This is it! Tom Cruise did it in Minority Report and now you can do it at home!

In an extensive guest post on TorrentFreak, a well known BitTorrent blog, Dan Morrill a Program Director at the University of Seattle told his experience with offering his latest eBook, ‘Selling Books On Amazon, Tips and Secrets’ on popular BitTorrent tracker Mininova. Dan explains that his initial reason for releasing his eBook using BitTorrent was not for marketing purposes, but “to control the release and gather good stats on the process.” We don’t think he could’ve picked a better service. Within the first 24 hours, Morrill’s eBook had been downloaded close to 700 times.

Ithaca Aims To Be America’s First “Podcar” City. The thought of a driverless, computer-guided car transporting people where they want to go on demand is a futuristic notion to some. To Jacob Roberts, podcars - or PRTs, for personal rapid transit - represent an important component in the here-and-now of transportation.

High-speed photography is a fascinating way to capture the images that we don’t often get to see. So many amazing things happen in the blink of an eye - moving too quickly for us to see more than a blur and the aftermath. Using clever equipment and quick shutters, these talented photographers freeze time and illuminate one single critical moment. If they time it just right, high-speed photographers can catch a moment of impact, explosion, or surprising movement - and it makes for incredible art.

Après avoir vu le débat entre Palin de Biden, je n’ai pas pu m’empêcher de repenser à une célèbre répartie de Georges Marchais (qui répondait souvent à côté de la plaque avec un discours pré-formaté). Au journaliste Alain Duhamel qui lui dit un jour excédé : « Ce n’était pas ma question » ; Georges Marchais répondit : « C’était p’têt pas vot’question, oui mais c’est ma réponse ! »

Dans le genre aussi joyeux, voici le Sarah Palin debate flow chart :

PS: comme je n’aime pas tirer sur l’ambulance, j’ajoute : elle n’est pas la seule ; qui n’a jamais échafaudé de tel plan après avoir atteint son seuil d’incompétence (principe de Peter), jette… ; et aussi, Marchais avait un côté sympa par ses accès de sincérité involontaires.

Humans Could Set Foot On Mars By 2020: Nasa Chief. A human space explorer will be able to set foot on Mars no later than the year 2020 and visit other planets of the Solar system in the following decades, the head of the US space agency announced Wednesday 2001.

In an address reminiscent of late US president John Kennedy’s 1962 speech announcing a mission to the Moon before the end of that decade, National Aeronautics and Space Agency Administrator Daniel Goldin said the United States would be able to send a man to Mars in no more that two decades…

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