Nano-material is harder than diamonds

New Scientist Breaking News - Nano-material is harder than diamonds

Made with a heapin' helping of compressed buckyballs ........ Good Stuff ...... :)

Scientists: 2,300-year-old bones place bison near Illinois River 08/31/05

Pantagraph.com - News - Scientists: 2,300-year-old bones place bison near Illinois River 08/31/05

Scientists think the eight Bison crashed through the ice on the Illinois
River in about 265 B.C. and drowned.

Space Penguin could hop around moon to explore

Top News Article | Reuters.co.uk

Yes, But is it Linux-Powered? ........ :)

Giant water plume spews from Saturn's moon

New Scientist Breaking News - Giant water plume spews from Saturn's moon

OK .. OK ... Last One ......

Cassini Finds Enceladus Tiger Stripes Are Really Cubs

JPL.NASA.GOV: News Releases

Must be a combination of radioactive heating PLUS gravitational heating.
I'm impressed that they can date the age of the ice to between 10 and 1000 years old.

Scientists baffled by mystery heat source on Saturn's moon

Telegraph | News | Scientists baffled by mystery heat source on Saturn's moon

Boffins Baffled? ........ NO WAY!! ............... ;-)

Most scientific papers are probably wrong

New Scientist Breaking News - Most scientific papers are probably wrong

Now Ain't That A Blip! .....

New Hydrogen-Making Method

RED HERRING | New Hydrogen-Making Method

Sounds promising .....

New Nanotech Coating Prevents Fogging, Glare in Glass

New Nanotech Coating Prevents Fogging, Glare in Glass

CAN'T WAIT ... [the proverbial 2-5 years] ... FOR IT !! ..... ;-)

Pigment explains why red heads are more at risk of skin cancer

Pigment explains why red heads are more at risk of skin cancer

Word for our red-headed friends out there .... :)

Snoop Dogg, Lee Iacocca sizzle, fo' shizzle in new ad

DailyBulletin.com - News

I wanted to comment on what I think is one of the most unusual pairings I have ever seen on TV, that of Lee Iacocca and Snoop Dogg. The commercial just cracks me up! :) Plus I wanted to see the exact wording ...

At one point I was thinking that Snoop was saying " Fo-Shizzle, Ike-a-Zizzle". The link bears this out, at least phonetically.

The thought dawned on me tonight, that I might even find pictures of the commercial, by looking on Google's video search ........ Here

But I couldn't find "Ike-a-Zizzle" ... so then I just searched for "Shizzle". There are currently 95 hits for "Shizzle" on Google Video Search. Then I noticed they were spelling it " iaco-zizzle " in their TEXT.

There are 63 hits for "iaco-zizzle". Every hit for "iaco-zizzle" also a sub-hit inside the search term "For shizzle, iaco-zizzle" so you can do 95 - 63 to determine that Google video currently references 32 hits for "Shizzle" that are NOT related to this commercial. Hits from Mad TV, for example .... ;-)

In doing the Google Video Search, I found two things I consider very interesting. One ... on the main page with the search results, the same 4 video frames seem to get snagged each time ... which I have termed "First", "Big Couple", "Little Couple", and "Ride" ..... and Two ... all the TEXT, that I assumed was a machine translation from actual TV video feed, seems to match verbatim. (There are a few messed-up translations of the term "d-O-double-gizzle"). Odd, since I would assume this would typically work similar to the results you get from watching TV news with the closed-captioning turned ON. Read -- occasional messed-up translations.

Once you click on an individual picture, to examine more video snips, in detail, then you DO find that some of the Snoop-Iacocca commercial video gets snagged at different moments in the commercial. The snaps occur at 30 second intervals, and I at first puzzled that perhaps the various networks were using atomic clocks, and THAT might be the reason that the first 4 video frames were being snagged at precisely the same frame in the commercial.

Here is the text from the commercial:

[Dodge Ram pickup pulls up]
Lee Iacocca: Nice Ride.
Snoop Dogg: Thank you, mocca 'cocca. Chrysler and jeep came up on bookoo awards. And Dodge trucks last as long as the d-O-double-gizzle.
Snoop Dogg: Plus... I got the Hook-up, nephew, for sure.

Lee Iacocca: You know, I'm not too sure of what you just said, but now everybody gets a great deal.

Snoop Dogg: For shizzle, iaco-zizzle. It's employee pricing plus.

Snoop Dogg: If the ride is mo' fly, you must buy!

Lee Iacocca: That's what I hear.

[For you folks that don't speak Shizzle .... the term "d-O-double-gizzle" translates to "Dogg" ...... ;-) ]

US jets to have 'Star Wars' blasters

US jets to have 'Star Wars' blasters | The Other Side | Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au (25-08-2005)

Now all they need is a good R2-D2 and they are all set.

Enemy anemones wage all-out war

Enemy anemones wage all-out war - LiveScience - MSNBC.com

Say "Enemy Anemones" three times real fast ..... ;-)

Earth's Core Spins Faster Than Surface, Study Confirms

Earth's Core Spins Faster Than Surface, Study Confirms

The Earth's solid iron inner core is about the size of the moon, and now it
has been proven to rotate faster than the rest of the planet. The inner
core is surrounded by a liquid iron outer core that is about 2.8 times wider
than the moon.
That's a LOT of iron, folks......

Scientists probe anti-ageing gene

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Scientists probe anti-ageing gene

When scientists overexpressed the Klotho gene in mice, the mice averaged living 20 to 30 percent longer than normal mice. Humans have an almost identical Klotho gene in their bodies. The gene itself is conserved in many species, and seems to affect aging in all those species. It is involved with insulin-signaling pathways in the body, so further study in needed.

Hasselblad launches four new products

Hasselblad launches four new products: Digital Photography Review

That H2D is one sweet looking digital camera ....

Ariane 5 technology turns the lights on

ESA - Technology Transfer - Ariane 5 technology turns the lights on

A company called Sensitive Object has developed and patented
ReverSys technology that uses one accelerometer to capture the
accoustic pattern of any rigid surface, and then uses Time-Reversed
Lamb Waves to calculate the precise location of any finger-tap, on
that surface.
The result is that you can use everyday household objects,
blackboards, etc., as input devices to control other devices via
computer.

Arctic could see ice-free summers in 100 years

Arctic could see ice-free summers in 100 years | CNET News.com

It's been a million years since the last time this happened.....

Intel takes aim at computer cable madness

Intel takes aim at computer cable madness | CNET News.com

Amen! to less cables ....

Digital Pygmalion project: from photographs to 3D computer model

Cambridge University Engineering Department: News item

A sophisticated Hi-Res 3D computer model generated from several snaps from a digital SLR camera. All brought about by the Professor Roberto Cipolla's Digital Pygmalion project.

Click below some of the images on this link, and rotate the images for yourself.
Quite Impressive!

Photographer Gives Camera to the People

The Korea Times : Photographer Gives Camera to the People

The photos wouldn't display for me, but I think this is a good concept, and the article has some nice points.

Fuel Cell Developer Claims Methanol Advance

InformationWeek > Mobile Computing > Fuel Cell Developer Claims Methanol Advance > August 23, 2005

Smashing! ...

Google unveils instant-messaging entry

Google unveils instant-messaging entry | CNET News.com

Google Talk is in Beta, and requires a Gmail username and password. It is a 900K download, and requires Windows XP/2000, and a minimum 56K connection (broadband recommended).

They point out that it is not a telephony service and can't be used for dialing emergency numbers such as 911 (or 119 in Japan).

Download Google Talk .... Here

Intel to combine chip lines, roll out new chips

Technology News Article | Reuters.com

Less heat ... and bring on the dual-cores, I say ....

Stem cell hybrids reveal new path to therapies

Stem cell hybrids reveal new path to therapies - Stem Cell Research - MSNBC.com

Future Work:
Step 1: Remove the excess 46 Chromosomes in each cell .......

TV's Red Dwarf beams onto mobiles

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | TV's Red Dwarf beams onto mobiles

FINALLY! .... A good use for mobiles ..... :) .. "He's Dead Dave ..."

Nation watching, waiting for flu pandemic

Nation watching, waiting for flu pandemic

One study estimates that U.S. fatalities could top 540,000. Humans have no resistance to the bird flu virus H5N1.

Mars rover Spirit catches dust devils on film

USATODAY.com - Mars rover Spirit catches dust devils on film

This one looks better than all the previous ones ....

In breakthrough, cloned wildcats prove ability to reproduce

In breakthrough, cloned wildcats prove ability to reproduce

Hopefully this can be used to preserve some species that we have pushed close to extinction.

Canon EOS 5D, full-frame 12.8 megapixel

Canon EOS 5D, full-frame 12.8 megapixel: Digital Photography Review

With a CMOS sensor the size of a 35mm negative .... Sweet! ....

USATODAY.com - Asians, Americans see world differently

USATODAY.com - Asians, Americans see world differently

Eye Opener! .....

Google squares up to Windows

Google squares up to Windows - Industry sectors - Times Online

Competition is Good! ...... :)

Japan project aims to create 3D television by 2020

Technology News Article | Reuters.com


So basically ... a kid could start school ... graduate .. and get in a couple of years of college, before this project comes to fruition? ...

Hacker underground erupts in virtual turf wars

Hacker underground erupts in virtual turf wars | csmonitor.com

These black-hat hackers remind me of mosquitoes and biting flies ... they feel they can abuse you, any time they feel like it.

Everyone wants to break the petaflop

Taipei Times - archives

Like the man says, " .... It's a national strategy question."

Creating Life from Scratch, One Molecule at a Time

Creating Life from Scratch, One Molecule at a Time

Time to tread carefully .....

Ocean bug has 'smallest genome'

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ocean bug has 'smallest genome'

Lean, mean, replicating machine .............

Furrier Mice Yield Stem-Cell Discovery

Furrier Mice Yield Stem-Cell Discovery - New York Times

So ... telomerase does double duty ... interesting .....

Black holes born through a brutal labour

New Scientist Breaking News - Black holes born through a brutal labour

Some turmoil in the process .. eh? ....

New blood pulls Florida panthers back from brink

New Scientist Breaking News - New blood pulls Florida panthers back from brink

Great News! ....

Baby comes with brain repair kit for mum

New Scientist News - Baby comes with brain repair kit for mum

Fetus helping "repair" mom makes great survival sense.....

Intel Unveils Digital Communities Initiative

Wireless Week - Intel Unveils Digital Communities Initiative

Keep it coming .......

Nanotubes show their strength in numbers

Nanotubes show their strength in numbers - Science Mysteries - MSNBC.com

Yipee! ... some more ........ :)

Nanotube sheets come of age

news @ nature.com�-�Nanotube sheets come of age�-�Clear, conductive sheets produced at high speed.

THIS IS MONUMENTAL !! ...... Yipee!

Lions, Camels and Elephants, Oh My! Wild Kingdom Proposed for U.S.

Lions, Camels and Elephants, Oh My! Wild Kingdom Proposed for U.S.

Wild Thing! .... [musical interlude] ... You make my heart sing ... :)

Concept works for me ...

Master gene for skin may hold key to youth

New Scientist Breaking News - Master gene for skin may hold key to youth

Strangely, this P63 gene (relative of the P53 tumor-suppressor gene) triggers cancer when an excess of the gene product is expressed.

$150 Million TeraGrid Award Heralds New Era for Scientific Computing

$150 Million TeraGrid Award Heralds New Era for Scientific Computing

Analyzing trillion+ byte datasets is no small feat. One terabyte is a million megabytes or 1000 gigabytes. (or 1024 gigabytes, depending on the day of the week ......... ;-) )

Bar at Milky Way's heart revealed

New Scientist Breaking News - Bar at Milky Way's heart revealed

I'm assuming this can't be Milliways ................ ;-)

Perpendicular drives hit the market

Perpendicular drives hit the market | CNET News.com

40GB and 80GB is a good little bit of storage for a consumer electronics device.

Nerve cell breakthrough is world first

Scotsman.com News - Top Stories - Nerve cell breakthrough is world first

Smashing ...

Wired News: Nanotubes May Heal Broken Bones

Wired News: Nanotubes May Heal Broken Bones

" We can rebuild him. We have the technology. " ............

Y-shaped nanotubes are ready-made transistors

New Scientist Breaking News - Y-shaped nanotubes are ready-made transistors

Talk about splitting hairs ................ :)

Logitech Unveils the Logitech QuickCam Fusion Webcam

Logitech Unveils the Logitech QuickCam Fusion Webcam - Softpedia

When they say that its first-of-its-kind software allows you to transform yourself into a 3D animated character that mimics your facial movements ... I wonder if they mean a canned 3D character that looks nothing like you .... or a 3D caricature of your face.

Poll says America still loves Lucy

Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Poll says America still loves Lucy

I could have told them that! .......... :)

Unique Triple Asteroid System Discovered

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Unique Triple Asteroid System Discovered

The moons Romulus and Remus orbit the asteroid 87 Sylvia. Detailed observations of their orbits have lead scientists to conclude that 87 Sylvia is a " rubble pile " asteroid with a density of 1.2 times that of water. It's possible that up to 60% of the asteroid is empty space.

Scientists aim for lab-grown meat

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Scientists aim for lab-grown meat

We think we are so modern. I recall that Sir Winston Churchill speculated about growing meat this very same way.

Giant waterfall discovered in California

CNN.com - Giant waterfall discovered in California - Aug 12, 2005

Sounds like a Great Place to relax and get away from it all, if the Rangers and most others couldn't find it.

'Gadonanotubes' greatly outperform existing MRI contrast agents

'Gadonanotubes' greatly outperform existing MRI contrast agents

Better contrast than existing theory can explain ......

Software helps you stop being a jerk

Software helps you stop being a jerk | Tech News on ZDNet

I'd prefer a device that encouraged me to be more rude to unsolicited-type callers and identified those that are allowed to circumvent the current Caller-ID conventions.

Guessing game gives machines clearer vision

New Scientist Breaking News - Guessing game gives machines clearer vision

Peekaboom ... Clever Idea to codify human vision perception into machine recognizeable snippets of scenes.

EU project will test 20,000 mouse genes

New Scientist Breaking News - EU project will test 20,000 mouse genes

Millions and millions of mutant mice ... imagine the strangeness.

Yahoo passes Google in search index capacity

Yahoo passes Google in search index capacity | News.blog | CNET News.com

Surprising .... Wonder how many minutes this will last? ...... ;-)

NASA Sets Its Sights on Travel to Mars

RedNova News - Space - NASA Sets Its Sights on Travel to Mars

Good Luck! ....

Photo in the News: New Lemur Species Discovered

Photo in the News: New Lemur Species Discovered

So Cute! ....

Reuters Summit-Alvarion in talks with DirecTV on using WiMax

Reuters Business Channel | Reuters.com

Sounds Good To Me ................. :)

Rogers Intros Firefly Phone for Kids

News - Rogers Intros Firefly Phone for Kids : Marketnews.ca

Saw this on TV the other day, and thought the "Mom" and "Dad" speed-dial keys were an especially good design.

Meteor impacts: Life's jump starter?

Meteor impacts: Life's jump starter?

Hydrothermal vents caused by meteor impact as a good spot for life to get started .. that is certainly a new take on it ...

Gene study shows sabertooths were no pussy cats

Science News Article | Reuters.co.uk

I remember reading, several years ago, that sabertooth cats had appeared and disappeared throughout the fossil record, and that it happenened in cycles of somewhere around 30-40,000 years. This lead me to hypothesize (mistakenly, I guess ..) that the large cats retained the genes for "saber-toothedness", even as the gene expression went cold over long periods of time.
I even thought that this might be a form of gene conservation involving the regions called " Junk DNA " that currently don't seem to code for genes.
It also interested me, as to whether the cyclical nature, might have something to do with Ice Ages, Magnetic Pole Reversal, and/or the rise of MegaFauna.
Ice Ages could lead to a vast lowering of ocean levels, which in turn would expose and create huge grasslands ... which would lead, over time to the larger and larger .. eventually MegaFauna ... whose predators might evolve ... say, to be SaberToothed.....
Since they say that the sabertooth went extinct, then it must have been a morphological characteristic that arises in different species of cats, over time due to changes in their niches.

Dell XPS 600 first to offer dual x16 SLI

Tom's Hardware Guide: Tom's Hard News

That's a Rockin' .. Stratospherically-priced System ... But Nice! .. ;-)

NEC Develops High-Power Organic Radical Battery for Data Backup during Power Failure

NEC Develops High-Power Organic Radical Battery for Data Backup during Power Failure

An organic polymer battery with no heavy metals ... Clever ..

Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Aug. 12

SPACE.com -- Viewer's Guide: Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Aug. 12

Just a reminder ... Take a radio, and tune it to a distant station, and then rotate the dial slightly (or set the tuning) to where you can no longer hear the station.
When a meteor streaks through the sky, it will ionize the atmosphere, and for a short while, the distant station will start playing to alert you to the meteor in the sky!
NEAT, HUH!? .... ;-)

Technical description about how Lichtenberg Figures (or beam trees) are created

Technical description about how Lichtenberg Figures (or beam trees) are created

Researching Lichtenberg figures and thought this was really beautiful ...

Cassini snaps best images of Saturn's aurora

New Scientist Breaking News - Cassini snaps best images of Saturn's aurora

Almost looks like a clock with only the hour hand ....

IBM intros 200 GHz silicon germanium tech

Tom's Hardware Guide: Tom's Hard News

Better vehicle radar and collision avoidance ... good stuff ... :)

Cocoa as a diabetes treatment?

Report: Research from candymaker to show cocoa's benefits - Jul. 25, 2005

This is even better than the Mega-Sized M&Ms ... :)

Robot catcher grabs high speed projectiles

New Scientist Breaking News - Robot catcher grabs high speed projectiles

This robot catcher, can catch a soft ball, pitched at 186.4 MPH !!

UK births, deaths, marriages records to be digitised

UK births, deaths, marriages records to be digitised - Government & Law - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com

Won't do me any good ... the ones I am currently interested in, left the UK roughly about 1630 .... ;-)

Fiddler Crabs: World's Pickiest Mates

LiveScience.com - Fiddler Crabs: World's Pickiest Mates

One female checked out 106 burrows ... that IS picky ....

Hurricane Spawned Biggest Waves Ever Measured, Study Says

Hurricane Spawned Biggest Waves Ever Measured, Study Says

Shades of "The Perfect Storm" ....

Original Draconian Laws may be Revealed by New Machine

Original Draconian Laws may be Revealed by New Machine

Just what we need! ... More Draconian Laws ................... ;-)

Make sure you check out the enhanced image on the link.

Child Mummy Wows Egyptologists

Wired News: Child Mummy Wows Egyptologists

Outstanding 3D visualization! ........

Evolutionary Accident Probably Caused The Worst Snowball Earth Episode, Study Shows

Evolutionary Accident Probably Caused The Worst Snowball Earth Episode, Study Shows

Hard to imagine the entire Earth covered with ice ... and an ice-covered ocean, a mile deep at the equator..........

Ivory-billed woodpecker raps on�-�Sound tapes convince critics of the bird's survival.

news @ nature.com�-�Ivory-billed woodpecker raps on�-�Sound tapes convince critics of the bird's survival.

So .. They were right, after all ..... :)

DNA Sequencing Speeds Up

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: DNA Sequencing Speeds Up

Progress marches on .....

Redesign Is Seen for Next Craft, NASA Aides Say

Redesign Is Seen for Next Craft, NASA Aides Say - New York Times

For those who don't like to register at websites to read the content ... there is always www.bugmenot.com or similar websites .... ;-)

A new cargo vehicle that can loft 100 tons into orbit at a time, would be a very impressive!

Explorers: Arctic ocean depths teeming with life

CNN.com - Explorers: Arctic ocean depths teeming with life - Aug 1, 2005

Cool looking jelly fish ............

'Darknets' Could Make File-Sharers Invisible To Authorities

mtv.com - News - 'Darknets' Could Make File-Sharers Invisible To Authorities

I mean ... Couldn't they see this one coming?...............

How Butterflies Fly Thousands Of Miles Without Getting Lost Revealed By Researchers

How Butterflies Fly Thousands Of Miles Without Getting Lost Revealed By Researchers

Impressive ....

XENA IS 10TH NEW PLANET

Mirror.co.uk - News - XENA IS 10TH NEW PLANET

Now the news is that the newly discovered planet is BIGGER than Pluto, AND
it has been named Xena.
Perhaps they will name the little moon, Xena's Little Helper ....... ;-)

Canadian team targets Red Planet

The Globe and Mail: Canadian team targets Red Planet

A weather station on Mars ... How cool is that? ....