Finger-drums, synthetic biology, home-made mass-drivers, the Norwegian meteorite…

• 1 – A Flash Drive That Holds Your Computer
  Your entire OS and file system on a flash drive that will run on any machine – sounds like common sense to me. Via Warren Ellis. NB: NYT online article; login with BugMeNot.
  (tags: futurism technology portable settings files drive flash XP Windows OS software computer)
• 2 – The SUP – Sport Utility Bicycle
  Another crazy pushbike hack…one that can carry a whole lot of cargo.
  (tags: utility sports trolley shopping bicycle bike make hack DIY)
• 3 – US rejected Iranian overtures in 2003
  I can’t even muster the effort to pretend to be surprised. That man and his cronies are weasels and greedheads of the worst order. Hunter Thompson, where are you now we need you most?
  (tags: East Middle Iraq war diplomacy nuclear rejection talks Iran Bush politics)
• 4 – Justify your existence
  Elizabeth Bear’s feminist critique of the Singularity in science fiction. Via Torque Control.
  (tags: criticism Bear Elizabeth feminism Singularity scifi fiction science writing SF)
• 5 – Finger Drums: Tiny Digital Drum Kit
  I want one!
  (tags: percussion music toy gadget electronic instrument drums finger)
• 6 – Reprogramming Biology
  Ray Kurzweil waxes lyrical about genetics, synthetic biology and the future of being human. Via Advanced Nanotechnology.
  (tags: biology synthetic technology health transhumanism singularity genetic science life extension)
• 7 – Induction Launchers & EM Rocketry
  Garden-shed Mass-driver projects – why is it that dangerous stuff is always the most fun?
  (tags: rocketry physics howto make hack launcher induction driver mass project railgun)
• 8 – ‘Silicon Velcro’ could make sticky chips
  Microscale Velcro…I couldn’t not link this story, could I?
  (tags: processes manufacturing reusable adhesive microscopic technology velcro silicon)
• 9 – Telemarketing reaches the very top
  Telemarketing is a right pain in the arse for everyone – up to and including the guys who man the secret ‘national disaster’ homeland security hotlines in the States. I wonder if they’ll have the same degree of trouble getting removed from the lists every
  (tags: phone telemarketing government security homeland US)
• 10 – North Korea: Missile Threat, or Missile Hype?
  DefenseTech examines inflated US bluster and hyperbole about North Korean mystery missile project.
  (tags: diplomacy WMD politics defense US ballistic weapon Taepodong missile Korean North)
• 11 – Petaflops-level supercomputer to be unveiled
  Pink Tentacle has the full shizzle on the Japanese petaflop computer project, to be unleashed later this month.
  (tags: performance power processing technology petaflop supercomputer computer Japan)
• 12 – SFRAReview
  Five years of the Science Fiction Research Association’s Review newsletter, as free PDFs. Via Robert J. Sawyer.
  (tags: PDF free association research criticism review scifi SF fiction science)
• 13 – Excessive Belkin Router Cooling
  It’s not just processors that fail from overheating; routers can suffer too. Hence this guy’s overkill cooler mod…
  (tags: technology computer geek hack modding mod cooling router wireless)
• 14 – Mothers of the Future May be Older… Much Older
  Futurewire discusses the changing demographics of parenthood and fertility
  (tags: science biology evolution menopause age rate birth IVF fertility childbirth parenthood futurism)
• 15 – Enigmatic object baffles supernova team
  Hear that? That’s the all-to-frequent sound of the cosmology rulebook being torn up again…
  (tags: science supernova cosmology astronomy telescope Hubble mystery object space)
• 16 – Finding a better way to make biodiesel
  The race is on to get a commercially viable biodiesel production process running. Better late than never!
  (tags: futurism vehicles green ecology environment cooking refinery biodiesel oil alternative fuel)
• 17 – Astronomer apologizes for meteorite fuss
  That meteorite wasn’t as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb, after all.
  (tags: apology hyperbole exaggeration astronomer bomb nuclear explosion Norway meteorite)
• 18 – University opens school for hackers
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  (tags: countermeasures techniques crime computer course university Scotland degree hacking 1337)