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Alanis hijacked my son's iPod
Like every youth in the U.S. not yet old enough to drive, my boys asked for a Nintendo Wii. They didnt get one. Oh, I dutifully went to Best Buy a week after the frenzy of the game systems release, assuming that, as per plan, there would now be plenty on hand.
VIEW / Christian artwork inspires regardless of belief tradition
Great works of Christian art have taken on a new meaning, or function, for those of us appalled to find ourselves entering a new era of religious warfare more than two centuries after the Enlightenment. They win a measure of tolerance among the...
Needed: a sun-shade for Earth
The Indian base at Antarctica was named Dakshin Gangotri because at the place of work in Shirmarcher Oasis the Indian scientists had found a healthy glacier with a prominent snout. Reminded of the Gangotri glacier back home, the name stuck!
Ideazon Zboard Fang Gamepad ZGP-1000 - game pad
The Zboard Fang won't revolutionize your gameplay, but it's more comfortable and more easily customizable than a typical keyboard. Ideazon could have pushed harder on the design for better tactile response, but if you've been looking for an easy-to-use PC gaming input device, you'll appreciate the Fang's simplicity.
Designs on 2007: Experts dish on what's hot in home decor
A red dining room is so last year. Local interior design experts say the 2007 house will feature chocolate brown, white, slate and bright, bold textiles. What else will the stylish home be wearing this...
Art in Review
Reviews of the New York Ceramics Fair, ''?Primitivism Revisited?' at Sean Kelly, Aime Mpane at Skoto Gallery and more.
Stacking silicon
According to Dr Michael Kraft at the University's School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS), the major challenge when stacking silicon wafers is to align one wafer to another, matching all the features.
The year in culture: 2006 will be surprises, artistic twists
Screenwriter William Goldman once wrote that the most important thing to remember about Hollywood was that ''nobody knows anything.'' That's also the most important thing to remember about the world of arts and culture in 2006: Everything you knew, or thought you knew, was probably wrong.
Word of the Day
Example Sentence: When Bob asked Donna what a retronym was, she looked around the room for an example and said "rotary phone."
Test Optics maximize accuracy of interferometers.
With Absolute(TM) Fizeau 150 concave and convex reference spheres, users can record and store reference wavefronts for subtraction from interferometric test data, optimizing system accuracy. Absolute(TM) Fizeau l50 transmission and reference flats increase absolute accuracy of Zygo style Fizeau surface and wavefront-testing interferometers to 150 without need to store, manipulate, or subtract ...