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Star Wars Lightsaber Chopsticks!
August 11th, 2009 | 
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Those noisy lightsabers can be more useful than just slicing enemies in half or unfreezing your feet in a Wampa’s ice cave. They can also help you eat!
Check out these lightsaber chopsticks available in Japan for only ¥1050 featured on the addicting Tokyo Mango blog. The delicate utensils will hit stores in 2010 in both Dark and Light Force colors, like Sith red or Yoda’s green. My only question is if these lightsabers could accidentally sear your sushi while picking it up, because that would defeat the whole purpose of eating raw fish, right?
Let’s hope you pick the blue or green chopsticks, because otherwise, this will turn into a real food fight.
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http://g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/blog/post/698224/Star-Wars-Lightsaber-Chopsticks.html
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Meteor Showers!!!
Seeing one shooting star on a clear night is amazing but imagine seeing a whole bunch of them, in quick succession and over the course of hours! Meteor showers are actually predictable, annual phenomena that even seasoned astronomers still get excited about. Mainly just specks of dust or grains of rock, meteors are visible because of the high speeds with which they are thrown at the Earth. On the eve of the annual Perseid meteor shower, we bring you some amazing pictures of meteor showers past and let you know when you can spot the next ones.
Meteor showers occur when the Earth moves through a meteor stream, namely the particles left from the passage of a comet. On its path around the Sun, the Earth is bound to move through meteor streams and predictably so, which is why the time of occurrence of a certain meteor shower can be calculated quite accurately. So-called shower calendars help stargazers plan the year ahead.
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http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/meteor-showers/14319
Google’s Caffeine: a jolt to search rankings?
One of the largest behind-the-scenes updates to Google’s search technology in three years is underway, as the company reworks its computing muscle.
Last night Google quietly began soliciting feedback for “Caffeine,” a new system for Web searches that is being tested completely separate from the live search results currently found through Google.com. Google makes almost constant changes to its search algorithms and infrastructure, but it hasn’t made an update of this magnitude since 2006, said Matt Cutts, a principal engineer at Google and considered one of the driving forces behind its approach to search.
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CNETNews Google’s Caffeine: a jolt to search rankings? http://bit.ly/3S4gcB
One of the Mars rovers found something on the Red Planet.
This view of a rock called “Block Island,” the largest meteorite yet found on Mars, comes from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
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This iron-nickel meteorite found near Fort Stockton, Texas, in 1952 shows a surface texture similar to some portions of the surface of an iron-nickel meteorite that NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity found on Mars in July 2009.
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NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its microscopic imager to get this view of the surface of a rock called “Block Island” during the 1,963rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s mission on Mars (Aug. 1, 2009).
Full image and caption PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity is investigating a metallic meteorite the size of a large watermelon that is providing researchers more details about the Red Planet’s environmental history.
The rock, dubbed “Block Island,” is larger than any other known meteorite on Mars. Scientists calculate it is too massive to have hit the ground without disintegrating unless Mars had a much thicker atmosphere than it has now when the rock fell. An atmosphere slows the descent of meteorites. Additional studies also may provide clues about how weathering has affected the rock since it fell.
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/news/mer-20090810.html
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NASA One of the Mars rovers found something on the Red Planet. Check it out at: http://www.nasa.gov/rovers
Google invites feedback on super-secret search upgrades
Google is upgrading its search infrastructure and it’s being really shady about it.
In a post on its Webmaster Central blog, however, Google engineers Sitaram Iyer and Matt Cutts insist that ordinary users won’t even see the difference.
“For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google’s web search,” the post reads, making it all sound vaguely like some kind of elf workshop. “It’s the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions.” The user interface is unchanged.
Developers are encouraged to try out the new technology on a “sandbox” page and then offer feedback by including the word “caffeine” in Google’s feedback text field, secret-password-style.
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CNETNews Google invites feedback on super secret search upgrades http://bit.ly/3cmEeh