From Georgia Tech's Engineering Dept. comes Shimone the digital marimba player and a rather cute drummer. The robot learns to improvise as it plays to the beat and is quite animated.

While outside this morning, just before dawn, I chanced to look up (as I often do, to watch the stars) and saw a "UFO". It wasn't some alien spacecraft, of course (at least I don't THINK it was), but a single, steady, bright (apparent magnitude of at least 0) light, moving fairly quickly (at first) from west to east. I watched it go until it dropped below the horizon, and was completely thrilled. I have to assume that it was a satellite, because of the following:

1.) It was moving quickly enough (at first) that, were it an aircraft, I would have seen the strobes and side-lights, which I did not.
2.) The further east it got, the slower it seemed to go.
3.) As it got closer to the Sun (which was still below the horizon), the dimmer it got.

It took around 2 minutes for it to get from nearly directly overhead to a point below the mountains to the east of me, 2/3 of which was from about 45 degrees from zenith to the horizon. I'm reasonably certain that it wasn't the ISS, because of the west-to-east direction, but I haven't verified this yet.

This is one for Snowy:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130124-will-we-ever-get-quantum-theory

Some amazing pictures here I thought :

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/photos/chicago-warehouse-covered-in-ice-after-ferocious-fire-1359026844-slideshow/chicago-photo-1813824365.html

Of late, I have noticed a lot of "News Worthy" Useless Research. This one today really caught my eye. To think that someone got paid for this.




Please post others that you find useless or obvious.

Trying to work out how the Radeon naming scheme works, due to this review :

http://casualstrolltomordor.com/2010/03/lotro-eyefinity-and-you/

He's using a HIS 5850

I have a Sapphire HD 6870

So one generation on (6 5) if that's right.

My card should walk it then I hope, or is that wishful thinking ?