One of the coolest “inventions” I’ve seen in the past few years is the Enertia house. The Enertia house is a log home that is built to create its own environment inside the house. This is done by building double walls of a certain type of wood that allows geothermal energy to circulate throughout the house while the wood regulates the temperature of the air by holding in heat and then releasing it at night.

I’ve written in the past on how I’ve largely supplemanted commercial/public radio stations with a combination of my iPod and XM. XM is great, but it’s not free and not available everywhere (I’m lucky I can pick up a signal at my desk, but a lot of buildings don’t get a signal). My iPod has limited batteries and is limited to music I already know. Enter a slew of internet startups that want to fill the gap between my iPod and XM.

Of course, McAfee does have a reason to amplify the risk, and many accuse the company of often doing just that with this study, but they peg the rate of infectious sponsored links at 7%. The overall rate of malicious results in search engines is 5%.

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Florida is spending $26 million to replace the electronic machines with the optical scan type. Electronic machines will still be available for handicapped individuals as a result of Federal law mandating their use in elections. The eVoting machines cost Pinellas County alone $14 million in 2001 and there are a total of 15 counties in Florida using these machines. All of them will be scrapped (hopefully not to hackers) and replaced.

One of the reasons that I love reading Kevin’s blog is that he’s an unabashed geek about certain things where there is no geek cachet to be had. He’s willing to point to a BBC article celebrating the 50th birthday of the Helvetica font.
While I prefer serif fonts, especially Georgia and Century Schoolbook, for printed [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I covered the new HP printer that HP won’t sell because it fundamentally alters the economics of the printing industry. In the article I implored HP to get ahead of the change in the razor and blade model that has been oh so profitable for printers for the last two [...]

If you’re not reading Lifehacker every single day you should be asking yourself why not. Lifehacker is what the internet should be, a fantastic resource for making your life better and more productive. Just today, they have two essential articles for living.
The first is a link to the Google Phonebook Removal Tool. Typing in any [...]

Last week, Engadget had a story on some design students that are looking to turn highways into power plants. The concept looks to turn highways, one of the major causes of pollution in this country, into a source of renewable energy that will in turn lessen the need for coal-fired or nuclear power plants. The [...]

The Realtor.com website allows frequent users to establish a login so that they can save searches and get e-mailed results from these searches. Generally, the website is pretty clean and user friendly. Searching for homes is right at eye level on the screen and is brightly colored. The other frequently used tools are below that [...]