes go through, what's this mean for NWA's future?

business, strike, airlines, northwest-airlines, minneapolis, nwa

AP Articles: Why Are They Riddled With Mistakes?

Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:24 AM EST

Does anyone do any editing on these AP articles? I noticed misspellings on several articles. Other times I find rather noticeable mistakes.

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ap, errors, newsvine, mistakes, spell-check, conan-obrien, christian-slater

Math could predict Oscar award winners

Seeded on Wed Feb 8, 2006 11:47 PM EST (PhysOrg.com)

This is an interesting idea for all the math geeks out there. Unfortunately the article only introduces the idea, it doesn't give the formula!

entertainment, oscars, math, academy-awards, chance

Get Your Article Noticed on Newsvine

Wed Feb 8, 2006 7:29 PM EST

Get your article noticed on Newsvine by making use of the related article feature. What is the related article feature, you ask? I just noticed on an article that I seeded an automatic link marked "Related Articles" was appended to the end of the post.

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technology, tips, newsvine, tricks, new-feature, related-articles, doppelganger

State of the Blogosphere (State of the Union for Blogs Address)

Seeded on Wed Feb 8, 2006 7:18 PM EST (Technorati)

An interesting look (with charts!) at the world of blogs as tracked by Technorati. I think this is a sign that blogging is not quite on its way out just yet. Of course, many new blogs are strictly splogs, or spam blogs.

technology, tech, blogs, blogging, technorati, state-of-the-union, splogs

Wired News: Vaporware: Better Late Than Never

Seeded on Mon Feb 6, 2006 5:09 PM EST (Wired News)

2005's Top 10 list of Vaporware products as voted on by users. It's an interesting list, but I disagree with Google's beta products...let's face it, those aren't really in a real beta. I also think they are quick to judge some products as vaporware (HD-DVD/Blu-Ray discs).

google, technology, tivo, software, hd-dvd, blu-ray, vista, zelda, top10, wired

Super Bowl XL Commercials on Google Video

Seeded on Sun Feb 5, 2006 11:32 PM EST (Google)

Google is hosting commercials played during this year's Super Bowl. A great place to review all the commercials you may have missed during the game. You can even watch all commercials back to back!

google, super-bowl, video, commercials

Two Bad Calls Reversed and a Very Different Game?

Sun Feb 5, 2006 9:59 PM EST

After I finished watching tonight's Super bowl XL, a thought entered my mind: How would the game turned out had the Steelers not gotten the benefit of some bad calls by the referees? There is two calls in particular that I am talking about and neither are Big Ben's touchdown run

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nfl, football, seahawks, sports, steelers, super-bowl, seattle, pittsburgh, refs

Interview with IE 7 Developer - Margaret Cobb

Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:20 PM EST (Geek News Central)

The is an podcast interview with Margaret Cobb - a product manager with the IE7 development team conducted by Todd Cochrane. Listening to it now...

rss, technology, internet, explorer, ie7, margaret-cobb, todd-cochrane, geeknewscentral-com

Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2 Preview for Developers

Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:13 PM EST (FT.com)

Download the beta for the newest version of IE7 if you have a MSDN account. See how it compares to the latest versions of Firefox and Opera.

technology, microsoft, beta, internet-explorer, ie7, web-browser, msdn

Google's newest feature - Bookmarks

Seeded on Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:57 PM EST (Google)

Google's new feature to store bookmarks for use anywhere you can access Google. Is this service going to be any different than other bookmarking sites?

google, technology, bookmarks

Google: Are they that evil?

Sat Jan 28, 2006 4:46 PM EST

There's been a lot of news on Google lately and plenty of blogging rants on the topic. So why add another entry into this saturated subject? Just cause I can. Also because I feel that I have a point of view that I haven't seen covered.

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google, technology, china, hearing, search, court, government, web, censorship, doj

A great new-user tutorial on BitTorrent

Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2006 1:20 AM EST (commonwebsense.com)

I think this would be perfect for the new user to get started with BitTorrent. Get your mom downloading through BitTorrent :)

technology, guide, tutorial, p2p, bittorrent, piratebay, newbie

Comments? We don't need no stinking comment! Digg vs Slashdot

Sat Jan 28, 2006 1:07 AM EST

Lockergnome via Chris Pirillo has an interesting post commenting on the differences between the comment sections on Digg and Slashdot. Check it out at : (http://channels.lockergnome.com/windows/archives/20060126_digg_vs_slashdot.phtml)

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technology, comments, digg, slashdot, lockergnome