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Quantum bubbles are the key to quantum computers.

William S. Burroughs' "Thanksgiving Prayer" - QuickTime 7.6 MB - a movie montage by Director Gus Van Sant of the author reading his poem against image and music. Quicktime or equivalent required. 'And saying so to some means nothing; others it leaves nothing to be said.' more inside

Quantum Entanglement made simple. Plus: Heisenberg's wave packet reconsidered not made simple.

A User's Guide to Time Travel - and for those of you a little more advanced, the TARDIS type 40 Manual. Furthermore, a study of Temporal Anomalies in Time Travel Movies so you can avoid all those tricky mistakes.

Richard Stallman wears tinfoil hat - gets in Trouble with UN Security. Bruce Perens has blogged about RMS appearing at the UN World Summit on the information society, and protesting privacy issues over the RFID by wearing a tinfoil hat. more inside

Pyrrhonian Skepticism

Chalabi's Bullshit in DC observed, including candid Chris Hitchens vs David Corn in an elevator. Also this account of Chalabi's speech at the American Enterprise Institute. more inside

The Phantom Time Hypothesis - I read about this a couple of years ago but only had a .pdf document about it. more inside

Retroengine - an interesting collection of old colour illustrations from something or other, I don't recognise the language, it could be ..er, Japanese? .. robots, futurism, history and nature done in delightful retro style. Have at it. more inside

eBaum's World Sucks - NSFW requires FLASH and includes catchy ditty and harmonies. more inside

How the Death Star Works

The Legend of Me by Jack Handey ♫

The Plame Leak Case Thread. Fitzmas. The Plame Affair. The CIA leak Grand Jury Investigation. Call it what you will, the thing is coming to a head, and this is the official Monkeybashi-endorsed thread to discuss it and related breaking news. Within days, the Fitzgerald investigation reaches its conclusion, and either special prosecutor Fitzgerald will convene, announce an extension to the Grand Jury, hand down indictments, or all of the above. It seems unlikely at this stage that nobody will be indicted at all, but nevertheless, we are near to possibly historic political events, and we will need a place to discuss it. This is it. more inside

Home Wind Turbines - fuck me, what a great idea!

An analyst for an investment bank literally chopped up an iPod and estimated the total cost to Apple for manufacturing, packaging and distributing the gadget. Conclusion? Half the money you pay for an iPod is pure PROFIT.

Falcon dive-bombing starlings wins top photo prize: "I felt the fear and the starlings' urgent need to survive, and the psychological pressure of the falcon as it dive-bombed the small birds," says Italian Manuel Presti of his photograph Sky Chase, overall winner of this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, organised by the Natural History Museum, London, UK, and BBC Wildlife Magazine. Seen at Follow Me Here... more inside

Hiroshi Yoshii Online Portfolio

EFF have cracked the code in printers which tracks you. The Secret Service has admitted they encode data into pages produced by some colour laser printers in order to track counterfeiters and others, however the data stored in the code was not known prior to EFF's discovery.

Flu Wiki - A Wiki devoted to "help local communities prepare for and perhaps cope with a possible influenza pandemic." more inside