Hark, Traveller: Thou have reached the region where the web is clear.
- From Chinese & Iranian activists to paedophiles, Freenet allows its users to explore the darkest depths of the webbit hole.
- So you *finally* uploaded your consciousness to a computer— you posthuman, Kurzweill-loving, cylon-rooting misanthrope— so… what next, huh? For that, we go with Martine Rothblatt.
- Dude looks like a lady: DaVinci’s ‘Last Supper’ gets a digital makeover.
- Archaeologists plan dig at location of Shakespeare’s death. If one of them is named Yorick, it would be the joke of all time 😉
- Which came first: the super-black hole chicken, or the massive galaxy egg?
- Contrary to what you’d think, the worst enemy of astronomers is *not* belief in UFOs— but Earth’s atmosphere. And a new revolutionary technique promises to even exceed the resolution of Hubble’s succesor in space.
- Finding ET: U r doin it WRONG!! Alien-hunting school employee resigns after running SETI@home software on 5000 computers for *ten* years —still more honorable than downloading porn, though.
- Kevin Randle revisits the Socorro UFO landing case.
- First it was vampires; now Hollywood is obsessed with aliens. What’s next: killer zombies resurrected by alien invaders?? Oh, wait…
- Attack of the Christmas Zombie Dolls. Kind of like the story you’d get if Pixar hired Stephen King to write the script for Toy Story 3.
- Listen to this week’s Binnall of America audio podcast, featuring an interview with esoteric researcher Joshua Warren.
- SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic’s sub-orbital space plane, is getting ready for test flights. You’ve all saved by now those 200 grand needed for the ticket… right? (more from Wired).
- One giant splash for mankind: The SeaOrbiter wil be the world’s first ‘space station of the sea’ —unless Namor shows his opposition.
- The power of Higgs compels you!: LHC knocked out by ANOTHER power failure.
- Is our current trend of diminishing returns in medical research a clear sign that we’ve already discovered all there is to discover? Hey, I’m still going bald, so that’s a big *NO*.
- Seems the media doesn’t get tired of heralding the dawn of in-vitro meat… again & again.
- George Monbiot’s advise on Climategate: let’s not treat it as the closet monster —closing our eyes to make it go away.
- The grandfather of Global Warming wants the Copenhagen summit to be a rotund failure —Wha?
- Acid rains could result in bigger & meaner shellfish, study finds —Mmmm Mmm! I can already taste that gumbo.
- Bad news you guys: the cat’s out of the bag. Scientists say ALL men have watched porn —so don’t pretend that’s icanhascheezeburger.com you’re checking out on that other browser window.
Thanks to Rick, Kat, Greg, Sugarhush & Ixca Cienfuegos.
Quote of the Day:
“Is the Creation unfinished? Yes. And that’s the requirement in which, inevitably, God slips into the world to me. If God made us to its image, does God contain the human evil? I answer —Yes. We’re too reflection of that evil and unfinished part of God. We work in order to complete God.”
Carlos Fuentes [‘Where the Air is Clear’, Amazon US & UK]