#science

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7288426.stm

This is superb stuff. I for one welcome our new grey goo overlords.

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/03/etech-ma...

I love his perspective on the world, and really, really must get to a talk by him at some point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3753_Cruithne

Wikipedia article on "Earth's second moon". I was dimly aware that earth had more than one satellit...

http://cairmen.livejournal.com/335369.html?style=m...

Here's the bit where he actually cooks things. Sous-vide cooking really appeals to me, because, des...

http://cairmen.livejournal.com/335153.html

Friend and professional mad bastard Hugh Hancock has finally managed to get himself a home waterbath...

http://www.ukimagehost.com/uploads/2daed9235d.gif

An animated gif showing a progesssion in size of various celestial bodies, starting with the moon, a...

http://www.theage.com.au/news/climate-watch/quest-...

OK, so it's not the holy grail. But it would mak a huge impact on greehouse gas buildup, since kang...

http://www.duelity.net/

Click on "Watch" and the "Duelity" for a rather nice split screen flash movie about the origin of ev...

http://kitchenhacklab.foodhacking.com/index

Amateur culinary mentalists, keeping a log of some of the intesting stuff they've done. One to keep...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2003/jul/03/rese...

Amusing and interesting short peice on the way that dolphins at one research centre have started to...

http://www.wikisky.org/

It's a scrollable, clickable map of the night sky. I am not any kind of astronomy nerd, and live in...

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn10971&...

Now, if we can just sort out the heart disease and shortness of breath, I can take up smoking, and b...

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/arti...

One of the great minds of our time at work. Well done, that chap.

http://www.kottke.org/06/08/pluto-mnemonic-device-...

A series of amuing mnemonics for the sequence of planets, both with and without pluto.

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/...

Experts can't figure out why some insect are suddenly building nests about 30 times larger than usua...