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Thank you, WordPress.com

It’s been great building this blog on WordPress.com, and now the time has come to fly solo.  Orion Spur has moved to its own domain at http://orionspur.za.net — and, of course, it’s still powered by the magnificent WordPress code. Orion Spur will continue to cater to geek humanists who

Proof that civilization progresses backwards

  http://www.fohguild.org/forums/attachments/screenshots/95895d1229374265-funny-strange-random-pics-24mcj1g.jpg        saral1ef001 decline

GM ad says it disappointed and betrayed consumers

Pretty dramatic stuff, especially if you haven’t been keeping up with the news. DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp on Monday unveiled an unusually frank advertisement acknowledging it had “disappointed” and sometimes even “betrayed” American consumers as it lobbies to clinch the federal aid it needs to stay

Scientists extract images directly from brain

Researchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11. According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible

Is that a bird or a plane? No, it’s Climate Man!

The £12m defences of the most heavily guarded power station in Britain have been breached by a single person who, under the eyes of CCTV cameras, climbed two three-metre (10ft) razor-wired, electrified security fences, walked into the station and crashed a giant 500MW turbine before leaving a calling card

Happiness: an emotional stampede

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Happiness is contagious, researchers reported on Thursday. The same team that demonstrated obesity and smoking spread in networks has shown that the more happy people you know, the more likely you are yourself to be happy. And getting connected to happy people improves a

Best free OCR software I’ve seen

TopOCR converts pages to editable text beautifully.  Developed for images taken with digital cameras, it does equally well with pages scanned in manually. I haven’t seen a better freeware Optical Character Recognition program - enjoy. TopOCR download page       

IOL Technology - Sanyo to launch new electric hybrid bicycle

Japan’s Sanyo on Monday unveiled a new electric hybrid bicycle that can triple the user’s pedal power to make it easier to climb hills. Equipped with a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, the “eneloop bike” takes the crossover between a normal bicycle and a moped one step further, aiming

Most Planets May Be Seeded With Life

Astronomers have detected a building block of RNA floating within the hot, compact core of a massive star-forming region in the Milky Way. The molecule appears to have formed with all of the other stuff that makes up planets, suggesting that many other worlds are seeded with

Experimental TB drug explodes bacteria from the inside out

Say hello to candidate TB drug PA-824: An international team of biochemists has discovered how an experimental drug unleashes its destructive force inside the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB). The finding could help scientists develop ways to treat dormant TB infections, and suggests a strategy for drug development

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