Somebody on a mailing list noted that Google Maps reports lat and long to 13 decimal places, and calculated that comes out to a precision of about eleven Ångströms (Angstroms for the Unicode-impaired).
For folks whose physics is a few years behind them (or ahead of them!) Ångströms are commonly used to measure the wavelength of light – one Ångström is 10-10 meters; a piece of paper is about one million Ångströms thick.
(via home-ed)
A lovely bunch of Rube Goldberg marble machines
You’ll have to get up early, 1 1/2 hours before sunrise, to catch a glimpse of Comet Pojmanski: Sky and Telescope – A Surprise Comet in the Dawn
According to Nature magazine, researchers at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have designed a quantum computer where you don’t have to run a program for it to give you answers.
Does this mean Quantum Windows won’t crash? Probably not, but at least it may be crashing in somebody else’s universe.
(from EFF via IP)
RIAA Says Ripping CDs to Your iPod is NOT Fair Use
RIAA filing to Copyright Office:
“Nor does the fact that permission to make a copy in particular circumstances is often or even routinely granted, necessarily establish that the copying is a fair use when the copyright owner withholds that authorization. In this regard, the statement attributed to counsel for copyright owners in the MGM v. Grokster case is simply a statement about authorization, not about fair use.”
John Paul is already a member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon,
tonight, Damon becomes a member of Phi Theta Kappa
Hoopa!
These guys have made a 45-minute fan movie – STAR WARS REVELATIONS which you can download for free.
(via Fark)
From Roll Call: The House Republicans are re-taking a vote for majority leader since more votes were cast than there were voters present at the meeting.
Gotta stop using them Diebold machines, guys!
A solar flare kicked off some awesome southern lgihts last September captured courtesy of the IMAGE satellite
Massively Multiplayer Personal Productivity
– a productivity method for the next generation!
A leap second (the first in seven years) will be added just before midnight GMT (7 PM east coast). So party on a little longer this year!
…Get-Together And Talk About Everyone Who Didn’t Make It Party was great fun!
Attending were Jeff, Golnaz (who came up with the idea, and we are all much obliged!),
(click on the picture for the full-size version), Dave, Rich, 
, and Brian, Your Humble Blogger, who was not quite flexible enough to be both in front of and behind the camera at the same time. Maybe some of Golnaz’s pix will come out. (I apologize for the quality of the pictures, I’m a crappy photographer.)
Great time catching up with each other, and reminiscing about the Good Old Days. Rest assured, if you weren’t there, we did talk about you, so you’d just better make it to the next one!
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