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Daily del.icio.us Bookmarks for 05/25/08 24 May 2008 at 10:01 pm by Jason 167 views

These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 05/25/08 … please enjoy:

Huge hidden biomass lives deep beneath the oceans | New Scientist Environment

Life has been found 1.6 kilometres under the sea floor, at temps reaching 100 °C. John Parkes hopes his team's discovery might one day help find life on other planets. He says it may even redefine what we understand as life and what we understand by age.

Weezer's Pork and Beans | YouTube

Weezer's video for their single "Pork and Beans." How many Internet Celebs can you find? This is one of the best videos I've seen in years!!

Photographing a Wedding and then an Earthquake | lelandwong's Xanga Site

Can you imagine what it was like to have been photographing a wedding in Sichuan, China when 7.9
earthquake hit and shakes for three minutes?

Phoenix Mars Lander: Entry Descent and Landing | NASA

It will be a real nail-biter on May 25, 2008, for engineers, as the Phoenix spacecraft performs a series of challenging maneuvers right before it lands on Mars.

Senators say whether they?d agree to be vice president | The Hill

The Hill asked all 97 senators who are not running for president the same question: ?If you were asked, would you accept an offer to be the VP nominee?? Some senators laughed, but others took the question seriously.

NES Controller Mod, May Just be Most Fun Coffee Table Ever | Gizmodo

Forget touchscreen, solar powered or even self-destructing coffee tables… Kyle Downes has modded the coffee table into its best version ever: a retro-tastic NES controller… that actually works!! Video in link!

Come back for more links tomorrow!!



+ Project Virgle By Jason 01 April 2008 at 6:49 am 224 views No Comments

Google has unveiled a project they have been rumored to be working on for the past few years… Project Virgle. As a science geek, you can see why this excites me!!

For thousands of years the human race has spread out across the Earth, scaling mountains and plying the oceans, planting crops and building highways, raising skyscrapers and atmospheric CO2 levels, and observing, with tremendous and unflagging enthusiasm, the Biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply across our world’s every last nook, cranny and subdivision.

Earth has issues, and it’s time humanity got started on a Plan B. So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.

Project Virgle

Click here to find out more about this ground breaking project!! Project Virgle @ Google

EDIT (April 2nd) - Gotcha!  April Fools!!