Amsterdam orders 125 public EV charging stations, hastens the death of internal combustion

Amsterdam is known for its affinity for two-wheeled transportation, but the cycling-crazed city is also making a serious commitment to EVs for those Dutch who prefer driving. As a part of a plan introduced two years ago to eliminate internal combustion from its streets by 2040, the Netherlands' capital is looking to add to its existing 100 EV charging stations. The City Council has charged Dutch power company Essent with the installation of an additional 125 public plug-in points this year, with the possibility of adding 625 more. These new chargers may make it easier to juice up your electric car, but given the current price of EVs, we aren't sure how many Amsterdam residents will trade in their Kalkhoffs for Fiat 500s and Smart ForTwos. PR's after the break.

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EXCLUSIVE: Bill Murray Isn't Happy With Megan Fox In This 'Passion Play' Clip

"Passion Play" is, in a world, surreal. It stars Mickey Rourke as a down-on-his-luck jazz musician named Nate, who comes to a circus and finds himself drawn to Lily (Megan Fox), aptly named the Bird Woman because of the wings on her back. But the growing bond between this unlikely pair is threatened by the [...]

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These two may start out out like a house on fireplace, but it won?t consider prolonged for the fire to burn up out. Aries?s venturesome spirit and wandering eye en flame Most cancers?s jealousy. And Most cancers is too very easily damage by Aries?s aggressiveness and sharp tongue. Cancer likes security and domesticity; Aries should flexibility to examine new worlds. Most cancers needs to treasure and defend a lover, an perspective which Aries finds too claustrophobic. Both enjoy income, but Aries would like to shell out it and Most cancers would like to keep it. Too many temperamental troubles here.

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Seamless Pushes Your Current Music Track From Mac to iPhone. Seamlessly

Seamless is an iPhone app which lets you easily transition the music you’re listening to between your iOS device and your Mac. So simple is the app that it’s easier to use than to explain. Not that I won’t explain it anyway. To use Seamless, you need both the iOS app and a helper app running [...]

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DHS Weather Forecast: Stormy with a Chance of Terror

Have you ever looked at a hurricane barreling towards the U.S. coastline and thought: Wow, I wonder how much more dangerous this would be if terrorists attacked right now? Of course you haven?t. You don?t work for the Department of Homeland Security.

In 2003, the Department of Homeland Security decided to gather ?35 experts from intelligence, industry, military, and academia? and have them think through whether and how terrorists would exploit the chaos caused by a hurricane in the United States. Their final report (pdf) on the brainstorm session, a red cell report published Friday by Public Intelligence, wasn?t quite crazy enough to conclude that a terror-cane was likely to make landfall anytime soon. But if it did, it would probably involve very small groups using a cyber attack or targeting evacuation routes.

Before you start packing your?disaster kit with shotguns and flak jackets, it?s important to put the red cell report in context. Just because the Department of Homeland Security had some geeks think through the subject doesn?t mean the agency thinks it?s necessarily going to happen. Red cells are the spitballers of the intelligence world. ?They?re supposed to be provocative and challenge existing assumptions to get people thinking.

Even within the loose confines of this particular red cell?s thought experiment, the participants assessed that the ?probability of a terrorist attack during a hurricane was low.? Al-Qaida operatives might be down to launch suicide attacks. But do you really see them wading through to the Lower Ninth Ward?

The inability to predict where and when a powerful hurricane might hit over the long term tends to winnow down the pool of potential attackers. Scratch off a potential Hurricane Osama. The report discounts Middle East terror groups like al-Qaida because of their traditionally longer planning cycles. That leaves loners and splinter groups already able to take advantage of the opportunity on the ground as the most probable bad guys. In the estimation of the red cell, they?d be ?seeking attention rather than pursuing a political agenda.?

If the image of terrorists having their car bombs flooded under a few feet of water seems pretty ridiculous to you, it did to the DHS red cell, too. It identified a strike in the middle of a hurricane as ?highly unlikely, due to the logistical complexities? of trying to turn yourself into a terrorist Rambo when facing 140 mile per hours winds and rain. Instead, the authors claimed that the likeliest attacks would take place either before the hurricane, by attacking evacuation routes and shelters, or in its aftermath, via a cyber attack on communication infrastructure to spread misinformation.

Of course, in the years since, even those fears weren?t born out. Hurricane Katrina didn?t become some kind of natural/man-made disaster mashup. (That is, if you don?t count massive government negligence.)? Moreover, the scenarios mentioned in the Homeland Security hypothetical involve perpetrators that even by terrorist standards are small in number, wouldn?t have a lot of capability and could probably cause more damage through widespread panic, rather than the attack itself.

So do yourself a favor if you live in a hurricane-prone area. Streamline your worries. Concern yourself with about getting out of the way of a hurricane.

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Anatomy of failure: Mobile flops from RIM, Microsoft, and Nokia

April 22, 2011

Research in Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook is so bad that Verizon Wireless may not bother carrying it -- a spokesperson said so the day after the PlayBook debuted to customers. AT&T won't let BlackBerry users download the essential app (BlackBerry Bridge) that brings email and communications apps to the PlayBook. Carriers are arms dealers, selling weapons to anyone for a price, but even they are drawing the line at the PlayBook.

That's a huge fall given that the PlayBook's creator, RIM, is the successful patriarch of the mobile market -- inventing the smartphone category, in fact. And RIM is not alone.

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Like RIM, after lots and lots of promises leveraging its Windows savvy and market strength, Microsoft produced its own disastrous mobile platform, Windows Phone 7. It's not as bad as the PlayBook, and if you really want one, a carrier will sell you a unit. Dell too jumped on the Android bandwagon and produced a series of awful tablets, after a failed foray into making its own smartphone. (Remember the Axim?)

The list goes on. Nokia had to kill its signature Symbian OS after a new CEO forced it to admit that the OS was at end of life after several years of self-denial, and the company's efforts to create a successor had all failed. It then jumped from the frying pan into the fire by adopting Windows Phone 7 and delayed new products until 2012. Then there is the parade of successful, largely Asian PC and display makers (original equipment makers, or OEMs) -- such as Acer, Lenovo, and ViewSonic -- who promise and even sometimes ship sloppy, ill-conceived devices in hopes of getting into a growing market. How enticing!

Why are such established technology powerhouses failing so spectacularly in mobile? How can they not see the self-destruction in their approaches? For RIM and Nokia, the failings threaten their medium-term existence. For Microsoft and Dell, the failings prevent them from growing where the market is moving.

There are several reasons, and one of them is not Apple. Sure, Apple worked its design magic on first the smartphone and then the tablet, bringing to market the same zeal, elegance, consistency, and ecosystem advantages that have made the Mac the only PC with a growing market share. But Apple had done that with the original Mac, yet was still beaten by others. The fact that Apple's mobile products are truly the best doesn't explain why the competitors' products are generally so bad.

The answers have to do with an essential flaw found in most companies: They can't easily change gears because doing so means dropping the focus on what has worked and brings in the money now for an unproven, untested, risky shift. Clayton Christensen captured and described this phenomenon wonderfully in "The Innovator's Dilemma," an often-cited business book most businesspeople don't seem to actually follow.

When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, it seemed to be a left-field change for the Mac maker, a bet that it could enter and succeed in an alien market. That wager paid off, with Apple now the highest-valued public technology company in the world. But in 1999 or whenever CEO Steve Jobs decided to shift from being a PC maker into a consumer device maker (2001's iPod was the result, which led Apple to the iPhone and now the iPad), that proposition had very long odds. At the time, Apple was in critical condition, so the company had the freedom to take its chances.

RIM, Nokia, Microsoft, and Dell haven't been desperate enough to truly think different. When the iPhone came out, they all pooh-poohed it as a toy that would at best appeal to Mac loyalists. (Never mind the example of the iPod.) Today, iPads already outsell Macs 4 to 3 and iPhones outsell Macs 5 to 1 -- that shows why mobile is so important to computer vendors. In addition, iPads are credited with torpedoing the netbook market and shrinking the PC market.

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A couple of weeks ago a relatively small task turned into a real nightmare, you all might like to read about it. This issue of ShortCuts is full to the rafters; we have the latest words on the NEW Delta location and operation. Ted Monk is a very talented woodworker and we feature a beautiful example of his work. Fein (Pronounced 'Fine') has a deal for you and has even more news coming a little later.
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The Tool Test looks at the Job-Pro+ Pressure Washer and some new Lithium-ion powered outdoor tools from Black & Decker. Take a look!

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3D Porno Tops Avatar's Single-Day Box Office Record In Hong Kong [Video]

For the last several years, the single-day box office king in Hong Kong has been Avatar. People love giant blue cat-people! But not, apparently, as much as they love full frontal nudity. Because after grossing $340,000 US on 73 screens, 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy has taken Hong Kong's single-day box office crown. More »


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Labour needs to challenge Alex Salmond ? and quickly | Kevin McKenna (Guardian)

Alex Salmond is having a stoating election, but it's not too late for Labour to gain some momentum The SNP's scholarly education minister, Mike Russell, is a formidable force at Holyrood when holding forth in debate. There he was just a few weeks before the end of the last session of parliament smiting an assortment of hapless and semi-literate opposition MSPs, sending them to the furthest boundaries of the chamber. Russell was defending his decision to ring-fence free university education for Scottish students and not a single combatant could lay a glove on him. His adopted tone for the afternoon was one of patronising scorn, as when he chided another quivering Tory nonentity thus: "No greater joy in heaven is there than over a sinner who doth repent." Labour simply do not possess his equivalent. Nor do they have anyone who can match John Swinney, the sure-footed finance minister whom Harry Potter will surely resemble when he becomes headmaster at Hogwarts. Nicola Sturgeon and Kenny MacAskill, similarly, have grown into their cabinet roles and they, too, lorded it over their Labour opponents in the third Scottish parliament. So even when Alex Salmond tilts at windmills by ...
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'Desperate Housewives' Recap: Season 7, Episode 20

'Desperate Housewives' Recap: Season 7, Episode 20

Susan's heartfelt kindness toward Paul certainly couldn't go unpunished for long, and soon enough crazy old Felicia's managed to weasel her way into the house -- via her daughter's sentimental kidney -- and launch a full-on poison attack on the comfort food Susan's cooking for Paul.

Mike and Susan are back in the financial black, and can finally afford to move back into Paul's house, but Susan feels weird about kicking him out -- especially now that she's poisoning him three times a day and he's looking sicker and sicker.

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