Monthly Archives: May 2009

Cooling System Formulas

This article is part of a series on The Waterfall House energy experiment. The Waterfall House had been up and running for several months. After having two record days of heat in a row, I was asked: Q: HOW IS YOUR COOLING SYSTEM WORKING NOW!!!??? A: Great! The details follow. In a nutshell — Yeeha! [...]
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About Waterfall Homes and Aqua Living

This article is part of a series on The Waterfall House energy experiment. Using steam, solar and hydro to help reduce your energy consumption has many benefits. Two of the most obvious benefits are saving money and reducing your “footprint”. Following are more ideas: I. What Living In A Waterfall Does 1. cools the house [...]
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The Video Gamé Exposé

Perhaps one of the more recent first-person-shooters (FPS) to be released is Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. The game came out about the same time as Halo 3 but sales for what people are now calling COD outshone the successful franchise that is Halo. Now the best selling shooter of all time, COD has [...]
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Photo Gallery of the W Hotel, Hollywood, CA

Photography By Ed Simmons
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Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and Nobel prize winner Al Gore pleaded to top CEOs of companies, such as, PepsiCo, Nestle, BP, to take action against climate change. “We have to do it this year. Not next year. This year,” Gore said. “The clock is ticking, because Mother Nature does not do bailouts.” “Continuing to pour [...]
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Iran Cuts Access To Facebook

As the elections draw near in Iran, they have blocked access to Facebook. “Every single media outlet that is seen as competition for Ahmadinejad is at risk of being closed,” said a top aide. “Placing limits on the competition is the top priority of the government.” “Facebook is one of the only independent sources that [...]
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Mac OS X and Java Alert

Mac OS X Includes Known Vulnerable Version of Java Current releases of Mac OS X (version 10.5.7 and version 10.4.11 with security update 2009-002) include a version of Java Runtime Environment (JRE) containing known security vulnerabilities. US-CERT is aware of publicly available exploit code for one of these vulnerabilities. This vulnerability may allow untrusted applets [...]
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Queen On American Idol

Queen is said to be considering “American Idol” runner-up Adam Lambert as their new frontman. Brian May and Roger Taylor of Quenn performed We Are The Champions with Adam Lambert and Kris Allen just prior to the announcement of the winner of American Idol. The Idol contestants began the song then it was revealed that [...]
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Zelda For Wii

Every Monday for two and a half years, Nintendo has introduced new downloadable games and applications for the Wii console. Today marks a milestone for the Virtual Console section of the Wii Shop Channel, home of some of the greatest titles in video game history. The classic The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask becomes the [...]
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CIA And OSS Training

A Look Back … The Office of Strategic Services: Training in the Forest Imagine: As a recruit for a new intelligence organization, you train by creeping along trails laced with booby traps. You learn how to use weapons, radios and codes. Where might such secretive training take place? In the midst of our national forests [...]
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