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- NCBI ROFL: terrific blog about funny and odd scientific publications (BoingBoing)
- Scientists tour the Creationism Museum (BoingBoing)
- Microsoft ‘mega data centers’ to support Azure, Bing (CNet)
- Will ‘good enough’ virtualization topple VMware? (CNet)
- Hard disk or solid-state? Think again (CNet)
- SolarNetOne: Solar-powered networking for anyone (IBM)
- Unlocked: the secrets of schizophrenia (Independent)
- Discovery pinpoints new connection between cancer cells, stem cells (PhysOrg)
- Japanese scientists to breed ’super tuna’ (Telegraph)
- Game Design Essentials: 20 RPGs (Gamasutra)
- Browser vendor squabbles cause W3C to scrap codec requirement (InfoWorld)
- Two Centuries On, a Cryptologist Cracks a Presidential Code (WSJ)
- Open-Source Data Glove (Technology Review)
- World’s First Intelligent, Open Source Compiler Provides Automated Advice on Software Code Optimization (IBM)
- Video: D-Touch drum machine keeps heads, hands bobbing (Engadget)
- A Clock Powered by Flies? Microbial Fuel Cells Turn Poop into Power (Singularity Hub)
- World’s first in-cinema interactive 3D game inbound (The Register)
- Germany launches $19 million organic electronics project (EE Times)
- Video: Pentagon’s Robo-Hummingbird Flies Like the Real Thing (Wired)
- Computer reveals stone tablet ‘handwriting’ in a flash (NewScientist)

- Matt Yglesias rewrites history to make Wal-Mart embrace of big government seem surprising (Washington Examiner)
- Population numbers bounce back in cities (USA Today)
- Report warns of obese baby boomers (AP)
- A Brief History Of Intellectual Property In China And India (Techdirt)
- Chris Anderson, Malcolm Gladwell And A Look At Free (Techdirt) :: see also, “Is Our Future Really $0?”
- Venture-Backed Liquidity Going Down, Down, Down (TechCrunch)
- China’s Marlboro Country: The strange, underground world of counterfeit cigarettes (Slate)
- Snitching for China leads to sorrow and exile (AP)
- Why Health Care Costs Explode (ABC)
- China FDI Faces Unprecedented Difficulties on Crisis (Bloomberg)
- India’s Rising Tide (WSJ)

From Foreign Policy:
- Think Again: Asia’s Rise, don’t believe the hype (FP)
- Prime Numbers: Sex Matters (FP)
- The Fall and Rise and Fall Again of the Baltic States (FP)
- The Death of Macho (FP)

Wiki entries: Empress Dowager Cixi :: Ulm

- Cyber-Scare: The exaggerated fears over digital warfare (Boston Review)
- U.S. Shoots for the Moon, This Time to Stay (TIME)
- Printed battery could power bank cards (EE Times)
- Record-breaking solar cells are tailored to their location (NewScientist)
- Video: SCRATCHbot hunts like a rat for those trapped like one (Engadget)
- Video: Grocery cart morphs into electric go-kart, insanity ensues (Engadget)
- Comets Seeded Earth’s Early Atmosphere (Technology Review)
- Study Finds Patent Systems May Not Be an Effective Incentive to Encourage Invention of New Technologies (Business Wire)
- The NSA Plans 1M Sq. Ft. Data Center in Utah (The WHIR)
- Michael Jackson First Artist to Sell Over 1 Million Downloads in a Single Week (Wired)
- Force feedback controller allows you to “touch” CGI objects (Engadget)
- NVIDIA Ion 2 coming by end of 2009: over twice the shaders of 9400M? (SlashGear)
- Ant mega-colony takes over world (BBC)
- Scientists find a black hole that’s “just right” (ArsTechnica)
- Take two video games and call me in the morning (Scientific American)
- Blizzard chooses cloud over LAN for new game (CNet)
- Giant Model Railroad Is an Analog SimCity (Wired)
- Blackest Black Ever: Ultra-thin Material Absorbs Almost 100% Of Light (ScienceDaily)
- Running fiber through a city sewers with a model sub (BoingBoing)

- Cisco may offer Web-based office software (Reuters)
- Photo and original diagram of the world’s first ethernet cable (BoingBoing Gadgets)
- The Extinction Oscillator (Seed Magazine)
- Most complete Earth map published (BBC)
- Yahoo redesigns data center, ditches carbon offsets (CNet)
- Questing for gear in hopping Ho Chi Minh City (CNet)
- How I became a walking hot spot (CNet)
- Micron announces new 34nm NAND chip (DigiTimes)
- The 2nd Coolest Observatory in the World (in Chile) (Skepticblog)
- The AbioCor Artificial Heart: Plastic and Metal Mimics Real Life Function (Singularity Hub)
- Can a new implant coating technique create a new six million dollar man? (PhysOrg)
- Computer-Guided Nanoparticle Therapy Destroys Tumors (PhysOrg)
- Why microbes are smarter than you thought (NewScientist)
- Review: Wetware by Dennis Bray (NewScientist)
- Medicine’s New Toolbox (Technology Review)
- A Robot that Navigates Like a Person (Technology Review)
- Carnival of Space #109 (Discovery Channel)
- Multi GPU tech Lucid to take on graphics giants (The Inquirer)
- Taipei graphics vendors focus on own designs (The Inquirer)

- Priced to Sell: Is free the future? (New Yorker)
- ‘Gao kao’ is over. Now what? (China Daily)
- McNamara asks Giap: What happened in Tonkin Gulf? (AP in 1995)
- Live Your Best Life Ever! (Newsweek)
- From a Beijing Suburb, Vibrant Strings (NY Times)
- Book review: How the west was lost (Guardian)
- Beijing losing the gambling battle (Asia Times)
- Airbus rides the Chinese dragon (Telegraph)
- Cliburn Piano Competition Embraces Internet (NPR)
- Dawkins funds atheist summer camp (The First Post)
- Britain ‘can no longer afford to be a mini-US’ (The National)
- 10 Best Prison Breaks (Wired)
- Don’t Get That College Degree! (New York Post)
- Michael Jackson and the Zombieconomy (HBS)
- A Secret History of Dissent in the All-Volunteer Military (LRC)
- Overdue U.K. ‘Bullet Train’ Enters Service Amid Cuts (Bloomberg)

As yesterday was urban-withdrawal-day, these sobering stats were from Patrick Cockburn’s latest piece at The Independent:

Countdown to withdrawal: The Iraq war in numbers

170,000 The number of US troops in Iraq at the peak of the invasion in 2003

135,000 The number of American service personnel in Iraq on 1 June 2009

4,303 The number of US military deaths

2,200 The number of Iraqi doctors and nurses killed during the conflict

92,438 The minimum number of documented deaths of Iraqi civilians

80,000 The number of mobile phones owned by Iraqis before the war, compared with the estimated 17.7 million handsets owned by the population now

500,000 The number of Iraqis who were living abroad before the invasion, compared with the estimated 2 million expats who are living overseas now

138 The number of journalists killed

2.41 million Current oil production at Iraq’s oilfield, down from 2.58 million before the war

$674bn The estimated cost of the war in Iraq, equivalent to £407bn

- Uranium found on the Moon (Bad Astronomy)
- White spaces on steroids and free spectrum for everyone (ArsTechnica)
- No more beta: Skype 3.0 for Windows phones (CNet)
- Mozilla’s Weave: (Too far) Ahead of its time (CNet)
- New solar airplane unveiled in Switzerland (CNet)
- Expelled redux (Pharyngula)
- Vitamin D and Fish Oil – Time to Put Up or Shut Up (Singularity Hub)
- MIT’s EurekaFest showcases high school students’ problem-solving prototypes (CrunchGear)
- “Tourist Remover” cleans up your vacation photos (BoingBoing Gadgets)
- Intel, Micron, Samsung start NAND scaling race (EE Times)
- TSMC adds analog to 0.13-micron process (EE Times)
- The Houston Dome (Discovery Channel :: How Stuff Works)
- Interview with Eric Lerner on Plasma Physics (Next Big Future)

Via TechCrunch

Three days of rain here on the plains of central China.

- Space Suits Past and Future (Air & Space Magazine)
- Thumb-Size Bat Found in Lava Tunnel (National Geographic)
- Underweight, Extremely Obese Die Earlier Than People Of Normal Weight (ScienceDaily)
- Carbon Ring Storage Could Make Magnetic Memory 1,000 Times More Dense (Technology Review)
- ZigBee Alliances developing Green Power standards for energy harvesting devices (Engadget)
- Mini OLED projector prototype for mobile phones (Gizmag)
- Toyota technology has brain waves move wheelchair (AP)
- Light touch: a design firm grapples with Microsoft Surface (ArsTechnica)
- Innovation: Physics brings realism to virtual reality (NewScientist)
- Africa alone could feed the world (NewScientist)
- Solar X-rays may create DNA building blocks on Titan (NewScientist)
- Telecom firms back standard phone charger in Europe (Reuters)
- Spirit Rover Begins Making Night Sky Observations (Universe Today)
- Iranian protesters avoid censorship with Navy technology (Washington Times)
- Five Google Voice Features That Could Cause Users To Hang Up On Skype (SAI)
- Ch-ch-ch-changes: A visual history of Firefox (CNet)
- Google move paves way for Firefox on Android (CNet)
- Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia (NY Times)
- First quantum processor created (TG Daily)
- Acer’s Everywhere. How Did That Happen? (NY Times)
- Feathered fuel tank soaks up hydrogen (Oregon Live)
- Recent scenes from the ISS (The Big Picture)

- Michael Jackson: secret library of 100 songs could be released (Times Online)
- Tehran dispatch: The regime shows us movies (Salon)
- A Quixotic Pursuit: Tilting at Green Windmills (Washington Post)
- English-education city opens in S. Korea (CNN)
- Recovery In China? Not So Fast (Forbes)
- China Coal City’s Tycoons Splurge on Antiques as Dealers Swoop (Bloomberg)
- Student hoax wins magazine’s top prize (Independent)
- Where is the Arthur Seldon for our own era? (Spectator)
- Volcker Gets Less Than He Wants in Curbing Excesses (Bloomberg)
- A survey on ageing populations: China’s predicament (The Economist)
- The consumer paradox in China (Globe and Mail)
- Defining Bullshit (Slate in 2005)
- Teaching Philosophy 101 at the Lunenburg Correctional Center (Chronicle)
- Half of all premature deaths of Russian adults down to alcohol (PhysOrg)
- The only bonus you’ll get this summer is the sun (Japan Times)
- My trip to Neverland, and the call from Michael Jackson I’ll never forget (Telegraph)
- One Lesson From the Crisis: It’s Time to Create Your Own Economy (Fast Company)

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