6 Squared equals 36 Geeks

Six geeks in the house – a full contingent.

AOPA Online: FAA grants roadable airplane weight exemption

The FAA boosted hopes of Terrafugia officials to market a roadable light sport aircraft (LSA) by granting a large portion of the weight increase the company requested. The FAA said it would allow the vehicle to weigh 1,430 pounds, the same limit already allowed for LSA seaplanes. The company

WolframTones: Generate a Composition

Make your own music online

Terrafugia - Transition® the Roadable Light Sport Aircraft

Woburn, MA — June 17, 2010: Terrafugia, Inc., developer of the Transition

aM laboratory

There are a variety of music making methods on this site. This is just one.

Music of the sun recorded by scientists

Using satellite images of these loops, which can be over 60,000 miles long, the scientists were able to recreate the sound by turning the visible vibrations into noises and speeding up the frequency so it is audible to the human ear.

Western US lunar eclipse June 26 (this morning)

There will be a partial lunar eclipse on Saturday, June 26, for folks in the central and western part of the United States. It

Stock Market Flash Crash Analysis

“Beginning at 14:42:46, bids from the NYSE started crossing above the National Best Ask prices in about 100 NYSE listed stocks, expanding to over 250 stocks within 2 minutes). Detailed inspection indicates NYSE quote prices started lagging quotes from other markets; their bid prices were not dropping fast enough to keep below the other exchange’s falling offer prices. The time stamp on NYSE quotes matched that of other exchange quotes, indicating they were valid and fresh.”

IEEE 802.3ba standard released

“[IEEE|Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers] announced the ratification of IEEE 802.3ba 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Ethernet, a new standard governing 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s Ethernet operations. An amendment to the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard, IEEE 802.3ba, the first standard ever to simultaneously specify two new Ethernet speeds, paves the way for the next generation of high-rate server connectivity and core switching.”

YouTube - Human bobsled vs. motorcycle

Rollerblades for your body.

Children with home computers likely to have lower test scores

“Students in grades five through eight, particularly those from disadvantaged families, tend to post lower scores once universal access to home computers and in some cases to high-speed Internet service arrive in their home.”

Google Uses Remote Delete to Remove Android apps

Google has, for the first time, used the “Remote Application Removal” security feature implemented in Android to remove apps from users’ smartphones. The two applications in question were created by Jon Oberheide to demonstrate how easy it is to inject malicious applications into Android smartphones and jailbroken iPhones.
Although the researcher had removed the applications from the Android Market, some users still had the apps installed on their phones, prompting Google to delete them remotely. In such cases users are notified that the deletion will occur. Google points out that the removed applications didn’t cause any damage, having been designed to show how easy it was to infect smartphones rather than to cause any malicious infection.

Remote Kill and Install: Technical Info

Remote Kill and Install on Google Android: This blog post details the more technical aspects of the remote kill and install mechanisms on the Google Android platform.

Big Lunar Eclipse - NASA Science

This Saturday morning, June 26th, there’s going to be a lunar eclipse

A fifth of Android apps expose private data

“About 20 percent of the 48,000 apps in the Android marketplace allow a third-party application access to sensitive or private information, according to a report released on Tuesday.”

Google Voice for Everyone!

Google Voice is open to everyone, no invites required.

Google Wave for Everyone!

Google Wave is open to all users at wave.google.com, as a Google Labs product — no invitation needed.

JavaZone 2010: Funny Movie Trailer

Every geek should see this trailer!


! Giveaway USB Camera

[img_5939.jpeg| FV RouchCam N1, is an HD 720p USB Video Camera. And we gave one away to Mike, from Santa Cruz for knowing that the music from the sun was produced from images of the Sun’s coronal loops. ]

! Backstage Geek Video!
Ben Made this [quick backstage of GeekSpeak video|http://vimeo.com/12878198] showing off the above camera’s performance – and you can meet all the geeks!