space station science officer don pettit looks at thin liquid films. neat. list of celebrities and other prominent individuals who have experienced being homeless. with new super-repellent plastic self-washing buildings, cheap diagnostic chips, and free-flowing honey jars are now possible. skyscraper escape pods have been panned by the n.y.c. office of emergency management. chatter about the quantum measurement problem. wondering whether our universe will be assimilated by a larger "parallel" universe. using a quantum computer for counterfactual computation: inferring information about an answer without actually running the computer (?) a few words from joe sacco & art spiegelman on the danish cartoon beef. with the hideousness now only a memory a few of christo's slaves speak up. ever had the urge to build your own hoverboard? here's a how-to. v.voice piece on the birth and life of the 9-11 truth movement (via) essay: search engines, wiki's, and blogs are changing some time-honored assumptions about written communication. (via) ice worms aren't just legend or local color. they're real and with the glaciers melting possibly in danger. poor ice worms. enjoy the gorgeous images and otherwise interesting watchmakery stuff in ron decorte's notebook. (via) episode of whacky 70's, live-action, japanese spiderman show.vid here. grant barrett (of d.t.w.w.) has a personal site: the lexicographer’s rules (thnx kurt)