- American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse (Wired)
- Bluetooth “Big Brother” tracks festival-goers (Reuters)
- Snowfall on Mars? NASA’s Phoenix Lander recorded it (ArsTechnica)
- Laser light switch could leave transistors in the shade (NewScientist)
- Sound imaging: clever acoustics help blind people see the world (PhysOrg)
- ‘Toy Universe’ Could Solve Life’s Origins (Space.com)
- Quantum encrypted networks coming soon to business (iTnews)
- Catching a Wave, Powering an Electrical Grid? (Smithsonian)
- Stephen Hawking: “Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution” (Daily Galaxy)
- Source Code of Several Atari 7800 Games Released! (Programmer Fish)
- Open source to shape cloud computing, but not dominate it (CNet)
- CompuServe shuts down: CompuServe Requiem (basex)
- Billions stolen in online robbery (BBC)
- $288,000 in prizes for technology to make a difference (EE Times)
- Optical transistor made from single molecule (EE Times)
- Electromagnetic Leak: Entertaining the Galaxy (Abstruse Goose)
- Feeding Frenzy: Manta Rays (National Geographic)
- Fireworks Shapes: How Do Pyrotechnicians Do That? (AIP in 2008)
Sytek on Domenica
Worldwide readings on Samstag
- Germany’s mediocre universities: On shaky foundations (The Economist)
- The Great American Bubble Machine (Rolling Stone)
- Short Lived: China’s Commodity Buying Spree (NY Times)
- The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S. (Daily Mail)
- Limiting migration: People protectionism (The Economist)
- The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study (arXiv)
- The Don Martin Dictionary — Alphabetical Listing (Doug Gilford)
- North Korean Defector Describes Inner Workings of Isolated Regime (Fox)
- North Korea launches beer advert (BBC)
India:
- India May Seek $5.2 Billion a Year From Asset Sales (Bloomberg)
- India flying on one engine (Live Mint)
- Why India is a Better Business Prospect than China (Press Media Wire)