for other options including the ability to join an IRC chat during the
show
Even some hardcore vegans have found solace in scavenging. Here's why.
Latest Roadkill Report:
- An article about new nano technologies which might be used for
Mind
Control
Roadkill Link - Mind Control? Scientists Have Discovered How To Use Nanoparticles
To Remotely Control Behavior! - http://tinyurl.com/24zol89
Two articles concerning
the
Music Business and Copyrights. A music service that knows if you
have too many pirated songs, and Don Henley's battle against a politician
who used his songs for political campaign advertizement.
Roadkill Link - Carphone's music service to seek and destroy freetards?
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/05/carphone_pirates_beware/
Roadkill Link - MP3 Tags - http://www.id3.org/
Roadkill Link - clean out ID3 tags - http://www.id3.org/Implementations
Roadkill Link - Eagles singer wins case against US politico - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/06/eagles_don_henley_chuck_devore_copyright/
A new
Biological
Solar Panel technology which utilizes algae to create an oil substitute
biofuel.
Roadkill Link - Oil Rig of the Future: A Solar Panel That Produces Oil
- http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=biofuel-diatoms
Two
New
BatteryTtechnologies, one using paper, and the other genetically engineered
viruses.
Roadkill Link - Battery made of paper charges up - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8401566.stm
Roadkill Link - Virus battery could 'power cars' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7977585.stm
Getting
connected: Europe's green energy 'supergrid' - Europe is planning a
new combined electric grid which will link varied 'renewable energy' sources.
What a great idea...
Roadkill Link - Europe's green energy 'supergrid' - http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/01/26/eco.energy.grid/
Roadkill Link - European Wind Energy Association - http://www.ewea.org/
Rhapsody
Goes Indepemdent - a story about the newly-independent Rhapsody International
music service.
Roadkill Link - http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/rhapsody-shrugs-off-real-viacom-to-become-a-start-up/
Roadkill Link - http://www.rhapsody.com/home.html
My reading of Texas Representative Ron Paul's article
on the
Real
ID Act. You don't want to miss this one, about the creation of
a
National ID Card.
Roadkill Link - National ID Cards Won't Stop Terrorism or Illegal Immigration
- http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul248.html
Roadkill Link - HR 418 “Real ID Act” at the Library of Congress - http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.418:
Roadkill Link - HR 418 “Real ID Act” at Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAL_ID_Act
Alan
Turning and the Ace Computer - We take internet communications pretty
much for granted these days. In fact, it’s become so commonplace that
it’s now hard to imagine a modern society without it. Well, despite
his comments to the contrary, Al Gore did not invent the internet.
In fact the technical underpinnings were first developed by Englishman Alan
Turing and his associates Jim Wilkinson and Harry Huskey as far back as the
late 1940’s.
Roadkill Link - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8498826.stm
It looks like we're getting close to being able
to use 'wireless electricity' in the consumer product market. Listen
to Chris Taylor's article on
Invisible
Power.
Roadkill Link - Invisible Power - http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/24/smallbusiness/next_little_thing_2010.fsb/index3.htm
Roadkill Link - WiTricity Corporation - http://www.witricity.com/
Roadkill Link - Wikipedia/Wireless energy transfer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_energy_transfer
Roadkill Link - Wireless Home Digital Interface - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Home_Digital_Interface
An article about a new
Apple
Advertising Patent, and another about
How
To Turn Your iPhone Into A Musical Instrument
Roadkill Link - It's an ad ad ad ad world - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/16/intrusive_apple_ad_patent/
Roadkill Link - Tapping Your Inner Clapton - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/technology/personaltech/01basics.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=technology
Two articles concerning
New
Technology To Assist The Sight And Hearing Impared.
Roadkill Link - Point, shoot, listen - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/10/intel_reader/
Roadkill Link - Intel Reader video demo - http://www.intel.com/healthcare/reader/video.htm
Roadkill Link - Deaf-blind communication goes portable - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8183838.stm
The
iShoe - Apple submits two very interesting new patents,
Roadkill Link - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/29/apple_headgear_and_footwear_patents/
Windmill
Farms Affecting Communications? You bet they can...
Roadkill Link - “Ofcom gets puffed out over wind turbines” - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/03/ofcom_wind/
The latest flurry of
Apple
Patents, including a patent for Karoke Lesson Technology.
Roadkill link - Apple Patents - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/02/apple_patent_flood/
An article about scientist
Hans
Christian Ørsted, who pioneered electromagnetics, and one from
Jeffrey Tucker on
Music
For Tech Support.
Roadkill Link - Hans Christian Ørsted - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090814-hans-christian-orsted-oersted-who.html
Roadkill Link - Music For Tech Support - http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker162.html
- Two articles from Scott Wilkinson of Electronic
Musician Magazine. The
reacTable
multi-user synthesizer, and a new form of audio compression called
Spike
Roadkill Link - Gather Round the reacTable - http://emusician.com/futuretech/emusic_gather_round_reactable/
Roadkill Link - Spiked Punch - http://emusician.com/futuretech/emusic_spiked_punch/
-
"Brainwaves
put patients in touch" - about a system called
OpenVibe
to help sufferers of locked in syndrome and to develop understanding of the
human mind.
Roadkill Link - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8108934.stm
- a story from MIT about a
Computerized
Acoustic Guitar, capable of mimicking many instruments
Roadkill Link - http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/chameleon-guitar-0203.html
- a BBC piece on
NanoRobots
made of Chemicals rather than machines
Roadkill Link - 'Chemical robots' swarm together - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8044200.stm
Roadkill Link - Karel Capek - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek
- A new submersible which can fly like
A
Jet Under Water
Roadkill Link - Jet Submarine - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8049179.stm
Roadkill Link - The Flying Sub - http://bcliffe.com/subs/FS1.html
- A story about
Scientists
Making Machines Which Replace Scientists, and two new
Apple
Patents for controlling media devices, and ways to improve graphic user
interfaces.
- A
Virtual
Reality Helmet which will mimic all 5 senses, and a new media player
called the
iToaster
- Two articles about
Music
Playback Technology - The LALA music service, and the XBox physical
interface for PDA music players.
-
Guido The Great - Jeffrey Tucker's article on the 10th century Catholic
monk who invented sheet music notation.
-
The Hadron Supercollider - “How the Large Hadron Collider Might Change
the Web” - The LHC Computing Grid may teach the Internet how to quietly handle
reams of information
-
New Eco Technology - two articles about generating electricity from
wave power, and solutions to carbon emmissions
- Two articles by Libertarian Jeffrey Tucker on
the subject of
Intellectual
Property
- Has
The
Isle of Man finally found a way to make file sharing legal?
- A retired Texas professor belives he's discovered
the secret of the
Stradivarius
violin, + The world's fastest electric car, the
Aero
EV
-
Don't
meddle with mother nature: Conservation plan to cull cats backfires
as rabbits overwhelm Australian island +
Harry
Potter-style cloak of invisibility created by scientists
-
Obama's Black Widow - Bush's legacy to telecommunications? Big
Brother is listening in, very closely, and not just at prospective terrorists.
-
Let There Be Light - a look into the possible future of computing, Photonics
-
Google Search Results - are they really impartial? The evidence
suggests not...
-
The iPhone Story - how the iPhone came to be, and how it changed the
relationship between phones and telecom service providers
- The
Machines
Take Over - AI (Artificial Intelligence) may give humans a run for their
money