Vision for the masses.

Now this IS truly brilliant!
In  a nutshell, British Inventor Josh Silver has created glasses using a water filled ‘bladder’ that can be adjusted for the viewer without the need of an optometrist. Vital when you consider that the doctor to patient ratio in sub-Saharan Africa is 1:1,000,000. Click the image for the complete story.

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Unbreakable Linux becoming more unbreakable?

Received a newsflash today from Oracle – looks interesting. I’m not sure that I understand in it’s entirety what it means but I think I like it
 

• Delivering on its commitment to advance Linux for the enterprise, Oracle today announced the contribution of data integrity protection code to the Linux community.
• The contributed [...]

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umapper – pretty cool

While stumbling the other day I happened upon a blog post about umapper. A tool that lets you build web based maps based upon text or a URL.
To give it a whirl I pointed it at the SUNY contacts page on the SUNY.edu site (http://www.suny.edu/student/campuses_contact.cfm) and low and behold it created a remarkably accurate (with [...]

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Screw GM

Thats right – screw em.
I could really care less if they drop off the planet. I’m constantly amazed at how various ‘interests’ keep telling us the world is going to end if they don’t get XXX billion dollars every bloody month for the rest of eternity.
Yes I live next to a GM city (St Catharines) [...]

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