Buying or Selling Gadgets? Try Flippid Second hand tech usually go the way of Craigslist or eBay. One is a den of cheapskates and scamsters, and the other is a den of cheapskates and thieves. What's a guy to do? Perhaps this new Flippid service is the solution. How it works: sellers list an item with a price and appropriate tags. If someone likes the price, they can buy it right away. If not, buyers can list items they want with the appropriate tags, and if a seller likes the price, they can choose to sell to the buyer. Matchmaking and Web 2.0 bliss. There are even RSS feeds for easy tracking. So far the site only has a couple handfuls of products, but may shape up to be something pretty decent if there are enough users on there. – JASON CHEN
ANYONE EVER SEEN THIS MOVIE?
New Design Principle Enables Insulation Breakthrough
December 19, 2006 7:11 AM - Tim McGee, Los Angeles
Here in the northern hemisphere it is getting cold this time of year. Naturally, it is appropriate that researchers at the University of Oregon have made a breakthrough in materials science that stops cold dead in its tracks. David C. Johnson, a professor of chemistry and member of the UO Materials Science Institute, describes why the random stacking of tungsten-diselenide planes (WSe2) creates such a good insulator.
While this new material is not a candidate for house insulation or other such large-scale applications, it does provide a new principle on which other materials could be based. This design created a material that was six times less thermally conductive then they expected, and it is 30 times less conductive then what the crystal would be in a single layer- I can't help but think about how an Abalone shell is 3,000 times stronger then the crystal alone due to a similar layer strategy. Regardless, the ability to create this kind of a material will be important in new electronic technology.
Finding Motivation: What To Do When You Don’t Feel Like Doing Anything
Many people should come across this before: Sometimes you may find yourself not interested to do anything productive. You want to chill out and take a rest, but you already took a long break. Simply, you’re not motivated. What should you do? Chris Widener at his site Made for Success suggests number of ways to break through the phase:
- Honestly evaluate whether or not you need a break.
- Start small.
- Change your routine.
- Reward yourself.
- Reconnect the action with pleasure rather than pain.
Change the routine sometimes work wonder. Human being is a creative creature, you will get sick on some routine work. Change the routine to fool your brain this is a whole new stuff.
Finding Motivation: What To Do When You Don’t Feel Like Doing Anything - [Chris Widener]
First Big Partner for Zudeo: BBC Michael Arrington Zudeo, the new “100% legal” content sharing site launched by popular BitTorrent company Azureus two weeks ago, just nailed a distribution deal with the BBC. That just took them from a theoretically cool product to a player in the online video space.Under the agreement, BBC will license a number of television shows to U.S. users, including Red Dwarf, Strange and Invasion Earth, Little Britain, Doctor Who, Fawlty Towers, Coupling, Keeping Up Appearances, League of Gentlemen and Ideal.It is a tragedy that they didn’t include the only BBC show worth watching, The Office. Of course, that show is readily available on Azureus’ BitTorent client.The benefits of Zudeo are pretty clear to publishers, who can leverage P2P networks to substantially decrease bandwidth costs and speed downloads for users.This spells trouble for Pando and Red Swoosh, which offer competing products to publishers. Zudeo probably isn’t focused on those companies, though. There is a multi-party war brewing for IPTV eyeballs between iTunes, Venice Project, Zudeo and YouTube. Watch this space.
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