Analysis of the NSA wiretap scandal

Here is the best analysis I have seen so far of what might be behind the Bush/NSA wiretap scandal. Something like this would indeed not be able to pass the current court review.

Mighty Mouse to the rescue!

This is a pretty amazing story about a robot dislodging a stuck canister of radioactivity.

In itself, that might not be so amazing, but this wasn't just any little canister. Apparently it was a hefty chunk of Cobalt 60 that was "powerful enough to kill a person in half a minute", so nobody at the lab volunteered to get in there and give it a swift kick.

The Gamma radiation was so powerfull that it "melted" some of the tools and would disable the robots electronics in about an hour. Ouch!

Spaghetti or Sushi? Both please!

This is actually a USB cable, you plug the device in at the business end of the fork.

Here are some USB drives suitable for connecting to the fork.

Neat! I want one.

Flexible clock from Citizen.

This one is something like $4000, but I'm sure the cost will drop like a stone. Expect to see electronic billboards in just a few years. Electronic ink is just going to change how the world looks so fast it will make our heads spin. Just imagine, electronic wallpaper... show anything on anything... woof!

Einar is reading!

Einar had his reading epiphany yesterday. Now he can read, he just has to learn all the words first. Until then it is slow going as he has to sound out each word.

This morning he showed off in school as we dropped him off. The first pages of the book went blazingly fast, probably more due to memorization than to studying speed reading. After that is was more like one word at the time, but if he was asked about stuff he hadn't worked on before, he could still do it.

The deal is that when he can read, he gets a computer. It's getting very close. Santa will have to start worrying.