"The World Without Us" (Salon.com)
What would the earth look like if humans suddenly disappeared? An audacious new book imagines a people-free planet, and restores our sense of awe....more...Once the world's fastest - at 50 metres (The Electric New Paper)
HE was once the world's fastest man over 50 metres. Ang Peng Siong put Singapore on the world map in 1982 when he splashed his way to a then-world record of 22.69sec in the 50m freestyle at the United States Swimming Championships....more... Two Short Ideas For A Deflating Real Estate Market (Seeking Alpha via Yahoo! Finance)
Colin Peterson submits: This is from Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales: The stages of getting lost apply to more than just hiking in the woods. A company, such as Xerox, ignores cues from a changing world and from inside its own research facility in Palo Alto and nearly destroys itself....more... One of World's Oldest Chimps Dies at 60 (The San Francisco Examiner)
SYDNEY, Australia ( Map , News ) - One of the world's oldest chimps, Fifi, has died in Australia, zoo officials said Friday....more... New Processors Present Problems, Payoff (The San Francisco Examiner)
SAN JOSE, Calif. ( Map , News ) - A fundamental change in the design of microprocessors is presenting software developers with a challenge - and a huge financial opportunity....more... TrafficGauge(R) Launches First Traffic Map for iPhone(TM) (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
TrafficGauge, the company that launched the first "mobile traffic map" in the U.S., announces it has created and is making available for consumers the first traffic map for the Apple iPhone. TrafficGauge has taken its consumer-tested traffic information and made it accessible for free for those lucky individuals who are sporting an iPhone....more... Robert Brown -- WWII veteran and Bay Area developer (San Francisco Chronicle)
Robert Irvin Brown, 88, who put aside memories of a World War II prisoner-of-war camp to plunge into Bay Area land development and then retire early, died on July 11 in San Ramon. Though Mr. Brown spent the last 35 years of his life traveling and... ...more... Vietnamese protest, accuse magazine of pro-Communist slant (The San Francisco Examiner)
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. ( Map , News ) - About 1,000 members of the Vietnamese community protested a magazine they claim sympathizes with communists....more... Stoner sets new Laguna Seca lap record, earns pole position (The San Francisco Examiner)
MONTEREY, Calif. ( Map , News ) - Casey Stoner stormed to a new lap record Saturday and will start from the pole for Sunday's Red Bull United States Grand Prix....more... |