Ultimately, what kids watch isn’t up to the MPAA. In truth, the responsibility for monitoring children’s viewing of films lies with parents, who should investigate movies thoroughly before introducing them to any underage child.
Read More…
More on The Dark Knight Rises
After seeing a Facebook photo of Carmina and her best friend Patty last month, I realized something was wrong. The comments below the picture read ‘BFF’s before there were BFF’s’ and ‘Very significant photo.’ I sent questions to her FB friends. The funeral was the next morning.
Read More…
Every year 100,000 people gather in Tultepec, Mexico to experience the nine day National Pyrotechnic Festival. Like most festivals, food, rides, music, and dancing are involved, but the biggest thrills are the amazing fireworks displays.
Read More…
More on Mexico
As we approach our Independence Day we thought it would be fun to visit some of the watering holes around the country that have been here longer than we’ve actually been a country!
Read More…
More on U.S. Destinations
When I was ten I wanted to be thirteen. I wanted unfrizzy brown hair down to my waist. When I was thirteen I wanted to be sixteen. I’d discovered how to iron my hair, but now I wanted to drive all my friends to the beach. When I was sixteen I wanted to be fourteen.
Read More…
More on Aging Gracefully
Windows 8 has built-in search tools for apps, but a tweak in the June update to Xbox Music is making that feature more accessible. The media player now lets you search for songs on both your PC and Xbox Music through an in-app button. If you don’t have any local tunes, you won’t have to sign in to start listening — Music now lets you stream 15 tracks through Xbox Music’s ad-supported free tier without using an account. While other bug fixes and UI enhancements are minor in nature, what’s here is enough to justify a trip to the Windows Store for the new version.
Filed under: Software, Microsoft
Source: Windows Experience Blog
ROCKLIN, Calif. — When a gust of wind picks up your latest design for a radio-controlled drone, flips it into an oncoming car, and shears the paint right off, there’s not much you can do but apologize and pay the bill.
It’s an unfortunate consequence of working for a company that specializes in building do-it-yourself robot kits, says Jim Carey, the sales and marketing director at Parallax.
1-2 of 12 Scroll Left Scroll Right
Founded in 1986 by Chip Gracey in his Sacramento, Calif.-area apartment, Parallax’s first p… [Read more]
Related Links:
Mind-controlled quadcopter takes to the air
Artist vibrates water with the power of thought
Friday Poll: Are ‘killer robots’ a real threat?
Official RC robotic transformers coming soon?
Crave Ep. 123: Seeing the world through porn-colored Glasses
     |
On Thursday, Microsoft detailed its Bing improvement efforts, which largely concern a variety of testing and experimentation that takes place unannounced, often without anything noticeable happening on the consumer end of things. One experiment, however, will be very visible to those who receive it, and for this reason it has been formally announced: Bing Boards.
Nissan has unveiled the prototype for its ZEOD RC electric racing car, which is the working-stage variety of the finished product that will be raced in the 2014 Le Mans 24 Hour. The project is being led by Ben Bowlby, Nissan’s Director of Motorsports, and is being directed with input by engineers located in the
Two new top-secret documents related to PRISM and NSA data collection were published yesterday by The Guardian. Detailed within the documents are various stipulations and requirements related to the data collection as it relates to US persons. On the surface, such information is mildly reassuring, but a thoughtful examination illuminates several red-flag issues, which the
This is site is run by Sascha Endlicher, M.A., during ungodly late night hours. Wanna know more about him? Connect via Social Media by jumping to about.me/sascha.endlicher.
