My sister Emma was trying to convince me the other day that NASA is worthwhile and noble and probably did not fake any portion of the Mars rover footage. The "Magnetic Movie" is very cool to watch, but I'm not sure yet whose arguments it bolsters in our debate.

Social networking site for ladies.

Quoted: KiRTSY is a place to find things. News. Ideas. Information. Products. Coolness. And more and more and more. It's like that friend who always finds the best stuff... only better. Because it finds the stuff online. And let's face it, there are billions of online options...and finding something you're interested in is sometimes tricky. A spot that you can stop in to see what excellent things others have found.

Amazing. Where can I purchase one?

Quoted: South Korean scientists have cloned glow-in-the-dark cats by manipulating a fluorescent protein gene, a procedure which could help develop treatments for human genetic diseases, officials said Wednesday.

Interesting story on the Gawker empire and its culture. Two of the main sources for this story quit Gawker since the story was published.

Quoted: The Gawker.com editors stand mostly to the side, in a cool-kid clique. Although they may in some sense be outsiders with their noses pressed to the glass, horrified by a world of New York that doesn’t quite want to have them as members, in the bubble of blogs, they’re the elite...

Redot of a redot. Wow. That's a lot for "a little."

Quoted: The two companies said on Wednesday that Microsoft would invest $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook. The investment values the three-year-old Facebook, which will bring in about $150 million in revenue this year, at $15 billion.

Cool.

Quoted: A deejay in the Netherlands uses his to mix techno music at dance parties. A medical student in Italy has reprogrammed his to help analyze the results of CT scans. And a Los Angeles software engineer has found a way to get his to help vacuum the floor. The high-tech device in each case: the remote control from a $250 videogame console.

Quoted: While the general concept of using an aerated showerhead to save water is not new, the technology behind the CSIRO's device is novel.