SETI myths, homeless bloggers, printable robots, DNA electronics…

• 1 – Just the Facts: Three SETI Myths
  I don’t think that word means what you think it means…
  (tags: Intelligence Extraterrestrial Search portrayal media myths SETI)
• 2 – Scientists plan to recreate ‘Big Bang’ to uncover universe’s mysteries
  I’m guessing they’ll need a rather large test tube?
  (tags: energy matter dark simulation Bang Big cosmology physics particle science)
• 3 – Red Hat Goes Social
  More on Mugshot, the open source MySpace.
  (tags: Mugshot MySpace network social source open Linux hat Red)
• 4 – Laptops Give Hope to the Homeless
  You don’t have to have a home to have a blog, or even an online business. Talk about low overheads…
  (tags: email technology blogging blogs internet computer homeless)
• 5 – Printable Robots
  But not just robots; organs, displays, batteries, RFIDs…the half-way step to nanofabbing, methinks. Link via KurzweilAI.net.
  (tags: electronics singularity futurism fabrication printable technology printing robotics)
• 6 – Attend a Marketing Conference in Second Life
  Further to my earlier post about SL, the whole business is going very ‘meta’.
  (tags: advertising virtual conference marketing SL Life Second)
• 7 – The Role of Plummage in the Mating Habits of the Karraw
  Another great little story at 365tomorrows. Have you bookmarked them or put them in your aggregator yet? Well, WHY THE HELL NOT? They rule.
  (tags: daily literature writing scifi SF fiction science stories short)
• 8 – Installing Apache 2.0 and PHP 5 (and MySQL) on Windows XP
  Could come in handy at some point – another one for Asgrim! Link via False Positives.
  (tags: installation tutorial testing server XP windows apache mysql php)
• 9 – ‘Crystal Palace’ case mod
  No football logos whatsoever – but 1.8TERAbytes of storage on 16 harddrives. Lordy. Link via TechEBlog.
  (tags: server storage technology computer geek modding mod case PC)
• 10 – Every librarian’s nightmare
  Oh, the humanity! Link via Boing Boing.
  (tags: disaster shelves images pictures accident books libraries)
• 11 – Kyoto promises are nothing but hot air
  Research indicates governments are lying through their teeth abouth their greenhouse emissions. I wish I was surprised by this news.
  (tags: lies government change climate atmosphere emissions gas greenhouse Kyoto warming global)
• 12 – China plans a manned lunar mission by 2024
  Does what it says on the tin. Link via Warren Ellis; somehow I missed this one.
  (tags: 2024 landing moonwalk manned mission Lunar Moon China space)
• 13 – International Philosophy Football Match
  One of the great classic sketches from the Monty Python crew on YouTube…
  (tags: humour video soccer football philosopy Python Monty)
• 14 – The World Forum
  …and a classic bit of Terry Gilliam Python animation. Always funny, no matter how many times you see them. Both links via Coudal Partners.
  (tags: humour video animation Gilliam Terry Python Monty)
• 15 – Pluto ‘nixed’
  Pluto’s new moons get proper names at last.
  (tags: astronomy names moon system solar planet Pluto space)
• 16 – Making factories and computers with DNA
  If you want to build small things, you’d better use small tools. The growing (hah!) field of DNA nanotech. Link via AdvancedNanotechnology.
  (tags: biology science construction molecular mechanics electronics nanotech engineering genetic DNA)
• 17 – Neurons self-organise to make brain chips
  The things that you can do with some quartz, carbon nanotubes and a bunch of rat neurons.
  (tags: futurism technology science cells brain rat biosensor biotech nanotubes network neural)
• 18 – Magnetic fields could make computers up to 500 times faster
  Increase performance by removing the need for interconnecting wires in microprocessors – study starting at Bath University.
  (tags: processor semiconductor physics futurism nanotech field magnetic science technology computer)
• 19 – Hubble’s key camera stops working
  Boffins confident it’s a minor fixable problem. Here’s hoping – I rely on Hubble for my desktop wallpapers, I’d be gutted to lose it.
  (tags: astronomy technology Surveys Camera Advanced ACS Hubble fault telescope space)
• 20 – Cassini-Huygens: Close Encounter with Saturn
  Pretty pictures and videos of Saturn’s moons doing their thing.
  (tags: astronomy NASA images pictures video Enceladus Titan moons Saturn probe Cassini space)
• 21 – Startup Designs MEMS Gyroscope For Cameraphones
  Prosaic uses for advanced technologies, #166354. At least there’s a definite market for it.
  (tags: technology InvoSense gyroscope lens camera phone mobile cell nanotech)