Imagining Titan’s islands; Seth Godin talks to the music industry; molecular handedness and the origins of life …

• 1 – Encrypt your data

  “… a free, open source encryption application that works on Windows and Linux. Given the right credentials, TrueCrypt will create a virtual hard drive that will read and write encrypted files on the fly.” Linux and Wind0ze flavours.

  (tags: software FOSS encryption data file)

• 2 – Of Islands and the Imagination

  “The work of San Diego middle school teacher Peter Minton …, they’re based on Cassini imagery peering through the murk of Titan’s atmosphere at what seems to be an island group in a methane sea.”

  (tags: islands exploration speculation sea methane Titan space topography mapping)

• 3 – WP Themer Kit – WordPress

  Looks interesting, though I’m still not sure the hand-code method isn’t better in the long run, especially for bootstrap n00bs like YT.

  (tags: resource theme webdev wordpress HTML framework CSS CMS)

• 4 – The live music talk (Seth Godin)

  “… the music industry is going to have to accept [that] this curve now exists for you. That for everybody under eighteen years old, it’s either free or it’s something I really want and I’m willing to pay for it. There is nothing in the center-it

  (tags: SethGodin LongTail model economics abundance industry business music)

• 5 – How to organize posts into two side-by-side columns in Wordpress

  “The basic idea is to add a “switch” so Wordpress knows if you’re looking at a post which will appear in the first or second column.” Hmm, crafty.

  (tags: webdev code columns hack theme php Wordpress)

• 6 – Anger as burial site digs are blocked

  “The ruling means permission for digs at burial grounds and old churchyards will be denied in some cases, while in others excavated human remains will have to be reburied within two months of their discovery.”

  (tags: legislation history research law permission archaeology)

• 7 – ASU researcher may have discovered key to life before its origin on Earth

  “… amino acids, which are the building blocks of terrestrial proteins, are all “left-handed,” while the sugars of DNA and RNA are “right-handed.” The mystery as to why this is the case, “parallels in many of its queries those that surround the

  (tags: space handedness molecular DNA acid amino biology life)

• 8 – Mine Water Poses Danger of a Toxic Gusher

  “In a snowswept trailer park, Emily Medina wakes each morning wondering whether she will be washed away by toxic water that local officials fear could burst from a decaying mine tunnel near her home.”

  (tags: excavation timebomb pollution mining)