Bad Astronomer :Hubble finds dark matter smoke ring.

Check out this post for some awesome pictures of the smoke ring.
I'm fascinated by Astronomy. Aren't you? If you are check this Bad Astronomy Blog. Here's the feed for his blog if you want to subscribe. He's got a funny style of writing, this Bad Astronomer and he's cool too. If you got some questions about Astronomy and Space, head to Q&BA section of his site. He's even written a book called Bad Astronomy.

The Dell XPS 720 H2C: Drool over it.

Doesn't that look SEXY?
Here are the specs:

• choice of factory overclocked QX6700 or QX6800 Core 2 Extreme processors, dual GeForce 8800 GTX or GeForce 8800 Ultra graphics cards,
• a pair of 160GB SATA hard drives,
• some overclocked Corsair Dominator DDR2 memory,
• a Blu-ray drive,
• Dell's trademark H2C thermo-electric/liquid cooling system

Via Engadget.
Clean your desk now and get back to work.

DIY: Mineral Oil Submerged Computer

I've heard of and seen liquid cooling mods for computers before. But this takes cooling mods to an Ultra Cool new level. The link lists out steps for you build it yourself and the performance results too. Go on, placate your monster computer's heating needs. The basic components will cost you around 150USD(approx) though.

Happy! Modding.

What's Hot today? Google Hot Trends.

Some of you might be aware of Google Zeitgeist and Google Trends. Zeitgeist lists popular searches and Trends compares the popularity of searche terms. Google has announced something new: Hot Trends. These guys at Google, seems to me, never stop at finding new ways to look at data.

Here's more on "Hot Trends" from the Official Google Blog: ...It's a new feature of Google Trends for sharing the the hottest current searches with you in very close to real time. What's on our collective mind as we search for information? What's interesting to people right now? Hot Trends will tell you. At a glance, you'll see the huge variety of topics capturing our attention, from current events to daily crossword puzzle clues to the latest celebrity gossip. Hot Trends is updated throughout the day,....

This is what the Zeigeist home page says about "Hot Trends"....On May 22, 2007, the original Google Zeitgeist for Google.com was replaced by Hot Trends, a dynamic feature in Google Trends. Visit Hot Trends for regular updates throughout the day into what people are searching for on Google.....

Keep up with the trends.

Via Official Google Blog

Sun prepared to defend Red Hat and Ubuntu against Microsoft patent threats

I've always admired and respected SUN as a company. Now, i love them for what they are standing up to.In Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz's blog this week, he calls on traditional software companies like Microsoft to embrace the "free press" of open source instead of trying to censor it through legal tactics. Sun has an extensive patent portfolio of its own, Schwartz says, and "we'd use it to defend Red Hat and Ubuntu, both)....More on this here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=313



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What jargon reveals about you.

Think using jargon is cool? Think again.
Penelope Trunk dissects what jargon reveals about us. Read it, it's both informative and funny. This is actually an excerpt from her book Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success.

She runs a column on Yahoo! Finance. I like the way she writes. She writes a blog. Here's the feed if you want to subscribe to her blog

The MS patent fiasco

I came across these two articles about the recent patent infringement claims by Microsoft against Linux, one interesting and one insightful (Via Linux&OpenSrc Blog) and both brilliant.
I'll say no more. Just head to the articles.