• Mariah Power Windspire

    By Posted on 11.9.2008 Comments

    Zoning laws often forbid tall wind turbines. The Windspire captures breezes at 30 feet and below with a design in which blades run up a pole’s length and spin around it. Contoured airfoils make the Windspire the first vertical-axis turbine that can start in slow winds without help from a motor or inefficient scoops or wings. $5,000; mariahpower.com

    11.25.2008 at 12:07pm - Comment by jeremyduffy

    Wait. The first to operate at low wind speeds and elevation? What happened to the helix wind turbine? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=helix+wind+turbine+&btnG=Search

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    10 Terrible Tech Ads

    By Tom Conlon Posted on 4.2.2009 2 Comments

    If the late-’90s dot-com boom was the original Golden Age for awful TV tech ads, then today we are surely living in the Renaissance. Yes, back then we had the Pets.com sock puppet and lots and lots of chimps, but take a spin around the dial and I think you’ll agree that there are now more technology-related ads on television than ever—most of them quite terrible. Here are the ten that bug me the most, and I invite you to please cut loose in the comments on any offenders I neglect to mention.

    11.25.2008 at 12:04pm - Comment by jeremyduffy

    Let's not give any publicity or attention to freecreditreport.com unless it's to point out that they are an outright scam site that should be shut down. There are no free credit reports there and many people get charged by them without intending to pay anything. Scum like that should be jailed.

  • Science

    Can I Have My SSN Back?

    By Tom Conlon Posted on 10.3.2008 7 Comments

    I like to think I'm protective of my sensitive personal info. I rip bills and credit card offers into confetti before throwing them out, I never give out my Social Security number, and I can spot a phishing scheme with the best of them. But I've recently come to realize that the safeguarding of my most intimate personal details is completely out of my hands.

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    10.6.2008 at 12:28pm - Comment by jeremyduffy

    Because they take the information without our consent or permission, use it in many humiliating and harmful ways to our continued detriment, I refer to this practice as "data rape". Fortunately, with credit freeze laws in place we can stop the pain as far as our credit reports are concerned, but nothing is stopping anyone else from aggregating data about us. Hopefully that will change soon.



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