Is change good?

Personally, I tend to think change is, on balance, good. Something is not better merely because it's different, but something better than what we had before will of course be different, and I have enough faith in our species (and society), to think we pick more positive changes than negative ones. The WSJ has an article on change, and the internet, that I liked: Does the Internet Make You Smarter?

Damn, crows are smart.

This is kinda spooky: Is That a Caveman or Dick Cheney? Crows Know the Difference - ScienceNOWCrows can actually learn to recognize human faces. Gotta love corvids.

Flapjax

This looks really cool, a functional reactive programming template language/javascript extension library for web programming. Something I may actually use! It's called Flapjax.

Usable qbit design?

Honestly, I probably need to read the article (I should probably subscribe to Science, really), but this sounds pretty cool, if someone has managed to build a kinda almost sorta useful qbit on a chip: Princeton scientist makes a leap in quantum computing

Sounds pretty cool regardless.

Joe Rollino

From a couple days back, but...

Never heard of him till he died. My loss.

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Died at 104, after being hit by a car. Was still able to bend a quarter. Won a silver star and bronze star in WWII. Damn.

Holy Crap!

Scientists create the world's smallest 'snowman' - Telegraph.  10 microns.  'nuff said. (ok, for those not familiar with what a micron is, that's 1/5th the width of a strand of hair).

Cool Tools

One of my favorite websites, Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools. Like its name suggests it's a listing of cool tools. Some I like, some not so much. But this is where I found out about my previously mentioned RailRiders. honestly, when I need something a bit unusual this is one of the places I look first.