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The winners were announced on September 16th. The Edison-2 took the top spot and $5 million 1st prize. The car used a gas motor (using E85 Ethanol) but only weighed 850 pounds. The car achieved the 100 MPGe (Miles Per Gallon “equivalent” to gasoline.) The team is based in Virginia and plans to manufacture the car [...] There’s been a lot of debate over the years about who is a Geek, and who is a Nerd. As a self-professing Nerd, I thought I’d try to settle the [...] Apple is accepting applications from independent artists and small producers of music, music videos and books. See details here: http://www.apple.com/itunes/content-providers/ According to the FAQ, they approval process can take a few weeks, so if you want your eBook on iPad, you should apply quickly. The published deadline for submitting iPad Apps for launch day (April 3rd) is [...] Interested in getting notice of when a good app is on a one-day sale or one-day-freebie? Want to know about things of ANY kind on the iTunes store? Go to this web page and setup your own RSS feed for information. http://www.apple.com/rss/ You can choose to subscribe to the RSS feed in Safari, Apple Mail or both. (RSS [...] The “Tween Tribune” (News by Kids, News for Kids) carried this story. (Plenty of kids commented.) http://tweentribune.com/content/apple-rules-microsoft-drools Thanks to the folks at the Central Florida Computer Society (CFCS.org) for pointing this out. http://www.newser.com/story/83473/fake-steve-jobs-to-write-online-tv-series.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=wid&utm_campaign=240 From the Orlando-based web comic “PC Weenies” by Krishna Sadasivam at http://www.pcweenies.com/2010/01/26/the-only-constant/ (Apologies to Mr. Sadasivam for having to break the frames apart. Our web software currently makes the page too narrow for the comic to be readable on one line as originally drawn.) You may have heard in the last few days that Topeka, Kansas renamed itself Google, Kansas, in a bid to aid being chosen for Google’s Fiber offer. Now, the San Jose branch of the Biz Journal (which brings us our own Orlando Business Journal) reports that Duluth Minnesota has upped the ante with a YouTube spoof [...] The science-fiction, fantasy, anime, and comics convention “MegaCon” will be in town March 12 to 14, 2010. It even has something for car enthusiasts. For fans of the old “Speed Racer” show, a real Mach-5 will be shown. Also, a car based on the GhostBusters ECTO-1B (video game version) by the Palm Coast Ghostbusters will [...] Comedy Central comedian (and Daily Show spin-off) Stephen Colbert has always made a big deal of Give-Me-Apple-Gadgets on his show, all the way to making his own versions of Apple TV ads. Now he shows off while reading the nominees at the Grammy awards. I love the question he asks his wife from the [...] |
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