Live footage from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

40,000 caribou calves are born in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge during the first weeks of June. Our team of cinematographers and technicians are on the coastal plain right now- in the area slated for oil development.

See what we are seeing! http://www.drexel.edu/seemore/

Link from http://www.sierraclub.org/explore/caribou/

Suggested by Ossain.

chinese family names come from a poem

The first known people to acquire surnames were the Chinese. Legends suggest that the Emperor Fushi decreed the use of surnames, or family names, about 2852 BC. The Chinese customarily have three names. The surname is placed first and comes from one of the 438 words in the sacred Chinese poem Po-Chia-Hsing. The family name is followed by a generation name, taken from a poem of 30 characters adopted by each family. The given name is then placed last.

Found with the google query "chinese family names come from a poem" at http://www.mayrand.org/meaning-e.htm

Additional information

The Generation Name Poem (班次聯), http://www.legacy1.net/generation.html

Chinese Family Names, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_family_name

Cafe

from http://www.fotolog.net/cafe

The Post Finder World

   Wired magazine has an article on the evolution of the Macintosh interface and how "Spotlight" will slowly replace the "Finder" http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,67774,00.html

Key drivers are

+ more data (to begin  with)
+ more file (data, object) management inside the application (iTunes, iPhoto, MacJournal)
+ faster search engine
+ collapse of hierarchical world view
+ emergence of google mind set

Abby Christopher and Mike Faden, Tiger Tweaks Could Kill Folders, Wired News, 02:00 AM Jun. 09, 2005 PT
   
Spotted by K C.

Torque Game Engine SDK

Torque is a cross-platform gaming engine with award-winning multi-player network code, seamless indoor/outdoor rendering engines, state of the art skeletal animation, drag-and-drop GUI creation, a built-in world editor, and a C-like scripting language.


http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/development_tools/torquegameenginesdk.html

eat toxic waste; power my cd player

   bacteria turn waste into electricity at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8134308

Spotted by CJ.

Specs on MacTel Madhines

http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0506intelxbench.html

"Individuals attending Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference have submitted Xbench benchmark results from Apple's Pentium 4-based Power Mac systems. The benchmarks do not reflect native performance of the 3.6GHz systems, however, but rather provide an indication of how PowerPC-compiled applications will run under Rosetta on Intel-based systems."

I'm looking forward to the performance matrix for

+ Intel/Windows XP
+ Intel/Linux
+ Intel/OS X
+ PowerPC/OS X

And especially for how this will play out in the scientific computing spheres of bioinformatics, computation science, etc.

Spotted by KC.

Ars Technica on MacTel.

KC sent this link to a fairly reflectful article on Apple's planned transition from PowerPC to Intel architecture -

http://arstechnica.com/columns/mac/mac-20050607.ars .

Key elements

+ Steve Job's disappointment in not seeing a G5 chip for the PowerBook line
+ IBM's lack of interest
+ Microsoft has to pay close attention
+ Really, only Geeks care

Missing elements are

+ is the "PC" relevant anymore ? (Is the net the computer? Is google the operating system ?)
+ is the "Mac" relevant anymore ? (Isn't the iPod the next generation computer for the "rest" of us?)
+ ?

Towards the infoWall

One computer, four displays

http://engadget.com/entry/1234000107045919/ shows a nice notebook based "infowall".