Electric rice, massively-multiplayer slot-machines, nuclear college student, reasons *not* to build a space elevator…

• 1 – Rice as a source of electricity
  “Rice yields an abundance of biowaste [...] Only a small fraction of this is utilized, for instance, to fire distillery furnaces. Researchers at Hanoi University of Technology now also want to use rice husks to generate electricity.”
  (tags: husks rice green ecology environment power generation energy electricity biomass)
• 2 – How To Write Great Headlines
  “…writing a great headline is a must if you want to capture your reader’s interest. Faced with an ever increasing wave of blogs, RSS subscriptions, and links, the headline is more important now than it ever has been.” Hmmmm.
  (tags: copywriting headlines tips title blogging articles advice writing)
• 3 – Full Page Illuminator for Late-Night Page Turners
  “What you furtively read under the covers at night is your business, and you can keep it that way with this Full Page Illuminator with a flat lens that reflects a battery-powered LED, evenly lighting the page.” Holiday gift for bookheads.
  (tags: gadget LED illumination page full light night reading books)
• 4 – Acceding expectations
  “On January 1, Romania will join the European Union. Matthew Tempest went to Sibiu in the Carpathian mountains to see if the former communist state is ready to join Brussels – and whether the EU is ready for Romania.” Teh Grauniad, via Bruce Sterling.
  (tags: discussion markets labour poverty culture economy Romania expansion Europe EU)
• 5 – WoW of Fortune
  “…while sleeping on it hasn

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