Monthly Archives: April 2012

ICANN Update and “Monkey Business”

Update 2012-04-30: The CEO of ICANN, Rod Beckstrom stated in an interview today that ICANN “will not publish information about who could see what”. ICANN posted an update today but it wasn’t about when TAS would reopen. Here it is… … Continue reading

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The Best Fake I’ve Ever Seen – A Man Flies Like A Bird

This is the second flying story I ran across this week. Sorry, off topic, but it is so interesting. The problem here is that this one is a fake. A Dutch CGI artist pulled off a pretty amazing hoax, building … Continue reading

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New York To Los Angeles in 12 Minutes

I ran across a video made last year about an experimental aircraft that can fly at hypersonic speeds (20 times the speed of sound). The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) did a test flight of an aircraft capable … Continue reading

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A New, More Customer-Friendly Type Of Web Address Is Coming

It was nice to run across an article today about new Top Level Domains that described them as “Customer-Friendly”.  We need more positive press about new TLDs.  There are plenty enough painting them in a negative way. The truth is … Continue reading

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