USEFUL STUFF
- [Nano] Faster, Cheaper DNA Sequencing
- [Future] ‘Pre-crime’ detector shows promise (Minority Report, take two!)
- [Nature] An Arctic Sea “Foaming” with Methane: What Now? (the most disturbing thing I’ve read in a while!!! More here)
- [Man-made] Scientists Develop Plastic-Producing Bacteria
- [Astronomy] TED Talks – Peter Diamandis: Taking the next giant leap in space
- [Psychology] [Politics] Massively-Multiplayer Decepticon (yeah, and elephants can fly in mid-air air:P)
ENTERTAINMENT
- The Evolution of Mobile Phones 1985 – Today
- Record-Breaking Tower Tilts More Than Pisa
- Test your color IQ (I got an 8 out of a 100)
- The mating habits of the water shrew
- Rubik’s Mirror Blocks: The Cube Taken To New Dimensions of Trickiness
- The Great Dog Escape (you’ve gotta see it to believe it…and turn off the annoying music:P)
WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to Google. As much as they’ve been receiving some bad PR lately, they’re my personal choice of email, calendar, news aggregator, homepage, freeware 3D modeling, and I better stop before I sound like a really bad salesperson!
Also, they’ve
- recently celebrated their 10′th birthday
- unveiled the open-source mobile OS Android, which will hopefully be a match to the iPhone’s V.I.P.-ish politics!!!
- launched Google Moderator, Project 10^100, an energy modeling plug-in for SketchUp, and are constantly improving and inventing
- begun lobbying to open up unused broadcast spectrum, which we’ll probably hear more of in the near future
- seriously started considering of deploying their supercomputers out to sea or finding alternatives to lower their costs
- and are pretty much in-our-face whenever we use the net. Free of charge!
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(via: all the usual and unusual blogs and sites that I’ve got in Google Reader)
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