21st Century Sustainable Technology

1. Trees: A Visual Guide
2. Not a Bad Movie: Snakes on the Plains
3. Microsoft faces class-action lawsuit for touting "junk" PCs as "Vista-capable"

If a picture is worth a thousand words than Trees by Tony Rodd and Jennifer Stackhouse is the library of congress. Beautiful images embrace the reader, weaving a tapestry of trees life on earth. The eye candy images, are accompanied by well thought out and executed diagrams that explain the world of trees from the microscopic to the ecosystem. The pictures really do steal the show, and set this book apart. But for those more text inclined, the snippets by each photo and diagram are a steady stream of factual information. The sheer magnitude of content and the glamorous pictures has me flipping ...

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Not a Bad Movie: Snakes on the Plains

2008-02-25 01:43

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Keep your cats and dogs indoors. If you see a burmese python, do not engage it; evacuate the area and contact local authorities. This is not Hollywood...unless you count the fact that Hollywood also lies in the potential range which may be invaded by these huge snakes, non-native to US soils. The US Geological Survey has published maps predicting that burmese pythons currently breeding in the wild in the USA could spread across all of the lower USA. With a little help from climate change, the pythons could range as far north as Virginia....

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Microsoft faces class-action lawsuit for touting "junk" PCs as...

1970-01-01 00:00

Ted Samson - Vista

Microsoft's attempt to give Vista's popularity a shot in the arm back in 2006 appears to have resulted in a shot in the foot. As of last Friday, a class-action lawsuit against the company is moving forward, according to The Associated Press. The company is being accused of, during the '06 holiday season, slapping "Windows Vista Capable" stickers on PCs that would only be capable of running the most rudimentary version of the then-forthcoming OS, Vista Home Basic. The lawsuit was filed last April in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The original suit noted that... READ MORE