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Through the Megatonne Marble: First thing it's going to do is go to America, to find its children, which the British sold to the Americans back in 1942 in exchange for a bit of a hand with the whole 'Third Reich' thing. Pearl Harbour? (via Cosmos)
Ramblewords: On Christmas Eve, 1906, Reginald Fessenden used a synchronous rotary-spark transmitter for the first radio program broadcast, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts. Ships at sea heard a broadcast that included Fessenden playing O Holy Night on the violin and reading a passage from the Bible. (via Cosmos)
AlterSlash ~ the unofficial SlashDot digest: Where I work, which is a Canadian telco and ISP, we’re doing a major infrastructure upgrade to transmit HD media over our backbone to our DSL subscribers to get IPTV. In October the system is supposed to go live, with 40 meg streams to the house, with a future of 120 meg, and then on to fibre. (via Cosmos)
Age of Menace: Named after one of the secret societies rich in technical knowledge mentioned in Fessenden’s book, Kabiri (sometimes known as Cabeiri) Society members (who sometimes facetiously refer themselves as Fessenden’s Raiders) included not only fellow amateur archeologists, linguists and classicists, but also other electrical scientists, physicists, industrial chemists, and even several of Fessenden’s research assistants familiar with his unpublished researches in broadcast telephony (radio), marine echolocation, and reflection seismography. All were united by a thirst for uncovering the secrets of the past and to pull back the veil of myth and legend that has covered much of the early history of the civilized world. (via Cosmos)
Maszman Speaks!: That day a Canadian physicist named Reginald Fessenden transmitted a program of music and spoken word (heard by Navy and commercial ships in the Atlantic) using Amplitude Modulation (AM). At the time, radio was in its infancy and the Marconi spark gap method was the only choice. (via Cosmos)
Ramblewords: On Christmas Eve, 1906, Reginald Fessenden used a synchronous rotary-spark transmitter for the first radio program broadcast, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts. Ships at sea heard a broadcast that included Fessenden playing O Holy Night on the violin and reading a passage from the Bible. (via Cosmos)
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters: Nomad05 writes "Samsung announced this week it has developed the world's first three-inch VGA LCD panel that "directly meets industry interface standards for digital still cameras." What this means is that future LCD screens on digital cameras will allow multimedia to be viewed at a resolution of 640x480. Presently, a majority of camera LCDs only display multimedia at a resolution of 320x240 — (via Cosmos)
[Learfieldcreative.typepad.com] Brownfield: March 2006: After our visit to headquarters, I did a little googling to find out what other FFAers are blogging about their experiences in this organization. I am sure there are many more, but I stumbled across the Ohio FFA website and found the Buckeye State FFA officers are blogging.
[Marathonpundit.blogspot.com] Marathon Pundit: September 2006: Abraham gave a video interview in June 2006 concerning Klocek’s suspension, as revealed by John Ruberry, in the course of which she, speaking on behalf of CAIR explained the organization’s position on Klocek. About 1/8th of the way into the video, she says: “We were very concerned with the situation and we did request that he [Klocek] be terminated.” She confirmed this, later saying (about 1/6th of the way in) that CAIR-Chicago suggested to DePaul that “if the investigation were to have shown that he did make these statements that and he did act this way towards the students, yes, we did suggest that they should terminate him.”
[Talentforsenate.com] Jim Talent for U.S. Senate: “This is the 21st year that October has been Breast Cancer Awareness Month, it is the third year in a row we have been able to light the Arch pink, but it is the first year that we’ve had the First Lady with us to do it,” Senator Talent said at the event.
[Samablog.robsama.com] this is the samaBlog » 2005 » March: Clear Channel’s podcasting initiative will begin by May. The company will allow listeners to download programming such as comedy skits by popular morning show hosts.
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