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Simply Hired – job search site
“Search thousands of job boards and company career sites all in one place!” Quote for this web site. If your looking, this is another resource to add to your search criteria for the position you need to support your family.
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Web Censorship Bill – Must Read
“A markup on SJC Chairman Leahy’s IP infringement bill was postponed late Wednesday, as staffers anticipated the chamber would finish legislative work and adjourn for recess before the hearing could commence,” says Politico.
A group of 87 prominent engineers who played critical roles in the development of the Internet have also voiced their objections to the COICA in a joint letter submitted to the US Senate Judiciary Committee.
“If enacted, this legislation will risk fragmenting the Internet’s global domain name system (DNS), create an environment of tremendous fear and uncertainty for technological innovation, and seriously harm the credibility of the United States in its role as a steward of key Internet infrastructure,” they warn. “In exchange for this, the bill will introduce censorship that will simultaneously be circumvented by deliberate infringers while hampering innocent parties’ ability to communicate.”
Read the full review an content at the following site:
Web censorship bill
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Remembering 9-11
“The day after the attacks, the American Folklife Center called upon the nation’s folklorists and ethnographers to collect, record, and document America’s reaction. A sampling of the material collected through this effort was used to create the September 11, 2001, Documentary Project. This collection captures the voices of a diverse ethnic, socioeconomic, and political cross-section of America during trying times and serves as a historical and cultural resource for future generations.”
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/911_archive/
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Cool water based animation
This is one cool wet computer animation done with water. Trust the Japanese to come up some amazing computer controlled stuff that produces some amazing effects. Take time to watch the whole video.
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Free education classes for the masses
There is a guy named Salman Khan on Youtube that has a passion for education. He has produced hundreds of videos about math, economics, banking, and biology to name a few. His goal is to provide common sense education for all to understand and make it freely available through Youtube.
The following is quoted from his web site “It is our mission to accelerate learning for students of all ages. With this in mind, we want to share our content with whoever may find it useful. The videos have been categorized within the playlists.”
The following is the link to his Youtube site.
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News for geeks
My favorite news site along with Slashdot is Original Signal. This site has the best aggregates of all the geek, technical, hardware, Internet, and business news all in one place. It is my home page for everything technical both hardware and software related. I find that I can keep up with all the latest in the worlds of geeks at this site.
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News for News junkies
Are you a news junkie, or do you want to make sure you don’t miss anything that goes on that might affect what you do or what you plan to do? If this sounds like yourself, I have a new site that just might be your new home page.
Popurls tries to have something for everyone news related and they do. This site is full of news articles, news links, and stuff on just about everything that might be considered current news. It may take you a while to look through everything there but take you time and scroll down to see it all.
After you finished with you first visit you can customize the site to show what is most relevant to you if you want to take the time to register and make the changes.
Check out the site here
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What happened in Music on this day?
If you like to keep up on music history this will be of interest to you. The following site each days post what happened in music on this day in history. It list birthdays of musicians, record releases, song releases, and much more. It is nice site to bookmark in your music category. Take a leisure stroll down todays date in music history.
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Just the facts
With my last post you might wonder where can I get actual facts about all the stories I hear on the news and read on Internet blogs. There is actually a web site that does not takes sides and only reports the facts of the current new articles you hear and read. Based at the University of Pennsylvania, this site DOES report only the facts as far as I can tell. I have verified a number of stories they post and everything is above board.
Check it out for yourself at FactCheck.org
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US Government – Congress – rating = 0
The Pew Research center does all kinds of ratings about just about everything political, government, etc. Back in April they published an article the said our faith in the Congress and our government were at it lowest since back in 1994. In the article there a number of interesting charts to view. I know you don’t have to look at charts to know how poor congress and the federal government are performing, but take a look anyway.
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Old Newsreels – preserved
Many years ago before everyone had nice LCD HD TV’s, things were a little different. Actually go back to the ’50s and the most common for of news other that TV (black and white only) were Newsreels. When you went to the Saturday Matinee at the theater you were presented with a Newsreel before the cartoon and the movie.
These newsreels have been preserved for all the younger generation and historians to review.
One of my favorites was from 1960 that showed the launch of a rocket that went from Florida 9000 miles to the Indian Ocean. It was a real accomplishment at that time. The following is a link to the newsreel for your viewing pleasure. View the newsreel here
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A robot on your power lines
A company called Electric Power Research Institute has came up with a robot that scales power lines checking for trees to close and any obstruction that might cause the power line to fail. This could be a real boost in keeping power lines clean from debris and keeping the power on for us power users.
Read the complete article at Technology Review.
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Memorial Day Salute
This small note from a past combat veteran to all current and past veterans, thank you for your service. The web site below is from the US Government Department of Veteran Affairs.
Department of Veteran Affairs.
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New search engine – duckduckgo Really!
I have just found a new search engine that now is my default search engine. Yes, I have moved from Google to duckduckgo.com for the following reasons:
1. It uses the Google API so it returns much the same as Google but with better organization and not dependent on Google ranking.
2. I feel that the revel-ency of the results is better than Google.
3. It does not save any of your search results or your IP address so your are searching in private and you don’t have to worry about search information been sold to advertisers.
Try it out for yourself, I thing you will be pleased. Oh one more thing, I did 3 shopping related searches and duckduckgo found better prices than Google shopping.
Click here to give it a try.
Update 6-27-2010, Gabriel Weinburg from Duckduckgo recently informed me that they do not use the Google API but use Boss/Bing API instead.
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TV and Video choices now restricted
The MPAA has finally won the battle and now your choices for video contact on TV via cable will be limited. The FCC has succumbed to the high dollar lobbyist from the MPAA and has agreed to the “Selectable Output Control” (SOC) meaning that they, not you, can choose what can be recorded on your own TV. This is a sad day for consumer rights.
Michael Weinberg of Public Knowledge said “it is frustrating when somewhere like the Media Bureau of the FCC, which should be looking out for the public interest, accepts “because we want it, and we are studios” as a compelling reason to screw millions of Americans.”
“If this proves anything else, it’s that regulators have been bought and sold by the very industry’s they are suppose to regulate. If you didn’t believe it before, this case should add to a mountain of evidence that proves it. (Zeropaid.com)
To read the complete story and how sad this really is click this link.
