Overheard ragnvaeig playing this the other day, and found it cool enough to seek out and download the mp3. Since I believe it to be most awesome, and I think this is an audience that might appreciate it, I am sharing it with all of you. If you're sick of auto-tuned music, you might not want to bother... but you might anyway.
Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ( Read more... )

Alright, so, the Sooper Sekrit craft project no longer needs to be Sooper Sekrit. Now you get to see it.

But first, since my ad-hoc toolkit for the design got more hits overnight than any of my finished products ever managed, I figure you might want to see the highly advanced and specialized toolkit I needed for the actual project itself:


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Oh, what a difference a target audience makes.

OK, so, apparently, the second pulse mentioned by the author of the Beeb article isn't part of the transmission - it's the pulse that manipulates the data pulse, if I understand correctly, which might explain why the author just suddenly forgot it existed ( Read more... )

So, apparently, researchers have invented a method for transferring data at an increased rate using what they refer to as a "time-domain telescope", a way of focusing optical pulses to make them "shorter in time" to transmit data at an increased rate. Unfortunately, no article I have found seems to be able to use unambiguous language to describe ( Read more... )

Moving beyond John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, you might be interested in 5 Scientific Reasons People Act Like Assholes. And "shield of anonymity" only comes up last.

( For those who aren't going to read the whole article, reasons include: )