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Date: August 13th, 2010

Remember Amazon’s Friday Sale

13 August, 2010 (17:50) | Human Interest | By: ricjames

It’s that time of the week again: Amazon Friday Sale.

Light blogging and mortal combat in the cyber realm

13 August, 2010 (17:06) | Blogging | By: ricjames

My primary laptop managed to come under a spyware attack and is currently down for servicing. I’m actually using my daughter’s Asus Eee PC 1005HAB Netbook at the moment and it’s serving pretty well. It’s just taking me a bit to get used to the keyboard arrangement and the screen size. Anyway, I should be [...]

Talking clouds? Sounds more like blowing smoke.

13 August, 2010 (16:53) | Environment, Human Interest, Science | By: ricjames

A research scientist for with NOAA has published a paper that claims clouds can and do communicate with each other. No, I’m not kidding: “Cloud fields organize in such a way that their components ‘communicate’ with one another and produce regular, periodic rainfall events,” explained Graham Feingold, a research scientist with the National Oceanic and [...]