So let me get this straight. NASA can build a container strong enough to withstand a massive explosion and heat, protecting the fragile life of worms but, still manages to lose astronauts due to seals and foam tiles... wow

(those were my exact thoughts too when i heard that on the news this morning.. -j.)

Searchers find live worms in shuttle wreckage - Apr. 30, 2003

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] According to the replacement page, the madonna.com
] defacement was supposedly "brought to you by the editors
] of Phrack," an online hacker magazine whose web site
] notes that it does not "advocate, condone nor participate
] in any sort of illicit behavior. But we will sit back and
] watch." In an e-mail exchange, a Phrack representative
] told TSG, "We have no link with this guy in any way, and
] we don't even know his identity."

Ha!

Madonna done got herself hacked.

] This ad is most definitely a nod to the filmmakers Peter
] Fischli and David Weiss. Their 1987 film, "The Way Things
] Go" is a 30-minute-long showing of a contraption they
] built out of household items.

VERY cool. I want to see the whole movie, not just the car commercial.

Honda's New Accord

The Sound of Things to Come
By MARSHALL SELLA

No one ever notices what's going on at a Radio Shack. Outside a lonely branch of the electronics store, on a government-issue San Diego day in a strip mall where no one is noticing much of anything, a bluff man with thinning, ginger hair and preternaturally white teeth is standing on the pavement, slowly waving a square metal plate toward people strolling in the distance. ''Watch that lady over there,'' he says, unable to conceal his boyish pride for the gadget in his giant hand. ''This is really cool.''

Woody Norris aims the silvery plate at his quarry. A burly brunette 200 feet away stops dead in her tracks and peers around, befuddled. She has walked straight into the noise of a Brazilian rain forest -- then out again. Even in her shopping reverie, here among the haircutters and storefront tax-preparers and dubious Middle Eastern bistros, her senses inform her that she has just stepped through a discrete column of sound, a sharply demarcated beam of unexpected sound. ''Look at that,'' Norris mutters, chuckling as the lady turns around. ''She doesn't know what hit her.''

Norris is demonstrating something called HyperSonic Sound (HSS). The aluminum plate is connected to a CD player and an odd amplifier -- actually, a very odd and very new amplifier -- that directs sound much as a laser beam directs light. Over the past few years, mainly in secret, he has shown the device to more than 300 major companies, and it has slackened a lot of jaws. In December, the editors of Popular Science magazine bestowed upon HSS its grand prize for new inventions of 2002, choosing it over the ferociously hyped Segway scooter. It is no exaggeration to say that HSS represents the first revolution in acoustics since the loudspeaker was invented 78 years ago -- and perhaps only the second since pilgrims used ''whispering tubes'' to convey their dour messages.
.....
(Last month, A.T.C. cut a five-year, multimillion-dollar licensing agreement with General Dynamics, one of the giants of the military-industrial complex.)

The Sound of Things to Come

] Real patriots don't hack. Uncle Sam says only he can do
] that.

Government warns 'patriot hackers'

The Pentagon wants to sniff out fugitives - literally. The federal agency that created the Internet now challenges scientists to create a detector that could identify people by their unique, genetically determined odor.

I am speechless. Absolutely speechless.

Pentagon seeks to detect people by odor

] "TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- A team of researchers at a leading
] national university have set a world record by
] calculating the value of pi to 1.2411 trillion places,
] one of the researchers said Friday."

Well, then.

A big slice of pi

it's a neverending argument.. should cell phones be allowed while driving? YES. when i had a cell, it saved my life a couple of times while driving.. i used to take long trips late at night, and a conversation with friends sometimes was the only thing to keep me awake. and everyone knows that there's a million other, more dangerous "distractions" in cars these days.

Study: Car phone benefits equal car phone accident costs