In a precedent-setting case, administrative trial judge Tynia Richard recommended the firing of John Halpin, a veteran supervisor of carpenters, for cutting out before the end of his shift on as many as 83 occasions between March 2 and Aug. 9, 2006.
The evidence against Halpin, whose base pay is $300 a day, included time [...]

I was linked to this study in the PLOS on the apparent spread of science denial and disinformation that has become symptomatic of the Internet Age.
Below are my somewhat lengthy comments in response to Twinxor’s concerns in the D&D thread. For the Record, PLOS is a legit peer-reviewed scientific journal, but is licensed under [...]

I think this little snapshot of history is quite telling.
How Do Post Office Machines Read Addresses?
Not until Christmas of 1997 did the USPS and the University of Buffalo's Center for Excellence in Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR) deploy its first handwritten address-reading prototype, which rejected 85 percent of envelopes and correctly identified the address in [...]

Its time for Baka Robocup.
Baka RoboCup (baka means “foolish” or “stupid” in Japanese), a competition organized by entertainment giant Yoshimoto Kogyo, which is arguably Japan’s most influential comedy production company, will pit humorous robots against each other in a comedy throw-down this November. Organizers hope the contest will inspire roboticists to devote serious attention to [...]

If you haven’t been watching Flight of the Conchords’ show on HBO, you should be.

Back in January, Vermont Governor Jim Douglas proposed turning Vermont into the first ‘e-state’ in his inaugural address.
Wireless communications and broadband internet access are near the point of convergence – meaning the technologies that support each will be the same. More specifically, modern telecommunications will be based on Internet Protocol, or IP, a digital language [...]