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Credit: Looking Glass Holographic display maker Looking Glass has announced that it has developed two versions of its second-generation holographic display. On its website, the team at Looking Glass provide a video showing off features that buyers can expect from the two new products, the 4K Gen2 and the 8K Gen2, both powered by what the company calls its advanced light-field technology. Looking Glass displays are of a window design, and the name comes from another name for a mirror, made famous by Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There." In practice, they resemble the shoebox dioramas...

Here’s a news item you may have missed over the holidays. The “doomsday planes” are being upgraded. Four E-4B flying command posts that would be used by U.S. leaders to manage military operations in a nuclear war will receive communications upgrades to enhance their “connectivity” during a conflict that could spell the end of civilization as we know it. The reason you may have missed the story is that almost nobody besides InsideDefense.com reported it. National media were too busy covering more weighty matters like the efforts of North Korean agents to suppress a Sony film farce that insults the...

I want to know how the situation covered on Hannity today is not cause enough for armed insurrection by the people of California against the tyranny of Washington DC. I want to know how governor Schwarzenegger has not called out the national guard and by force of arms turned the water on. I want to know how any rational human being can look at the starving of an area, the destroyed landscape, the human misery caused by artificially starving an area of a natural resource and defend it. I want to know if our government would accept such actions committed...

I know this happens every year in the Legislature, and sometimes I think that those who read my weekly discussion on Sacramento must get bored that I keep saying the same things over and over. Then I realize, the news media does not report these events. In fact, I think that people wouldn’t believe it if the newspaper or television did report it. As I walk through the halls of the Capitol, I feel a little like Alice as she walked through Wonderland. I know I have seen a number of the white rabbits (who are always looking at their...

Mike Pingree has a fun article in every Sunday Boston Herald calledThrough The Looking Glass and it features Dumb criminalsand their even dumber crimes as well as oddball happenings from around the globe.Its usually good water cooler chatter or bar talk.Each column has about 9 stories. July 17, 2005HOPE I'M NOT IMPOSING: A burglar, apparently hopped up on methamphetamine,. broke into the home of a Baptist minister in Wichita, Kan., during church services,.and made himself right at home. He stayed for two hours during which he watched the movie. "The Karate Kid,'' spent time in the hot tub, and tried...

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