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Our house is on the market right now. Before we hightail it for work, we make sure the dishes are done, the flowers aren’t drooping and the fresh-baked cookies are out. It’s been about two months, and it hasn’t sold. Now I know why. Because the economy is tanking, and it’s a bad time to sell our house? No. Because our floors are a little warped upstairs? No. It’s because we haven’t had a home clearing.
Home clearers are helping real estate agents erase bad vibes from homes that aren’t budging, according to a recent Denver Post story and the James Randi Educational Foundation blog. Such real estate or space clearings are performed for all sorts of reasons Just one wouldn’t be a very good business model, would it?
Say you get divorced and want to get rid of the remaining dark energy, a real estate clearing might be the answer.
Some days it seems like the real purpose of the Internet is to provide a platform for power struggles between massive companies. Last year the big story was Google and Microsoft playing tug-of-war with Yahoo. This morning, the story is about The Walt Disney Company announcing that it will start providing short form videos to YouTube.
According to AP News, Disney has agreed to provide content to YouTube under an ad-revenue sharing agreement. Currently the company allows full episodes of its shows to broadcast on ABC.com, Fancast and AOL. But this agreement with YouTube only covers shorter videos and excerpts, not full episodes.
Earlier in the week, there were rumors floating around that Disney was in talks with Hulu, a popular video site. Hulu currently serves video content from providers like NBC Universal and Fox. Had the Walt Disney Company elected to move videos to Hulu, it would have created a more robust service.
1) Recycable Office – Made Completely Of Cardboard 2) Toshiba tests phone-controlled billboard game 3) New Airplane Interior Design Allows for Romantic Dinner for Two 4) Architects Design Buildings out of Legos 5) School assignment to reinterpret the fairytale Little Red Riding Hood 6) The ultimate resume 7) Life Gadget Design 8 ) Atari 2600 [...]
If your country allows you to read it, this is a sobering page on censorship, the trend toward censorship at the national level, and the deleterious effects of censorship on every citizen: Western internet censorship For more information on censorship see: The hilarious tale of “Grass Mud Horse” See also this video. The basic idea [...]
Nanotechnology may have found its Henry Ford – “But Professor Seeman has found a way around that. He and a Chinese team at Nanjing University have built a nanoscale factory worker. The tiny machine is made of DNA, the molecule that governs the way cells make proteins. But this DNA isn’t like that found in [...]
A nice explanation of the Monty Hall Problem, and what you should do if you ever find yourself in that situation:
You Asked: How does adsl work? — Ajay, Pune, India Marshall Answered: ADSL stands for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. It’s also known as DSL. “Asymetric” means that the uplink and downlink have different speeds, which is normal. Most cable connections are asymetric as well, because most people download far more stuff than they upload. The [...]
You Asked: What is a wall wart? — Phil, Rochester, Minn. Marshall Answered: When you buy a cell phone (and lots of other little electrical gadgets), it comes with a little black “wall wart” that you use to recharge the batteries. The simplest wall warts are transformers – coils of copper wire that change one [...]
You Asked: I want to know how a cathode ray tube is made. How does a cathode ray tube work? — John, Ho Cho Minh, Viet Nam Marshall Answered: I created a blog post just for you: Make your own CRT. For more info see: How TVs Work
I have one and still don’t get how it works. How do TVs work?
by Marshall Brain | March 30, 2009
You Asked: I have one and still don’t get how it works. How do TVs work? — Mariah, Healy, Kansas Marshall Answered: The basic idea behind a TV is to paint a series of images on the screen at a rate of 30 frames per second. At that rate, the images merge together in your [...]
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