A Vermont farmer and his business partner have created a mushroom-based insulation board that is grown in a form, taking about two weeks. Early tests indicate that the material insulates slightly better than the typical pink fiberglass batting found in homes today. To date, the two inventors have been growing samples under their beds while searching for affordable lab space and so

Scientific American this month is offering a quantum physics experiment you can do at home. It's a variation of the classic double-slit experiment that uses nothing more than a laser pointer, some polarizing film and a thin wire.

The Pirate Bay announced that the hacker group AUH broke into their servers, making off with 1.6 million usernames and (encrypted) passwords, and offered a .torrent to the data. Users whose views on information wanting to be free don't extend to their own data are encouraged to change their passwords; the Pirate Bay is no longer tracking that .torrent.

If at first you do not succeed, change course and try something new. Or, just do what I do instead of what I say.

I am sorry that I did not warn everyone. Anyway, I will get back to writing here later. I still read many of my "friends" JE's everyday, so keep up the good work. ;-)

And no...I do not have a stalker or any other life threatening reason to delete my JE's. I will explain later.