Wednesday Links

Are you Gay?

The audacity of hubris.

Practical jetpacks are almost here.

Stiffing our allies to favor our rivals.

The blinding light.

The Democrats are winning the battle of staging.

Building the quantum simulator.

Oil at $500/barrel?

The Devil's Business Dictionary, in pictures.

The first trans-national President.

Hope for Alzheimer's.

Educational growth, or its opposite, and economics.

Introducing the Sphere.

Russia's continuing legal nihilism.

The real psychic paper.

Friday Links

Don't invest your billions in Russia.

Maliki casts his vote.

A man's van is no longer his castle.

The right to conversion?

Water weirdness may be due to quantum weirdness.

The Sixties are always with us.

Tobacco to heal cancer?

The end of the Reagan revolution.

Is NASA hiding the aliens?

Don't be greenwashed.

I am the world; I am the President.

Friday Links

The rising flood of militant Islam in Pakistan.

Could the long tail theory be wrong after all?

The state of the woman-as-victim narrative, 2008.

The first images of the Solar System's invisible frontier.

The three great American ideas.

Herpes uses microRNA to hide.

Optimism is growing in Iraq.

The flat atom and its uses.

10 summer projects.

Skinheads in Russia.

Still ignoring the coming entitlement tsunami.

Sunday Links

The decline of the Senate.

The DirectX tutorials.

The end of free speech in Canada.

The visual history of Python.

Wise, honest, independent, and courageous.

Quantum mechanics revealed to be mundane complex numbers.

No more than 25 years difference allowed.

Quantum cryptography might be breakable after all.

New America vs. Old America.

The power of Google Gears.

Corruption? Naaah, couldn't be.

Check your computer for zombie-bots.

Winning the Iraq argument.

Sunday Links

The rise of the rest.

Women to avoid.

Paul Nylander's differential equations blog.

Robobugs coming to a war near you.

More women to avoid.

Young FrankenSteve.

Introducing the smell phone.

Talking with ultraviolet.

A pathetic, impotent, washed-up old giant.

Taking pictures of things you can't see.

Wednesday Links

When the Chinese mask slips.

How I tamed my in-box.

Wall Street's crisis.

The Island of the Birds.

Obama's American search for roots.

10 oddball websites.

The liberation of Karmah.

Rodham Clinton under fire.

Even worse than gasoline for the environment?

Top 50 universities ranked by looks.

Is graphene the new silicon?

Obama and Bush are cousins.

More bandwidth through hyper-entangled photons.

Yet another dead reporter.

1968 was all demographics.

Weekly Links

Quotes for entrepreneurs.

Quantum computing on a chip using quantum dots.

Death for pimps.

Firing around corners.

Chinese retail sales are growing at a record pace.

Saturn's ancient rings.

The new airfare sites deliver better deals.

The real death star is a black hole.

Riding the failure cascade.

The colors of ancient statuary.

Slavery in New York.

Giant rats in Indonesia.

Is cannabis smoke deadlier than tobacco smoke?

Japanese missile defence.

The case against peak oil.

Weekly Links

Stem cells from skin cells.

More housing price records.

China's first spacewalk.

Is Mankind destroying the world? Worse, we're foreshortening the life of the Universe itself. Repent!

Australia shifts away from the US, toward China.



A group is its own worst enemy.

Robotic aircraft learn to stunt-fly.

How to protect IM from Big Brother.

The sliding rocks of Racetrack Playa mystery. (And who knew "playa" was an English word too?)

Time to burn cars in Paris again.

15 dark comedies to watch.

Google's privacy protections are worth the paper they're printed on.

Putin arrests Kasparov. "We don't need no stinkin' dissent", he opines. "One party's good enough for my boys, it's good enough for Russia."

10 free science courses online at good universities.

The Chinese African empire continues to grow.

Friday Links

Why cold weather really does spread the flu.

25 skills every man should know.

Say you're sorry, make more money.

Is this why wild monkeys are not allowed in the Northern Virginia and Maryland woods?

Common repairs made easy.

The story of Baikonur.

Undercover in the Apple Store.

How quantum cryptology works.

Character—not technology—is the solution to crime.

Or did the Clean Air Act lower crime?

The Nigerian child sex trade smashed.

Is OPEC the new Fed?

Weekly Links

Bloggers vs. tin-pot dictators.

Introducing Kaltura.

Does your brain make you a bad investor?

10 more future web trends.

The first qubit chips.

10 major macro themes from last week.

Urban ruins immortalized.

The search wars heat up.

The mating advantages of the deeper voice.

Fuel from mutated algae.

The new Zunes are out.

The Wikipedia Wars heat up.

How the market will unravel.

A great new Haskell tutorial.

Water is more interesting than you thought.

Inflation data is a lie.

Weekly Links

Nerd tatoos.

There's no absolute freedom of speech in Sweden.

Google is building a lobbying powerhouse in Washington.

This doomed star is approximately 150 times the size of the Sun.

Cheap ethanol from glycerin, from biodiesel, care of bioengineering.

France bans Canadian Blackberries on fear of US spying.

11 cures for procrastination.

New study shows Vista more secure than Linux or Macintosh OSX.

The world's best business sites. (hat tip: Buddy Larsen)

A binary adder made from marbles. (hat tip: Seneca the Younger)

Top cities for young professionals.

Sun delivers its first Blackbox data center to Stanford.

Social trip finder.

We actually belong to the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy, not to the Milky Way. Who knew?

How to cool your house.

If fire were made of water.

The essential 1,000 films.

Aurora Borealis from space.

Philosophy of History.

Quantum dots might be the key to teleportation.

Giant penguins roaming the tropics.

The UK is the worst for social mobility.

The coming global cooling.

7 secrets of the super-organized.

Chimps can be altruistic.

World's first robot construction worker.

1 in 10 Brits born overseas.

Inside China's factories.

Iranian forces cross into Iraq.

Hot rocks keep North America afloat.

Facebook vs. MySpace.