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Comment Pretty funny (Score 1) 4
Except that now I'm going to spen the next day or so trying to come up with new "tar" puns.
Around here, ITAR is a synonym for "Royal Pain in the Ass."
Journal Journal: Ironic numbers
Anyone noticed that Apple's market cap is approaching double that of Dell? Apple won't buy them out - it would just be to close them down....
Feed Mac Word: An Apple TV wish list (macworld.com)
Feed The 8-Core Apple MacBook Pro (pheedo.com)
Apple gets its hands on a special Clovertown processor for its Mac Pro systems.
Feed Magnetar Does A Gigantic Stellar 'Hiccup' (sciencedaily.com)
Astronomers using data from several X-ray satellites have caught a magnetar -- the remnant of a massive star with an incredibly strong magnetic field -- in a sort of giant cosmic blench.
Feed Biofuels: More Than Just Ethanol (sciencedaily.com)
As the United States looks to alternate fuel sources, ethanol has become one of the front runners. Scientists studied the greenhouse gas emissions and bioenergy of corn, hybrid poplar, switchgrass and other crops to determine the efficiency of various biocrops in terms of energy consumption and energy output.
Feed Behavioral Ecology: Late Breeding Female Birds Surprisingly Had More Offspring (sciencedaily.com)
Starting to breed late in life is a bad idea if you want to maximize the number of offspring that you produce -- or so the theory goes. But doubt has now been cast on this hypothesis -- one of the biggest assumptions in behavioral ecology -- by researchers from the universities of Bristol and Cape Town and published in Current Biology.
Feed Cell Biology: New Connection Between Cancer and Sugars (sciencedaily.com)
Scientists have discovered a new role for sugars on proteins that may lead to new drugs or improvements on current medications.
Feed Photos: Green comet captured by digital camera (com.com)
Terry Lovejoy became the first digital photographer to have a comet named after him. Comet Lovejoy can be seen with the help of binoculars this month.
Submission + - Solar power-cell breakthrough
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers from the Nanomaterials Research Centre at Massey University in New Zeeland have developed synthetic dyes that can be used to generate electricity at one tenth of the cost of current silicon-based solar panels. These photosynthesis-like compounds work in low-light conditions and can be cheaply incorporated into window-panes and building materials, thereby turning them into generators of electricity.
Feed Say what? 'Vista's cover is blown' (com.com)
Blog: Call it the curse of the cursor. Microsoft this week had to jump the gun on its monthly release of software patches to because...
Feed Anarchist blog boy freed (theregister.com)
Emma Goldman 2.0
After the longest stretch ever served in the joint for refusing to disclose a source, blogger/activist Josh Wolf is a free man.
Feed UK boffins are going on an alien hunt (theregister.com)
Going to catch a big one...
Physicists have been hearing this afternoon about attempts by UK astronomers to find evidence of alien life - buried in over 2000 hours of archived telescope data.
