ToneHog - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Somehow... (Score 1) 286

by ToneHog on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @08:19PM (#22790268) Attached to: Vista Service Pack One Almost Here

Agreed, since Windows NT4 Service Pack 1 I have had to make backups of the machine's OS before committing to a Service Pack, as even removing the Service Pack wouldn't resolve the problems that the Service Pack created upon installation. Let's hope, for the sake of the support community, that this will be a repeat of the XP SP2 release, with as little problems as possible.

Astronomers Announce 5-Planet System 145

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 06, 2007 @06:35PM from the looking-for-something-rockier dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Astronomers have detected a record-breaking 5th planet orbiting the star 55 Cancri, 41 light years distant. This planet orbits within the 'habitable zone,' where water could presumably exist, but it's probably another gas giant like Saturn, so any liquid water would have to be on a moon. There's still a big gap between this planet and the outermost planet where no planets have been detected yet, so there could yet be a rocky planet in the system. The lead researcher said he's optimistic that 'continued observations will reveal a rocky planet within five years.'"

Chefs As Chemists 266

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 06, 2007 @04:31PM from the you-want-agar-agar-with-that dept.

circletimessquare writes "Using ingredients usually relegated to the lower half of the list of ingredients on a Twinkies wrapper, some professional chefs are turning themselves into magicians with food. Ferran Adrià in Spain and Heston Blumenthal in England have been doing this for years, but the New York Times updates us on the ongoing experiments at WD-50 in New York City. Xanthan Gum, agar-agar, and other hydrocolloids are being used to bring strange effects to your food. Think butter that doesn't melt in the oven, foie gras you can tie into knots, and fried mayonnaise."

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