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Sy Hersh, writing in The New Yorker, has some sad news. (more…)

Paul Krugman tells the truth about health care. (more…)

The Pentagon wasn’t satisfied with just the DIA. Now they have the CIFA. (more…)

IBM has some papers up on their web site about the Cell processor (more…)

Josh Rushing is going to work for Al-Jazeera. Josh Rushing was the Marine officer in the documentary about the network, Control Room. (more…)

The Easter Island Home Page is has a little history on it and a lot of links. Nova has a good link.

ST is still in the set top box game. (more…)

Popular Science has a great article about colored soap bubbles.

It turns out that coloring a bubble is an exceptionally difficult bit of chemistry. A bubble wall is mostly water held in place by two layers of surfactant molecules, spaced just millionths of an inch apart. If you add, say, food coloring to the bubble solution, the heavy dye molecules float freely in the water, bonding to neither the water nor the surfactants, and cascade almost immediately down the sides. You’ll have a clear bubble with a dot of color at the bottom. What you need is a dye that attaches to the surfactant molecules and disperses evenly in that water layer. Pack in more dye molecules, get a deeper, richer hue. Simple. Well, on paper anyway.

It is a great story about one man’s obsession with colored bubbles and the impact it might have on the dye industry.

This Murray Waas story is all over the blogsphere. President Bush and the Administration knew on 21 September 2001 that Iraq had nothing to do with the attack on New York. (more…)

Last night wasn’t foggy, but the previous two nights were. (more…)