Free classic books for download, bug-powered micromotor, shopping trolley art, wind turbines all at sea…

• 1 – Trolley good show – metallic art.
  Dude makes sculptures of animals out of old dead shopping trollies. Very cool.
  (tags: photos trolley shopping metal sculpture art)
• 2 – Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes
  Ever wanted to transcribe your name (or anything else) into Tolkein’s elvish script? Yeah, me too. This page will show you how.
  (tags: writing LOTR fantasy language alphabet elvish Tolkien)
• 3 – Even Odds
  ’365 tomorrows’ has been a little hit-and-miss recently, but this little vignette was rather good.
  (tags: tomorrows 365 sf scifi fiction science stories short)
• 4 – Micromotor harnesses the power of bacteria
  “Researchers from Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have developed a micromotor powered by the movement of bacteria.” That is just unbelievably cool.
  (tags: technology motor miniature microbes powered bacteria micromotor)
• 5 – Download the classics
  Lawsuits be damned, Google now lets you download out-of-copyright books in the public domain in their entirity. w0000t!
  (tags: Google copyright domain public books ebooks free download)
• 6 – New Spore Gameplay Footage
  OOoh! [flails arms wildly] TechEBlog has video footage from the forthcoming Spore game! I wanna! I wanna!
  (tags: evolution entertainment computer preview videos footage game Spore)
• 7 – Jason’s Free Useful Software List
  Open source software listed alongside their pay-to-use equivalents.
  (tags: applications collection programs free source open software freeware)
• 8 – Is Capitalism Growing More Socially Conscious?
  Worldchanging are on a roll this week.
  (tags: sustainable reponsible futurism investment corporations consciousness social capitalism)
• 9 – Strange Exploding Star Unlocks Supernova Secrets
  I love the smell of cosmology in the morning…
  (tags: physics science burst gamma-ray GRB supernova cosmology astronomy space)
• 10 – Space tourism blasts off into legal mire
  When definitions are in dispute, you can guarantee that lawyers will smell money.
  (tags: industry litigation tourism definition legal sky space)
• 11 – SMART-1 to Crash the Moon
  Going out in the proverbial blaze of glory after a successful three year mission.
  (tags: astronomy space data crash impact surface Lunar Moon SMART-1 probe satellite ESA)
• 12 – Nanotube ink: Desktop printing of carbon nanotube patterns
  “Using an off-the-shelf inkjet printer, a team of scientists has developed a simple technique for printing patterns of carbon nanotubes on paper and plastic surfaces.” w00t!
  (tags: efficient cheap transfer pattern conductive ink nanotube carbon inkjet printing desktop)
• 13 – Physicists invent ‘QuIET’ – single molecule transistors
  “University of Arizona physicists have discovered how to turn single molecules into working transistors. It’s a breakthrough needed to make the next-generation of remarkably tiny, powerful computers that nanotechnologists dream of.” Indeed.
  (tags: computing physics nanotechnology technology electronics transistor molecule single)
• 14 – Deepsea oil rigs inspire MIT designs for giant wind turbines
  At last, a solution to NIMBYism over wind farms!
  (tags: sustainable environment green ecology flotation ocean generation power turbine wind)

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