SETI@Home finds something.......

Missing laptop found in ET hunt

"The Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, has signed up more than 1 million volunteers worldwide in a search for extraterrestrial intelligence. They've found no aliens yet, but they have at least turned up one missing laptop.

The Berkeley effort, better known as SETI(at)home, uses volunteers' computers when they go into screen-saver mode to crunch data from the Arecibo radio observatory in Puerto Rico. The computers are trying to spot signals in the radio noise from space.

One volunteer, James Melin, a software programmer for a county government agency in Minnesota, runs SETI(at)home on his seven home computers, which periodically check in with University of California servers. Whenever that happens, the servers record the remote computer's Internet Protocol address and file it in a database that people running the SETI software can view.

One of the computers on which Melin installed SETI(at)home is his wife's laptop, which was stolen from the couple's Minneapolis home Jan. 1."

SETI@Home finds something.......

Missing laptop found in ET hunt

"The Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, has signed up more than 1 million volunteers worldwide in a search for extraterrestrial intelligence. They've found no aliens yet, but they have at least turned up one missing laptop.

The Berkeley effort, better known as SETI(at)home, uses volunteers' computers when they go into screen-saver mode to crunch data from the Arecibo radio observatory in Puerto Rico. The computers are trying to spot signals in the radio noise from space.

One volunteer, James Melin, a software programmer for a county government agency in Minnesota, runs SETI(at)home on his seven home computers, which periodically check in with University of California servers. Whenever that happens, the servers record the remote computer's Internet Protocol address and file it in a database that people running the SETI software can view.

One of the computers on which Melin installed SETI(at)home is his wife's laptop, which was stolen from the couple's Minneapolis home Jan. 1."

Whee!

I've always joked that if a strain of polydactylism came up where the extra toes were opposable, the human race would be obsolete by cat standards.....

Extra's a puss with 26 toes

"Extra the kitten has been aptly named by her owners - she has 26 toes that give her a distinct advantage over her naturally climbing moggie mates.

Her human family noticed there was something different with the three-month-old kitten when she started scratching more than other cats.

"You would sort of want to wear boxing gloves when you play with her," says Kaelene Gerrard, who lives with her partner Eli Eliu and daughters Mercy, six, and 12-year-old Shardae."

Whee!

I've always joked that if a strain of polydactylism came up where the extra toes were opposable, the human race would be obsolete by cat standards.....

Extra's a puss with 26 toes

"Extra the kitten has been aptly named by her owners - she has 26 toes that give her a distinct advantage over her naturally climbing moggie mates.

Her human family noticed there was something different with the three-month-old kitten when she started scratching more than other cats.

"You would sort of want to wear boxing gloves when you play with her," says Kaelene Gerrard, who lives with her partner Eli Eliu and daughters Mercy, six, and 12-year-old Shardae."

Still banging the rocks together........

Not very surprising. When are they going to get around to reclassifying chimps under the Homo genus??

Still, I have to wonder if a 1x4x9 slab of black stone was found in the area as well......

Chimpanzees 'hunt using spears'

"Chimpanzees in Senegal have been observed making and using wooden spears to hunt other primates, according to a study in the journal Current Biology.

Researchers documented 22 cases of chimps fashioning tools to jab at smaller primates sheltering in cavities of hollow branches or tree trunks.

The report's authors, Jill Pruetz and Paco Bertolani, said the finding could have implications for human evolution.

Chimps had not been previously observed hunting other animals with tools."

Still banging the rocks together........

Not very surprising. When are they going to get around to reclassifying chimps under the Homo genus??

Still, I have to wonder if a 1x4x9 slab of black stone was found in the area as well......

Chimpanzees 'hunt using spears'

"Chimpanzees in Senegal have been observed making and using wooden spears to hunt other primates, according to a study in the journal Current Biology.

Researchers documented 22 cases of chimps fashioning tools to jab at smaller primates sheltering in cavities of hollow branches or tree trunks.

The report's authors, Jill Pruetz and Paco Bertolani, said the finding could have implications for human evolution.

Chimps had not been previously observed hunting other animals with tools."

Out dmn spt LOL

Dial M for Macbeth - on your mobile phone

"YOU'VE studied the history and seen the play - now get ready for Macbeth, the text message.

Modern technology is to be used to bring Shakespeare's Scottish play, and the king who inspired it, to life for a mobile phone audience.

A Forres firm has secured £40,000 for a project telling the story of Macbeth's associations with Moray in a format suitable for PCs, mobiles and personal digital assistants (PDAs)."

Out dmn spt LOL

Dial M for Macbeth - on your mobile phone

"YOU'VE studied the history and seen the play - now get ready for Macbeth, the text message.

Modern technology is to be used to bring Shakespeare's Scottish play, and the king who inspired it, to life for a mobile phone audience.

A Forres firm has secured £40,000 for a project telling the story of Macbeth's associations with Moray in a format suitable for PCs, mobiles and personal digital assistants (PDAs)."