HUMP DAY NEWS


TECH TUESDAY: ONLINE SHOPPING
With up to 70% of holiday shoppers choosing to do some of their shopping online, rather than at the mall, this primer is rather timely.


WHY WE SHOULD GO BACK TO THE MOON
Global Unity. Alternative sources of energy. Technological Advancement. Even Space tourism. Space.Com makes the case.


FULL CIRCLE
Remember "CircleVision" at Disneyland - where you could take a trip around San Francisco on a fire engine through the streets of San Francisco - and look around and see everything? Well, SONY has developed a cool 360° Full-Circle Lens Video Camera. Wedding Videos will never be the same.

TIVO SMACKDOWN
Slashdot is reporting that TIVO is threatening some of it's users with lawsuits. Seems that hosting backup image files of the box software is a no-no. Those who are looking to transfer their TIVO OS to a larger hard drive, or need to recover it from a crash, may be violating that dreaded DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act). Course, you can sell it, you just can offer it for free. HUH?

HOW STUFF WORKS: THE CAPACITOR
Live and learn. Share with the rest of the class.


iPRICING
The Giz has a theory why iPod's cost what they do. The Short Answer? IT'S AN APPLE PRODUCT! DUH.

OOPS
It was quietly announced, but it seems that the Manhattan Power Blackout earlier this year may have been a result of a military test to support the War on Terror. Oops.