Watch this fascinating video and be in awe. Ten thousand galaxies, each with a million stars in a universe that’s 14 billion years old and 156 billion light years across. Who can comprehend?
Biosingularity (a great blog!) reports on research showing that the bacteria Carsonella ruddii has the fewest genes of any cell.
Amanda Chapel (a.k.a. Strumpette) has published a guest column by Urizenus Sklar, founder and contributing editor of The Second Life Herald. The essay is an acerbic rant — do NOT continue if you are easily offended.
Ruth and Cody Hatch of the Flatrock web site report about a 60 acre spider web bout 220 kilometres east of Prince George, British Columbia. Wow! [via reddit]
Peggy Noonan writes in The Wall Street Journal “Is There Progress Through Loss?” It’s about how some number of loyal, conservative Republicans are saying that losing the 2006 elections may act as a wake-up call.
Ron Kaufman writes about how IKEA prices their over-size umbrellas.
AT&T should be ashamed of itself. It has a contract with military PBXs in Iraq for long distance service. Simply put, AT&T is ripping off our GIs. But there’s a workaround.
Richard MacManus, writing at Read/WriteWeb alerted me to Freenigma which offers strong e-mail encryption (via a Firefox add-on) for your favorite web mail service.
Columnist Mark Shields had this to say on the New Hour with Jim Lehrer.
Brian Harring writes at the Houston Independent Media Center site about the October 10, 2006 attack by insurgents against the US Forward Base Falcon in Iraq.
Om Malik writes about AOL’s bold decision to open the API to AIM for web developers.