Age Gates
Everyone’s seen them. You load the page for the latest viral video or the most recent update to your favorite web series, and the video player loads a screen similar to the one above. You have to provide the information requested to view the video, and you do so at once because the video is [...]
How a Tiny Magnet Could Produce a Force Field Big Enough To Protect a Space Ship
How a Tiny Magnet Could Produce a Force Field Big Enough To Protect a Space Ship. Interesting stuff with potentially exciting implications.
How to Alleviate an Orbital Traffic Jam – ScienceNOW
How to Alleviate an Orbital Traffic Jam – ScienceNOW. This seems like a mixed bag to me. On the one hand, we’ll be able to get more functionality with new satellites, but on the other, it means more general ‘debris’ hanging in our skies. It’s a cool concept, all the same, though.
Use the BCC for Your Bulk Mailings
It’s gotta be said because I see people constantly falling prone to this simple bit of Internet etiquette: whenever you send a bulk email out a lot of people, it’s generally considered good practice to send your email to yourself as the ‘To:’ recipient and put everyone else in the ‘BCC:’ field. This helps protect [...]
