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Lunar Dust Photos and Explanation

On: Lunar Dust: A Major Worry for Moon Visitors

Here's a story explaining Lunar Dust and a nice pic too.

Old News

On: Ophthalmologists, Physicists Design Bionic Eye

This is not the first time as the story lead claims.

Here's an article about Stanford scientists doing the same a while ago.

Google peeps through the keyhole

On: Google Adds Satellite Imagery to Maps

This is hardly surprising considering Google's purchase of Keyhole

Time to invest in tinfoil hat shares.

Misreporting and Slashdot Sensationalisation

On: Australian NSW Government Making Way for Linux

Firstly, this is old news. The formation of the panel was announced last year, and tenders were called to form the panel. The deadline for tenders was 28 Oct 2004. This is just to inform the people that the panel has closed.

This in NO WAY makes NSW open source friendly. If anything it makes it harder for anyone in the govt to use open source. What this does is it requires users to buy open source software from a group of designated companies, basically locking small players out of the parket.

This is bad news !!!

Once again we see how slashdot story leads add so much spin to a story as to distort it completely.

Here's the explanation

On: Hitachi Predicts 3D Hard Disks by Year's End

This article should hopefully clarify things up a bit.

Here's the explanation

On: Hitachi Predicts 3D Hard Disks by Year's End

This article should help you.

What is Perpendicular Recording Technology?

On: Hitachi Predicts 3D Hard Disks by Year's End

This site explains the difference between perpendicular and Parallel recording technologies. By the way, all hard disks are 3D. The slashdot headline is once again misleading.

Nothing But Hot Air

On: Car Powered by Compressed Air

Here is another take on the same story, but with a little bit more science. The bottom line is there's no such thing as free energy... or lunch. You don't get owt for nowt. CNN needs to learn science

Mirror

On: A Voice-Controlled TV Remote

That didn't take long to get ./ed did it now? Here's a Mirror

Good For Scrolls

On: Cell Phone as e-Book Reader (in Japan)

This is how the story lead would appear on a cell phone. Is it good for anything but Haiku?