This took me by surprise. AOL has long been a closed lip, closed source company…usually they just leave people high and dry without any information. Now I’d guess gaim and trillian can expland their working feature set to include file transfers, etc.
So what is their motivation to open up? Is is pressure from GoogleTalk? Are they worried that Micro$oft will lock them out of the handset market with their next gen Windows Mobile + MSN client? Maybe its Skypebay thats worrying them, or the cellular companies building SIP networks.
Whatever it is, I am very very happy to see this and I applaude the manager who made this decision. A few more good deeds like these and I may forgive them for killing Nullsoft Winamp, Netscape and Mirabilis ICQ.
Kevin O’Connor of University College Dublin and his colleagues heated polystyrene foam, the generic name for Styrofoam, to convert it to styrene oil…and then…. fed this styrene oil to the soil bacteria Pseudomonas putida, which converted it into biodegradable plastic known as PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoates).
Way cooler than this, I ran into this little gem at the TechEblog Top Ten Strangest Lego Creations site.
Here’s a good place to find one to use in this project. Also, you could find some legos that are the same size and thin, and use one above and below to keep the cap on.
Finally, someone in the gaming industry is capitalizing on the jesus mania that’s been sweeping accross the nation:
Nothing angers a liberal more. I know I’m angry. Yuppie scum.
Thanks to Vinyl Oddities
Clever, though it doesn’t show the price of maggie as 671.xx like in the real simpsons…
Brilliant; I like the little yellow kitten, they SO weren’t expecting that.
