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mernil writes "A full century after the mysterious Tunguska explosion in Siberia leveled an area nearly the size of Tokyo, debate continues over what caused it. Many questions remain as to what crashed into the Earth from above — how big it was and what it was made of. Some question whether it even came from space at all, or whether it erupted from the ground instead. And there is always speculation that it was caused by a UFO or famed inventor Nikola Tesla's "death ray.""

Netflix has reversed its earlier decision to remove profiles. I just received an e-mail that said:

You spoke, and we listened. We are keeping Profiles. Thank you for all the calls and emails telling us how important Profiles are.

We are sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused. We hope the next time you hear from us we will delight, and not disappoint, you.

-Your friends at Netflix

Netflix's Community Blog confirms the e-mail notice. Sweet.

HP has come up with a practical implementation of a device called a "memristor", according to the New York Times, that provides a non-volatile memory element possibly down to 4nm in size. At 1/10th the speed of DRAM, it won't be suitable for main memory, but could certainly give flash a run for money. Also reported in EE Times.

The PyPy project, which among other things aims to reimplement Python in Python (as opposed to the C or Java implementations) has come up with a novel means of supporting Python 3.0, the "3to2" converter, which takes a Python 3.0 program and back-translates it on-the-fly to a Python 2.x program that can be run through the PyPy toolchain. It's just another example of how Python is such a flexible object-oriented language.