Rocket science

You know all those times you heard, “It’s not rocket science!” Well, some things are rocket science.

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“Eyeborg”

In a “What will they think of next?” moment, a one-eyed film-maker decided to look into his chances of getting a camera that would fit into the socket of his missing eye. I just saw the fellow featured on Daily Planet. Even with a small, circular PCB imitating an iris, it looks pretty weird. The interviewer said that he looked like a cyborg, and he responded that he was an eyeborg—so I looked it up on the Web. Sure enough, he has a blog: Eyeborg Blog (formerly Eyeborg.

Chimpanzee caches, and makes, throwing stones

A chimpanzee at the Furuvik Zoo has been observed collecting stones and leaving them in little piles to use later, for throwing at tourists. Ed Yong at Not Exactly Rocket Science has the story: “Chimpanzee collects ammo for ‘premeditated’ tourist-stoning.”

Even more interesting, when zookeepers removed the stones, the chimp, Santino, collected more and then began making them by breaking off chunks of concrete.

We already know that chimps were making stone tools 4,000 years ago.

Blogger in Chief

Technorati is listing Barack Obama as the first blogging president of the U.S.

Help Desk

That reminds me — I need to call Tech Support about accessing my work e-mail from home.

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