USB 3.0 Is Coming 4.8 Gbps

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) 3.0 Promoter Group is looking for additional contributors to its initial draft of the group’s proposed specification with a goal to have it completed by the first half of 2008.
SuperSpeed USB will create a backward-compatible standard with the same ease-of-use and plug-and-play capabilities of previous USB computer connection technologies, ports and cabling. The personal USB interconnect is targeting to deliver over 10 times the speed of today's connection and will be optimized for lower power and improved protocol efficiency. The USB 3.0 Promoter Group public Web site (www.usb.org/usb30) outlines the process to become a contributor to the specification. A company must be a USB Implementers Forum member in good standing and sign a USB 3.0 contributor agreement. Once a company has joined, it will obtain access to the current draft of the specification. The site also includes a URL for Contributors to supply comments. The group plans to review the specification with contributors at a meeting in Las Vegas on Jan. 14-15.
The USB 3.0 Promoter Group, consisting of HP, Intel Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, NEC Corporation, NXP Semiconductors and Texas Instruments Incorporated, is committed to preserving the existing USB device class driver infrastructure and investment, look and feel and ease-of-use of USB while continuing to expand this technology’s capabilities.

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 is a free program offered by microsoft to allow a person to run mulitple operating systems from a single PC. This means you can run Linux or even a different copy of XP or Vista from the same machine.

Meebo

Meebo.com is a great site that allows you to consolidate all of your instant messaging services into one web site. The best feature of the site is that it allows you to log in using your web browser. You don't need to download an application to you desktop. Everything is done from right inside your browser. This is great because it allows you to log in from any computer without having to dump software on it. There is also a software client available if you prefer.

Pix2Fone

This site allows you to upload pictures and audio files to your phone. You can do it from their website, or you can download a plug-in for your web browser that allows you to right-click and send. Its great for getting your pictures on to your phone to make cool wall papers. Click Here!

Technorati Profile

50 Caliber Handgun Accident

Ever notice how the guy in the gun store always looks the same no matter what gun store you go into.

I'm Your Ghost

This is a really weird Video

Go REBELS!!!!

Congratulations to the UNLV Rebels on their first round NCAA win over Georgia Tech. Next victim, Wisconsin.

Ninja Warrior: Makoto Nagano

those crazy japanese game shows. this guy does some cool stuff

Chuck Liddell is wasted - UFCmania.com

Check out this video of Chuck Liddell in an interview. It looks like he is either drunk or on some type of medication. Regardless, it is a funny video, and he is still really scary. Hopefully he won't come after me for posting this.

Heroes Graphic Novel

Check out this weeks graphic comic from Heroes. If you have not been watching the show or reading the graphic novels, this is a great place to start. Every week they add to the story with these comics. The comics are a great place to find out about new characters.

Police Turn to YouTube to Catch Suspects

BY ERIC TUCKER
Associated Press Writer

Patrolman Brian Johnson of the Franklin, Mass., Police Department studied a surveillance video showing two men using allegedly stolen credit cards at a Home Depot.

But when Johnson didn't recognize either man, he decided to involve people - a lot of them - to help crack the case. He posted a clip from a security camera on YouTube.com, Google Inc.'s video-sharing Web site, then e-mailed the clip's link to about 300 people and organizations saying the department was looking for the men.

"You don't have to be a technology wizard to figure out how to watch a video on YouTube," Johnson said of the decision to post on the site that hosts millions of amateur and commercial videos.

A handful of police departments have utilized YouTube as a law enforcement tool, putting up video of suspects and eliciting help from the Internet-using public in identifying them. Experts say the idea has promise, but it's too soon to tell whether it will have staying power amid constantly evolving technologies and the difficulty of making a video stand out among millions. Some also see a risk of fruitless tips, misidentifications or privacy problems.

In Johnson's case, the suspects were ultimately arrested. Though the video generated publicity and thousands of viewings online, Johnson is quick to credit the success to old-fashioned police work rather than the Web site.

"You've got to ask yourself, 'What's the penetration? How many people are going to watch it? What would make people watch it?" said Eugene O'Donnell, a former police officer and prosecutor who teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.

Perhaps the most-publicized example was in Hamilton, Ontario, in Canada, where police in December posted a 72-second surveillance video on YouTube in hopes of locating a suspect in a fatal stabbing outside a hip-hop concert. Detective Sgt. Jorge Lasso said the video ultimately received more than 35,000 "hits," and police had enough information within two weeks for an arrest.

Lasso said it's hard to know exactly what role YouTube played since the clip generated so much media attention. While other departments that posted on YouTube simply relied on a press release to let the public know, Lasso went straight to the population that mattered and announced the clip on Web sites frequented by hip-hop fans.

"We hoped there would be enough buzz created that people on their own would go to YouTube," Lasso said.

While the key witness in the case told police he hadn't even seen the YouTube video, Lasso is skeptical of that claim.

"There's no way that I'm going to be convinced that a 20-something didn't view that YouTube posting," he said.

Police in Aventura, Fla., working on an open homicide case from 2001 posted video from a supermarket security camera showing the victim chatting with a younger man considered a person of interest in the case. Sgt. Michael Bentolila narrates the video, pointing out a tattoo or birthmark on the man's arm and telling viewers to note how the man walks.

Bentolila, who publicized the clip through a press release, said he had not yet received any solid leads.

"This is just something else - an extra added feature that we can now use to get our message out there on a countrywide or worldwide basis," he said.

More often, it's police who find themselves the subject of YouTube posts.

Groups that monitor police behavior use the site to post videos of arrests they believe involve excessive force or abuse. A clip of a Los Angeles officer repeatedly punching a suspect in the face surfaced on the site last year, triggering an FBI investigation.

But police are reversing that dynamic by displaying surveillance footage of suspects.

Experts say it's logical for departments to connect with the public via the web, especially younger Internet users more likely to visit YouTube and more likely, say, to have information about a stabbing outside a hip-hop concert.

"I kind of applaud the fact that police are using the latest tools," said Michael Brady, a retired police chief in Charlestown, R.I. who teaches criminal law and criminal procedure at Salve Regina University in Newport, R.I. "We tend to get stuck in technology deficits. We tend to want to stick with the old tried-and-true."

O'Donnell, the John Jay professor, said he liked that police were mining the public for information and said interest in real-life crime video speaks to the "natural inclination of people to want to play detective." But he worried that a department with limited resources could waste time responding to useless leads - or receive tips that are inconsistent.

A key question, he said, is "at what point do people just say 'another boring video'" and shut it off.

Robert Ellis Smith, a Providence-based privacy expert and publisher of the "Privacy Journal" newsletter, said video posted online should have the consent of bystanders or victims in order to protect their privacy. He also suggested the videos be dated and removed once any court proceedings are concluded.

"Victims of crimes are certainly entitled to be heard before that stuff is put on the Internet," Smith said.

Bentolila of Florida noted that in narrating the video, he specifically pointed out the suspect and focused viewers' attention on him. Lasso said he removed the clip within a day of the arrest being made.

"We're not asking anybody to say they are guilty or innocent," said Johnson, the Massachusetts officer. "The purpose of putting the video out is to identify them."

Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C. said, legally, police can post surveillance video online as long as it doesn't somehow falsely accuse or defame someone.

In the Massachusetts case, Johnson posted the video in December on YouTube's news and politics section after a man reported his truck had been broken into and his credit cards stolen.

The clip generated chatter from nearby police departments already investigating similar cases, and an officer in another town viewed the video and said he recognized the men, Johnson said.

But it wasn't until police in Middleborough, Mass., responded to a disturbance at a Holiday Inn that the suspects were arrested. Lt. David Mackiewicz, who was involved in the arrest, said he didn't recognize the men through YouTube and didn't even know their pictures were on the site.

"Technology," Johnson said, "will never replace the feet-on-the-street."

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CompUSA Closing Stores

CompUSA announced that it will be closing half of its retail stores last week. This means that those stores closing will be going on clearance. CompUSA also announced that it would not be sending inventory back from those stores. What does this mean? Get ready if it is a store in your area because they will be closing out the entire store. Cheap, Cheap, Cheap prices. Some of the stores that are closing have already dropped off the CompUSA website. Check if your store is gone, and that is a good indication it is closing.

Rabbits are Tough

This video is of a rabbit attacking a snake. I had a rabbit just like this one when I was a kid. It attack a dog like this also.

Beer Launching Fridge ( Bierkatapult )

This guy must be from Wisconsin. This has got to be one of the best inventions of the 21st century. All you need is a case of keystone and your remote control and you are ready to rock!!

Joost

Joost™ is a new way of watching TV on the internet, which uses new and established technologies to provide the best of both the internet and TV worlds. We're in the process of making it as TV-like as we can, with programmes, channels and adverts. You can also see some things that we think will enhance the TV experience: searching for programmes and channels, for example, as well as social features like chat. There are many more new features to come! Joost™ uses secure peer-to-peer technology to stream programmes to your computer. Unlike other TV and video-based web applications, it does not require users to download any files to their computers or browse through complicated websites. Joost is now accepting applications for Beta testers, it looks really cool.

Virtual Dub and Posting to YouTube

This is a great download for processing video into different formats. While many high end software will do most of your encoding needs, you may need a program like this is you are planning to post to sites like you tube. YouTube recommends that you upload your video in 320 x 240 mpeg4 format. Virtual dub will allow you to take the video you make and turn it into the correct format so it will appear high quality on YouTube.

Direct Download Link 1.9.10 (stable), 32-bit version

Nano Battery

This video is a sample of the new nano battery being developed. The great thing about this new battery is that it can store the energy for years and decades. It is a great energy on demand system that will not drain from sitting on the shelf.

Urban Ninja

This guy has some really cool moves. Back when I used to do my ninja training I was much better than this, but with some practice this guy can get good too. I bet Kip would be proud of him.

Britney Shaves Her Head

I really don't have much to say about this!!! Actually I really can't think of anything to say about this. She probably must of had a bad day. Or maybe she saw that video with the wedding chick cutting her hair and decided she could beat that. Weird.

Guy Freaking out on a Reporter

This guy goes really crazy!!!

Google 3D Design

This is a great new thing from our friends at Google. It is a 3D rendering program that allows you to make simple 3D objects, such as houses, floor plans, room additions, or any thing else you can think of. You can then take your object and place it into Google earth. It's pretty cool and worth checking out.

Covert Iris Scanner

NewScientist.com news service
Barry Fox

Sarnoff Labs in New Jersey, US, has been working on a clever homeland security system for the US government. It scans people's irises as they walk towards a checkpoint, without them even knowing it.

Current systems require a person to stand still and look directly into a single digital camera from close range. The new system will instead use an array of compact, high resolution cameras, all of which point in slightly different directions and focus at slightly different distances.

As a subject walks into range, a sensor triggers a powerful infrared strobe light. The strobing is synchronised with the camera exposures, illuminating pictures of a subject's face thirty times per second, to create a bank of different images.

At least one of these shots should provide a clear, high-definition image of the target's iris. Clarity could also be enhanced by combining two similar shots. Sarnoff reckons this could be done at a distance around 3 metres, and a database could be queried fast enough to sound the alarm if the subject warrants a closer check. Let's just hope the target is not wearing sunglasses.

Ancient housing settlement discovered near Stonehenge

21:50 30 January 2007
NewScientist.com news service
New Scientist and Reuters

Evidence of a large settlement full of houses dating back to 2600 BC has been discovered near the ancient stone monument of Stonehenge in southwest England, scientists said on Tuesday.

They suspect inhabitants of the houses, forming the largest Neolithic village ever found in Britain, built the stone circle at Stonehenge – generally thought to have been a temple, burial ground or an astronomy site – between 3000 and 1600 BC.

"We found the remains of eight houses," Mike Parker Pearson, a professor of archaeology at Sheffield University, UK, said in a teleconference to announce the discovery.

"We think they are part of a much larger settlement. I suspect we can identify 25 likely house sites. My guess is that there are many more than that," he added.

Village of builders
During excavation at Durrington Walls, about 3 kilometres from Stonehenge, scientists working on the seven-year Stonehenge Riverside Project detected dozens of hearths.

They also uncovered the outlines of box beds and wooden dressers or cupboards and 4600 year-old debris, including burnt stones and animal bones strewn on the clay floors.

"We think we are looking at the village of the builders of Stonehenge," he added.

The houses measured about 5 metres (16 feet) square and were located in a small valley north of Stonehenge that leads down to the River Avon. They are on either side of an avenue that leads from the river to a wooden version of Stonehenge.

"We think our discovery is very significant for understanding the purpose of Stonehenge. What we have revealed is that Stonehenge is one half of a larger complex," said Parker Pearson, referring to the stone and wooden circles.

Feasts and parties
The scientists believe Stonehenge and Durrington Walls were complementary sites. Neolithic people gathered at Durrington Walls for massive feasts and parties while Stonehenge was a memorial or burial site for the dead.

"We are looking at least a century, probably several centuries of use, at both sites," said Parker Pearson. "Stonehenge is our biggest cemetery from that period. There is a very interesting contrast in terms of life and death."

Stonehenge's avenue is aligned on the midsummer solstice sunrise, while the Durrington avenue corresponds with the midwinter solstice sunset, according to the researchers. Tourists are drawn to Stonehenge throughout the year but the most popular day at the site is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year.

Druids, a pagan religious order dating back to Celtic Britain, gather at Stonehenge, about 160 km west of London, during the summer solstice because they believe it was a centre of spiritualism.

"This is a place of enormous importance that has been remembered over a long period of time," said Julian Thomas of Manchester University, who also worked on the project.

New DVD Releases -- January 30, 2007

Flyboys (Widescreen Edition)
The Marine (Unrated Edition)
Unhitched
Death Row
Prey
Unidentified (Widescreen Edition)
Catch a Fire
Unknown

Sacred Cave of Rome's Founders Discovered

Maria Cristina Valsecchi in Rome for National Geographic News
January 26, 2007
Archaeologists say they have unearthed Lupercale—the sacred cave where, according to legend, a she-wolf nursed the twin founders of Rome and where the city itself was born.
The long-lost underground chamber was found beneath the remains of Emperor Augustus' palace on the Palatine, a 230-foot-tall (70-meter-tall) hill in the center of the city.

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Archaeologists from the Department of Cultural Heritage of the Rome Municipality came across the 50-foot-deep (15-meter-deep) cavity while working to restore the decaying palace.
"We were drilling the ground near Augustus' residence to survey the foundations of the building when we discovered the cave," said Irene Iacopi, the archaeologist in charge of the area.
"We knew from ancient reports that the Lupercale shouldn't be far from the Emperor's palace, but we didn't expect to find it. It was a lucky surprise.
"We didn't enter the cave but took some photos with a probe," Iacopi added.
"They show a richly decorated vault encrusted with mosaics and seashells, too rich to be part of a home. That's why we think it could be the ancient sanctuary, but we can't be sure until we find the entrance to the chamber."

Ancient Legend
According to myth, Lupercale is where a she-wolf suckled Romulus and Remus, the twin sons of the war god Mars and mortal priestess Rhea Silvia, who had been abandoned in a cradle on the bank of the Tiber River. The cave's name, in fact, comes from the Latin word for wolf, lupus.
The brothers are said to have later founded Rome on April 21, 753 B.C., at the site. But they eventually fought for the leadership of the new city, and Romulus killed his brother.
That didn't stop the site from becoming a sacred place to ancient Romans.
Every year on February 15 ancient priests killed a dog and two goats and smeared the foreheads of two boys from noble families with the sacrificial blood as part of the Lupercalia celebration. (Related: "'Rome' TV Wardrobe Not Built in a Day [August 26, 2005].)
The ceremony survived until A.D. 494, when Pope Gelasius put an end to the tradition.
The Palatine Hill also became the residential area of the most affluent Roman citizens beginning in 500 B.C. When the Roman Republic became the Roman Empire in the first century B.C., Augustus even built himself and his wife Livia palaces on top of the hill.
Later emperors followed his example and built larger and larger homes on the same spot. Now the whole hill is a honeycomb of buildings and tunnels extending far underground.
The English word "palace" derives from "Palatium," the Latin name of the area.

Crumbling Ruins
"The tale of the birth of Rome is part myth and part historical truth," said Andrea Carandini, historian and archaeologist at the University of Rome, La Sapienza.
"The story of the twins reflects the previous tradition of the Lares, the twin deities protecting the area, but there was indeed a historical founder who constituted the Palatine Hill as the sacred heart of the city around 775 B.C.," he added. "The archaeological findings are providing more and more evidence that the tale of Rome's foundation isn't a later legend but originates from historical facts," he said. Time may been running out for additional discoveries, however.
"The remains are now crumbling due to atmospheric agents and lack of funds for maintenance," head archaeologist Iacopi said. "Most of the buildings are closed to the public for safety reasons. It's a real pity. "Archaeologists are doing what they can to restore and stabilize the ruins," she added. "Now we have to find the entrance and study the chamber," Iacopi said.
"In the meantime we are going to finish the restorations in Augustus' palace. We hope to open part of the emperor's residence to the public in a few months."

Check This Chick Freaking Out!!

Check out this "bride to be" having a bad hair day. She goes crazy and decides to cut off all of her hair. The funny part is her friends that just keep offering her champagne and laughing at her. I would love to see the reaction of the groom when he sees her hair.

Rocket Scooter

And that's the reason that people get engineering degrees and become rocket scientists. It would have been much cooler if he would have been strapped on to the thing.

EPOS Ultrasonic Pen

The EPOS company develops mice and pen products for computers. There new product is a pen that can be used to draw or write on any sheet of paper. The sensor goes at the top of the paper and uses ultrasonic sensors to calculate to position of the pen to 40 microns (Thats really small). The USB enabled sensor then saves the information in a downloadable file in the jump drive. This will allow you to record your notes on your computer. It looks pretty cool.

DVD New Releases - January 23, 2007

The Guardian
Saw III (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Sherrybaby
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Jesus Camp
Relative Strangers

Brethren

Brethren: An Epic Adventure of the Knights Templar by Robyn Young, is the latest novel that I just finished. If you are into historical books, you will love this one. It is centered around the lives of the Knights Templar, in the 13th century. Many of the major events in the book are centered around true historical events. The fictional story line keeps you wondering what is going to happen next. The characters are developed in detail. This book is the first part of a Trilogy that is currently being finished. Try it, you will like it.

American Idol Tryouts

This guy is really weird. My message to Rosie is this. This guy had to stand in a line of 20000 or more people for days to get on this show, along with all the others. These people know what they are doing by going on this show. One other thing, just because someone is weird or different doesn't mean they are mentally handicapped. And shame on the caretakers of a mentally handicap person if they let the person go on the show.

Dog's Got A Pepperball Gun

I was watching one of my favorite reality TV shows the other night, Dog The Bounty Hunter. During past seasons the only weapon Dog or his family would carry was a bottle of pepper spray, specifically a Devastator. To my surprise I noticed Leland, Dog's Son, carrying what looked to be a paint ball gun. I had to investigate. What I found was that this was indeed a modified paint ball gun which fires modified paint balls. The balls do not have paint in them though, they have pepper. This is a new invention from a company called pepperball. You go Dog.

AT&T

This is a funny video about all the different buying and selling that goes on in the phone industry. Th funny part is that it is 100% true.

Driving on Ice

Check out these people trying to drive on this icy road. This video is a great lesson in physics.

The Real Peter Pan

Enough said! Check out his web site Click Here.

Old School Academy

After you are tired of spending all day doing some ninja training, it's time to do some Old School Dance and Life training. Napoleon would be proud.

CCleaner

CCleaner is another great free utility for your computer. It allows you to clean history, temp Internet files, registry junk, and much more. This is a freeware program, and entirely free of spy ware. I would only run the simple searches and stay away from the custom stuff, unless you know what you are doing. It is a very easy program to use and helps your computer run faster.

Is Paula Abdul High?

Check out this clip of an interview with Paula Abdul last week. Is she drunk or high or both? Who knows, it may just be something in the water. But I did watch American Idol tonight, and would have to say she looks sort of medicated. Of course this could all just be a media stunt to get guyes like me to watch. OH NO! it worked.

Object Dock

This is a cool program that puts a icon type toolbar on your desktop that allows you to quickly browse all of your favorite programs. This is similar to a widget that is found on MAC machines. Check out this free download on FileHippo.

Test Drive Microsoft Vista

Click Here to check it out. This is a site that Microsoft has set up to allow people to go and log into a working copy of Vista to demo. The cool thing about it is that you don't have to install anything on your computer. You are just logging into a remote desktop on a Microsoft Server. It has a cool step by step guide on how to do certain tasks within Vista. I would recommend this site if you are planning to upgrade or have just purchased a computer with an upgrade coupon.

NinjaLessons.Com

Ok, so this is pretty funny. The real funny part about it is that these guyes are serious. They are charging people to come to their website and pay for lessons to become a ninja. I remember when I was 12 years old and wanted to be a ninja. I had all the ninja stuff, even the cool shoes with the split big toe (Tabi Boots). I never could figure out how to disappear like the movies though. Maybe for $6.95 a month these guyes could teach me how to do that. That clip above is actually a advertisment clip put out by www.ninjalessons.com. Below I put a video clip that seems very similar.

Switchback UMPC

The SwitchBack-PC brings the power of the desktop to a portable, rugged, handheld solution that weighs just three pounds. The first rugged UMPC to have a built-in thumb keyboard, the SwitchBack utilizes never before seen "Parallel Processing Capabilities" to power multiple Operating Systems including Windows XP in combination with Windows Mobile, Windows CE or Linux. Because of its unique parallel processing technology the SwitchBack is energy efficient and has an extended battery life multiple times that of other portable computers its size in low power mode. This thing is really cool!!

Nuclear Test Videos - What Have We Done?

This Is A Tiny Bomb

Poor Guyes!!

Largest US Underground test

Bikini Island Test

This is a five minute compilation video showing the type of distruction these bombs can do. The scary thing is to think most of these devices were made 50 years ago. So what have we come up with in the last 50 years that can end the human race?

DVD New Releases - January 16, 2007

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The Beginning (Unrated Edition)
Employee of the Month (Widescreen Edition)
Gridiron Gang (Widescreen Edition)

Allofmp3.com -- Cheap Music

Allofmp3.com -- If you want to get your music for about .20 cents per song, then this is the site for you. Unlike illegal file sharing p2p sites, this is an actual online store that offers music at a dramatically reduced price. This site is hosted in Russia, which allows it to use international trade laws to charge whatever they want for their music. While there is a fight from within the US music industry to get this site shutdown, to this day it is still legal. You can pick music to be downloaded at any bit rate or format you want. There is no pesky user right management system. The best part is that you don't have to sit there and test wether you music is good or not,like with p2p sites.

I do not recommend using a normal credit card to pay for the music since you are doing business with Russia. The first way I recommend is to buy a prepaid mastercard and use it to pay. The other way, is to use a virtual card from companies like citibank. These programs generate a different card number for each transaction.

Population 436

Population 436 was a really cool movie that I saw last week. I had not heard anything about the movie before my partner at work had told me about it. It had a different type of plot for a horror movie, which makes it unique. It is definitely worth checking it out.

Make Magazine

If you are into DIY (do it yourself) projects then this site and magazine are for you. Make gives complete details on different projects you can try at home every month. The different projects range from building a kite the takes digital picture, to instruction on how to podcast. I subscribed to this magazine and was very surprised about all the information in each issue.

Killing Cancer Cells

Nanowerk Article

This is a great article on the advances in Nano Technology in the area of using gold particles and lasers to destroy cancer cells. Scientists have made great strides in this field and it is all explained in the article. Basically, they inject the gold into your body and it attaches to the cancer cells. Then they fire a speicial laser through your body, and the gold particles explode, killing the cancer.

NewScientist.Com

This is the web site of a great magazine called New Scientist. This site and magazine is dedicated to articles about emerging technologies and new discoveries in science. It covers every facet of the science world, from tech news to health issues. The site is full of complete articles that you can browse through, unlike many science journals and websites which force you to get a subscription if you what all the information.

PIXresizer Image Shrink Utility

This site has great little programs that do really cool things. PIXresizer allows you to quickly and easily convert the size of a large image or group of images. This program is very useful when trying to resize images for myspace and other sites that have size limitations. The program is very easy to use and saves your image under a different filename so you don't have to worry about copying over your original. This program is great for Myspace!!

PIXresizer Software Download

Worlds Highest Parachute Jump

102.800 Feet Freefall at 614 mph

Captain Kittinger was then assigned to the Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. For Project Excelsior (meaning "ever upward", a name given to the project by Colonel Stapp), as part of research into high altitude bailout, he made a series of three parachute jumps wearing a pressurized suit, from a helium balloon with an open gondola.
The first, from 76,400 feet (23,287 m) in November, 1959 was a near tragedy when an equipment malfunction caused him to lose consciousness, but the automatic parachute saved him (he went into a flat spin at a rotational velocity of 120 rpm, the G factor calculated at his extremities was over 22 times that of gravity, setting another record). Three weeks later he jumped again from 74,700 feet (22,769 m). For that return jump Kittinger was awarded the Leo Stevens parachute medal.
On August 16, 1960 he made the final jump from the Excelsior III at 102,800 feet (31,300 m). He was in freefall for 4½ minutes and reached a maximum speed of 614 mph (988 km/h) before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet (5,500 m). Pressurization for his right glove malfunctioned during the ascent, causing his hand to swell. He set records for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest freefall and fastest speed by a man through the atmosphere. [1]
According to Kittinger, he broke the speed of sound during that famous highest jump. This may be debatable, as other references give his peak speed at 614 (988 km/h)[citation needed] or 618 (994 km/h)[citation needed] miles per hour, or mach 0.9. Nevertheless, he occasionally ribs Chuck Yeager about being the first man to break the speed of sound.[citation needed]
The jumps were made in a "rocking-chair" position, descending on his back, rather than the usual delta familiar to skydivers, because he was wearing a 60-lb "kit" on his behind and his pressure suit naturally formed that shape when inflated, a shape appropriate for sitting in an airplane cockpit.
For the series of jumps, Kittinger was decorated with an oak leaf cluster to his D.F.C. and awarded the Harmon Trophy by President Dwight Eisenhower.

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc

ZipGenius

This program is another free peice of software that is safe to put on your computer too make your life easy. This is a free compression utility like winzip. The advantage to this piece of software besides the fact that it is free, is that it compresses in not only ZIP but also all of the other popular compression standards

AVG Free Anti-Virus Software

AVG offers a great free anti-virus software program that is top ranked by many computer reviews. This software, like that from Computer Associates, does not take up large amounts of system resources. The advantage to this piece of software is that unlike the Computer Associates product, it does not expire after 1 year. Both products are great so I thought I would give everyone a choice and post this program which is favored by many computer experts.

Stickis.com

This is a great web site to share your thoughts about other web sites with friends, or simply keep notes for yourselves. This site allows you to post virtual stickies on any website that you visit. It's a fun site to try out.

Backing Up DVD's

What's the best way to backup your DVDs, just in case your three year old decides to use her Barney Disk as a Frisbee? My recommendation is a program called DVD Fab. The program comes in two versions, Gold and Platinum. Depending on your level of expertise, the Gold version should be fine for most normal users. This is the easiest program out there for a one stop DVD Movie Backup Utility.

Basically all you have to do is put in your original disk and a blank disk, and then hit enter. It will decrypt the DVD, Shrink it to fit on a DVD-R, and then burn it to the disk. All while you go chase around your three year old.

This program has some other cool features. It will copy the whole disk, just the main movie, or allow you to create a custom disk. The newest version will also allow you to burn the movie to ISO for any of you that archive onto hard drives for media streaming or backing up.

One other cool thing. The company does constant upgrades when movies come out that have new types of protection. Upgrades are free forever when you buy the software. There is a demo available also to try it out. This program really works great!!!!!!!