Archive for August, 2009
Vampires, werewolves, liars lead fall film cast (AP via Yahoo! News)
Hollywood might be telling its own life story this fall, presenting a lineup of liars, phonies, smooth talkers, bloodsuckers and greedy old men.
Read More..>>Crist bullish in Bay County visit // VIDEO
PANAMA CITY BEACH ‘” Gov. Charlie Crist talked up the new Panama City-Bay County International Airport’s economic potential Monday and touted the likelihood of a low-cost carrier’s arrival as he made his first tour of the West Bay site before …
Read More..>>Constructive changes transform campus (University News)
Student Union What seemed to be nothing more than a hole in the ground when students left for summer break is now nearly three stories high. The new Student Union, nestled on the hill behind the Administrative Center, is the university’s answer to a 2007 study that showed UMKC students want a new, environmentally-friendly student union that provides more food options, computer and lounge space …
Read More..>>World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Hands-On [PC] (GameSpot)
We get our hairy and little green hands on the two new races announced at this year’s BlizzCon.
Read More..>>English scientists set out to build first biological robot using mold (Engadget)
Researchers at the University of the West of England have snagged a grant to fund the building of a whole new type of robot — a non-silicon, biological plasmobot, built using plasmodium, a vegetative type of slime mold . The mold, which is commonly found living in forests and gardens, is, according to researcher Andy Adamatzky, a “naturally occurring substance with its own built in intelligence …
Read More..>>Huge chest of drawers hoisted aboard space station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The astronauts aboard the linked shuttle and station moved a giant chest of drawers from one spacecraft to the other Monday, and hitched it to the orbiting outpost. The Italian-built chest _ nicknamed Leonardo, as in …
Read More..>>Special delivery set at space station (WTSP-TV Tampa)
Discovery’s astronauts will deliver an Italian moving van to the International Space Station today as the joined crews of the shuttle and the outpost zoom through their first full day in space together.
Read More..>>General Dynamics Adds Networking Waveform to Radios for Critical …
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Handheld, Manpack, Small Form Fit (HMS) team, led by General Dynamics C4 Systems, has successfully added the highly capable Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW 1.0c …
Read More..>>Vampires, werewolves, liars lead fall film cast
LOS ANGELES ‘” Hollywood might be telling its own life story this fall, presenting a lineup of liars, phonies, smooth talkers, bloodsuckers and greedy old men. Granted, there are heroes in the mix, including Robert Downey Jr. as the great detective …
Read More..>>Enlisting Insects in the Military
Land mines dot much of Afghanistan’s dusty terrain, a land just a little smaller than Texas. According to Human Rights Watch’s best estimates, only two of the country’s 29 provinces are free of mines. The most heavily infested are Herat, in the …
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