Russia plans to build the world’s longest tunnel, a transport and pipeline link under the Bering Strait to Alaska, as part of a $65b project to supply the US with oil, natural gas and electricity from Siberia. The project would take 15 years to complete. A 6000-kilometer transport corridor from Siberia into the US will feed into the tunnel, which at 100 km will be more than 2x as long as the underwater section of the Channel Tunnel.
Month: April 2007
Talking CCTV
england is truly the incubator for the transparent society
Mavericks map
As soon as I saw that gradual ramping from deep to shallow water, it was, like, wow! That’s why Mavericks happens
now for seafloor engineering.
UGC Epidemiology
Who Is Sick? is a new Web service that provide a sense of your community’s health by enabling people who live there to share information about the local spread of diseases. You can anonymously post your own sickness information and use the Google Maps interface to search and filter sicknesses by symptoms, sex, age, and, of course, location. It’s also interesting to look at the percentage breakdown of symptoms–like runny nose, cough, or stomach ache–in a particular area.
livejournal meets public health. sharing means caring?
Snake oil security
my parent always forward me these things clueless acquaintances of them have heard about. i for one would love to see the security swamp dried out.
Machine Phase
tom moore of nanorex tinkering with their software nanoengineer. pretty!
Human Superiority Complex
But many monists, such as the majority of the transhumanist community, are still sketchy regarding the idea of an AI self-replicating and self-enhancing autonomously to the point where it becomes the primary shaper of the world. I propose that such doubts are based on a human superiority complex, plain and simple.
on the uphill battle about the substrate for mind
Low energy Web palette
CRTs and other monitors that use “additive” colors (that is, systems that make white by shining all colors at maximum brightness) use more power to display some colors than others. Mark Ontkush has developed a low-wattage color-palette for use in web-applications that are used on these displays
What can you use it for? Any application that is displayed on a device that uses CRT, Plasma, or OLED technology. Any device where white costs money – handheld units, web sites, TV. Enjoy.
Monism
the metaphysical and theological view that all is one, that there are no fundamental divisions and a unified set of laws underlie nature.
Paleo-Future
so much aspiration. i frankly prefer aspiration to the tired pomo malaise of today
Gregor J. Rothfuss 