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Some continued dire warnings, and a possible way out.  Only one of which is, sadly, firing Bernanke.

According to Next Big Future, 30cm-long nanotubes are now being created, with meter-long jobs in the offing. This is fantastic news, not merely for the space-elevator applications they’re watching like hawks, but for simple human construction.  We’re good at building suspension bridges and woven

(hat tip: Instapundit) Be careful what you wish for when you define “freedom of expression” to include messing with other people. If, as Instapundit suggests, everything old is new again, something else from the ’60s just might catch on again, too… lead pipes and anti-war protestors with broken knees.

I wonder… what’s with all these suckers of the more serious genre finally making it to screen? I mean, they said THIS “raised the bar…” If Batman raises the bar and your critics and radio talk geeks are raving over its “seriousness and moral dimensons” … what do you call THIS? Besides, of course, a genre riff on Juvenal….

Argh. EDIT:  That being the case, I will very likely give the blog a facelift soon, as I’m inserting more images than I used to, and this particular format’s locked-in width doth buggeth me.  There’s some wider landscapes I’d like to show off.

Got convinced last night that going RSS is worth the time and energy.  Su-pOSEDLY I should be enabling RSS off this sucker… but am utterly failing to figure it out. Any ideas while I’m in CluelessLand?

XKCD points out an academic obvious:

Actually, not Thugs, but Dacoits… see our beautiful terrain, and the thug-type people who make it dangerous… although I guess it would let us US tourist types see both terrain and talk guns while we were there. Will probably get obscenely popular.

This is kewl.  Makes me wonder how many other modern conveniences they had in forms that generally didn’t survive because of the materials with which they were working…

Finally, as predicted, the Russians grabbing everything in sight has failed to hide the fact that you can’t run a company the way the FSB runs the Press Freedom Office: Anticipated by some independent experts in the West and Russia but otherwise widely ignored, Gazprom’s gas deficit became a reality by 2007 at the latest.