Tuesday, August 17, 2010

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(1)- TRON REDUX – Revisit original Tron and find Pac-Man, Mickey Mouse and a bit of King Kong hiding away... a film that pioneered filmmaking techniques because what the filmmakers wanted to accomplish had never been attempted before.

(2)- NASA QUESTION -- What planet is this? Seemingly something out of The Little Prince, the planet is actually Earth. Specifically, it is a small part of the Earth incorporated into a four image stereographic "Little Planet " projection.

(3)- FIREFOX, TSK, TSK -- Chrome comes closer to perfection than Firefox does. Since Google released the Chrome browser, Linux users have converted to it by the hundreds of thousands.

(4)- TIANANMEN TO BUFFET SUCCESSOR -- Twenty-one years ago, Li Lu was a student leader of the Tiananmen Square protests. Now a hedge-fund manager, he is in line to become a successor to Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

(5)- IMPULSE CONSEQUENCES -- An impulsive personality means you jump without thinking of consequences. Now scientists think they can see "impulsiveness" at work in the brain - and it looks a lot like potential drug addiction.

(6)- SUPERMARKET ORGIN -- We take it for granted, but less than 100 years ago, the supermarket seemed to be bizarre fantasy. Wait a minute-that’s what it seems like today, too. Well, anyway, here are some historical highlights.

(7)- SPACE TRAVEL -- Psychologists use the term “irrational antagonism” to describe what happens between people isolated together for more than about six weeks. Here are interviews with former cosmonauts who lived in space.

(8)- TECHNO CENSORING -- Censoring the web poses a significant challenge to authoritarian rulers everywhere, and often involves fine-grained judgment calls. This article reports how technology is making censorship irrelevant.

(9)- CHAN THE MAN -- Charlie Chan was one of the most beloved and hated characters in American popular culture. In the 1980s and 90s, distinguished American writers, argued for laying Chan to rest, a yellow Uncle Tom, best buried. But consider…

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