Take Your Child to Work Day is fast approaching — April 22 will be upon us before you know it. Chances are, your place of employment is already making plans to host and entertain more than the usual number of immature people who show up for work every day.
We can think of one certain parent who won’t be taking either of his kids to work on that day (assuming this particular air traffic controller is reinstated by then). But there are plenty of occupations that don’t “show” well, aren’t kid-friendly and, frankly, like a sausage factory or how a bill becomes law, nobody needs to see.
Everyone always dreams of getting super powers and using them in the eternal fight for good (or, in some cases, fame and fortune). But what if it wasn’t about the BIG issues? What if you could just use a super power to help in day-to-day life? —Wired
It used to be that packing light was something only backpackers had to worry about. You know, the hard-core types who, like John Muir, set off with just the clothes on their back, a few tea leaves and a sack of hardtack to last them through a two-week trip.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has granted Google Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of the search giant, the right to behave like a utility.
The order grants Google Energy the power to sell energy, capacity and services at market rates.
The Wired Tablet App: A Video Demonstration
I love Wired Magazine and I love how developers and designers are combining the print world with the digital world. Digital Magazines are the future.
Green Sea Slug Is Part Animal, Part Plant
SEATTLE — It’s easy being green for a sea slug that has stolen enough genes to become the first animal shown to make chlorophyll like a plant…
The slugs can manufacture the most common form of chlorophyll, the green pigment in plants that captures energy from sunlight, Pierce reported January 7 at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Pierce used a radioactive tracer to show that the slugs were making the pigment, called chlorophyll a, themselves and not simply relying on chlorophyll reserves stolen from the algae the slugs dine on.
Infinite Mobile Minutes
The trick is to add your Google Voice number to your list of free numbers, then have everyone call your Google Voice number. From your mobile provider’s perspective it will look like only one person ever calls you and since that number is part of your plan, voila, no more worrying about how many minutes you’ve used.
For the next five years, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 users in 30 European countries will be shown a “browser choice” screen through Windows update, giving them the opportunity to download an alternative browser…
If Microsoft fails to live up to its promises, the EC can fine Microsoft up to 10 percent of its revenue, which totaled $60 billion in 2008.
Verizon MiFi 2200 Portable Hot Spot
About the size of a stack of credit cards, Verizon’s tiny titan sucks up 3G signals and regurgitates them as a piping-hot Wi-Fi bubble for up to five separate devices.
“Biologist David Rollo of McMaster University in Canada made this morbid discovery while studying the social behavior of cockroaches. When a roach locates a great new abode (like your kitchen cupboard), it gives off a chemical signal to attract its cockroach friends. To determine the chemical composition of these pheromones, Rollo and his team started crushing dead cockroaches and spreading around their body juice.
‘It was amazing to find that the cockroaches avoided places treated with these extracts like the plague,” Rollo said in a press release. “Naturally, we wanted to identify what chemical was making them all go away.’”
