The Business of Engineering Art

This video shows an amazing wind powered vehicle which is also a work of art.

Also posted in BusinessOver30.com the business, technology, finance and politics magazine blog web site.

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New Independent Digital Filmmaking Site

Filmaka.com is a new site for aspiring filmmakers all over the world. You
can submit your high quality 3-minute short, have it evaluated, enter competitions
to win funding to help make a feature film, a documentary or a TV comedy series.
Its the brainchild of Deepak Nayar, who was behind such films as “Buena Vista Social Club” and [...]

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San Francisco’s Greenest House

When you think of green homes, it brings up an image of a hi-tech house in a rural area, with solar panels soaking up the sun’s free energy and a few wind turbines out the back to collect and convert more free energy. But now Robin Wilson has created a zero net energy home right [...]

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Asus Eee PC 900 – The updated ultra-portable Internet Appliance has arrived

When Asus launched the Asus EEE PC 701 last year, it started a revolution: the Internet Appliance. Finally there was a very cheap, extremely light (less than 1Kg) and small laptop with great connectivity, solid state memory (no hard drive) and a very simple user interface, so simple in fact that [...]

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Facebook: a world of opportunities

Facebook, the social networking site, has 66 million users and now more than 50% of daily visitors are 35 years and older, spending on average 2 hours per month on the site. Although not much e-commerce is carried on in this environment it is growing as a location for creative people to build networks. The [...]

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LifeOver30.com Podcast 12th April 2008

This is the Link to the LifeOver30.com weekly podcast for 12th April 2008
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Google Earth Outreach

Google Earth Outreach is Google’s guide to global causes and it helps charities and nonprofit organisations to quickly and easily (and literally) put their story on the map.
Millions of Google Earth users can now easily find and learn about vital situations across the globe. It gives these organisations a new way to connect directly [...]

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The Grid, the future of the Net where you can download films in seconds

Scientists at Cern, the particle physics centre, have developed a new technology, The Grid which could dramatically increase the speed of transfer and communications. Its currently being developed to capture the super high volume of data being generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the new particle accelerator built to probe the origin of the [...]

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Europe’s new supply ship for the International Space Station

This video simulation and actual footage, shows the ATV, Europe’s new supply space vessel for the international space station. The actual size of the “Jules Verne”, apart from it’s booster rockets, is about the size of a double decker bus. It docked with the space station on 3rd April 2008.
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Google falls to Earth

Well it had to happen sometime, Google, that shining star of the Internet, has stalled on its growth of search results paid ads, for the last few months. and its stock price is nearly 40% down on its peak last November. Perhaps its the vacuum generated by the falling US economy, which has lessened [...]

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