Via Cranach: researchers studying the nature of climate science discover that climate scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration manipulated climate data measurements by selectively eliminating the number of data collection stations:
In a January 29 report, they find that starting in 1990, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) began systematically eliminating climate measuring [...]

Somehow I missed that Google’s browser, Chrome, which I have been using since Firefox stopped working on my Vista machine about a month ago, got updated earlier this week. Updates aren’t always that exciting, but this one for Chrome added two great capabilities: extensions and bookmark syncing.
First, extensions allow me to add all of the [...]

Really, it’s stuck in a sand trap technically. After six years of exploring the surface of Mars, five years and nine months longer that it’s original 90 day mission, NASA has now  has now redesignated the Spirit rover a “Stationary Research Platform“. That’s not a bad run for the little twin rovers that could.
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One of the problems with using the Internet as much as I do is that it takes a lot of other things working to get there. Specifically, I have to have a good, reliable connection, an adequate computer, and a web browser that is capable of doing the things I asked it to.
A few years [...]

For those who don’t follow tech news like I do, the 2010 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show is going on right now in Las Vegas. CES is like the technology version of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit but much, much cooler.
Today at CES, ASUSTeK, one of my favorite PC technology companies, [...]