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  I replaced my 12AX7′s in my Peavy Windsor to get a cleaner sound, I used 2 – 12AT7′s and one 12AU7  It worked Great !!   Different 12A*7 Family Tubes in a Blues Junior Everybody talks about how you can tailor the tone of an amp by swapping tubes in various gain stages or

Wow !!!  Get out the super glue. Maybe this will cut down the cost of surgery.   Human Artery Cross-Section Wikimedia Commons A new heat-sensitive gel and glue combo is a major step forward for cardiovascular surgery, enabling blood vessels to be reconnected without puncturing them with a needle and thread. It represents the biggest

$25 toy radio used to knock out feds Thousand dollar radio can track them too “Going to have to get one of these. You have to watch out for “Big Brother out there “ Kev —————- Researchers looking at the security of the US Project 25 radio network, used by federal agents and local police,

    A theory of reality beyond Einstein’s universe is taking shape – and a mysterious cosmic signal could soon fill in the blanks IT WASN’T so long ago we thought space and time were the absolute and unchanging scaffolding of the universe. Then along came Albert Einstein, who showed that different observers can disagree

The National Science Foundation has kicked off a successor to its popular Teragrid project, that links together 17 of the nation’s fastest supercomputer and software development centers with infrastructure support to realize the world’s most advanced applications in materials science, medicine, genomics, astronomy, biology and specialty fields like earthquake engineering. The new Extreme Science and

The Launch CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Atlantis and four astronauts rocketed into orbit Friday on NASA’s last space shuttle voyage, dodging bad weather and delighting hundreds of thousands of spectators on hand to witness the end of an era. Live TV with chat Stream videos at Ustream If you have a iphone or a

This is pretty neat, but a tad to pricie. $$$         Oscium’s iMSO-104 hardware offers to turn your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch into a 12MSPS digital oscilloscope with an analog bandwidth of 5MHz. For folks like me with limited desk space & shifting work environments, that’s an interesting offer indeed. Oscium

    NASA’s final shuttle mission will feature outer space’s first iPhone, tricked out with an app to measure spacecraft radiation levels, orbital location and altitude.     The iOS-based software, called SpaceLab, will come pre-loaded on two iPhone 4s. Testing the software isn’t mission-critical, but it may lead to terrestrial commercial devices being repurposed for

  On June 8, NASA joins organizations from across the globe to test out the next generation of the Internet, called Internet Protocol version six or IPv6. As more devices and people come online, the older Internet Protocol version four (IPv4) addresses — those sets of numbers that uniquely identify every device on the Internet

  The periodic table of the elements now officially has two new members, its heaviest ever. The new elements, 114 and 116 weigh 289 and 292 atomic mass units, respectively. By comparison, lead’s atomic weight is 207.2. These radioactive elements won’t remain that heavy for long: they exist for under a second before they lose their

      Okay, so antimatter’s nothing like lightning, really, but bottling it in a kind of containment field? Doesn’t sound like the safest gig. More like something you’d catch Geordi La Forge trying during some wild hair zero-sum Star Trek plotline involving aliens, the Holodeck, rerouting power from life support, and a self-destruct sequence.  

  Regular readers know that CMOS can’t get enough of huge explosions on the surface of the sun. That puts us in a pretty good place right now, considering the current solar cycle is moving into a period of increased explosive activity. For those who might not understand why we love solar explosions, this video

          Why are we so attracted to prophecies of doom, from religious raptures to environmental collapse? It’s part of our psychology The latest incarnation of the destruction-redemption myth is brought to you by numerological number-cruncher and evangelical Christian radio host Harold Camping. Originally predicted to unfold on 21 May, the rapture

I need some of this stuff for my Bathroom (Grin) Kev__ DeconGel Pour it on, peel it off.Courtesy: DeconGel A clever technology is helping hazmat crews in Japan contain and clean up the contamination caused by the ongoing nuclear disaster there: ablue liquidthat hardens into a gel that peels off of surfaces, taking microscopic particles

  CASSINI MISSION from Chris Abbas on Vimeo.     Who would of thought? Go Nine inch nails !!!   CASSINI MISSION from Chris Abbas on Vimeo.     From Digital Kitchen Seattle creative Chris Abbas comes this sweet mashup video featuring music from Nine Inch Nails and pictures from NASA’s Cassini mission. The Cassini Solstice/Equinox Mission

Pretty much how I start my Day- MORE COFFEE !!! Kev– A Feast for Bacteria Mmm, coffee.dyobmit via Flickr A newly described species of bacteria has joined the ranks of those of us whodepend on caffeinefor survival. The little microbe,Pseudomonas putida, uses specialized enzymes to break the precious compound into carbon dioxide and ammonia, scientists

  It’s got a cop motor, it’s got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks … and now it has a infrared night vision camera, automatic license plate reader, and dashboard touchscreen. This souped-up Chevy Caprice is theLAPD’s future cruiser, enabling cops to track down suspects with the greatest of comfort. The vehicle is operated by a

      Despite NASA’s attempts at anthropomorphism, the Mars rovers do not talk, so Spirit was unable to utter any last words. But we did get to share its final view. Behold, our departed rover’s last Martian vista, the Columbia Hills.     This was the last panorama Spirit transmitted to Earth, on its 2,175th

      Metamaterial Hyperlens This brass acoustic hyperlens can magnify imaging sound waves to increase the resolution of sonar and ultrasound. A new metamaterial superlens developed at Duke directs waves within the bulk of the lens between the outside surfaces, giving researchers greater control over whatever passes through it. Xiang Zhang research group.  

Its been a secret for a long time. The iCloud is on its way !! Kev–           One of the mysteries surrounding the 500,000-square foot server farm Apple (AAPL) has famously constructed in a small North Carolina town called Maiden — besides its ultimate purpose — is why it didn’t show up

        ViewSonic made good on a rumor from earlier this month and debuted its ViewPad 7x tablet running Google Honeycomb at Computex in Taipei. The 7-inch slate is powered by Android 3.0.1, the same version I used on Acer’s 10.1 tablet for my review. The company hasn’t yet announced a price point

Neat Video of of the history of the Endeavour. NASA Live TV The Landing Live real-time shuttle tracking is at http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html Stream videos at Ustream Live TV with chat If you have a iphone or a iPad click here for live TV http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/nasatv_live_iphone.html Space Shuttle Endeavour Returns to Earth for Final Time Wednesday CAPE CANAVERAL,

        As companies like Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Dell have recently experienced with a drop in sales of their notebook PCs, the coming of the tablet is affecting the IT business in several areas. While sales of solid-state NAND flash drives are expected to boom by 400 percent over the next year, researcher IHS

  A showroom employee displays a tablet computer from one of Taiwan’s top PC vendors, AsusTek Computer Inc., in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, May 28, 2011. Dozens of global computer firms and their obsession to get a piece of the expanding tablet computing market will be on full display Tuesday May 31, 2011, as Computex, the

        The space shuttle Endeavour is docked at the International Space Station in a NASA photo released May 28, 2011. The shuttle will streak across the California coastline at hypersonic velocity for the last time on Wednesday. (NASA TV / May 28, 2011) Spare parts were collecting dust in warehouses in Bell,

Seil Collins, reporter 2MRSA.jpg (Image: T.H. Jarrett (IPAC/SSC)) Seil Collins, reporter     (Image: T.H. Jarrett (IPAC/SSC))     The most detailed view ever assembled of our universe is now available… and it’s even in 3D.   Covering 95 per cent of the sky in the infrared part of the spectrum, the 2MASS Redshift Survey

Your Universe (As Seen From the Home Planet) ESO/Stephane Guisard and Jose Francisco Salgado There’s very little we can write to preface the imagery below, so we’ll just set the scene and get out of the way. The video below was captured by Stephane Guisard and Jose Francisco Salgado at the European Southern Observatory’s Very

        The world’s first commercially available quantum computer, which uses principles of quantum mechanics rather than classical mechanics, was sold to aerospace, defense and security company Lockheed Martin.   Unlike computers based on transistors, quantum computers rely on principles of quantum mechanics to conduct operations. The computers take advantage of properties like

    Nissan has taken a potshot at General Motors by mocking its plug-in electric hybrid Chevy Volt in an ad for its pure plug-in electric car, the Nissan Leaf. The ad mocks cars that use internal combustion engines and gasoline by showing a world where any electronic gadget is powered by gasoline and an

By: Miles O’Brien It was a cold night in Pasadena when NASA‘s rover Spirit landed on Mars. But if tension could generate heat, we would have been perspiring. On a good day, getting to Mars is a crapshoot. Over the years, only one in three missions to the Red Planet have succeeded. That is good