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destinyland writes "It started when the real "David Seville" was facing bankruptcy, and spent his last $100 on a two-speed tape recorder. Nearly 50 years later, the Chipmunks' official web site started pointing visitors to an "iMunks" page for downloading Chipmunk mp3s. It includes nearly 100 songs from their 50-year career, including their geeky songs like "Men in Black," the X-Files theme, and even Star Wars' Catina Band. (And its selections from "Club Chipmunk" include their high-pitched versions of the B-52s' "Love Shack," and "Play that Funky Music, Chipmunk...")"
http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/12/24/alvin-and-the-chipmunks-launch-imunkscom/

Using tiny gold particles embedded with dyes, researchers have shown that they can identify tumors under the skin of a living animal. These tools may allow doctors to detect and diagnose cancer earlier and less invasively. Studded with antibody fragments called ScFv peptides that bind cancer cells, the gold particles grab onto tumors after their injection into a mouse. When illuminated with a laser beam, the tumor-bound particles send back a signal that is specific to the dye.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071224124751.htm

The Economist has an article with technology predictions for 2008: " 1. Surfing will slow: The internet is not about to grind to a halt, but as more and more users clamber aboard to download music, video clips and games, ... surfing the web is going to be more like travelling the highways at holiday time. You'll get there, eventually, but the going won't be great. 2. Surfing will detach: Internet will doubtless be as popular among mobile-internet surfers as among their sedentary cousins. 3. Surfing — and everything else computer-related — will open: Rejoice: the embrace of "openness" by firms that have grown fat on closed, proprietary technology is something we'll see more of in 2008. The trend toward openness has been given added impetus by the recent collapse of the legal battles brought by SCO. The verdict removed, once and for all, the burden that had been inhibiting Linux's broader acceptance. Since the verdict against SCO, Linux has swiftly become popular in small businesses and the home, largely the doing of Ubuntu 7.10. And because it is free, Linux become the operating system of choice for low-end PCs. Neither Microsoft nor Apple can compete at the new price points being plumbed by companies looking to cut costs."
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10410912

A Stanford team gives Cape Mendocino the top pick as a site for an offshore wind turbine power plant. Also: interconnect wind farms for a steady electrical supply.
http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9832103-39.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Iranian scientists claim to have used 216 microprocessors made by AMD to build the country's most powerful supercomputer, despite a ban on the export of U.S. computer equipment to the Middle Eastern nation. Scientists at the Iranian High Performance Computing Research Center at the country's Amirkabir University of Technology said they used a Linux-cluster architecture in building the system of Opteron processors. The supercomputer has a theoretical peak performance of 860 giga-flops, the posting said. The disclosure, made in an undated posting on Amirkabir's Web site, brought an immediate response Monday from AMD, which said it has never authorized shipments of products either directly or indirectly to Iran or any other embargoed country.

After the recent brouhaha over the renaming of 4th Ave after César Chávez, a Portland group is pushing to rename a local street after the late writer Douglas Adams. The street? Why, 42nd Ave, of course. According to their website, the renaming will reflect Portlanders' commitment to the arts, respect for the environment, desire to provide technological access to all, their passion to further education to all people, and most importantly remind Portlanders DON'T PANIC. This appears to be a serious movement, with preliminary paperwork already in the works.

Daniel K. Attling writes "John Kanzius invented a radio wave machine in an attempt to kill cancer. While trying to desalinize salt water with the machine, the water started burning.

John Kanzius primary interest is in using this radio frequency nanotechnology to cure cancer. This Hydrogen-from-Salt Water discovery is but an interesting if not annoying detour for him."
http://www.magistrala.cz/freeenergy/?p=13

Looking to bug al-Qaeda

Famed US military mad-scientist bureau DARPA (the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency) is engaged in an effort to grow/build cyborg moths for use as spies. No, really.

http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/31/cyborg_chipped_terminator_moths_aiee/