Sure, that's absolutely correct, the distillation would work. It would, however, take much more energy. Instead of boiling off ~20% (by volume) of ethanol which boils at 78C, you'll need to boil off 80% of the water which boils at 100C. And then boil off the isobutanol (to separate it from the yeast and other crud). Most yeasts will conk out well before 20% ethanol, they basically die in their own excrement. I doubt that this fermentation to isobutanol would go to 20%, probably less.

Isobutanol is not very soluble in water (87 g/L) - I wonder if this process also avoids the need for distillation? Distillation is the most energy-intensive part of bio-ethanol production.

If it doesn't separate, distillation will really suck, since it's boiling point (107.89 C) is higher than water.

There are logos in the kernel? Really?

I am reminded once again of the "evil bit".

I'm quite surprised that the hydrogen atoms didn't condense in to molecular Hydrogen (H2). Monatomic Hydrogen is remarkably unstable at any temperature above 1K. If they isolated 38 atoms for 1/6 of a second, that seems like plenty of time for chemical reactions to take over (i.e. formation of H2).

From the article at Nature:

I'm guessing that the 38 atoms that they isolated were during different runs of the experiment.

More code does not necessarily equal "bloat". The complete DVD iso for RHEL-6 is only 2.7 GB, does the latest Windows Server release even fit on a single DVD?

Or, you know, more.

I'm reminded of the 'evil' bit.

I beg to differ. I have access to the following system:

...that's a single instance with 127 processors and 256GB of ram. It rocks. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.

telescoped [tel-uh-skohp-dee] noun, a process that runs in the background waiting for incoming photons.
Usage: "here is how a remarkable telescoped ... found its first potential target."

I find it interesting that Zen Magnets are currently out of stock. I'm sure that it's easier to keep production quality high when dealing with smaller production runs, so maybe BuckyBalls' QC is slipping as they try to keep up with their larger market share?

From alt.sysadmin.recovery FAQ v1.799999999999999998... (1 April 1974):

ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/sysadmin-recovery

That's really cool...but they labeled their "underexposed" and "overexposed" backwards. Oops.

The first site is slow to load, the second is timing out completely. Could they possibly be Slashdotted?!

Not small, but also not uncommon. According to NASA JPL:

...so this happens pretty much every day. This time, however, we know about it.