Accomplishment

Nate Silver: Chambliss Win Gives GOP 2010 Strategy — I tend to think that we should not be too dismissive of Saxby Chambliss's win in Georgia tonight. Although the outcome was expected, and although runoffs and special elections sometimes behave in idiosyncratic ways, moving from a 3-point margin of victory on November 4 to a 15-point margin of victory a month later is a significant accomplishment. ... But while proportionately lower black turnout tells part of the story, Chambliss also appeared to gain with white voters. In certain ways, this is an awkward time for a Democrat to be running for office. On the one hand, with the imminent... [Tags: accomplishment, awkward time, barack obama, democrat, democrats]

QIGI i6-Goal Looks to Be the First 'Next' Android Phone to Actually Come Out [Android] — Compared to the ZzzPhone—a modern marvel of engineering and/or MSPaint—the i6-Goal is sort of boring: it's got no QWERTY, 3G, two-week battery, male enhancement powers, etc. It does, however, appear to be real. Announced by TechFaith Wireless and QIGI, two Chinese companies that very much seem to exist, the i6-Goal is a reassuringly modest accomplishment. The touchscreen phone is a relatively normal quad-band GSM phone, featuring a 2MP camera, GPS and an SD slot. The hardware actually looks quite similar to that of the HTC Touch, which perhaps not coincidentally can hackishly run Android. Notably, the handset will be the... [Tags: accomplishment, china, chinese companies, dual boot, eprice]

Apple's Safari web browser has crested 7% of worldwide browser market share according to online research firm Net Applications. While Safari's accomplishment is significant the biggest winner is clearly Mozilla's Firefo...... [Tags: accomplishment, apple, firefo, mac os x, market share]

The Age of Spiritual Machines — In the year 2009 . . . “The United States continues to be the world’s dominant military power, which is largely accepted by the rest of the world, as most countries concentrate on economic competition. Military conflicts between nations are rare, and most conflicts are between nations and smaller bands of terrorists.” Ray Kurzweil wrote that in 1999, two years before September 11th and at a time when terrorism was not on the world’s radar the way it is today. I’m not sure what it means, but the nature of so many of our systems is changing so rapidly, I... [Tags: accomplishment, biblical proportions, conflicts between nations, corporate model, economic competition]

Are Video Games Too Easy? — A blogger quits World of Warcraft:...that brings me to what worries me most about video games: their whole purpose is to provide dependable, achievable rewards for a certain amount of work. The whole point of designing them well is to curtail possible frustration, to limit the kind of problems that might cause genuine exertion, or to always provide alternative pleasures if certain ones are difficult. It can be, of course, a wonderful feeling to be in worlds like this. There are so few ways to miss that feeling of accomplishment-induced pleasure. It doesn't matter much how artificial that accomplishment is:... [Tags: accomplishment, blogger, exertion, frustration, pleasure]

Larry King to appear on 30 Rock — Filed under: Celebrities, 30 Rock, Casting, Reality-FreeIn the latest of a long line of celebrities to appear on 30 Rock this season, you can add CNN host Larry King. He joins a parade of celebrities with the same accomplishment including Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Aniston, Steve Martin and some of the cast of Night Court.Granted, he's a celebrity that everyone has heard of, but isn't Larry King getting a little past his prime? It seems the the celebrity guest-stars are getting more obscure as the season progresses. By the end of the season, it'll be Kathy Griffin and the guy who... [Tags: accomplishment, carrot top, celebrity guest stars, cnn, cnn host]

Giving Thanks via Twitter — Instead of simply being a date which will live in gluttony, this Thanksgiving was made special thanks to Tweetsgiving, a project designed to raise $10,000 in 48 hours in order to build a classroom in Tanzania. Guess what, it worked!WE DID IT!!! We raised over $10,000 in just 48 hours through the power of TwitterCongratulations to the folks at Epic Change who raised 106% of their goal in such a short amount of time. MG Siegler of VentureBeat has a nice write-up of the accomplishment.... [Tags: accomplishment, amount of time, giving thanks, siegler, special thanks]

Because They Can: Team Australia Overclocks An MSI Wind — Some experiments further the cause of science and expand our knowledge of the world.  And some people do just because they can. “Because we can” experiments do sometimes lead to discoveries and the expansion of knowledge, but we’re not sure this is going to be one of them. Team Australia took a poor, innocent MSI Wind U100 and overclocked its 1.6GHz Atom N270 CPU to 2.385GHz.  This is pretty cool, I admit, but would be much cooler if it could be done without having the guts all over the place and the need for liquid nitrogen to keep the thing... [Tags: accomplishment, atom, australia, discoveries, guts]

Geithner Pick Mystifies Some Traditional Democrats Constituencies — As a young Treasury aide in the late 1990s, Timothy Geithner once said his proudest accomplishment was helping assemble more than $100 billion in international rescues to combat financial instability in Asia and Latin America. Compared with meltdowns prior to the late 1990s, "the world proved much more resilient in confronting the recent crisis, because of the strength of the policy response and the financial force we mobilized in support of strong policies," the career civil servant, then 37 years old, told a reporter at the time.... [Tags: 1990s, 37 years, accomplishment, asia, civil servant]

NASA's newest e-nose for ISS thinks you're wearing too much cologne — Electronic noses are nothing new, but it's always interesting when you throw space into the mix. NASA's most recent Endeavor mission has taken with it a third generation e-nose that's the size of a shoebox, where it will act as a detection and warning system for air contaminants. The ISS currently has no system and relies wholly on the astronauts' actual noses. Developed and built by AEMC, the new nose's dynamic range is from less than one part per million to about 10,000 parts per million -- much more sensitive that human honkers. The e-nose has 32 sensors made... [Tags: accomplishment, air contaminants, astronauts, cologne, dynamic range]

E=mc^2 Verified In Quantum Chromodynamic Calculation — chirishnique and other readers sent in a story in AFP about a heroic supercomputer computation that has verified Einstein's most famous equation at the level of subatomic particles for the first time. "A brainpower consortium led by Laurent Lellouch of France's Centre for Theoretical Physics, using some of the world's mightiest supercomputers, have set down the calculations for estimating the mass of protons and neutrons, the particles at the nucleus of atoms. ... [T]he mass of gluons is zero and the mass of quarks is only five per cent. Where, therefore, is the missing 95 per cent? The answer, according... [Tags: accomplishment, afp, atoms, consortium, e nergy]

Caramel Pound Cake & 100th Post Give-A-Way —   It is hard to believe that this is my 100th post! It seems like it was yesterday when I made my attempt to create a blog, learning how to navigate and set up all the components. I can’t even remember when or why the idea came to me to do this. But it did and I most grateful for it. Not only have I gotten back into cooking, but I have made lots of friends and am grateful for the encouragement by all to follow my dreams. I am still not totally clear as to my calling- but I do... [Tags: accomplishment, amp, blog, caramel pound cake, dear friends]

Chandrayaan 1 — The Indian space research organization has successfully accomplish Asian’s new step in the space race. The was mission launched from the Sriharokota space center north of Chennai and it is now in orbit around the moon. The mission is known as Chandrayaan -1 and so far it has been a success. It is expected that this spacecraft will spend two years scanning the moon for evidence of water. Here at the X Prize we are proud of such accomplishment and we will continue to follow the mission through its success. Here is a video of spacecraft Terrain Mapping Camera over... [Tags: accomplishment, altitude, chandrayaan, chennai, indian space research]

fbFund Review: Socialfly — It’s true, Facebook makes it pretty easy to connect with friends online.  But what happens after you’ve mutually agreed to be friends with someone? The Facebook news feed does a good amount to inform you as to what’s going on with those in your friends list.  But beyond the Birthday reminders, there’s not a whole lot that Facebook does to help you manage your online relationships.  If you feel like your friends are falling through the cracks and you just can’t keep up with all the things you need to do for relationship maintenance, Socialfly is here to help. A... [Tags: accomplishment, birthday reminders, current system, current user, downfall]

Pandora Mints Energizer Music Forum — Pandora is expanding its offering with music forum sponsored by Energizer batteries. The new Energizer Forum offers a place for Pandora users to discuss all things music: songs, artists, playlists, gadgets and more.  As with all things Pandora, the site is clean and simple. Videos will be added next month. The sponsorship with Energizer is part of Pandora's aggressive push to monetize their traffic ahead of large pending royalty increases.  Major brands have already been drawn to the site both because of an impressive user base and a cutting edge yet safe image. (No small accomplishment in the overcrowded... [Tags: accomplishment, clutter, cutting edge, energizer batteries, gadgets]

Only a few days before the largest BitTorrent tracker will celebrate its 5th anniversary, the Pirate Bay reached a new milestone. The site now tracks 25 million peers, which is more than the entire populations of Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland and Denmark combined. When The Pirate Bay was founded, November 2003, it was a site targeted at the Swedish population. This soon changed however, when the founders found out that most visitors came from outside Sweden, or even Scandinavia. In the years to come, The Pirate Bay established itself as the largest BitTorrent tracker on the Internet. Recently, the number... [Tags: 5th anniversary, accomplishment, bittorrent tracker, book of world records, co founder]

Photographer and Fisherman Corey Arnold — Corey Arnold's world straddles two disparate, yet wonderfully integrated, pursuits—he works as both a professional photographer and an Alaskan crab fisherman. Now there's a story. We asked him how his inside perspective on human and animal relationships influences his photographs. When I was a kid, I used to stalk birds and other animals with my BB gun in the backyard. My hunter instinct was strong and I'd spend hours searching for victims. Then, after killing something, I was torn by my adrenaline-fueled sense of accomplishment and deep sadness for what I had done. The same applied to sport-fishing as a... [Tags: accomplishment, alaskan crab fisherman, animal relationships, animal series, arnold]

Valley companies half as likely to have a woman on board [Discrimination] — A press release from Spencer Stuart, the executive recruiting firm, celebrates a "milestone": More than half of the Silicon Valley companies it tracks now have at least one woman on their boards of directors. This is not the accomplishment they would have you think: Among the boards of companies on the S&P 500, 89 percent have at least one woman, and women make up 15.7 percent of S&P 500 directors, versus 8.9 percent in the Valley. Progress, perhaps, but progress that highlights the tech industry's lingering sexism.... [Tags: accomplishment, amp, boards of directors, discrimination, executive recruiting firm]

Sideshow gadget turns WinMo smartphone into a full-featured Media Center remote — The iPhone can already control iTunes and an AppleTV through Apple's free Remote application and now Windows Mobile devices can claim a similar accomplishment In fact, after watching Ian Dixon demonstrate this feat, I think I'm more impressed with the WinMo solution because it offers far more than just remote control features. Ian shows off an early look at a Windows Sideshow Gadget for Windows Mobile that functions as a full-featured remote for a Windows Media Center system. Aside from the basic remote control functions for audio and video, Ian can set up DVR program recordings or view program... [Tags: accomplishment, apple, appletv, bluetooth, control features]

Google's Chrome now works on Linux, crudely — Google is tight-lipped about the Linux version of its Chrome browser, but the company's programmers have proved a bit more forthcoming with a brief announcement that they have a crude version of Chrome working on Linux. "Dude, Gmail works in the test shell on Linux!" said programmer Dan Kegel in a note to the Chromium developers mailing list on Tuesday. It's pretty crude, though: the "enter" key doesn't work, for example. Chromium is the name of the open-source project behind Chrome. But what's a "test shell"? Aaron Boodman, who works on Chrome and Gears and spotlighted the Linux accomplishment,... [Tags: accomplishment, benchmark test, crude version, developers, e mail]