coolest little computer

Game developer David Braben is working on a $25 PC about the size of a thumb drive. This is very cool!

original article @Geek

at least China has a space strategy →

• first moon landing within 2 years
• completed space station by 2015
• put an astronaut on the moon by 2025

"Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up."

Frederick Jelinek (mentioned in article at Slate on Google speech recognition)

puppy asteroid

Looks like the Earth has had an astroid following in our orbital footsteps for roughly a quarter-million years, awesome!

a white dwarf named Lucy

“Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered. The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus.”

original article @news.bbc.co.uk