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Coolness Roundup #134: Boycott Cable Week 3


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This week Stephen Schleicher offers some insight into methods for optimizing traffic to your website, and a new feature offered from Google Analytics. But first... * Charlie While fills everyone in on his Boycott Cable Project. This week he talks about building a media PC for the home theater and how a $65 dollar card may be a great solution for you. * eMusic.com Audio Book Recommendation Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michu Kaku A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible—from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks—revealing to what extent such technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into the future. One hundred years ago, scientists would have said that lasers, televisions, and the atomic bomb were beyond the realm of physical possibility. In Physics of the Impossible, the renowned physicist Michio Kaku explores to what extent the technologies and devices of science fiction that are deemed equally impossible today might well become commonplace in the future. From teleportation to telekinesis, Kaku uses the world of science fiction to explore the fundamentals—and the limits—of the laws of physics as we know them today. He ranks the impossible technologies by categories—Class I, II, and III, depending on when they might be achieved, within the next century, millennia, or perhaps never. * And the Rapid Fire Roundup of Cool Products We've Seen During the Week. Sponsors The Coolness Roundup is brought to you by: eMusic - Download 35 free songs from emusic.com/coolnessroundup GoDaddy - use the codes Roundup1, Roundup2, or Roundup3 for additional savings when you check out from GoDaddy.com
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Coolness RoundupBy Charlie White and Stephen Schleicher