] The key ingredient in Subramanian's organic circuits
] is "liquid gold." Synthesized in his
] laboratory, liquid gold consists of gold nanocrystals
] that are only 20 atoms across and melt at 100 degrees
] Celsius, 10 times lower than normal.
]
] The gold nanocrystals are encapsulated in an organic
] shell of an alkanethiol (an organic molecule containing
] carbon, hydrogen and sulphur) and dissolved in ink. As
] the circuit is printed on plastic, paper or cloth using
] inkjet technology, the organic encapsulant is burned off,
] leaving the gold as a high-quality conductor.

This is an interesting approach. I wonder if it can be expanded to other kinds of molecules. Basically, encase the molecules you really want inside of a something like a bucky ball, but which is easy to manipulate, and easy to destroy. Then you build a general purpose acutator for positioning the bucky balls. One you've layed out the balls where you want them, you either burn them off, or destroy them chemically, revealing the molecules you really want, which, being next to eachother will bond.... This is the sort of abstration layer that nanotech needs.

Thoughts from people with more chemisty knowledge?

Small Times: News about MEMS, Nanotechnology and Microsystems

] For the first time in three years, money pouring into
] business start-ups is on the rise.

USATODAY.com - After long dry spell, start-ups get cash

] Stop and think, if in 2001, or in 2000, or in 1999, we
] had gone to war in Afghanistan to deal with Osama bin
] Laden, and we had tried to say it's because he's planning
] to kill 3,000 people in New York, people would have said,
] you don't have any proof of that," he said.
]
] "I think the lesson of Sept. 11 is that you can't wait
] until prrof after the fact.

Paul Wolfowitz on pre-crime

] This reminds me of a series of conversations I had a few
] years ago with a hotshot mo-bio professor, about the
] national-security implications of bio-attacks versus
] cyber-attacks. I started out convinced that the
] cyber-attack threat, while real, was overstated; but
] bio-attacks terrified me. He had the converse view, that
] bio-attacks were possible but overhyped, while
] cyber-attacks were the real nightmare scenario. Each of
] us tried to reassure the other that really large-scale
] malicious attacks of the type we knew best (cyber- for
] me, bio- for him) were harder to carry out, and less
] likely, than commonly believed.

Freedom to Tinker: Why Aren't Virus Attacks Worse?

] ATHF is an animated television masterpiece that
] captures the day to day lives of three fast food
] (literally...) detectives and follows them through
] their misadventures as they try and solve the
] hilarious mysteries presented to them in Southern
] New Jersey. 

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

] There are two ways to play along while
] watching the Banzai TV show. You can
] either log on to fox.com/banzai and play
] along on a computer, or you can play along
] on your wireless phone.

OK, this is one of the most fucked up TV shows that I have ever seen.

Japaneese men with baddly exaggerated accents host a program in which viewers are asked to bet on silly games of chance.

For example, six "automatically extending style" umbrellas are placed upright on a rotating table. 5 of the six unbrellas have had their springs disabled. There are two contestants. Viewers are asked to pick one. Then the contestants take turns picking up an umbrella, pointing it at their face, and pressing the button. The one that gets faced looses.

Whack.

BANZAI!

] Joseph Haggerty may own the most expensive garbage can in
] America.
]
] Because he kept it in the front yard, not the back, his
] homeowners association took him to court for violating
] community rules. After a four-year standoff over whether
] neighbors could see it behind a shrub, he lost and was
] ordered to pay $11,978.75 in fines and legal fees.

Homeowner Boards Blur Line of Who Rules Roost

] Justice Department officials have evidence that MCI may,
] in effect, have "laundered" calls through small
] telephone companies, and even redirected domestic calls
] through Canada, to avoid paying access fees or shift them
] to rival long-distance carriers, according to people
] involved in the investigation.
]
] The lawyers told the investigators that the
] tests also showed that the billing codes that are
] transmitted with telephone calls in data packets had been
] doctored.

MCI Faces Federal Fraud Inquiry on Fees for Long-Distance Calls

How to print to a linux box from Mac OSX, which is, basically, broken, and additionally, not documented, or too documented, as the case may be.

Printing to linux from OSX

] WireTap is a free product for that allows you to record
] any audio playing on your Mac, saving it to a file for
] later listening or processing.

Get this before they ban it...

WireTap 1.0.0 for Macintosh OS X