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POPSCHIP Mr. Barton equates the two by comparing a city the size of Ithaca, N.Y., to the continent of Europe. “Ithaca is quite complex in its own right if you think of all that goes on,” he said. “If we scale up the population to 730 million, we come to Europe as about the right size. Now take Europe and shrink it until it all fits in about the same land mass as Ithaca.” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/technology/companies/17chip.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
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POPS The Hypocrisy Of The Messiah: Slum-Dwelling Family Members The US press has repeatedly rehearsed Mr Obama’s extraordinary odyssey, but the other side of the family’s American experience has only been revealed in parts. Just across town from where Mr Obama made history as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, some of his closest blood relatives have confronted the harshness of immigrant life in America. A second relative believed to be the long-lost “Uncle Omar” described in the book was beaten by armed robbers with a “sawed-off rifle” while working in a corner shop in the Dorchester area of the city. He was later evicted from his one-bedroom flat for failing to pay $2,324.20 (£1,488) arrears, according to the Boston Housing Court.
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POPSIn Debt We Trust [Full Movie] CONT'D: "IN DEBT WE TRUST shows how the mall replaced the factory as America's dominant economic engine and how big banks and credit card companies buy our Congress and drive us into what a former major bank economist calls modern serfdom. Americans and our government owe trillions in consumer debt and the national debt, a large amount of it to big banks and billions to Communist China." It's modern-day serfdom: Instead of being tied to the land owned by someone else, you're free to go wherever you want. Your debt (that you may never get out from under) follows you. How did we go from being a nation that made things to one that buys things with money we don't have? And who benefits from things being this way? The old class war was between the owners and the workers. Today's economic war is between debtors & creditors. See also Money As Debt
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POPSUse a Little Salt I read a great article by the "Made to Stick" authors, Dan and Chip Heath in the November 2008 edition of Fast Company. This article is for anyone who makes a presentation in which they want people to listen. If pastors used these principles, then they will have more people on the edge of their seats waiting. The sentence you must remember: Curiosity must come before content. It is our job to make the listener want to listen. Pique their curiosity.
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POPSCenter Can Decor Math Reinforcement in a Can Use a potato chip can to create a self-checking game for one or two students. Idea By The Ellison Educational Creative Team Recommended Grade Level 1-6 Objective Create a game for reinforcing math skills.
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POPSHardcore PC Slides All Its Components Into Oil. Heat shortens the life of all electronics; neglecting the messy dust clogged cleanings results in over-heating and death of expensive components. This danger could become thing of the past. Opening the world of over-clocking with no danger of overheating, this oil tanker approach is a definite win, win situation.
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POPSTop 10 New World-Changing Innovations of the Year 2008 Breakthrough Awards /// The Innovators The early 20th century produced a breathtaking succession of innovations—the Wright Flyer, the Model T, the Panama Canal. It was a golden age of engineering. A century hence, observers may well look back at our era in much the same way: Cars are being reimagined from the wheels up. Advances in solar energy show the way past fossil fuels. And space probes explore planets that could become our future homes. These pages salute the innovators who are inventing the future. Welcome to the new golden age.
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POPSImplanting a chip in your body here is a video of a guy injecting a RFID chip in his hand so that he can open his gun safe with just a wave of his palm in front of it giving him a quick and easy access to his gun without having to bother about punching any numbers or using any keys.
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POPSArtificial memory storage this is amazing. if it works it can be used not only for the sick, why not having an external hard drive to store memories, and new information, or to download some existing one, making space to newer? sounds intriguing, and yes it woulkd change human identity. But hey, why not?
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POPSThe New Iran: Dangerous, but more rational Author argues that Iran is no longer interested in terrorism, and is no longer a state of "true believers," but is interested conventional power; most immediate danger is from Israel; nuclear power is a bargaining chip, rather than a real desire for a weapon.
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POPSDogs of the DOW A forgotten strategy in recent years. Worth a look? I don't know. But this is a good site that tracks the Dogs of the DOW and is frequently updated. One interesting note is the favorable season D.O.D. strategy. Own the 5 small Dogs from October-April, and the 5 Utility Dogs from April-October.
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