links for 2007-12-03

• Your Search Advisor – Google Apps Presentation in Ann Arbor
  Google Sites: Scheduled to be launched sometime next year (2008), Google Sites will expand upon the Google Page Creator already offered within Apps. Based on JotSpot collaboration tools, Sites will allow business to set up intranets, project management tr
  (tags: google web2.0 online_applications)
• NSRA forum – Bonneville Salt Flats. Boyd and Crew strikes again
  The next morning the scene at the motorhome was revealed in all its glory! You can see the carnage in the photos. I wonder how or if they will “replace their divots.” About 10:00 a.m. ANOTHER huge wrecker arrived. This one was even bigger than the big yel
  (tags: humor interesting)
• Speed Week 2007
  I actually wondered about making this entry and seriously considered deleting the two previous entries for 2005 and 2006 after seeing what I saw out on the salt flats this year. I’ve been coming out to the salt flats for Speed Week on and off for about 15
  (tags: interesting automotive)
• MIT – a salute to Smoot
  Oliver Smoot, MIT class of 1962, is retiring from his chairmanship of the American National Standards Institute. He lent his name, and not coincidentally also his height, to a unit of measurement which is now part of history.
  (tags: funny geek humor)
• Zoho Writer Gets Offline Editing
  There’s a new option in your Zoho Writer toolbar that lets you choose “offline” mode. Once clicked, Zoho will download the 15 documents based on your left-hand document order for you to work with offline. If you need more, you can select to have up
  (tags: web2.0 online_applications google)
• A Little Laptop With Big Ambitions – WSJ.com
  Mr. Negroponte’s ambitious plan has been derailed, in part, by the power of his idea. For-profit companies threatened by the projected $100 price tag set off at a sprint to develop their own dirt-cheap machines, plunging Mr. Negroponte into unexpected com
  (tags: hardware linux olpc)
• Dark Roasted Blend: Retro-Future: To The Stars!
  This is the start of a new series, collection of the most inspiring & hard-to-find retro-futuristic graphics. We will try to stay away from the well-known American pulp & book cover illustrations and instead will focus on the artwork from rather unlikely
  (tags: art graphics images space science_fiction wallpaper design)
• Ten things holding back tech – Print this article – ZDNet.co.uk
  Ever get the feeling that we aren’t quite yet where we want to be? Here are 10 factors that may be holding back the world’s technological development
  (tags: technology commentary)
• Six Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared – DIY Electric Car Blogs
  With all of the hype surrounding hybrid vehicles today, I thought I’d do some research and post my findings on the next generation of fully electric and plug-in hybrids. The fully-electric EV has had a bad name in the past, mostly due to insufficient batt
  (tags: automotive technology energy cars)
• Top 12 Areas for Technology Innovation through 2025 – ChangeWaves – Observations on the Future from Social Technologies
  What will likely be the most important scientific and technological breakthroughs with significant commercial value and impacts on the lives of consumers out to 2025?
  (tags: blog future commentary technology)
• Text Mining Tool
  Text Mining Tool is a freeware program for extraction of text from files of the next types: pdf, doc, rtf, chm, html without need to have installed any other programs like Word, Arcrobat, etc. Text Mining Tool antivirus report Its comfortable and easy usa
  (tags: freeware windows conversion tools utilities)
• Sizer
  Sizer is a freeware utility that allows you to resize any window to an exact, predefined size. This is extremely useful when designing web pages, as it allows you to see how the page will look when viewed at a smaller size. The utility is also handy when
  (tags: applications freeware windows utilities tools)
• The Wonderful Icon
  The Wonderful Icon 2.2 is a small Windows utility that resides in your PC’s taskbar tray. Try it and you’ll be hooked! TWI has lots of wonderful features. With it, you can: * Assign hotkeys for common tasks such as minimize windows, restart Windows, etc.
  (tags: freeware tools utilities windows)
• US says it has right to kidnap British citizens – Times Online
  AMERICA has told Britain that it can “kidnap” British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States. A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under
  (tags: politics)