still pricey, but this is the dope stuff for pure digital music enjoyment, house-wide...

Slim Devices : Free Your Music!

] GEORGE Bush was last night branded chicken for scrapping
] his speech to Parliament because he feared being heckled
] by anti-war MPs.

pretty standard... should've expected this to happen

Daily Kos || Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.

] it's sort of gagging to see the pre-emptive switcheroo
] ahead, from job approval to personal approval, that the
] punditspeak will use-- the public still loves George
] Bush.... The "as a person" meme will be the strongest to
] defeat;

still, that's a pretty graph from where i'm sitting...

Daily Kos || Bush & Election 2004

] Seiko Epson Corporation ("Epson") has developed the uFR
] ("Micro Flying Robot"), the world's smallest flying
] prototype microrobot.

neat... robots kick ass.

Epson-News Release

] Scientists have found a sub-atomic particle they cannot
] explain using current theories of energy and matter.

huh.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Scientists find mystery particle

] That is a solid but flexible plastic rod, potentially
] metres long, that glows.
]
]
] Fluorescent lights shine by electrically exciting gas
] inside a glass cylinder. The new invention, called
] Supersidelight, pipes light from tiny light-emitting
] diodes (LEDs) - similar to the coloured ones in
] televisions, computers, stereo systems and cars - through
] the "light pipe".

this is the next stuff... cheap to run, long lasting and someday with adjustable hues, it's gonna make lighting a whole new deal.

Nanotechnology could make lanterns out of flickering fluoro - www.smh.com.au

boron nitride nanotubes...

no one explains just why these are better than carbon ones, or any distinctions between them but it's still neat.

Powder with the power to transform the world - www.smh.com.au

smh is chock full of good nano stories today...

this one is sortof a rehash of some good blue sky concepts...

Home smart home - www.smh.com.au

] Tiny particles of ultra pure iron, each as small as a
] billionth of a metre, are being developed by Sydney
] researchers as a new weapon to fight pollution.
]
]
] If it works, nanoparticles of iron could be used to sweep
] clean contaminated industrial sites, filter agricultural
] chemicals from water running off farms, and even recycle
] drinking water for cities.

Iron's desire to mingle means chemistry's right to clean up - www.smh.com.au

] f he is to make good on his promise to improve life for
] the tens of millions of Brazilians who live in dire
] poverty, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva knows that
] one key challenge is to bridge a massive technology gap.
] And if that means shunning Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)
] software in South America's largest country, then so be
] it.

Seems like a lot of governments are embracing OSS these days... good news for linux geeks.

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