• Entertainment & Gaming

    An Extra Dimension for Sports

    By Posted on 3.27.2008 8 Comments

    This is probably the first and last reporting on rugby youll see from Popular Science, but when you broadcast a sport live in 3-D (while serving alcohol) some coverage is deserved. On Saturday, a select group of executives got to watch the battle between England and Scotland in three dimensions on a movie screen in West London. For the English in attendance, the extra-vivid depiction of a 15–9 loss to the Scots likely required additional pints, but more importantly spoke to a larger trend in making live 3-D broadcasts a reality. The 2007 NBA All-Star game was similarly telecast in an extra dimension for a few privileged viewers last year while U2 even offers their first 3-D concert to cost-conscious fans via video.

    3.14.2008 at 05:57am - Comment by FatFrank

    @bigdoggybow Build a platform with your forwards and either roll on from there or feed it out to your backs looking for for a gap to nip through or dink it over the top for a winger to run on to. No positional changes, just personnel. Pick what method you want to use most based on who you have available when compared to who you're playing. In terms of spirit, commitment and strength you won't find a much better sport, apart from maybe rugby league ; ). But tactics? I'm not so sure.

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    Introducing OpenAIM

    By Posted on 3.12.2008 1 Comments

    AOL last week finally opened its hugely popular AIM chat network to multi-client third-party access. The SDK had been partially open to developers, but with restrictions against using it with multi-network IM clients. In the past, developers behind popular chat applications like Trillian and Adium have had to reverse engineer or otherwise hack their way around using the AIM network.

    3.13.2008 at 05:20am - Comment by FatFrank

    Try Pidgin http://pidgin.im/, originally call GAIM. As a clone of AIM, I believe it was developed to use OSCAR from the start

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    An Extra Dimension for Sports

    By Posted on 3.27.2008 8 Comments

    This is probably the first and last reporting on rugby youll see from Popular Science, but when you broadcast a sport live in 3-D (while serving alcohol) some coverage is deserved. On Saturday, a select group of executives got to watch the battle between England and Scotland in three dimensions on a movie screen in West London. For the English in attendance, the extra-vivid depiction of a 15–9 loss to the Scots likely required additional pints, but more importantly spoke to a larger trend in making live 3-D broadcasts a reality. The 2007 NBA All-Star game was similarly telecast in an extra dimension for a few privileged viewers last year while U2 even offers their first 3-D concert to cost-conscious fans via video.

    3.13.2008 at 05:17am - Comment by FatFrank

    @ LuxetVeritas: The thinking mans game would be cricket. As much as I love rugby, fifteen meatheads having a muddy wrestle is not the most tactically demanding of sports.

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

    By Posted on 2.27.2008 39 Comments

    Everybody's favorite dead-pan teacher and game show host, Ben Stein, is the face of a new documentary to be released this April called "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed". It's ostensibly a movie about attacks on freedom of speech in today's hostile climate among scientists in academia, but on closer inspection it really seems to be a thinly veiled screed for Intelligent Design.

    2.28.2008 at 10:53am - Comment by FatFrank

    @MySuperHero To paraphrase the Onion, do you believe in the theory of gravity or intelligent falling? A theory, in the scientifc sense, is used differently than in common usage. A scientifc theory is testable, as is the theory of evolution. You could take two identical populations of a test animals, isolate them in different enviroments and see what changes occured over a very long period of time. If no changes occured, you've falsified the theory of evoultion. If they do, you have added additional evidence that the theory of evolution works. Go devise me a similarly robust test for ID and I'll admit it is a comparable scientific theory. Bat evolution you say? Have some links: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7243502.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/feb/13/bat.evolution?gusrc=rss&feed=science Just because you don't belive something, or think it ludicrus, or unlikely does not devalue it as a theory. Evidence does.

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

    By Posted on 2.27.2008 39 Comments

    Everybody's favorite dead-pan teacher and game show host, Ben Stein, is the face of a new documentary to be released this April called "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed". It's ostensibly a movie about attacks on freedom of speech in today's hostile climate among scientists in academia, but on closer inspection it really seems to be a thinly veiled screed for Intelligent Design.

    2.28.2008 at 05:55am - Comment by FatFrank

    @ Bryan. Fristly, evolution has nothing to say about the origins of life, only about the variety of species; the title of Darwian's book was "On the Origin of Species", not "On the Origin of Life". Secondly, of course evolution is a testable theory, it would just take a very long time to do so. @ aryeh5761: Have some links showing transitional fossils, and stop perpetuating that old myth. http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/lines/IAtransitional.shtml http://chem.tufts.edu/science/evolution/HorseEvolution.htm

  • Science

    The Endorsement: Emergen-C

    By Posted on 2.22.2008 7 Comments

    Yesterday morning, 5 am: Oh s***. I'm done for. The viral infection so potent it fells healthy 20-somethings for a week at a time, the epidemic so ubiquitous in our New York offices that it's now referred to simply as the PopSci Plague, the flu that crushes your brain and blows it through your digestive tract has finally come for me. It is my time. I can feel it: A sore throat and vague headache that are the opening salvos of a dispiriting scorched-earth campaign. It's too late to fight. Or is it?

    2.22.2008 at 05:27am - Comment by FatFrank

    Oh please, I thought this was supposed to be a science site? Massive doses of vitamin C do feck all to combat a cold. Scroll to the bottom of this link for some references: http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/DSH/colds.html I'd also be interested to know just how much vitamin C your body was actually absorbing and how much was passing straight through.



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