From HighDefDigest.com:
Universal Breaks Silence on HD DVD Playback Issues; Announces Disc Replacement Program | High-Def Digest
“Universal is currently investigating reports that Children of Men, The Good Shepherd, and select other discs not playing properly in some HD DVD players. While we believe this is limited to a small number of HD DVD discs, Universal is offering a replacement service for any customers who are experiencing this problem. We are still investigating the cause and will provide further updates as we get them. Any customer problems should be directed to USHE.ConsumerRelations@worldmarkinc.com.”
The world’s beloved hot dog eating champion has been crippled by a severe jaw injury. Read on…
FOXNews.com – World Hot Dog-Eating Champion Crippled by Jaw Injury
TOKYO — A Japanese man who set a world record by wolfing down dozens of hot dogs within minutes has suffered a severe jaw injury due to his rigorous training, making his next title uncertain.
Takeru “Tsunami” Kobayashi said he can only open his mouth to make a gap the size of a fingertip after being diagnosed with jaw arthritis.
This interesting article at money.cnn.com promotes various products whose inspiration is Mother Nature herself and natural phenomena that scientists are working to duplicate. Biomimicry could lead to a brand new generation of products and inventions allowing people to gain benefit from natural designs.
Read on…
Product design by Mother Nature – June 1, 2007
Natural designs, honed through millions of years of evolution, tend to be surprisingly efficient. Products built along those lines could replace the detritus of the first industrial age with cleaner, more elegant, and much more sustainable substitutes.
“Biomimicry has become a methodology for finding answers to engineering or design questions,” says Janine Benyus, who wrote one of the first books on the subject and now consults with companies looking to profit from biomimics. “You take an engineering problem like how to lubricate or adhere to something, and you find examples of how nature has solved that problem. If you look carefully, you can always find technologies shaped by natural selection that hold the answers.”
I’ve just discovered a cool tutorial over at Coding4Fun. The show you how to implement the Amazon Web Service in a C# application allowing you to search for books and such via your application. This could be extremely useful in developing your own web application/site when attempting to integrate with larger companies.
Give it a shot…
Coding4Fun : Using the Amazon Web Service
The 3.0 release includes a downloadable software development kit. Before getting started on the application, I installed the SDK on my computer. The SDK provides all the information you need on using Amazon Web services to add content to Web sites, enable transactions, and upload products to Amazon.com. I don’t need to add content to my Web site or use the more advanced features of the Amazon Web services. Not yet, anyway. I usually have modest objectives when I begin working with unfamiliar technology. A desktop application that uses one of the Web methods provided by the Amazon Web service is a good starting point. Once I get familiar with the Amazon Web services I can look forward to tackling more ambitious projects later on.
Happy Coding!
Here is another great moment in Alabama politics. A Republican Senator decked a Democratic Senator “upside the head” after the Democratic Senator called the other gentleman’s mother a “bitch.”
FOXNews.com – Republican Punches Democrat in Alabama Senate Chamber – Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum
The 69-year-old Bishop said he punched Barron, 65, in the head after the senator called him a “son of a bitch.” “I responded to his comment with my right hand,” Bishop said.
Apparently, the rest of the Senate stood around chanting “Fight! Fight! Fight!”.
If you are in the Cape Canaveral area this evening, be on the lookout for the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis.
NASA: Atlantis is ready to launch – CNN.com
After a three-month delay, NASA entered the final day of a launch countdown for space shuttle Atlantis Thursday with no major technical problems looming and a forecast for promising weather. Forecasters predicted an 80 percent chance that the weather would allow NASA to launch its first space shuttle mission of the year at 7:38 p.m. ET Friday.
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