Thursday, February 22, 2007

week 142 : 22 Feb 2007 (George Washington's birthday)

Agriculture
SPAM varieties: the pseudo-meat, not the email

Yahoo! Suggestion Board
 Attorney General
OpenID: a distributed identity system

Xgrid: for Mac OS X .. then use the Xgrid@Stanford Widget to monitor it
 Commerce
InPhase Technologies: "the equivalent of 462 CDs on a single 300 GB cartridge"
 Defense
Quack "Electrodiagnostic" Devices: you mean this snake-oil doesn't really work?
 Education
Curriki: a curriculum Wiki
 Energy
Extron Electronics: "a leading manufacturer of professional A/V system products"
 Health and Human Services
BabySIM: baby simulator, by Medical Education Technology
 Homeland Security
Dissection Alternatives: a Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine site

Project Darkstar:: "a research effort aimed at simplifying the process of developing multi-player online games that can be deployed on a massive scale and made available to players using virtually any client device."
 Housing and Urban Development
One Laptop per Child: a $100 laptop for the world's children education
 Interior
Texas Citizens for Science: when you think of science, you think of Texas, right?
 Labor
Altiris: system deployment and configuration -- IT Asset Management Process and Services
 State
Promises Malibu: Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehab in Malibu, California
 Transportation
Yahoo! Pipes: "an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator -- create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant"
 Treasury
National Score Index: See How Your Credit Score Compares
 Veterans Affairs
Scientific Linux: Linux variant #301?