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Can your browser display the apostrophes in this paper?
One of the challenges of modern computing is that there are lots of alphabets from lots of languages and to display a document properly, you need to know which one to use. Some folks at Mozilla wrote a paper about this and published it in Western (latin-1, ISO-8859-1) encoding, but Firefox and IE both choose UTF 8 to display it ( Read more... ) -
Plane Crash lands in Hudon Thursday
I couldn't believe it when I first heard it, but there was a spectacular crash in the Hudson yesterday, but for once in recent aviation history, all the passengers were evacuated ( Read more... ) -
curious election stories
MSNBC ticker misleading ( Read more... ) -
Beware! Physics can kill
Some alert citizens are suing in federal court to shut down the dangerous physics experiments before they create a black hole that kills us all. Lets help them out by keeping an eye on the Webcam of the new Collider in switzerland:
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
The full story is here:
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/27/ ( Read more... ) -
Yea Large Hadron Collider!
I was so busy I almost forgot that today was the day that LHC went online, except for a google's graphic, and a dear friend who sent me this informative video explaining the LHC to laypeople ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM -
Fishy Fish
Another intriguing story forwarded to me by Yayo.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/science/22fish.html?hp -
Amature Fusion Reactors
Nuclear Ambitions: Amateur Scientists
Get a Reaction From Fusion
PITTSBURGH -- In the garage of his house, Frank Sanns spends nights tinkering with one of his prized possessions: a working nuclear-fusion reactor.
Mr. Sanns, 51 years old, is part of a small subculture of gearheads, amateur physicists and science-fiction fans who are trying to build ( Read more... )
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