Light at the end of the tunnel?
Most newspapers are talking about the economy's upturn...don't know about you, but there are still lots of engineers out pounding the streets, looking for a job. (And along those lines, be sure to log onto www.designnews.com on Monday morning for the results of our latest salary survey!)

There may be something to a better economy, if you read the Wall Street Journal online -- TI plans to break ground on a new semiconductor manufacturing plant in Richardson, TX in 2005. Of course, we're still talking several years after that before the jobs come online.

Hey, here's the fun site of the day...In case you haven't heard, Honda has a pretty nifty two-minute commercial ala Rube Goldberg. It's the real thing -- no computer animation at all. Check it out here...be sure to click on the star to see the commercial...It's a great way to kill two minutes!


- posted by Paula Porter @ 2:33 PM

 
More on NASA
As you may guess, we do a lot of scanning looking for stories of interest to engineers...Today's Baltimore Sun had a great article by Frank D. Roylance about the crossroad where our space agency sits idling...Are we willing to ante up the bucks to keep space in our sights?

Maybe they should check out the new micro fuel cells powering NEC's prototype notebook introduced today. Supposedly you get 5 computing hours on a tank of methanol.

Speaking of the future...Business Week's has a great article on their annual design awards...take a look at the future concepts.

On a more humorous note...if you're into cars, especially those muscle cars of the 50s-60s-70s, Dave Barry has a great column on the real cars of yesteryear...http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/dave_barry/6190468.htm

Made me think of the old '66 Impala SS, may she rest in peace.
- posted by Paula Porter @ 2:47 PM