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noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:04:00 +0000

"What a Botnet Looks Like". (Via /.)

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:03:00 +0000

"Electromagnetic signals from cell phones can change your brainwaves and behavior.":

The arousal effects the researchers measured are equivalent to about half a cup of coffee, and many other factors in a person's surroundings will affect a night's sleep as much or more than cell phone transmissions.

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:02:00 +0000

Flogos are floating corporate logos made from soap bubbles. (Via Fark.)

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:01:00 +0000

The psychogeography of the United States? According to this article, various personality types shows distinct regional clustering:

...America's psychogeography lines up reasonably well with its economic geography. Greater Chicago is a center for extroverts and also a leading center for sales professionals. The Midwest, long a center for the manufacturing industry, has a prevalence of conscientious types who work well in a structured, rule-driven environment. The South, and particularly the I-75 corridor, where so much Japanese and German car manufacturing is located, is dominated by agreeable and conscientious types who are both dutiful and work well in teams.

The Northeast corridor, including Greater Boston, as well as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, are home to concentrations of open-to-experience types who are drawn to creative endeavor, innovation, and entrepreneurial start-up companies. While it is hard to identify which came first - was it an initial concentration of personality types that drew industry, or the industry which attracted the personalities? - the overlay is clear.

(Via SciTechDaily.)

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:04:00 +0000

"30 tech myths debunked". (Via BBspot.)

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:03:00 +0000

Wikipedia T-shirt of the day.

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:02:00 +0000

Artificial mouth.

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:01:00 +0000

Quantum internet search.

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:05:00 +0000

"How David Blaine held his breath for 17 minutes". (Via Fark.)

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:04:00 +0000

"Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps". A thing of beauty...

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:03:00 +0000

"How much of the traffic on the internet is peer-to-peer file trading?"

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:02:00 +0000

Regenerative medicine update.

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:01:00 +0000

Never urinate on an electric fence.

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:04:00 +0000

Robot squirrel used to infiltrate native squirrel population.

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:03:00 +0000

"Hard Drive Recovered from Columbia Shuttle Solves Physics Problem":

Researchers have finally published the results of data recovered from a cracked and singed hard drive that fell to Earth in the debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia, which exploded during reentry on February 1, 2003, killing all seven crewmembers.

The hard drive contained data from the CVX-2 (Critical Viscosity of Xenon) experiment, designed to study the way xenon gas flows in microgravity. The findings, published this April in the journal Physical Review E, confirmed that when stirred vigorously, xenon exhibits a sudden change in viscosity known as shear thinning. The same effect allows whipped cream and ketchup to go from flowing smoothly like liquids to holding their shapes like solids.

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:02:00 +0000

Nice review of the memristor.

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:01:00 +0000

Mass or zombie takeover? And, Graph Theory Meets the 7 Vices.

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:05:00 +0000

Modular shape-shifting robot reassembles itself when kicked apart.

What could possibly go wrong with this technology? (Via DRB.)

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:04:00 +0000

Update on nuclear fusion.

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:03:00 +0000

E-mail backscatter.

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:02:00 +0000

It's only been 15 years since this.

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:01:00 +0000

Strap on helicopter. (Via Rand Simberg.)

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:10:00 +0000

"Man stuck in machinery uses big toe to call 911".

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:04:00 +0000

More high-speed photography revelations.

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:03:00 +0000

"Telescope could focus light without a mirror or lens".