Will algae beat its competitors to become the king source of biofuels?

Environmentalgraffiti.com » Will algae beat its competitors to become the king source of biofuels?

    Pretty awesome idea, to use algae to create ethanol.  I have read and heard about the concerns of making ethanol using corn and other crops saying that there wouldn't be enough of the crop to make sufficient bio-fuel for everyone's needs.  This is just another one of those issue where creativity and simple elegance can make all the difference.  Who says we need to get all our ethanol from corn and sugar cane (like in Brazil)?

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Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales Resigns - NY Times

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales Resigns - The New York Times - Politics - Washington - New York Times

    Looks like the forces of good and right are gaining some ground!

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Make science easier, examiners are told - Times Online

Make science easier, examiners are told - Times Online
    Looks like the U.S. isn't the only country that is lowering educational standards so kids will have better "self-esteem".  No one cared when I was a child if a test was hard or not, that's why you studied!
    Still, there is a podcast about science from the U.K. that I just started listening to that I find extremely informative as well as entertaining.  Find it here:
    The Naked Scientists

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Nokia takes on iTunes in digital music market - Yahoo! News

Nokia takes on iTunes in digital music market - Yahoo! News

     Going to http://www.ovi.com and downloading the press release, it gives a bit more information than the Yahoo! article, but what neither one talks about is DRM on the tracks that they sell.  I couldn't find a reference to that any where.  Although, for the price that they will be selling each track (1 Euro = approx. 1.40 dollars) you would like to think it is DRM free, like the EMI catalog on iTunes (1.29 dollars per track).  Also, there was no mention about bitrate per track.
    One thing I did see that I thought was interesting was the availability of a PC Streaming service for those who subscribe.  This would be a pretty nice deal for those with Media Center PC's, but I would imagine that it will be limited to Windows only, as if almost every other subscription service.

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Miners unearth world's biggest diamond

Miners unearth world's biggest diamond | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

Women the world round are feeling a little tingle in their pants, I think we know why!

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My Birthday!

Yup, it's my birthday. And to celebrate being 31 today I took the day off and went to see the "Bourne Ultimatum". It was great! The entire trilogy was fantastic and worth every penny I spent to see it in the theaters. I've only read the first book and was a little disappointed when I realized they hadn't followed the novels but in this last movie they bring all back full circle and returned some to the novel I loved so much.
This is also a momentous occasion because this ends the string of bad movies I seen on my birthday since I was 16! Movies such as:
"Young Einstein"
"Memoirs of an Invisible Man"
"S.W.A.T."

Hopefully this ends the curse.

Another 24" iMac

Lookks like there is a second 24" iMac with a 2.8GHz processor, 2 GB of RAM and 500GB HDD.

Check it out: The Apple Store (U.S.) - iMac

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Sweet Jesus, it's Beautiful!

Apple - iMac - Design

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Apple Keynote Update

Excellent coverage of the Apple iMac Announcement here.


Major Points:
- No 17" model
- Two 20" models:
- 2.0 Core 2 Duo, 250GB, ATI Radeon HD 2400 HD
- 2.4 Core 2 Duo, 320GB ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro
- New iLife '08, adding "Events" to iPhoto to better organize pictures and albums. Still $79.99.
- New .Mac Web Gallery photo sharing capability. Send pics directly from iPhone to .Mac Web Gallery. 10GB of storage for subscribers.
- New iMovie, easier movie making from HD sources, ability to encode in higher resolutions.
- New iWeb: Add Live web widgets, Google Adsense, ability to index site media and new themes.
- New iDVD: pro encoding features and new themes.
- New Garageband: New styles that you can add to and change (ex: Latin, Jazz, Rock, etc...)
- iWork '08 with new Keynote, Pages and (finally) Numbers! Also $79.99
- New Keynote with Alpha effects and better Media Viewer and animations
- New Pages adds better ability for Word Processing as well as Page Layout.
- New Numbers spreadsheet, allows separate styles on the same sheet for attractive spreadsheets.
- Hints of a Mac mini refresh, guess we'll need to check apple.com to find out.

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New iMac to be announced

As many of the other blogs have posted, there is supposed to be a new iMac being announced by Apple as I type this.  Apparently it is supposed to have a new metallic finish and they will be abandonding the the 17" model (which is fine for me since I went with the 20" any way).  Guess I'm going to have new iMac jealousy issues.

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