* If deadly radiation knocks on your door, do not answer

HAHAHAHA:) Too funny.

READY.GOV :: Helping America Prepare for Fiery Death

Jaron Lanier: Dolly, you were born at the most optimistic moment imaginable. ... You were both an inspiration and a challenge. ... Oh Dolly, let's hope we have many second chances, and that your legacy will recall the world as it was at the start of your life more than what it has come to be at the end of your life.

Remembering Dolly | Edge.org

] Have you ever used your computer at night or in low-lit
] environments? There are many applications where computing
] in a low lit environment becomes necessary. For instance,
] have you ever had to work on late night projects for work
] or school? Do you enjoy gaming or surfing the Web late at
] night. If so, you know how troublesome overhead lighting
] can be when you are tired. Most people will turn down
] their overhead lighting just to ease the strain on their
] eyes. Consequently they can no longer see their keys. For
] years people have been faced with this problem, until
] now. We have the solution, introducing the EluminX%u2122
] Illuminated Keyboard!

This is rad!

eluminx

] Australian scientists have made a bra with a brain - it
] tightens its own straps if an energetic wearer needs
] extra support.
] The "smart bra" is made of a fabric with a special
] coating that makes it contract when the strain on it
] passes a pre-set level.

Just think of the applications for a fabric like this. Very cool.

New Zealand News - NZ - Brainy bra gives lift when you need it

] A bacterial infection that overpowers most antibiotics
] has escaped the confines of hospitals and is showing up
] in alarming numbers among the general public in
] California, according to health officials.

An interesting article. The thought of resistant bacteria isn't new, it has been a problem in hospitals for quite some time. Kinda scary that its starting to spread. I don't like how this article slants towards "Gay men", because the increase in the percentage of gay men who have contracted this probably has most to do with the fact that there are higher percentages of gay men in those California cities to begin with. Bacteria don't care what the sexual preference of its host is:) But still, an interesting article.

The super-bugs have arrived!

w00t!

Lego Rave

] Canadians may soon need new national identity cards if
] they want to cross the border into the U.S. The cards
] have been criticized by the privacy commissioner as an
] invasion of privacy.
] The new cards, which will include biometric information
] such as fingerprints or eye scans, are among the issues
] the immigration standing committee is discussing at
] hearings beginning Monday in Toronto.

CBC News: Biometric ID cards may be needed to cross U.S. border next year

] After this fall, fans of Pottery Barn won't have to drive
] to Green Hills or get on the Internet to shop at the
] popular retailer of home furnishings and accessories.
] CoolSprings Galleria General Manager Tom Funari said
] after talking with parent company Williams-Sonoma Inc.
] for some time about bringing Pottery Barn to Cool
] Springs, and as early as September, the mall will have
] its very own, 11,000-square-foot Pottery Barn store.

Yay. I *heart* Pottery Barn.:) - Nano

Changes at Cool Springs Mall

] Science fiction has long been William Gibson's electric
] guitar - the instrument he uses to gain perspective, to
] transform life's ditties into anthems of transcendent
] strangeness. In Pattern Recognition (Putnam, $26), he
] goes acoustic, unplugging the overt sci-fi tropes that
] have marked his work and producing a mainstream product.
] He succeeds because our real world has such gnarly tech
] (Web surfing on a laptop with a Wi-Fi connection is
] functionally the same as jacking your brain into a
] cyberspace deck) and because his riffs make such a good
] read.

Rudy Rucker reviews William Gibson....it just doesn't get any better than that:) - Nano

Wired: Legomancer

] Federal scientists are looking for evidence that a bolt
] of electricity in the upper atmosphere might have doomed
] the space shuttle Columbia as it streaked over
] California, The Chronicle has learned.

Cosmic bolt probed in shuttle disaster / Scientists poring over 'infrasonic' sound waves