If you're a Ford Mustang fan and you use a rooted +Android phone, here's a little treat for you

I turned this GIF of Mustang chief engineer Dave Pericak demonstrating electronic line lock into a boot animation file for Android phones.  Your phone needs to be rooted and you'll need a file manager like Root Explorer. Just rename the original bootanimation.zip file to bootanimation.zip.bak and copy line-lock-boot.zip to the root/system/media directory and rename it bootanimation.zip.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z9p0mt6fykgg4ys/line-lock-boot.zip

Now every time you start your phone, you'll see this wonderful machine in action. ?

When I was about 10 or 11, I was lucky enough to see the artifacts from King Tut's tomb in Toronto during one of the rare tours

Now they have used modern laser scanning techniques to create an exact replica of the tomb itself that tourists can visit so the original can be preserved.?

Science is so cool?

Microsoft's decision to decouple the Kinect from the XBox One could actually save you a lot more than $100!

It turns out that the XBox One and to a lesser degree the PS4 consume vastly more energy than their predecessors. Having the Kinect constantly listening and watching for commands night and day even when no one is around consumes more than half of the 289 kWh used annually by the Xbox.

Both consoles also use a disproportionate amount of juice just to stream media because they are so overpowered for the task. Streamers like Roku, Apple TV and Chromecast use minimalist hardware to provide the same task, consuming just 1-2 watts while the consoles take nearly 80-90 watts. ?

MIT researchers take clues from nature to develop a means to collect potable water in the driest place on earth?

Dan Pund of +Car and Driver Magazine rides shotgun with Ford Mustang boss Dave Pericak?

The Robin Bark Ford Mustang sculpture is now available through +Ford Motor Company's merchandise site
http://merchandise.ford.com/product/ford-mustang-fifty-years-anniversary-solid-aluminum-sculpture ?

Hard to believe it's been 20 Years, Happy Anniversary Jules!?

Journos including +Frank Markus from +Motor Trend Magazine got their first taste of the 2015 Ford Mustang this week?

A LinkedIn email this morning has me pondering what happens to our online stuff after we die

Got the usual LinkedIn updates email today with the list of new jobs, work anniversaries, etc for my contacts. As I scrolled down the list, I noticed the name of a former colleague from my engineering days at TRW announcing his 11th anniversary there. Sadly, this colleague died prematurely of a heart attack in 2010. 

We need some kind of solution for this that lets our online presence be updated post mortem without sacrificing security while we're still here.?