Either this proves the existence of God...

... or it proves the universe is sufficiently wonderful on its own.

Either way, watch.

Weekly Links

Is your ISP altering your webpages without your knowledge?

Magnetic levitation wind turbines.

The lowest PEG ratios in the West.

Free audio books.

The plug-in Prius revealed.

10 ways to sharpen your concentration.

Time may not exist.

The great wall of money.

5 things you never knew you could print out.

Collected works of Friedrich Nietzsche, free. German archive.

The best sand sculptures.

Program learns baby talk in any language.

Hitachi's advanced visual search engine.

Google's architecture.

Is energy demand set to increase?

Satire illegal in New Zealand.

10 ways to entertain young children for pocket change.

Chips in the brain.

Sex for the motherland. Why didn't they have these when I was a teen?

Evolutionary algorithms are surpassing human designers.

What Goldman Sachs has.

Graphene paper is stronger than nanotubes.

Viking treasure hoard discovered. Items from as far away as Afghanistan were transported by the Vikings to northern England.

Pink solar cells to produce energy at one quarter the cost.

Dolphins are smart.

The abandoned West.

Do smart people have less sex?

Pictures of Life

A friend was once sitting in a college classroom. The professor was making derisive comments about note-takers, claiming that they frequently miss the point at hand because they are so busy concentrating on taking their notes. The friend thought that a fair point. The professor went so far as to say that he wanted the people in the class right then and there to stop taking notes and start thinking about what he was saying. My friend was nodding his head and happened to notice the fellow next to him who was furiously writing down everything that was being said.

Flabbergasted, my friend asked him, "Didn't you hear what he just said? He said we were supposed to stop taking notes!"

At which the other fellow nodded in agreement, saying "Absolutely. I've got it right here," pointing to his notes.

True story.