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POPSNew Species of Cockroach Found In New York by 2 High School Students
"In their roles as "DNAHouse investigators," the pair trawled New York apartments, stores and street, collecting 217 specimens between November 2008 and March 2009. They took samples from supermarket food, the remains of an insect found in a box of fruit, a feather from a duster, dried dung and a cockroach and matched DNA sequences using the Barcode of Life Database and GenBank. The American Museum of Natural History laboratory identified 170 genetic codes, leading the researchers to identify 95 different animal species, including some that were unexpected. "A feather from a duster yielded ostrich DNA. A delicacy labeled 'sturgeon caviar' instead turned out to be from the strange-looking paddlefish. A popular Asian snack was revealed as giant flying squid. Bison DNA was found in a dog biscuit," the pair wrote on the Rockefeller University website. In fact, they found that 16 percent of food items were mislabeled, including cheeses labeled sheep's milk that were actually ma
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POPSBoston Plans Livestock-Type Flu Vaccine and Tag Program Mmmooo...People will be herded, shot, tagged, and treated like cattle. Welcome to the human plantation where the government is the proverbial Farmer from Orwell's dictatorial Animal Farm....in America. . This is phase 1 under the plea of "necessity" of course. More "experiments" will come later as the sheep get used to it.
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POPS... 2D barcode ad campaign ... A few years ago I was shown an application that could generate URLs from pictures of a company's logos. We subsequently found ourselves discussing the possibility of "recognizing" Chinese and Japanese characters this way, in order to help western tourists. International road signs could also be "translated". Recently, it has become possible to display a "boarding pass" bar code on your cell phone at the airport. Obviously these types of applications are now starting to emerge (finally).
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POPSCanadian technology scrapped Passport Canada will wave goodbye to flaw technology, which (I personally did not had much idea) allowed you to fill out the forms interactively online and provides the barcode at each of the applications. I posted both notices to allow readers to see that wordings, "...is stepping aside for a new generation of interactive forms. The new forms, which still have the bar code, a feature of the old application, are easier to use." Technology with or without much fanfare or security woes should not hamper its replacements or discouragement of implementation.
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POPSTop Three Android Designs - Developers Challenge Follow through for the to 46 of the 50 winners. Some very innovative use of the Mobile Marketing Space. ,Once just a means to talk on the phone while away from our homes, and then text message, mobile phones are fast becoming little mini computers we carry around in our pockets.
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POPSHillary Nutcracker This is a classic, talk about your ballbuster, er..., nutcracker, this is a must-have. A gft for any occasion, like her or hate her, this is hilarious. This is the most clever site on the web!
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POPSMyTago: Put hyperlinks on real stuff in real life! Sort of like semacoding. Print barcode-like labels and stick them to things. Then photograph them with your cameraphone, upload them to the web, and decode them; they function like hyperlinks. MyTago can even OCR text from photos.
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POPSMytago tags connects the offline and online worlds This could get interesting, once higher-resolution camera mobiles and fast mobile internet connections become standard. Would be nice, to see it in tourism as well: Think of tagged bulidings, streets, statues,... and getting the info you want about them. I hope, there will be mobile clipping as well then...
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