Why a spider hanging from a thread does not rotate - Very cool stuff!
http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/476.htm
Worlds strongest glue is made by bacteria - Mother Nature, materials Engineer Extraordinare!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060410/sc_space/
worldsstrongestglueavailableonlyfromnature
A 100% efficent light emitter? Looks promising if it can be developed.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2154049/perfect-power-source-invented
Apparently recently California has seen two chunks of ice just fall out of the size. Clear skies that is! And no, these werent “blue ice” incidents from planes since the ice was clear like normal ice. Apparently this is a phenonmenon that happens around the world and its got scientists puzzled. Can’t say I blame them for being so either!
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/15/MNGN5I9OUE1.DTL
Lo and behold one of the more curious aspects of scientific research I stumbled across last week was this entry about a study involving doing MRI scans of people having sex…inside the MRI machine. If you’ve ever been in an MRI machine before then you will find the description of how the managed to fit two people into an MRI machine as humorous. (Link is safe for work)
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/04/sex_in_the_mri.php#more
There was a great article in The Escapist this month about how the purchasing power and retail shelf space in Wal-Mart helps to grant Wal-Mart a near de-facto control over certain aspects of game development. Namely, if Wal-Mart says its not interested in a certain game it seems to imply in the article that development of those titles will get canned or deprioritized in favor of titles the retailier does approve of. One positive aspect of this Wal-Mart power that is mentioned however is the move to the smaller game box packagin you see in stores these days. On the whole however I’m not so sure if this is good for the industry that one retailer can influence descisions so much.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/40/11
I saw this interesting article over at Mike Davidson site about how ESPN.com switched from table based HTML layout to CSS and W3C layout standards to deliver a better user experience while also significantly reducing bandwidth consumption of their site. Probably the most telling statistic is that by switching over to the CSS design ESPN.com uses 61 TERAbytes per month less of bandwidth! Wow! Check it out here:
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2003/06/espn-interview
So first things first, pictures! My good friend Tim snapped a bunch of shots with his new Canon EOS-5D and has put all of the photos up on his photography site here:
http://workmantm.com/Dan_30th/
My favorite I think was this one:
A bunch of friends showed up and I had an awesome time, so thank you to everyone who showed up! Things went remarkably well and I got some rather goofy/funny gifts from various people that I am sure will live in infamy.
All in all I dont think I could have asked for a better birthday really. Sorry I’ve taken so long to sit down and write about this all but school and work this quarter are really crazy busy for me. I need to get a bit better with time management still, but I’ll eventually rise from the ashes of this trial by fire.
As far as the rest of this week goes I’ve got a quad-campus fraternity party going on in Long Beach I am going to check out on Friday night and the rest of the weekend is up in the air. I may go up to Ren Faire on Saturday daytime to see friends and harass them. Sunday might be a bad movies day with Trina and Co.
Other then that I’ve got some news stories and other items of interest I will be posting up later today and tomorrow for those of you looking for items to pass the time or make you think.
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