Residential Wi-Fi Sharing Made Easy

PCWorld.com - Residential Wi-Fi Sharing Made Easy

Interesting concept .. ISPs "ought" to embrace this ...

Hubble provides spectacular detail of a comet's breakup

Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | Hubble provides spectacular detail of a comet's breakup

The enlarged view of the continuing fragmentation of Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 is amazing. They say there are 36 fragments .. it looks like hundreds to me ....

'Bug-eyed' lens takes a broader view

New Scientist Tech - Breaking News - 'Bug-eyed' lens takes a broader view

Very clever treatment. Interesting how the thousands of microlenses, focused the UV light, and burned their own individual waveguides.

Google Offers Free 3D Modeling Software

InformationWeek | Personal Technology | Google Offers Free 3D Modeling Software | April 27, 2006

The Pro version is $495 USD .. but this Puppy is FREE!

More HERE ... and HERE ...

DOWNLOAD >>> SketchUp <<<

'Starquake' explosion rips neutron star open

New Scientist SPACE - Breaking News - 'Starquake' explosion rips neutron star open

Considering the immense densities and temperatures involved ... it makes me wonder, once all the activity from the magnetic-field explosions dies down ... how fast, and even 1.5 kilometer deep crack in the neutron star crust would "heal" ...

LOX holds a key to curbing cancer's spread

New Scientist Breaking News - LOX holds a key to curbing cancer's spread

Promising News ...

Big planets' gravitational dance made them tilt

Big planets' gravitational dance made them tilt�|�Reuters.com

It seems to be a fundamental law of Nature ... that the "Big Boys" get to operate under a different set of rules ... ;-)

Experts make flatulence-free bean

BBC NEWS | Health | Experts make flatulence-free bean

My World just keeps getting Better and Better ... :)

New 11.5 megapixel camcorder in development from Oakley sunglasses founder

New 11.5 megapixel camcorder in development from Oakley sunglasses founder | TG Daily

Nice and Pricey! .... ;-)

More about it HERE.

New Clever Car hits the road

New Clever Car hits the road

I like how the suspension tilts ...

More HERE plus view from another angle ...

Linksys rolls out draft 802.11n gear for networks and laptops

Linksys rolls out draft 802.11n gear for networks and laptops - Engadget

The Wireless-N Broadband Router looks like a robot trying to surrender .... ;-)

Researchers Use Tongue as Interface

Researchers Use Tongue as Interface - Innovation -

New approach ...

Rare 'stone man' gene that changes muscle into bone

Rare 'stone man' gene that changes muscle into bone - World - Times Online

Remarkable that a change in a single "letter" of your genome could change muscle to bone ...

Optical LANs Are Coming

GigaOM : � Optical LANs Are Coming

I'll believe it, when I see the light ..... ;-)

More HERE.

Drilled Core Exposes Hitherto Unseen Layer of Earth's Crust

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Drilled Core Exposes Hitherto Unseen Layer of Earth's Crust

The core samples don't exactly look black to me .. but at least they have their gabbro now ..

Scroll down and look at the worn-out drill bits and samples HERE.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Gene Link?

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Gene Link?

Though difficult to find .. it now appears that there is a genetic basis for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ...

Secret rivers found in Antarctic

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Secret rivers found in Antarctic

Now it appears that a lot of Antarctica's lakes, that exist under kilometers of ice, occasionally become over-pressurized and pop like champagne corks, and flow via sub-glacial rivers, on to the next lake, in the string-of-pearls system of lakes and rivers. Some are suspected of being as big as the river Thames in England.

More HERE.

Oldest snake fossil shows a bit of leg

New Scientist Breaking News - Oldest snake fossil shows a bit of leg

Now it looks like snakes evolved on land ....

Seagate Uses Perpendicular Recording Technology for Enterprise Hard Drives.

X-bit labs - Hardware news - Seagate Uses Perpendicular Recording Technology for Enterprise Hard Drives.

Big storage .. Low latency ....

Gold 'Nanostars' Could Be UltraSensitive Chemical Sensors

Gold 'Nanostars' Could Be UltraSensitive Chemical Sensors

I wonder if you are a good boy or girl, whether or not, you get a gold nanostar? .... ;-)

NASA Achieves Breakthrough In Black Hole Simulation

NASA Achieves Breakthrough In Black Hole Simulation

These visualizations of the gravity waves generated from the simulated merger of two equal-sized non-spinning black holes, is really amazing.

More HERE.

Med diet cuts Alzheimer risk

Med diet cuts Alzheimer risk

Those in the study, that followed the Mediterranean diet, most closely, were able to decrease their risk of Alzheimer's disease by 40 percent.

More HERE.

UNO's do-it-yourself inventor

The Gateway - UNO�s do-it-yourself inventor

Inventor open-sources code to log location GPS metadata, so the implementation in digital cameras can freely open up to new manufacturers.

Meat-Eating Dinosaur Was Bigger Than T. Rex

Meat-Eating Dinosaur Was Bigger Than T. Rex

This Bad Boy was quarried from hilltop sandstone, along with at least six other members of his same species. Their species alone. Looks like disaster struck an entire GROUP at once ....

Scientists begin dig at Bosnian 'pyramid'

Scientists begin dig at Bosnian 'pyramid' - Science - MSNBC.com

Wow! .. Scientists have explored 260 meters into a man-made tunnel, that they think connects three different pyramids. An ancient collapse blocked the way after that point. They believe the tunnel to be 2.4 MILES long!! People have been living in that area for 7000 years, and this mound/pyramid is 2,180 feet tall ..... Imagine what chambers could be hidden inside ...

Nanogenerator to Power Nanoscale Devices

Georgia Institute of Technology :: News Room :: Nanogenerator to Power Nanoscale Devices

An amazing invention ... Wonder how many layers of these things can be packed, one on top of the other? ... Also, in the tennis shoe application ... I suppose the nanowires must have a "cover plate" to prevent them from being crushed ... then again .. they may press back against any any contacting surface and "support" the weight...

World's Smallest Car Gets Microscopic Motor

LiveScience.com - World's Smallest Car Gets Microscopic Motor

I see they decided to go with light propulsion, instead of the nanoscopic twisted rubber band .... ;-)

Looks like the buckyball wheels drained too much power from the engine, .. and they had to go ...

Creature Prefers Deadly Scorching Water

LiveScience.com - Creature Prefers Deadly Scorching Water

Hot foot! .. Hot foot! .... :)

Discovering Business Intelligence Using Treemap Visualizations

Discovering Business Intelligence Using Treemap Visualizations

Treemap visualization for understanding patterns in large, complex datasets.

I especially like The Hive Group's treemap for quickly searching Amazon.com for the 5 megapixel (or larger) digital camera, that meets your qualifications .. HERE.

Google Launches Google Calendar

PCWorld.com - Google Launches Google Calendar

Tried to blog this yesterday ... oh well, I should have checked my calendar ... :)

Photos: HP looks at future tech

Photos: HP looks at future tech | News Images on ZDNet

Another one of those devices that captures everything you see during the day ...
Check out the "family hike" in the second photo .. :-/

Tenth planet as bright as fresh snow

New Scientist SPACE - Breaking News - Tenth planet as bright as fresh snow

Various space ices darken over time ... How does "Xena" keep that minty-fresh white coating? ...
Neither gravity nor internal radiation can generate enough heat ... so HOW does it keep reforming? ...

Boffins hunt for ET's headlights

Boffins hunt for ET's headlights | Science & nature | The Australian

I love that headline ... :)

They saved a lot of money on this project by grinding the mirror for the telescope, to a spherical radius, instead of parabolic. It isn't for taking photos, so the results don't have to be perfect. They're just looking for flashes of light, and a close approximation to the location.

World's Strongest Glue Found Stuck to River Rocks

FOXNews.com - World's Strongest Glue Found Stuck to River Rocks - Science News | Current Articles

This is Glue .... Strong Stuff! ... :)

Fat Melting Laser May Treat Cellulite, Heart Disease And Acne

Fat Melting Laser May Treat Cellulite, Heart Disease And Acne

It appears they have found three frequencies of laser light, that selectively heat up fat, about roughly twice as fast as they heat up water molecules.

More details HERE.

The evolution of complex systems

Nobel Intent: The evolution of complex systems

Neat explanation for how a hormone receptor could evolve, before the specific hormone, for which it has affinity.

Details HERE.
And more HERE.

Hothouse planet: Decade-long isolation of Venus to end at last

Hothouse planet: Decade-long isolation of Venus to end at last

I wouldn't say the prospects for human habitation of Venus were "nil" ... We are a very clever species .. one never knows ... :)

Ants older than we think

News in Science - Ants older than we think - 07/04/2006

I find it interesting how scientists use these molecular clocks, and the gene variations between different species of animals or plants, to determine how the different lines branched off from one another, and to establish a time-frame for the branches.

First Colour Images from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Universe Today - First Colour Images from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Amazing images ... Now it will rest for 6 months, while it goes through several hundred aerobraking manuevers, until it establishes it's circular orbit in November.

More details HERE.

Nano-patterns guide stem cell development

New Scientist Tech - Breaking News - Nano-patterns guide stem cell development

Clever thinking to use a middle-ground approach, and make the nano-pattern of holes in the substrate, partially patterned and partially random....

Turkey-saurus discovered in Utah

HeraldNet: Turkey-saurus discovered in Utah

I imagine Homer Simpson's response to this would be .... "Mmmmm .... Turkey-saurus ... Dibs on the Drumstick! ... " .... :)

More HERE.

9,000-Year-Old Dentistry

Wired News: 9,000-Year-Old Dentistry

Our Ancestors were no dummies .....

Battery electrodes self-assembled by viruses

New Scientist Tech - Breaking News - Battery electrodes self-assembled by viruses

Belcher's method for finding the optimum gold-clinging molecules, with billions of viruses, almost sounds like a genetic algorithm ... using REAL genes ... :)
Unsure from the article, whether she kept repeating the process or not.

Blue ring discovered around Uranus

Blue ring discovered around Uranus

I'm Speechless .... :)

More details HERE.

Scientists crack mystery of planet formation

CNN.com - Scientists crack mystery of planet formation - Apr 5, 2006

Planets, Planets Everywhere .... :)

Newfound Fossil Is Transitional between Fish and Landlubbers

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Newfound Fossil Is Transitional between Fish and Landlubbers

Looks like this "large" predator fish, might even chase it's meal, after it was up on shore ... it might have even eaten strict land-dwellers ....

Apple Helps You Install Windows on a Mac

PC World's Techlog - Apple Helps You Install Windows on a Mac

So ... I guess Apple figured, if it was good enough for a hacker to do ... they would do it too ... ;-)

Horror drug trial baffles experts

News in Science - Horror drug trial baffles experts - 06/04/2006

Scary Stuff Indeed ...

Hopefully, this will only affect phase-one drug trials, that involve monoclonal antibodies.... not all phase-one drug trials ...

A thousand processors on one chip

� A thousand processors on one chip | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com

Well .. 1024 processors and it operates on one-tenth of a watt ....

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Scientists Build Liquid Crystal Bifocals

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Scientists Build Liquid Crystal Bifocals

Near/Far Out!! .... ;-)

More HERE.

Doctors grow organs from patients' own cells

CNN.com - Doctors grow organs from patients' own cells - Apr 3, 2006

Tremendous development ....

Virtual Virus is First Simulation of an Entire Life Form

LiveScience.com - Virtual Virus is First Simulation of an Entire Life Form

This is not what you normally think of as a computer virus ... this is the UNREAL-Deal !! ... ;-)

Bugs Worth $57 Billion

LiveScience.com - Bugs Worth $57 Billion

I like those fabulous little honey bees best ... :)

Flu Pandemic Mass Graves Planned By UK Government

Flu Pandemic Mass Graves Planned By UK Government

The possible return of Plague Pits ......

Saturn's Rings Created by Collision

SPACE.com -- Saturn's Rings Created by Collision

These small moonlets aren't big enough to sweep out all the dust on both sides of them, and form a gap in the rings of Saturn ... instead they manage to create two voids on either side of themselves .. one ahead of themselves and on the inward side .. and one further out in the ring system, and behind the moonlet's direction of rotation ... the gaps end up looking like S-shaped propellors, and the moonlet should be near the center of the "propellor".

MINOS experiment sheds light on mystery of neutrino disappearance

MINOS experiment sheds light on mystery of neutrino disappearance

Looks like indirect proof that neutrinos have mass. And they only had to shoot neutrinos through 450 miles of solid rock, from Illinois to Minnesota to prove it.....