Frost Bite

Scientific American has for, I would assume, the sake of posterity collated articles of scientific achievements and feats that have had [maximum impact in the year 2006] on the ever decreasing frontier of the known and unknown. These articles are a must read.

post reading realization: The amount of science that I ever knew (or claimed to know) and have forgotten is but a speck of cosmic dust in the vast cosmos of scientific knowledge.

With Thanksgiving around the corner, many are, I am sure, already drooling at whats on sale either in the electronics store or wherever it is that they get high. Just remember that most items that are on sale are available at that price because of a retailer rebate. Yes, the great rebate scam- this is what I am getting at. [article]  enlightens us and maybe (?) will put some sense in those of us who go weak in the knees when looking at their favorite new toy on sale at the store.

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Absolutely wonderful!!

side note: some of them definitely look like they have been polished with photoshop but the composition is stunning nonetheless.

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Not for the squeamish. Great aperture skills and color capture, though I suspect they might have been processed later. Nonetheless, great stuff.

HUGE number of absolutely top notch extensions for Firefox [here]

If anything, DO get the del.icio.us extension, I love it.