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First Laser
May 16, 2008. Above is today's Google logo.
The first working laser was demonstrated on May 16, 1960 by Theodore Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories.
According to Wikipedia.
Facebook | ESO
Even ESO is now on facebook. Cool.
Explaining Blogs in Plain English
In case you are still wondering why blogs are such a big deal.
The Chinese translations of Pop!Casts are bad
Pop!Tech recently released internationalized podcasts with the support from dotSUB. But I found the quality of the Chinese translations are really bad. It seems to me that most translations are made by machine translators.
block twiceler
My Bluehost account was having CPU exceeding problems in the last few days, even got deactivated yesterday. See what I find in the access logs (attached to the end of this post).
I would suppose this "twiceler" robot is the source of problem. It seems some guys are developing and experimenting a new search engine, called Cuill.
What I have to do now is block "twiceler".
Nature Precedings
Nature Publish Group just launched an arXiv-like preprint service, Nature Precedings. Following is from a note they sent out.
The future of media
by Italian internet consulting company Casaleggio Associati.
It predicts in 2020 Lawrence Lessig becomes the new US Secretary of Justice and declares copyright to be illegal. :)
A practical lawsuit against GFW
A practical lawsuit against China internet censorship. Send my full support!
China Herald Twitter
If you are using Twitter and interested in China, you may find ChinaHerald Twitter useful. It can deliver latest news on China to your IM or phone.