Author - Jerry Paxton

Microsoft Readying Web-Based Office Products

The Register is reporting that Microsoft is preparing web-based versions of it’s popular Office software.

From the article: ‘Microsoft said features of its Office Live Workspace would include allowing users to upload more than 1,000 documents to free personal websites.

There will also be an option for documents to be shared in a password-protected environment.

For anyone who doesn’t have Office installed, features will be restricted via a read-only browser, although users will still have the ability to comment on the document.

The vendor sought to give the beta program a healthy lick of corporate spin, saying ”Online’ services are for organisations with more advanced IT needs where power and flexibility are critical.’ Other apps under the program include Exchange and Sharepoint.’

Cooking Mama 2 Hands-On

Joystiq has posted a ‘hands-on’ report of Cooking Mama 2 for the Nintendo DS. This time around you can look forward to more recipes, more ingredients, as well as a multiplayer mode.

Elmo-Sapien…Just Creepy Looking

Engadget has a post up about a custom version of the RoboSapien called…ElmoSapien. Personally, it looks like something out of the amazing movie, The Thing. Like the RoboSapien was on a mission to infiltrate an Elmo camp, found a sentry and proceeded to skin him….and wear it as a suit…

Natalie Portman Has Her Moment of Nakidity

LAIst has posted the short film entitled ‘The Hotel Chevalier’ in which Natalie Portman gets naked. Now I have never been a huge fan of her body, sure she is a cute girl but way too mousy for my tastes. I am sure this will satisfy many though.

Kirk Found? Rumors Escalate!

AICN is reporting that an actor to play James T. Kirk in the next Star Trek film might have been found. According to their sources, the next Kirk will be actor Mike Vogel, who is also starring in the same Producer’s latest film, secretly titled ‘Cloverfield’.

Radio Burst From Space: Aliens or Black Hole?

Reuters is reporting that astronomers detected a very powerful radio burst lasting only 5 milliseconds from a range of 3 billion light years away.

‘This burst appears to have originated from the distant universe and may have been produced by an exotic event such as the collision of two neutron stars or the death throes of an evaporating black hole,’ said Duncan Lorimer of West Virginia University and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

Jurassic Park is frightening in the dark!

Yahoo reports that scientists have discovered that wooly mammoth hair offers a wealth of genetic information; much more so than from frozen animal skin/blood.

‘Learning the DNA sequence does not mean that the ancient animal can be cloned or somehow resurrected, Schuster said, adding ‘this is science fiction.”  

Sounds like someone needs his Ph.D revoked!  It could happen!!! I have seen it on TV!