Open-source Myspace, phages, eugeroics, PC hax, Chomsky, the Singularity…

• 1 – Red Hat creates social networking site
  Screw Murdoch’s Myspace…social networking goes open-source with Mugshot
  (tags: innovation source open Linux Hat Red Mugshot Myspace network social)
• 2 – The Soviet method for attacking infection
  Why does the West use antibiotics instead of phages? Because phages are hard to patent.
  (tags: phages antibiotics bacteria virus technology antibiotic medicine health)
• 3 – Emerging Pills Free Us From Sleep
  Better living through chemistry – the Memepunks report on a new group of drugs called ‘eugeroics’, which ameliorate the effects of sleep deprivation without the nasty side-effects that stimulants produce. Gimme gimme!
  (tags: productivity lifehacks science chemistry pharmacology stimulants deprivation sleep wakefulness drugs)
• 4 – Yet Another ATX Lab Bench Power Supply Conversion
  Turn an old PC PSU into a bench supply
  (tags: electronics technology hack lab supply power ATX PC PSU howto)
• 5 – How to: build your own network firewall
  (tags: tutorial technology server security network Linux howto firewall computer)
• 6 – Hebrew University researchers uncover eight previously unknown species
  Newly discovered cave-system harbours unique isolated ecosystem
  (tags: cave underground Israel ecosystem species diversity biology science)
• 7 – Why water freezes faster after heating
  An ancient scientific mystery (potentially) solved
  (tags: solutes mystery freezing heating water chemistry science)
• 8 – Noam Chomsky: Why it’s over for America
  An inability to protect its citizens. The belief that it is above the law. A lack of democracy. Three defining characteristics of the ‘failed state’. And that, says Noam Chomsky, is exactly what the US is becoming. In an exclusive extract from his devasta
  (tags: states rogue society economics corruption government analysis US culture Chomsky politics)
• 9 – 18 Days of Reckless Computing
  How long does it take to kill a new computer with spam and viruses?
  (tags: spam security PC internet spyware computer virus)
• 10 – Brazilian Solidarity with the Freeware Crowd
  Bruce Sterling reports on cyberhippies in Brazilian politics.
  (tags: activism internet source open hackers cyberhippies Brazil politics culture)
• 11 – Underrated Science Fiction Writers
  Meme Therapy rounds up some underrated SF gems
  (tags: underrated literature scifi SF fiction science books)
• 12 – God and the Singularity, the Survey
  Put forward your views on religion and the technological singularity – Phil ‘Speculist’ Bowermaster needs your data!
  (tags: survey transhumanism singularity technological spirituality religion God futurism)
• 13 – Crabfu SteamWorks
  Steampunk fans, heads up! Who needs electricity when you have STEAM to power your robots!
  (tags: SF scifi fiction science engineering machines sculpture technology RC steampunk robots steam)
• 14 – HDD Grinder
  Gotta dead hard drive? Need a grinding wheel for the home tool set? No problemo!
  (tags: grinder hack technology geek PC HDD drive disk hard modding mods)
• 15 – US Cops Crack Heads, Ride Scooters
  Seems the oft-mocked Segway has found a home in US law enforcement. Though I can’t see the UK police taking them up; after all, they abandoned their rollerblades after people led them merry chases in Hyde Park…
  (tags: technology transport scooter enforcememnt law police US Segway)
• 16 – Did Saturn’s volcanic moon ‘roll with it’?
  There could be oceans under that ice. Maybe.
  (tags: speculation oceans albedo tilt geysers water moon Enceladus probe Cassini Saturn space)
• 17 – 3D insulator loses a dimension to enter magnetic ‘Flatland’
  I’m not entirely sure of the details here (high science content), but it appears to be news of progress toward high-temperature superconductors. They mention Bose-Einstein condensates in there too, so it must be exciting. Yes.
  (tags: silicate copper barium materials superconductor condensate Eintein Bose physics science)
• 18 – Now, where did I put that residue collection plate bag?
  Good news for the forgetful – astronauts can lose things, too.
  (tags: astronauts lost missing equipment spacewalk station ISS orbit space)
• 19 – How do you make a fuel cell? Print it | Tech News on ZDNet
  Fabbing is the future – 3D printing is the flag-bearer
  (tags: futurism assembly manufacture printing 3D cells fuel technology science)
• 20 – British nuclear renaissance faces threat of skills meltdown
  Gee, no-one wants to work in the nuclear industry. I wonder why that might be?
  (tags: recruitment technology science renaissance Blair Tony industry nuclear UK)
• 21 – Quantum dots could create 65% efficient solar cells
  (tags: fururism technology science photovoltaic dots quantum efficiency cells energy power solar)

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