Hoaxbusters

The mailing list Michele subscribes to occasionally gets hit with one of those alarming warnings from a well-meaning member which, invariably, turns out to be a hoax. I always go to Hoaxbusters to show her the real story…

Happiest Geek on Earth

Here’s a nice article on Cory Doctorow: “happiest geek on Earth” and OpenCola (otherwise known as “Cows Orbiting at Low Altitude”). Son of Napster???

Stopping Light

A while back I posted an article about how a Danish physicist slowed the speed of light to 38 mph. We’ll she’s outdone herself by completely stopping light, storing it, then restarting it. The work has been independently verified by another team of researchers as well.

nanoManipulator

Researchers at the University of North Carolina have built a nanoManipulator that allows you to “see” and move nanometer-size stuff (like viruses or strands of DNA), complete with force feedback that lets you “feel” the objects. Here’s another article summarizing the nanoManipulator if you don’t feel like reading quite as much.

SETI@Home: Massively Distributed Computing

The IEEE Computer Society has an article titled SETI@Home: Massively Distributed Computing for SETI that provides a nice description of how the project works.

Newest Paintings

Finally caving in to the harassment of her friends, I’ve updated Michele’s site with her two most recent paintings: A Silenced Voice and Teapots & Strawberries .

NEAR Landing?

NASA’s Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is preparing for the February 12 controlled descent to the surface of asteroid 433 Eros (otherwise known as “landing”, or more likely, “crash landing”).

200,000 Hours!

Sorry about another SETI@home posting, but I just passed 200,000 cpu hours at about noon today.

IT

I doubt that it’s bigger than the Internet or the PC, but ‘IT’ looks intriguing (my guess is some type of personal transportation device).

Scott McCloud

I just ran across I Can’t Stop Thinking!, the semi-regular online feature by Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics. I especially like the latest installment, Episode #5: Coins of the Realm.

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