15 Jun 2009

14-year-old hit by 30,000 mph space meteorite

12 Jun 2009

celery - Distributed Task Queue for Django

8 Jun 2009

Nearly everyone has tip-of-the-tongue moments, but bilinguals seem especially prone to these momentary lapses in vocabulary, says Jennie Pyers, a psychologist at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.

One possible explanation is that similar-sounding words compete for our brain’s attention. Since bilinguals know twice as many words as monolinguals, there’s more chance for tip-of-the-tongue experiences.

Why your brain just can’t remember that word - life - 08 June 2009 - New Scientist

4 Jun 2009

Unmanned sub touches deepest part of world's ocean

4 Jun 2009

Skulls vs. DNA: Zeroing In on American Origins | Wired Science | Wired.com

3 Jun 2009

Earth Gets Billion-Year Life Extension | Wired Science | Wired.com

3 Jun 2009

Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code? You’re Doing It Wrong!

3 Jun 2009

China blocks Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and Hotmail ahead of Tiananmen anniversary

29 May 2009

Sequential Art

28 May 2009

Haystack - Search for Django

27 May 2009

Launching in London today, the Espresso Book Machine can print any of 500,000 titles while you wait

Revolutionary Espresso Book Machine launches in London | Books | guardian.co.uk

23 May 2009

Infinite summer
A challenge to read Infinite Jest over the summer. I knew I bought that book a few weeks ago for a reason.

20 May 2009

"MISSING LINK" FOUND: New Fossil Links Humans, Lemurs?
It seems not everyone agrees on calling the fossil a “link”, but still interesting news.

19 May 2009

Linux group, Microsoft form unholy alliance against US lawyers

19 May 2009

GPS system 'close to breakdown'