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I am throwing up this page because I have yet to see a decent LINUX based CarPC that shows the potential of what can be achieved if the effort is put forth. I have spent the last month or so tweaking the software as well as fabricating the LCD and controls to the point where I am satisfied with the result.

What I CAN do:

* Listen to music
* Watch videos/movies
* Control audio with steering wheel control. Since the audio is fed into the HU with a P.I.E adapter, the steering wheel is my “master” volume control.
* View Pictures in a slideshow
* Sniff wireless networks and plot them with GPS – I’ve plotted the APs I’ve found, and integrated it with Google’s Map API, check it out.
* Download and view local Weather info, including 3 day forcast and doplar radar
* Browse the web with Firefox
* Connect to my cell phone with bluetooth, and connect to Verizon’s EVDO network
* Stream DirecTV from my house.
* Remote start my car, and connect to it from inside my house. I can SSH in, and transfer files without even getting off my couch

RC model helicopter prices have reached a point where all sorts of challenging (i.e. crash-prone) robotics projects become affordable. This document explains how to build a 300 g, 3D-capable helicopter with embedded Linux and Bluetooth datalink for less than 500 EUR.

As a proof of concept, we provide software which allows the helicopter to be remotely controlled over Bluetooth with a PC joystick. Future work will focus on the integration of sensors (IMU, altitude, magnetic compas, GPS, camera) and flight control software (either third-party or dedicated).

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.”

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”

EpicareTM (patent pending), the first ever Do-It-Yourself threading hair removal device offers a quick and simple yet effective way to remove unwanted facial hair in the comfort of your home.

What is THREADING hair removal? Conventional threading is the removal of facial hair from the roots with the use of a cotton thread by trained professionals. Threading Hair removal is currently gaining popularity in the U.S. and worldwide. It is the most talked about method of facial hair removal today.

The Harry E. Winkler Photographic Collection includes more than 7,500 different boxing related images in various formats. Winkler was a longtime Los Angeles area fight figure and California correspondent for The Ring magazine from 1939 to 1953. He is best remembered, however, for his extensive collection of boxing photographs, many of which were acquired by the University Libraries of Notre Dame in 1977

Add online blogger to the list of media ventures on the resume of real-estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump.

Trump’s eponymous blog, which is subtitled “ideas and opinions from Donald Trump and his circle of experts,” is connected to Trump University, an online education Web site begun in late May.

“It’s another channel to get his message out, it gives him another forum to reach his audience,” said Michael Sexton, president of Trump University. “It’ll be reflective of what’s topical in the news, business, and education, [though] he won’t tackle popular culture or entertainment. Everybody wants to hear what he’s up to next.”

In 1948, the Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito (May 7, 1892 – May 4, 1980) broke up with the Soviet leader Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (Dec. 21, 1879 – March 5, 1953) and Yugoslavia was on the brink of war with the Soviet Union. There were tanks on both sides of the border and Tito’s regime imprisoned many Soviet sympathizers (real or just suspected). Russian films were suddenly not so popular anymore.

Yugoslav authorities had to look somewhere else for film entertainment. They found a suitable country in Mexico: it was far away, the chances of Mexican tanks appearing on Yugoslav borders were slight and, best of all, in Mexican films they always talked about revolution in the highest terms. How could an average moviegoer know that it was not the Yugoslav revolution?

Foreign citizens who change planes at airports in the United States can legally be seized, detained without charges, deprived of access to a lawyer or the courts, and even denied basic necessities like food, lawyers for the government said in Brooklyn federal court yesterday.

The assertion came in oral arguments over a federal lawsuit by Maher Arar, a naturalized Canadian citizen who charges that United States officials plucked him from Kennedy International Airport when he was on the way home on Sept. 26, 2002, held him in solitary confinement in a Brooklyn detention center and then shipped him to his native Syria to be interrogated under torture because officials suspected that he was a member of Al Qaeda.

Syrian and Canadian officials have cleared Mr. Arar, 35, of any terrorist connections, but United States officials maintain that “clear and unequivocal” but classified evidence shows that he is a Qaeda member. They are seeking dismissal of his lawsuit, in part through the rare assertion of a “state secrets” privilege.