The famous “six degrees of separation,” under close bullshit-free scrutiny, fades into myth.
- So how big exactly is the Web? 155,583,825 websites big.
- Google snaps back at Microsoft’s “hostile bid“ to take over Yahoo!
- The Pentagon treats the Internet as an “enemy weapons systems” in direct opposition to its goals. And those goals being “fuck everyone who doesn’t like us.”
- Craig Venter “watermarks” his name and those of his friends in the genetic code of its first synthetically created organism.
- The slurp of the insect-eating pitcher plant, now analyzed for your pleasure.
- Mercury, that nice little cute planet, is getting smaller and smaller and smaller.
- Chemicals in your sunscreen are killing off corals.
- Scientists create grain-sized radio.
- Microsoft’s Volta logo looks like another famous web browser we know.
- Blue-eyed humans came from a single ancestor.
