Topic: PHOTO - on May 16, 2008 at 4:03:57 PM CEST
SKYplay
depicts a composition dominated by use of the sky & real clouds at that moment with another object.
View it as a slideshow, I promise you will not be dissappointed.
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Topic: STRANGE - on May 16, 2008 at 4:00:40 PM CEST
Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics
In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers.
The hairy, reddish-brown creatures are known as "crazy rasberry ants" — crazy, because they wander erratically instead of marching in regimented lines, and "rasberry" after Tom Rasberry, an exterminator who did battle against them early on.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on May 16, 2008 at 3:57:14 PM CEST
Black Holes Don't Trap Information Forever
New calculations suggest that black holes are not a one-way street. Anything that falls into them may eventually come out. The findings lend important support to quantum gravity, but fly in the face of Einsteinian relativity. They also support Stephen Hawking's reluctant admission that information couldn't be destroyed by black holes. Penn State researcher Ahbay Ashtekar was quoted saying, 'Once we realized that the notion of space-time as a continuum is only an approximation of reality, it became clear to us that singularities are merely artifacts of our insistence that space-time should be described as a continuum.' Let the physics infighting begin
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 16, 2008 at 3:55:33 PM CEST
Taking your laptop into the US? Be sure to hide all your data first
Last month a US court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you're entering the country. They can take your computer and download its entire contents, or keep it for several days. Customs and Border Patrol has not published any rules regarding this practice, and I and others have written a letter to Congress urging it to investigate and regulate this practice.
But the US is not alone. British customs agents search laptops for pornography. And there are reports on the internet of this sort of thing happening at other borders, too. You might not like it, but it's a fact. So how do you protect yourself?
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 16, 2008 at 3:53:11 PM CEST
Nintendo Loses Patent Suit In East Texas, Of Course
The latest in a long line of patent lawsuits in every patent hoarders favorite district of East Texas involves the game controllers used by Nintendo. A company holds a patent on a 3D controller and sued Nintendo (and Microsoft) for supposedly violating the patent.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 16, 2008 at 3:51:40 PM CEST
Vietnam drugs haul 'largest ever'
Police in Vietnam say they have found nearly nine tons of cannabis in a shipment of blue jeans from Pakistan.
The authorities say it is their largest ever drugs seizure - at a value of $90m (£45m).
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