I attended the happenin’ Deutch Oktoberfest in Addison Texas this afternoon (celebrated it on Friday at a sports pub as well…) — so I was unable to really dig up any juicy links and you know what your mom said: if you don’t have something nice, don’t say nothing at all. So I’ll minimize the damage tonight.
- History of Chinese space program. Note: the State there plans on launching a couple taikonauts (or should it be sinonauts?) sometime in October.
- Effect of a Rising Yuan?: This article is really for my own organizational purposes, if you read it, let me know what you think.
- Plasma blobs hint at new form of life:
Physicists have created blobs of gaseous plasma that can grow, replicate and communicate - fulfilling most of the traditional requirements for biological cells. Without inherited material they cannot be described as alive, but the researchers believe these curious spheres may offer a radical new explanation for how life began.
Honestly, the part that I liked best was the word “blob” in the headline. Isn’t that as scientific as the terms ‘goo’ and ‘icky’?
And the Quotes of the Day go to Linus Torvalds:
(1) “The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.”(2) “Note that nobody reads every post in linux-kernel. In fact, nobody who expects to have time left over to actually do any real kernel work will read even half. Except Alan Cox, but he’s actually not human, but about a thousand gnomes working in under-ground caves in Swansea. None of the individual gnomes read all the postings either, they just work together really well.”
