Wired has an article of a man arrested in Oklahoma for making threatening Tweets. An Oklahoma City man who announced on Twitter that he would turn an April 15 tax protest into a bloodbath was hit with a federal charge of making interstate threats last week, in what appears to be first criminal prosecution to [...]
The Official Google Blog has a piece on Project Spectrum. It is using SketchUp in a more specialized environment for kids with Autism. The blog is below. Project Spectrum: recognizing the talents of children with autism: “A couple of years ago, the Google SketchUp team began hearing from a new group of users — people [...]
I was scanning The Superficial this morning and came across this interview that Letterman was doing with Lauren Conrad. Letterman just cracks me up. Here is a man twice her age, getting to the point where he doesn’t care what people think anymore. He actually just got married a few months ago, and has a [...]
This picture by alt1040 pretty much sums up what I posted last week about Google. Of course the victory even looks to be shorter lived now that Judge Nordstrom had some serious conflict of interests. Chris Matyszczyk over at CNET has a story with some pretty good quotes from our favorite judge. Judge Nordstrom declared: [...]
![NASA Flight To The Moon [Slashdot]](http://www.TheRunningTally.com/show_image_NpAdvHover.php?filename=/2009/04/ig262-nasa-spaceship-01-02.jpg&cat=7&pid=157&cache=false)
Slashdot has an excerpt from The Guardian revising their timeline for going to the moon. “The Guardian is reporting that NASA is quietly revising its internal estimates of a 2018 launch for its Ares V rocket. Although publicly the date given for the launch was 2020, the internal launch date was set for 2018. The [...]
![Horizontal Expansion of Glide OS [CNET]](http://www.TheRunningTally.com/show_image_NpAdvHover.php?filename=/2009/04/glide-kids-screenshot3-610x456.jpg&cat=7&pid=154&cache=false)
CNET brings to light on an application that I actually had not heard of. Glide OS is a horizontal platforms that offer users the ability to e-mail, create and edit documents and pictures, and collaborate across all three major desktop computing platforms as well as almost every major smartphone platform. Glide 3.0 has just updated, [...]
![Predator C Avenger Revealed [Gizmodo]](http://www.TheRunningTally.com/show_image_NpAdvHover.php?filename=/2009/04/avenger.jpg&cat=7&pid=147&cache=false)
I have to admit I have a fascination with the Predator series, the drones that is. Giz has coverage of the new C model, the Avenger: These are the first images of the stealthy Predator C Avenger in flight. With a 66-foot wingspan, the latest and deadliest Unmanned Aerial Vehicle yet can fly for 20 [...]
![Texas Embraces Solar Power [WSJ]](http://www.TheRunningTally.com/show_image_NpAdvHover.php?filename=/2009/04/solar-power.jpg&cat=7&pid=144&cache=false)
In what looks to be a last minute effort to embrace Earth Day, Texas approves $500 million in rebates to encourage solar-power installations. The best part is that it bars home owner associations from prohibiting residential solar panels, even if they are a bit ugly. Long a leader in oil and natural gas-based energy, Texas [...]