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National Sex Offender Registry Familywatchdog.us is a pretty impressive site. Not only does it provide an extremely important service, but it is a great use of technology. It also shows how a little information can be used to make your life very public. The purpose of the site, as you might guess, is to let you know whether . . . → Read More: Does a sex offender live near you? [article no longer available]Thomson Announces Strategic Realignment of Operations; Company to Sell Education Businesses – MarketWatch [tag]Thomson NETg[/tag] and [tag]SkillSoft[/tag] have been trading 1st and 2nd place in the [tag]enterprise e-learning[/tag] space for years. Yesterday, SkillSoft announced it is purchasing its biggest rival for about $285M. NETg Sale Agreement Signed Variety.com – ‘Halo’ pic loses its studios [tag]Fox Studios[/tag] and [tag]Universal Studios[/tag] have backed out of their deal to finance the [tag]Halo movie[/tag], based on the popular [tag]video game[/tag] by [tag]Bungie[/tag] and [tag]Microsoft[/tag]. The studios exercised their option to back out right before a deadline that would require an advance payment to Microsoft, who also would receive . . . → Read More: ‘Halo’ – Game Over? Monkey Bites The post is missing a few details (perhaps because they aren’t available), but it looks like the popular Eudora email client from Qualcomm is being completely re-written, using the Mozilla Thunderbird code-base as its engine, and released to the public as open source. Eudora is a well-loved if somewhat outdated email client that many people (Qualcomm . . . → Read More: Eudora goes Open Source Star Wars: Community | ILM’s Greenscreen Challenge Entry Stephen Colbert, of the Comedy Central’s Colbert Report, issued a challenge to the public at large to put his lightsaber antics in front of a greenscreen into a full battle with monsters. ILM picked up the challenge and ran with it. The result: butt-kickin’ Jedi political commentary. And it came in . . . → Read More: Stephen Colbert, a Greenscreen, and ILM I’ve been holding off on posting my thoughts until I felt I had a real grasp for quality of the show. Well, I can now say that I firmly believe this to be the best new show of this year. Heroes has it all: drama, mystery, suspense, action, and special effects. After the first episode, I was . . . → Read More: Review: Heroes Ep 1-3 Slice of Scifi – Science Fiction TV & Movie News, Interviews & more ยป BREAKING Stargate SG-1 News This is both great and disappointing. On the one hand, we get to see the end of the Ori storyline. That’s excellent. I’m glad they figured out a way to make that happen. On the other hand, it’s direct-to-DVD. That just . . . → Read More: Stargate SG-1 ends its run on Direct-to-DVD YouTube – Torchwood – First proper trailer Someone has posted a preview trailer for Torchwood, the Dr. Who spinoff series. It’s basically a character list and some special effects, but I like the look of it. I’m still in. [tags]Torchwood, Doctor Who, John Barrowman[/tags] Related posts Tuesday TubeWatch Two-fer! Doctor Who meets Bugs Bunny! (2) From Elliott Masie’s Learning TRENDS newsletter comes news of a new tool to help doctors and nurses. Projected Vein Locations: This weekend I saw a fascinating new “performance support” system – one that helps doctors and nurses find veins easily when drawing blood or inserting an IV. At Wired’s NextFest in NYC, I had a chance to . . . → Read More: VeinViewer |
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