Sexy Jihad

Phys.org reports that scientists have finally managed to freeze light. This by using ultra-cold atoms called Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). Excerpt:
This new research could be a major breakthrough in the quest to create super-fast computers that use light instead of electrons to process information. Professor Lene Hau is one of the world’s foremost authorities on “slow […]

It’s now possible to upload videos to Googles Video Service. For those of you who have been living in a cave these past few weeks, here’s an excerpt:
# What is Google Video?
Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Currently, Google Video lets you search a growing […]

It seems that with satellite pictures becoming more & more common these days, a lot of cool stuff that was once probably only seen by military satellites, is now picked up by all sorts of commercial satellites:

For many years, Mike Leeds has been road-tripping from his home in Portland, Oregon, to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert […]