4:42 PM
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/sep/23/terror-warning-now-includes-stadiums-hotels/?uniontrib
Silicon Valley sees a big business opportunity in the *brick* market via a low-energy production process that could be a breakthrough for the green market and a huge business opportunity for the US. Ordinary bricks are fired for 24 hours at 2,000 degrees F in a process that can take a week, while Calstar bricks are baked at 212 F and the entire process can take just 10 hours. This breakthrough process requires 80% to 90% less energy and emits 85% less greenhouse gasses...allowing for a higher profit margin because they can be sold for the same price as regular bricks:
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE58K47220090921
Computer model shows the changes in brain mechanisms by cocaine addicts:
http://munews.missouri.edu/news-releases/2009/0922-computer-model-shows-changes-in-brain-mechanisms-for-cocaine-addicts/
Published Google Docs items will now show up in web searches:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-344798.html
Deutsche Telekom is looking at ways to cost-effectively implement 4G for T-Mobile in the US, and they are apparently in talks with Sprint (for the use of its spectrum and Clearwire) and MetroPCS. Instead of buying Sprint, which was rumored last week, what Deutsche Telekom might want to do it pay to get access to the 4G frequency bands from Sprint or MetroPCS:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=atJoqejslkgk
Commentary on how the momentum behind LTE is good for public safety agencies in the US:
http://urgentcomm.com/networks_and_systems/commentary/lte-verizon-metropcs-20090923/
Article about how 802.11n makes muni-WiFi possible in the US:
http://urgentcomm.com/networks_and_systems/wifi/news/muni-wi-fi-20090923/
While drug investigators search a drug dealer's home, some of the officers stopped to play Wii bowling while the other officers conducted their search of the home. The drug dealer's lawyer says that playing the Wii invalidates the search because it wasn't listed in the search warrant:
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/sep/21/undercover-drug-investigators-embarrass-polk-sheri/
Co-workers figured out why they looked so much alike...they were brothers put up for adoption when they were babies! The attention from this news also helped them discover they had a sister. All 3 had been removed from their birth parents home because their parents could not care for them:
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/sep/23/co-workers-find-why-they-look-brothers/?uniontrib