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Submitted by Stan Hutchings
Advising the President on ethical issues related to advances in biomedical science and technology, including Cloning, Life Extension, Memory Boosting/Suppression and Stem Cells, as well as many other topics, is available at www.bioethics.gov.
Submitted by Stan Hutchings
An article from the July 2005 issue of PC World magazine by Steve Bass tells how you can “just test the online waters” with Skype, a free Internet phone service. www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,120782,00.asp.
Submitted by Stan Hutchings
One of the best weekly shows on public radio may be This American Life. Each show bears repeated listening and the program can easily become a listening habit. You can find This American Life on its own website, which includes a complete archive of each and every program since its first broadcast in 1995. That streaming audio archive can be found at www.thislife.org.
Submitted by Stan Hutchings
Here is a Real-time Forecast of Earthquake Hazard in the Next 24 Hours made with contributions from ETH-Zurich, Switzerland, and the Southern California Earthquake Center. "The new maps represent a synthesis of our knowledge about earthquakes in California," said Dr Lucy Jones, Scientist-in-charge of the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program in Southern California. "They factor in our knowledge of faults, underlying geology and expected rates of earthquake aftershocks."
Additional info at U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) news release New Map of Daily Probability of Earthquake Shaking in California
Submitted by John Buck
Interesting Google Satellite Maps. Can you find your house? Your office?
Submitted by John Buck
Check out Google Friends on Google Groups (including subscribe/unsubscribe):
Submitted by Stan Hutchings
AutoStitch is the world's first fully automatic 2D image stitcher. Capable of stitching full view panoramas without any user input whatsoever, AutoStitch is a breakthrough technology for panoramic photography, VR and visualisation applications. AutoStitch is built using cutting edge research from the AI lab at UBC, but it's incredibly simple to use! Just select a set of photos, and AutoStitch does the rest: digital photos in, panoramas out. There is a free demo (for Windows) at the site.
Submitted by Stan Hutchings
MySecretGUI enables you encrypt the contents of either your current clipboard or any file on your system. It provides a graphical user interface to the MySecret.exe command-line program. The output is in a simple text format that can be easily transmitted over the Internet or between different computers.
Submitted by Stan Hutchings
This link will take to a Microsoft page that explains what the malware problem is, what can be done about it, and how to get rid of it. Note for Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 only. After you assure yourself that the routine is loaded and working on your computer(s) please let others know how they can protect themselves.
Submitted by Jim Dinkey