Amazing photo.

Quoted: Several days ago, a volcano that had been dormant for 9,000 years near the coast of Chile erupted spectacularly, hurling liquified metals and lightning many miles into the sky. The results, which you see here, are called a "dirty thunderstorm," and are quite rare.

I want to build one of these in the backyard.

Quoted: The Mono-rail Track Velocipede wasn't as flashy as a jet pack, but maybe it was more practical—as long as you had what Scientific American called in May 1900 a "single-rail railway" to use it on, of course.

I told you Kristen. And you thought Rock Monster would make Mansquito look like Kane. For shame...

Quoted: This Saturday's Sci Fi Channel original TV movie, Rock Monster, is actually pretty decent, a reviewer from Variety says.

Here is a Newsweek article on Steampunk builders.

Quoted: Steampunk uses the past to reflect on the present, much as science fiction uses the future.

K and I caught the last half of an episode of Wired Science last night. Definitely worth watching. For some reason, the set and format reminds me of The .NET Show that MS puts out.

Chris Hardwick is a host. You might remember him from an awful MTV dating show called Singled Out. I am sure that Hardwick enjoys whenever someone ties him to that. Hehe.

Found on a Buzz page. Cool.

Quoted: University of Minnesota astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies and gas, as well as the mysterious, unseen "dark matter."
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"What we've found is not normal, based on either observational studies or on computer simulations of the large-scale evolution of the Universe."

For K

Quoted: New blog Biologists Helping Bookstores - spotted via Jason Kottke - features a crusading scientist called Ste who tries reorganising bookshop shelves to prevent pseudoscience featuring in the science categories.

Didn't John Galt invent this?

Quoted: US researchers have successfully tested an experimental system to deliver power to devices without the need for wires.