atmaspheric | endeavors

Just caught this one via Google News…
I’m sure he’s not happy, but there are few people who could even sustain a hit like this without it having any impact on their personal wealth.
The world’s richest man is out $800,000 (U.S.) for violating federal rules by making a large investment in a pharmaceutical company.
Bill Gates, the [...]

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This is a very cool way to view things…
Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap’s objective takes that goal a step further [...]

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Seventeen new technology feeds from Yahoo. [Scripting News]
Just added them all - actually 19 in total. I wish I could right click and add to NetNewsWire or bulk add with one click… that was a pretty manual copy and paste.
BTW — Where’s the Add to My Yahoo button?!?!

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Ditch your browser—RSS makes surfing for news a joy. [Slate Magazine]

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NASA to Announce ‘Significant Findings’ of Water on Mars Tuesday [SPACE.com]

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A new report from the Pew Internet Project says that “44% of U.S. Internet users have contributed their thoughts and their files to the online world.” [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

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Right after sitting down with my NYT and seeing that Vodaphone is the leading contender, I get an email which says that Cingular is the winner…

Cingular raised its informal offer for AT&T Wireless (AWE: news, chart, profile) by as much as 36 percent as it battled Britain’s Vodafone Group (VOD: news, chart, profile) through the [...]

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The leak is apparently real

This afternoon, news sites are abuzz with rumors that some or all the source code for Windows NT and 2000 leaked out onto the Internet.
I find it hard to believe that source code would leak. After all, companies put source code under lock and key, typically with no outside access available. [...]

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We just saw an amazing car chase on the news…
The story broke through live and we watched the chase for about 15 minutes (the whole chase was about 25 minutes). The driver who turned out to be an older looking man, was wanted for aggravated assault and decided to run. The guy [...]

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A U.S. commander has created a commando force to hunt Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and key terrorists in the Middle East. [New York Times]

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Whether or not it has escaped the sun’s sphere of influence — known to astronomers as the heliosphere — Voyager 1 has exceeded all expectations and on Wednesday was more than 8 billion miles from Earth, or 90 times the distance between Earth and the sun. [Wired News]

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Google recently began meeting with bankers to prepare for its initial public offering as it was still exploring a merger with Microsoft. [New York Times: Technology]
Say it ain’t so… As if Microsoft needs more control and power in our connected world.

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As if the phone was going to be usable after taking it’s “swim…”

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VeriSign CEO Stratton Sclavos explains why he thinks it’s time for infrastructure governing the Internet to go commercial. [CNET News.com]
No holds barred for VeriSign… it’s all business

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Google News launches alerts… I love it!
Thanks to Up2Speed for the tip…

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In the NYT Business Section, page C4 there is a picture of an iBook running Safari with the Intel centrino page open. The caption reads, ” A customer at McDonald’s in Times Square takes advantage of the Wi-Fi capabilities there with a laptop that uses Intel’s Centrino chip” Aside for the fact [...]

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Britain is pushing for a huge expansion of offshore wind farms. Inviting companies to bid on building new farms, the government aims to supply green power to more than 3 million households and create 20,000 jobs. [Wired News]
Cool clean energy…

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Sixty-eight new feeds from BBC News Interactive. [Scripting News]
Just a few more…

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Seven new feeds from BBC News Interactive. [Scripting News]

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Lawmakers question ICANN decision to give secondary market for .com and .net names exclusively to VeriSign. [internetnews.com]

Rival domain registrars across the country have expressed concern over the ICANN effort to implement an exclusive Wait List Service (WLS) to be maintained by VeriSign for customers interested in registering domain names that are in use by others. [...]

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