Nokia h4xx0r1n9, universe’s missing lithium located, NASA rocking it old-school…

• 1 – Nokia Smartphone Hacks
  Does what it says on the tin; mostly chapter heading from a book, but a few of them are available for free there, including the easy-email-by-SMS hack. Bonus!
  (tags: list howto tricks tips hacks phone mobile Nokia)
• 2 – Your band name sucks
  50 terrible band names – how many of your CD collection feature here?
  (tags: terrible 50 top humout list worst names band music)
• 3 – Long-term threat to economy as UK runs out of scientists, CBI warns
  See, didn’t I tell you?
  (tags: teaching careers uninspiring curriculum poor failure education science UK)
• 4 – Big bang reconciled with ‘missing’ lithium
  Panic over, people – the stars burnt it all up!
  (tags: theory science cosmology combustion stars discrepancy lithium bang big space)
• 5 – Ten (more) ways to search with Technorati
  Does what it says on the tin; I knew half of them already, but there’s some good suggestions in there.
  (tags: blogging web2.0 blog tutorial tools tips search Technorati)
• 6 – NASA is borrowing ideas from the Apollo missions
  They’ve said they’ll go back to the moon, and they mean it. But they’re looking to tried and tested technologies rather than the ‘bleeding edge’ solutions.
  (tags: components engineering mission lunar project Aries technology landers Moon Apollo NASA space)
• 7 – Terra Preta: Black is the New Green
  Worldchanging reports on a rare and special soil from the Amazon basin. It stores two and a half times the carbon of regular soil, and it could revolutionise the way we grow crops for fuel.
  (tags: environment ecology crops growth biofuels sequestration carbon soil rainforest indio do preta terra earth dark Amazonian)
• 8 – IBM researchers investigate molecules for the future of information processing
  The boys at Big Blue are hard at work trying to make even smaller and more efficient electronic circuits – by using single molecules as logic components.
  (tags: computing charge storage data molecules state switchable circuitry CMOS semiconductor electronics nanotechnology IBM)
• 9 – India’s Rocket Man Powers Up
  Third Wired article on India’s space program – this is an interview with the head of ISRO, Madhavan Nair.
  (tags: Nair Madhavan interview projects satellite imaging lunar moonshot collaboration ISRO agency civilian technology India space)
• 10 – India Rolls Its Own Space Tech
  Second of three Wired pieces on India’s race for space – this one focusses on their homegrown technological advances.
  (tags: projects satellite imaging lunar moonshot collaboration ISRO agency civilian technology India space)
• 11 – India’s Cut-Price Space Program
  One of a set of three pieces at Wired on the Indian race for space.
  (tags: projects satellite imaging lunar moonshot collaboration ISRO agency civilian technology India space)
• 12 – Navy Chief Submerges 2,000 Feet, Sets Record
  That’s a long way down – without the new diving suit he was testing, he’d have been squashed flat by the pressure.
  (tags: technology ocean deep feet 2000 testing suit System Diving Atmospheric diver Navy US submarine)