Bloggerific Bloggification -- A Blog: October 2006

IBM researchers develop next-generation chip-cooling technologies

IBM researchers develop nextgeneration chip-cooling technologies

Dissipating 370 Watts per square centimeter is pretty impressive ...

It's the next best thing to a Babel fish

It's the next best thing to a Babel fish - tech - 26 October 2006 - New Scientist Tech

I don't get it ... they have had this technology in Kung Fu Movies, for at LEAST 30 to 40 years ..... ;-)

Soil minerals point to planet-wide ocean on Mars

Soil minerals point to planet-wide ocean on Mars - space - 27 October 2006 - New Scientist Space

Hmm .. Wonder if the Martians had a Kevin Costner? .... ;-)

Giant 'terror bird' was light on its feet

Giant 'terror bird' was light on its feet - life - 25 October 2006 - New Scientist

Yep! ... I'd say a bird big enough to swallow a dog .... WHOLE ... is Pretty Big ....

Is arthritis caused by a build-up of surplus DNA?

Is arthritis caused by a build-up of surplus DNA? - being-human - 25 October 2006 - New Scientist

Let's hope this leads to some inroads, in the fight against arthritis ...

Also .. I wasn't aware that our bodies destroy a Billion-Billion strands of DNA per day! ..

Honeybees have their genome sequenced

Honeybees have their genome sequenced - life - 25 October 2006 - New Scientist

Looks like the honey bee has roughly double the number of genes related to smell, compared to the mosquito, and roughly triple the number for fruit flies.

More HERE and HERE and HERE.

Sun-gazing spacecraft primed for launch at last

Sun-gazing spacecraft primed for launch at last - space - 24 October 2006 - New Scientist Space

It's like ... IN STEREO !! .... ;-)

Scientists discover exotic relatives of protons and neutrons

Scientists discover exotic relatives of protons and neutrons

All this business about 3 Quarks ... IMHO ONE Quark was too many ......... ;-)

Researchers Discover Evidence Of Gut Parasites In Dinosaur

Researchers Discover Evidence Of Gut Parasites In Dinosaur

It just keeps amazing me, how soft tissue can be fossilized ...

More HERE.

Gold mine holds life untouched by the Sun

Gold mine holds life untouched by the Sun - life - 19 October 2006 - New Scientist

Talk about, where the sun don't shine ... THAT is the place .... ;-)

Atomic-Powered Bacteria .... What'll they think of next?? .....

Rob Galbraith DPI: 8.6 gigapixel stitched photograph of Italian fresco revealed

Rob Galbraith DPI: 8.6 gigapixel stitched photograph of Italian fresco revealed

HAL9000 is no relation to Deep Hal ..... Just wanted to make that clear ...... ;-)

Experts create invisibility cloak

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Experts create invisibility cloak

A Romulan Bird-of-Prey ... it Ain't ..... ;-)

More HERE and HERE and HERE.

Whale that dived record 6,230ft and held breath for 85 minutes

Whale that dived record 6,230ft and held breath for 85 minutes - Britain - Times Online

That's over 14 times longer than Deep Hal, has held his breath ... :) ... and I wasn't over a mile under the water ... ;-)

Collision Created Rings Around Andromeda

SPACE.com -- Collision Created Rings Around Andromeda

Spitzer's ability to see through dust is truely astounding ...

Ancient fish was advanced for its age

News in Science - Ancient fish was advanced for its age - 19/10/2006

Now I see where we get our "Pearly-Whites" from .... ;-)

Casino boss puts elbow through a £74m Picasso

Telegraph | News | Casino boss puts elbow through a £74m Picasso

THAT tearing noise has GOTTA hurt a lot worse than ripping a pair of pants ..... :)

FDA approves new type of diabetes drug

FDA approves new type of diabetes drug | Health | Reuters.com

... $4.86 per tablet ... I wonder if a couple of shots of Gila Monster spit, would be cheaper? .... Seriously .....

NASA Orbiter Reveals New Details of Mars, Young and Old

NASA Orbiter Reveals New Details of Mars, Young and Old

Very Impressive ....

SunPower announces 22 percent efficient solar panels

SunPower announces 22 percent efficient solar panels - Engadget

NOW just hook that up with the photon-melding product, I blogged about recently, and you will have an AWESOME product indeed! ...

Scientists find large meteorite in Kan.

Scientists find large meteorite in Kan.

Too bad, the "really big one" turned out to be, buried wire cables. Wonder how they came to be there, considering the owner of the property didn't know about them?

More HERE.

Superheavy element 118 is discovered

ScienceDaily: Superheavy element 118 is discovered

Discovered ... Rediscovered ... Probably Discovered .... ;-)

More HERE.

MySpace Predator Caught by Code

Wired News: MySpace Predator Caught by Code

Bravo! and Bravo!! .........

Roundshot D3 produces 470 Megapixel 360 degree Panoramic images

gizmag Article: Roundshot D3 produces 470 Megapixel 360 degree Panoramic images

470 Megapixel Panoramas ... for then the new crop of 10 megapixel cameras ..
............ JUST WON'T DO !! ....

Linksys WRT350N Wireless-N Gigabit Router with Storage Link

Linksys WRT350N Wireless-N Gigabit Router with Storage Link - Engadget: "WRT350N"

Has the makings of a Swiss Army Knife .....

More HERE.

Possible evidence of cell division, differentiation found in oldest known embryo fossils

Possible evidence of cell division, differentiation found in oldest known embryo fossils

You know .. as time marches on ... I become more and more amazed, with the delicacy of some of the materials that have survived the fossilization process. From fossilized dinosaur hearts, DNA in fossilized insects in Amber, ... and now these embryos ...

A Ruler of Gold and DNA

A Ruler of Gold and DNA

FROM THE ARTICLE: "... It’s like someone slurping down a spaghetti noodle, only to be stopped cold by a fly sitting on the noodle. ..."

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY !!! ................... ;-)

A boost for solar cells with photon fusion

A boost for solar cells with photon fusion

Sounds like something the High-Definition TV folks would have thought of ... namely photon-recycling via upconversion .... ;-)

In reality, this sounds like a great method, to boost solar-cell conversion efficiency, that can be applied repeatedly, for different unused wavelengths, by finding the correct pairs of antenna and emitter molecules.

Day and night temps measured on an extrasolar planet

Day and night temps measured on an extrasolar planet

Oh! .. to observe the weather patterns and clouds-formations on THAT extrasolar planet! .. Where one side is lava-hot, and the other side of the tidally-locked planet, is in perpetual deep-freeze .....

Particle decay may point to New Physics

Particle decay may point to New Physics

That Penguin diagram ...... is Most Funky! .......... :)

UA Researchers Find Smallest Cellular Genome

UA Researchers Find Smallest Cellular Genome

We could be witnessing the devolution of an organism (the bacteria), and the beginnings of the creation of an internal organelle (in the insect), in this particular case.

Jupiter's Small Spot Changes Hues

SPACE.com -- Jupiter's Small Spot Changes Hues

A Leopard can't change it's >>spots<< but Jupiter's L.R.S. has changed it's >>spot<< .. ;-)

WiMax may give broadband a lead over cellular service - The Boston Globe

WiMax may give broadband a lead over cellular service - The Boston Globe

FROM THE ARTICLE: "...make wireless broadband access more common than cellphone service.
" .....

... Brings a Smile to My Face .... :) ....

Self-assembling gel stops bleeding in seconds

Self-assembling gel stops bleeding in seconds - tech - 10 October 2006 - New Scientist Tech

The ability to stop free-bleeding with a nano-product, sounds almost miraculous ...

Google Weds Writely and Spreadsheets

Google Weds Writely and Spreadsheets - Internet News by InformationWeek

Interesting moves ....

The TV preferred by four out of five evil geniuses

The TV preferred by four out of five evil geniuses | News.blog | CNET News.com

"AGAIN with the Shields..." ... err ... I mean "frickin' laser beams" ..... ;-)

Grey Goo melting online world Second Life

Boing Boing: Grey Goo melting online world Second Life

Self-Replicating Scripts generated by a "griefer" ... ( A new term to me ....)

Colorful new bird discovered in isolated cloud forest in Colombia

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Science -- Colorful new bird discovered in isolated cloud forest in Colombia

A Beautiful Little Bird ..... :)

Nearest Planet Beyond Solar System Might Be Photogenic

SPACE.com -- Nearest Planet Beyond Solar System Might Be Photogenic

Come On 2007!! .............. :)

Report: North Korea conducts nuclear weapons test

Report: North Korea conducts nuclear weapons test | Jerusalem Post

From numerous news reports, it seems that North Korea has conducted it's first Nuclear Weapons Test ........

Astronomers see inside a quasar for the first time

Astronomers see inside a quasar for the first time

Simply Amazing! ...

China jamming test sparks U.S. satellite concerns

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: China jamming test sparks U.S. satellite concerns

Troubling ...

Chinese Hackers Hit Commerce Department

Chinese Hackers Hit Commerce Department - Management News by InformationWeek

This is Scary ...

Three lines from the Article:

"It's not a digital Pearl Harbor, not yet, but it's getting closer."
"The Chinese are waging very effectual intellectual warfare."
"Replacing systems is pretty draconian, but it really indicates that Commerce is very concerned."

Sharp Unveils 4k TV

CrunchGear » Blog Archive » Sharp Unveils 4k TV

Just what I need!! .. A 4K TV ........ when there is very little 1080p content out there, in the U.S. .... ;-)

More HERE and HERE.

Mars probes snap stunning images of giant crater

Mars probes snap stunning images of giant crater - space - 06 October 2006 - New Scientist Space

Victoria Crater is like a Candy Store .... :)

Giant gas loops found rising above the Milky Way

Giant gas loops found rising above the Milky Way - space - 05 October 2006 - New Scientist Space

Astounding, how they can calculate 3D side-projections, of Galactically-Massive Objects, that are invisible, and must be imaged with radio waves, as we orbit around our sun, and peep through the stars and dust ....

Sea monster's remains found on Arctic island

globeandmail.com: Sea monster's remains found on Arctic island

I like cucumbers .. but I can't say I have any teeth as BIG as cucumbers .... :-/

More HERE.

Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Our Galaxy

Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Our Galaxy

Looks like Hubble has found 16 new planets, at a distance of 26,000 light-years. If this pans-out ... then our Milky Way Galaxy probably has at least 6 Billion Jupiter-size planets!! .. And THAT is just OUR Galaxy! .....

More HERE.

Creative xMod Claims To Improve MP3 Quality

News From PC Magazine: Creative xMod Claims To Improve MP3 Quality

Claims to upconvert your MP3s to CD quality. Let's hope it works! ...

First Teleportation Between Light and Matter

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: First Teleportation Between Light and Matter

Shades of Star Trek!! ..... ;-)

Google crawls into source-code search

Google crawls into source-code search | CNET News.com

Ah! .. Now Google has an open-source source-code search engine! .... :)

Check it out HERE.

Psychosynistis

Comics Page: Dick Tracy

OK ... I said it! ... ;-) .... While you're here ... have a look around ... :)

And BTW ... Congratulations Dick Tracy --- On 75 wonderful years! ...

Single-Pixel Camera - High-Res Images

Single-Pixel Camera - High-Res Images

It's going to take me a while, to figure out how you can sample only 3 to 4 percent, of an image, RANDOMLY, and interpolate a full image from THAT. Seems like it would have to be LOSSY, due to the compression.

The rest of it, is extremely clever, and holds great potential.

More HERE, and HERE, and HERE.

Nvidia to launch DirectX 10 chip in mid-November

Nvidia to launch DirectX 10 chip in mid-November

A GPU that requires liquid-cooling ... GeForce 8800 .. Amazing! ....

More HERE.

UA Mars photos 'overwhelmingly' clear

UA Mars photos 'overwhelmingly' clear | www.tucsoncitizen.com ®

Incredible to think that the per-pixel resolution on these images, is close to 12 inches!
You could probably see a 6 ft tall person, sprawled-out on the ground, if their outfit contrasted with the ground, but their resolution would be something like only three pixels.

More HERE.

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