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- For those who don't have him on ye olde friends list, my buddy Mike Exner III (who, among other things, was one of the OGs of Frontier Publishing) has his first published comic work coming up in July in Digital Webbing Presents #34, where his original character, Megastar, makes his debut. I'm sure there's a lot of other cool stuff going on in ( Read more... )

The Mr. Fusion from Back to the Future may not be too far away...

According to the New York Times, Dr. Richard Gross is developing a vegetable oil polymer that can be used as a wrapper or container, then when it's fulfilled its purpose, can be easily converted into biodiesel fuel.  Garbage into oil!

(This is especially useful to the military. Several ( Read more... )

Holy crap!

From CNN.com:

"A 66-year-old man saved his grandson from the grip of a 16-foot-long (5 meter) anaconda by beating the snake with rocks and a knife for half an hour, authorities said Thursday."

Suddenly, that episode of Bonanza where Hoss Cartwright pistol-whipped a grizzly bear doesn't seem so far-fetched...

NASA is planning to be on the moon again by 2020, and so it has thrown the question out there to scientists and entrepeneuers... "What should we do when we get there?"

The initial list can be read at NASA's site here.  (Warning: It's a PDF.)  If you don't feel like reading all that, here's an article touching on some of the more interesting ideas.

From CNN.com:

"This is just not something you can stop. We're just going to have to live with it," co-author Kevin Trenberth, director of climate analysis for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, said in an interview. "We're creating a different planet. If you were to come up back in 100 years time, we'll have a ( Read more... )

I've been banging my head against the Internet for almost two hours, and I'm no closer to finding out the answer to this.  Or even to finding out where I might look for the answer.

So I throw it out to you, my LJ compatriots.  Say you've got, like, a mountain in your backyard, and you've got a strong suspicion that there's silver in dem dere hills ( Read more... )

- Last night, I watched four episodes of The Batman (the latest animated series to star the Dark Knight), while Trelina was out supping with some friends.  The series came with a strong recommendation from lowland_rider -- who was kind enough to loan me his season 1 DVD -- and while he and I don't always see eye to eye, I'm with him on this one.  In fact, I'll ( Read more... )

Radioactive Antibody "Missiles" Home In on HIV

"It worked for treating cancer; now researchers have found they can send dollops of lethal radiation directly into HIV-infected cells using radioactive antibodies."

I like this one mostly for the term "radioactive antibody missiles". That'll be showing up in a story somewhere...

Habaneros and ( Read more... )

"Nothing focuses the mind's eye like an erotic picture, according to the results of a new study."