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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology claim to be one step closer to mimicking plant-like energy production in the lab. Apparently using a Cesium-Oxygen-Nitrogen mixture, they can create a potent fuel from scratch using concentrated sunlight as the only catalyst.
Though it isn’t quite a tricorder, Patrick Stewart’s life is now dependent on his iPhone. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to get a block of cheese from the replicator.
The greatest American hero may not even be an American.
It is hard to overestimate the importance of WikiLeaks, already perhaps the most controversial website in the history of the relatively fledgling Internet. If you’ve been near any source of either news or Internet, you’re aware of the fact that said site, despite enduring a brazen and blatantly government-sponsored hack-attack, has released almost innumerable documents from the American diplomatic corps to the world at large. And the results are shocking.
Dear Lord, we’ve found it. We’ve found the main emotion nerve of the internet.
And this is what it looks like…
A shrill beacon of raw emotions, pulsing into the ether. Perhaps this is a condition of being fed nothing but creepily ecstatic kitten videos and Norweigen Clog Porn. If you were the excretion receptacle for the emotional status of the American public, you too would be unwell.
Now, I realize the level of nerdiness that goes along with the admission that I used to play one of these “arcane mages” in an “MMORPG” entitled “World of Warcraft.”
Be that as it may, I found this to be a very enlightening tutorial on some of the nuances and finely tuned-skill development that are part and parcel of effectively playing this class, that will appeal to the hard core-gamer and n00b alike.
I was tempted to title this post, ‘Enter the Void.’ While the execution of this video is nearly flawless, I was especially fond of the dark, ominous Stones track playing behind it. I think the video leaves it as an open question as to whether it was a good thing that this particular life was lived out completely reliant on a virtual social network.
Kudos to Frequency for picking up on this first.
A little shameless self-promotion for your Sunday – check out part of my latest series of Blue Pyramid Stories, featuring an amusing anecdote from high school…
Headlines Grate While Storey Updates, Bedbugs are Bed (Uh, Bad), Some People Call it a Unabomber…Russ Calls it a Beard (mmmhmm), Slide Whistles are Better Than Suicide, The Final Days of DAOC, The Second Coming (and Leaving) of Greg, Then Everyone Was a Jedi, and the Forecast is Partly Cloudy With a Chance of Apocalypse.
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A not-so shocking revelation this morning about the sinking Titanic that is Digg. Not only have they abandoned their core users, not only are the walls crumbling down, but a brand new investigative report revealed that they actually created dozens of fake user accounts to increase traffic to their publishing partners.
Umpteenth user backlash incoming. And hey, did we call it, or did we call it?
