FCC Chief AT and T Can Limit Net Bandwidth http://www.networkingpipeline.com/blog/archives... FCC Chief Kevin Martin yesterday gave his support to AT\&T and other telcos who want to be able to limit bandwidth to sites like Google, unless those sites pay extortion fees. Martin made it clear in a speech yesterday that he supports such a a "tiered" Internet.
Visible Earth: The Blue Marble http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=24... NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Image by Reto Stöckli (land surface, shallow water, clouds). Enhancements by Robert Simmon (ocean color, compositing, 3D globes, animation). Data and technical support: MODIS Land Group; MODIS Science Data Support Team; MODIS Atmosphere Group; MODIS Ocean Group Additional data: USGS EROS Data Center (topography); USGS Terrestrial Remote Sensing
Google and Nokia on Wi-Fi http://www.turks.us/article.php?story=200605131... Handheld devices will now come with the Talk software. Google Inc. is now entering the world of mobile telephone as it now partners with the largest maker of handheld mobile devices, Nokia Corp.
MarketNews.Biz - UK House Prices to Increase 7% in 2006 http://www.marketnews.biz/index.php?option=com_... According to the Council of Mortgage Lenders, house prices will jump 7% in 2006.House prices are forecasted to increase at more than three times the rate previously predicted this year.The Council of Mortgage Lenders anticipated the value of the average UK property to rise by 7% during 2006, well up on the 2% it forecast in February.
How Do Wealthy Real Estate Holders Get Richer? http://www.turks.us/article.php?story=200606121... Based on the recent reports, they have showed that America's wealthiest people don't place much stock in real estate values going up this year. It shows that 33% of survey respondents expect real estate values to decline, up from 14% who felt that way last year.
EepyBird.com - Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment http://www.eepybird.com/dcm1.html... The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments:
What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It's amazing and completely insane.
The first part of this video demonstrates a simple geyser, and the second part shows just how extreme it can get. Over one hundred jets of soda fly into the air in less than three minutes.
It's a hysterical and spectacular mint-powered version of the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas, brought to you by the mad scientists at EepyBird.com.
300 perish in Java quake, tsunami - Jul 18, 2006 http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/07/18/ind... The death toll from a major earthquake off the southwest Java coast and the tsunami that followed climbed quickly Tuesday as the Indonesian Department of Social Affairs pegged the death toll at 305 people, with another 431 injured.
