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For those of you who have never seen a meteor shower, it’s really beautiful. It’s that time of year: the annual Geminid Meteor Shower, and astronomers are saying it’s a "great year" to view it.  This is because, unlike last year, the moon will be in crescent phase (rather than a full moon), making the night sky darker and the … Read More

Little bit of a breakthrough in the glow-in-the-dark world. A company has come up with a new kind of glow-in-the-dark paint.  What’s special about it is this: it doesn’t need light to "charge", AND the glow will last for 12 years before it fades (12 years is the "half-life"). The light is not strong — don’t expect it to replace … Read More

This is the discovery from last summer: The universe has a huge hole in it that dwarfs anything else of its kind. The discovery caught astronomers by surprise. The hole is nearly a billion light-years across. It is not a black hole, which is a small sphere of densely packed matter. Rather, this one is mostly devoid of stars, gas … Read More

Molesting a fembot?  Seriously?

…they’re just digital. And were it not for the ridiculous price tag of $400, I would probably be getting a Kindle, Amazon’s new wireless reading device, which some are dubbing "the iPod of reading".  It weighs less than a paperback, but on it you can read any digital book (88,000 currently available).  You can also subscribe to top U.S. newspapers … Read More

I’m not going to pay attention to cloning stories anymore until we get to humans.  Just sayin’.

Not something from the future.  It’s already here. These household objects are really floating….

As any Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy fan will tell you, that’s the answer: 42. But what is the question? How about this? Suppose you could drill a hole through the Earth and then drop into it. How long would it take you to pop up on the other side of the Earth? The answer is: 42 minutes. Check the … Read More

I’ve occasionally felt vaguely guilty that I’m inattentive online chatter. I wander away from the computer, forget to respond, sign off without warning, pick up conversations two hours later, and generally treat the blinking little IM window as if it’s optional. But should I feel guilty?  What’s the etiquette for IMs and video chatting? Speaking primarily about video chatting, I … Read More

Finally finally finally… Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and LG — who collectively comprise 85% of the cellular phone market — have agreed on a standard connector size for the power adapters, headphones, etc.

Whose birthday is it? This guy’s…. 🙂 He turns 25 years old tomorrow: It was a serious contribution to the electronic lexicon. 🙂 Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman says, he was the first to use three keystrokes — a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis — as a horizontal "smiley face" in a … Read More

I saw this story today… A man in southern China appears to have died of exhaustion after a three-day Internet gaming binge, state media said Monday. The 30-year-old man fainted at a cyber cafe in the city of Guangzhou Saturday afternoon after he had been playing games online for three days, the Beijing News reported. …and it sound familiar.  Google, … Read More

Interesting developments from the Coca-Cola Company: The world’s largest soft drink manufacturer has created a new form of keeping their bottles of fizz ice-cold by packing new technology into each bottle, so when the cap is twisted off, a mechanism inside will create ice made from the drink itself. It will be tested on Sprite first, with a new product … Read More