Open-source crop circle, miniature dice, PKD on YouTube, backward sunspot, Pioneer anomaly…

• 1 – Firefox crop circle
  Does what it says on the tin. A pretty slick job too…wonder if they used an open source crop circle program to do it with?
  (tags: image picture hoax glyph circle crop firefox)
• 2 – Optimizing your blog for search engines
  I’ve already done about half of these, but there’s a few new ones in there too.
  (tags: optimisation engine search tricks tips SEO blogging blogs)
• 3 – World’s smallest dice
  “Billed as the smallest dice in the world, each one measures 0.3 x 0.3 x 0.3 mm…”. Luke Rheinhart, eat your heart out.
  (tags: frivolous technology machining manufacturing microscopic miniaturisation tiny dice)
• 4 – Review: ‘Visionary in Residence’ by Bruce Sterling
  SF Site tucks into Captain Bruce’s latest collection.
  (tags: collection story short literature scifi sf fiction science Residence Visionary Sterling Bruce review books)
• 5 – US turns back to Britain as its base for Son of Star Wars
  “The Pentagon is turning to Britain once again as a site for its controversial missile defence system.” Let’s see whether Blair decides to retreat further into Dubya’s arse-crack or not, shall we?
  (tags: Britain system defense interceptor missile Wars Star Son Blair Bush Pentagon US)
• 6 – Philip K. Dick interview, 1977
  YouTube video of an old PKD interview, partly used for promo purposes with ‘A Scanner, Darkly’. Link via BoingBoing.
  (tags: counterculture Nixon paranoia author sf scifi fiction science interview video PKD Dick Philip)
• 7 – ‘Electron-spin’ trick boosts quantum computing
  “A new silicon chip capable of manipulating the spin of a single electron could ultimately allow futuristic quantum computers to be built using conventional electronic technology.” Blimey. Link courtesy of AdvancedNanotechnology.
  (tags: technology architecture semiconductor silicon spin electron computing quantum electronics)
• 8 – Backward Sunspot
  A sunspot that points the other way to all the others may be the harbinger of the start of a new solar cycle – which is pedicted to be a lively and tempestuos one.
  (tags: harbinger orientation magnetic backwards sunspots 24 cycles cosmology physics solar space)
• 9 – The key to the Pioneer anomaly?
  Unexplained behaviour during Earth fly-bys could mean we need to adjust the theory of gravity. Or maybe not. Depends who you ask.
  (tags: science gravity theory data change acceleration probe space anomaly Pioneer)
• 10 – Google busts out free WiFi for public in Mountain View
  Does what it says on the tin.
  (tags: investment community PR municipal network wifi free View Mountain Google)
• 11 – Meet the cleverest man in the world (who’s going to say no to a $1m prize)
  Genius Russian mathematician shows a real aversion to the limelight.
  (tags: genius reclusive medal Fields conjecture Poincare proof maths mathematics Russia Perelman Grigory)
• 12 – New toilet cuts water consumption by 84 percent
  Does what it says on the tin, er, lid.
  (tags: resource environment conservation saving water flush pressure air Propelair WC toilet)
• 13 – Nanotechnology and the Developing World: The Regulatory Gap
  Worldchanging, as always, has the reasoned and sensible skinny on regulating an exciting but potentially hazardous new industry.
  (tags: technology foresight industry regulation oversight environment risk health nanoparticles nanotech)