Which models are these? What will TI do with the recalled calcs? Texas Instruments is replacing thousands of calculators issued to students in Virginia after a sixth-grader discovered that pressing a certain two keys converts decimals into fractions. That would have given students an unfair advantage on Virginia’s standardized tests, which require youngsters to know how to make such conversions with pencil and paper. Link.
It’s not exactly useful (yet) but…This app is just like the Paradox dumper that has given us the releases that have been released lately for PSP. Unlike the paradox app that is unreleased, this one is available to all and with this you can dump any UMD disk to a memstick. Althought it is kinda pointless right now besides being able to collect UMD images, we will have to see what the future holds for us in regards to having a way to play the images. Link.
Nice MAKE mention in the article! Never mind building a bird feeder, or planting a carpet garden in the backyard, or hammering a nail in a wall to hang up that new poster of Carrie Underwood; the new do-it-yourself ethos is a techno thing. For example, instead of unearthing the Black & Decker Workmate and adding a storage shelf to the garage, consider creating a new fingerprint identity. It’s not that difficult, once you locate someone else’s latent fingerprint, which is made up essentially of fat and sweat. These are things you learn studying the New DIY. Link.
The Titan Arum is a plant that looks like it’s from The Little Shop of Horrors is going to bloom again, and you can watch it live over the web! The growers of a rare flower, the giant but malodorous titan arum or “corpse flower,” say a large plant that blossomed four years ago is about to blossom again, and may be on a record-setting pace for cultivated titan arums. You have to admire a plant called the Titan IV, Big Bucky and the corpse flower. [via] Link.
Art mobs are unofficial audio tours of MoMA. Before you head off to the museum you download the audio files and listen to commentary that you can’t get with the audio guides that MoMa offers, the audio also offers some music. I personally think this is going to be they way that a lot of people tour museums in the next few years (audio meta data, tagging…etc). Another interesting thing would be to add photos as well as recording your own and publishing those back. Rocketboom has the video of all this! Link.
I wonder if the bacteria could eat the dead batteries to power electronics….Scientists have long studied bacteria that can clean up toxic waste by eating it. Other bacteria have been employed to produce electricity. Now scientists have found a two-for-one deal in bacteria that will eat toxic chemicals 24/7 and make electricity to boot. Link.
Tune in to CKDU– Halifax’s only FM campus-community radio station if you’re in Canada and listen to MAKE! You can also listen live online via their website 11am PST (audio will be posted soon). We’re also going to be on “Let’s Talk Computers” 3pm Central. On both shows we’re going to talk about do-it-yourself projects, hacking, modding, and all the stuff in volumes one and two of MAKE.
