Everyone should visit the site with the threatening message. It's time to put the Slashdot effect to good use! :-)

You can do what you like on private property, but you can't control public roads. If the unexpected happens, the best possible outcome is ensured by travelling at slower speeds and maintaining maximum vehicle control, regardless of your baseline skill.

What happens if you're busy hooning around on your "empty" road and the "unexpected happens"? You'll be just as likely to have an accident as all the other "sheep", because you're closer to your own limits. I've lived in areas with lots of "empty" roads (think driving 10km without seeing another car), and most of the bad drivers in that area weren't honing their skills; they just drove badly. There were plenty of accidents; a surprisingly large number given the local population. You think they were caused by people travelling at the speed limit and taking the turns like a snail? Me neither...

Having read the paper, I wonder: why did they choose to do their calculations using molecular dynamics software and not a finite element package? I could be reading it wrong, but their approach seems to have been to implement a cable-element FEA inside the molecular dynamics software... Struck me as kind-of like using a spreadsheet for image manipulation; maybe it's what you're familiar with, but it sure isn't the easiest route.

OK - this is one of those postings where I ask: which of the links is actually TFA?!

Not to troll too much, but... Are you being sarcastic?

Blender's renderer is really nothing special (and I mean really nothing special). It's no more ethereal than any other renderer out there. If you're perhaps referring to the glow effect in Elephant's Dream, that was done in post; check out the production files at the bottom of this page.