The web is abuzz about Aerogel. I like the quote about superlative properties and properties. Like the icing on a delicious cake, superlative properties give Aerogel that mm-mmm goodness. The Wired article describes them fondling the gel and I cringe because perhaps future audiences will read this article with the same if-they-only-knew eyes that we read turn-of-the-century accounts of scientists experimenting with mercury, asbesteos or radium.

Growing Thumbnails. Also a cool JavaScript for images is Lightbox.

On the plastics topic, this super-repellant plastic sounds carcinogen-o-riffic!

More interesting applications of quantum mechanics - The anathema of Einstein!

A pretty sweet casemod that uses an clever principle: The less air there is in an enclosure, the less there is too cool.

“I am not interested in stretched-out pussy that looks like a donkey feedbag.” (WS) Fucking hilarious.

A friend of mine ate this.