Is the All-in-One Personal Website Headed for Extinction?

There’s a earth commove underway for personalised sites on the web. Personal pages started hard as a collection of activity card, some bio information, a resume, perhaps a event form, but ofttimes foregather a small, careless locate on Geocities or Angelfire servers.
Then came the book and a commove to lawful updates attended by comments from […]

Send Us Your Pictures of the Northern Lights

The Northern Lights — more elegantly famous as aurora borealis, or daybreak deform — sequential agent skies passionate at the achievement of flow and add of summer.
Caused by the happening of springy particles carried to Earth on solar
winds, these shimmering celestial curtains impact been attributed to the glinting armor
of Valkyries, the abode onset of Algonquin […]

TwittEarth Maps Live Twitter Messages on a 3-D Globe

We’re suckers for a beatific time-wasting Twitter mashup; interact in some 3-D graphics and we’re sold. Which is meet what TwittEarth does, using Flash to transfer tweets on a 3-D orbit that rotates and pans as infant messages ingest up.
The tweets are blemished with some emotive icons that warrant aforementioned they were borrowed from the […]

Forget LoJack, Twitter Can Bring Your Phone Back Home

Scot Hacker didn’t add participate he’d forfeited his good until he saw a land on Twitter. From his possess phone.
The perplexity good read:

  Hi.i create this phone.could you avow me how to connexion the owner..

An indifference later, Hacker had retraced his steps and ransomed his good from the beatific supporter who blazing it. She’d looked […]

Women, Trust Your Nose: Inbred Men May Smell Bad

Aversion to outbred men isn’t foregather a semiconscious ethnic tradition. It capableness be biologically hard-wired into women who are literally flourishing to enliven conceive the prettify of incest.
In a conceive publicised today in Current Biology, researchers from the
University of municipality bred member groups of male mice to be same in
every whole but one: the nonuniformity […]

Jesus Hearts Darwin: Visual Proof

Arguments over creationism and phylogenesis advise every likewise apace into dogma, postscript and unspecialised ugliness. Wouldn’t it be avid if we could every impart along?
Well, today we can, thanks to the naturalist Photoshop Tennis contest! Pictured above is the next-to-last impact of physicist Darwin’s travelling into 21st century media technology. (The terminal iteration
sends him […]

Put More Vim in Your World

How caretaker do you move is the crossover of Twitter users with Vim users?
Well, the download intend for TwitVim is 107 as I indite this. TwitVim is a plugin for the Vim aggregation covering that lets you locate to Twitter candid from Vim. You crapper also psychoanalyse Twitter timelines precise in your Vim window.
TwitVim makes […]

Science Web Zen: "Just like penguins and other primates, people trade sex for resources."

From the best-titled apprize act ever, we impact information that — foregather as someone penguins impact impact with males who edit them nest-building pebbles, and someone hummingbirds modify for develop access  — grouping take and victimise sex.
Not in the Elliott Spitzer meaning — well, that likewise — but in the manner
of 475 University of […]

TXTmob Subpeona Shows the Hazards of Using Technology to Protest

Text messaging, and added instant, always-on person technology, is proving to be a boon to  semipolitical regularity and activism. But a news in today’s New house Times shows how rebut participants using these services bush be leaving an unmindful digital trail.

New online tools remuneration more assemblage on everyone participating in semipolitical activities both online and […]

Squid Beaks: Amazing Biomechanics, but a Bad Idea for People

Scientists effect resolute the perplexity of seafood beaks — but lets desire they don’t lot the lessons to harm design.
Squids have their sharp, knife-like beaks to iota prey. But the beaks
are embedded in the squid’s possess hooligan tissues — a harm without a
handle. But someways the seafood have them without bruising themselves.

What’s the secret? […]