This Day in Tech - 1929: Aviation pioneer Jimmy Doolittle demonstrates that instrument flying - in other words, “flying blind” is possible from takeoff to landing.
The impact on commercial aviation was immediate and far-reaching, making all-weather flying safe and practical.
Prior to his flight, Doolittle helped develop the artificial horizon, forerunner to the attitude indicator, which [...]
When you get tired of looking at things on our planet via Google Earth, turn you sights towards the moon. NASA and the mega search engine team up for, wait for it, Google Moon:
The newly launched site lets you click through Google markers on the moon to access newly released photos and content from the [...]
In other Coke news, the soda company recently announced it was putting down $60 million to build the world’s largest plastic bottle-to-bottle recycling plant.
The company plans to recycle or reuse 100 percent of its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles in the U.S.
The 30-acre plant will be built in Spartanburg, South Carolina and is expected to [...]
This Day in Tech - 1947: If the secret committee known as the Majestic 12 ever really existed, this is the day that the group was allegedly created by a memorandum from President Harry Truman.
If real, this shadowy coven of scientists, military brass and government officials came together in response to the Army’s recovery of [...]
Today I’m happy to announce the release of SRG Clean Archives 4.2.
This is just a maintenance release. No new features at this time, however I am working on a few which I’ll detail in an upcoming post.
I’ve tested and confirmed that SRG Clean Archives works with the upcoming WordPress 2.3 release which should be rolling [...]
Mozilla’s original roadmap for Firefox 3 called for a beta release this month, but unfortunately that hasn’t happened.
There is, however, a new alpha available for testing.
As with previous alpha releases, Gran Paradiso Alpha 8 runs on the Gecko 1.9 rendering engine and offers a host of new features, though it remains a developer [...]
