"Mountain goats scramble up a near-vertical wall in Italy". These related pics are also awesome.



(Via @Rob_Abiera.)

If you're a fan of Law and Order: SVU then you'll enjoy this blog by federal sex-crimes prosecutor Allison Leotta which discusses what each episode got right (and wrong) -- The Prime-Time Crime Review.

(Via Orin Kerr.)

Oatmeal: "7 things you really don't need to take a photo of"

Kenneth Anderson: "Google Cars Drive Themselves, and Robots and the Law"

How John Elway travels incognito:

When he's out and about near his Denver home, former Broncos quarterback John Elway has come up with a novel way to travel incognito -- he wears his own jersey. "I do that all the time here," the 50-year-old Hall of Famer told me. "I go to the mall that way. They know it's not me because they say there's no way Elway would be wearing his own jersey in the mall. So it actually is the safest thing to do."

Shortest book titles. (Via GMSV.)

Is the Milky Way square?

"Army finds simple blood test to identify mild brain trauma"

Video of the day: "Water Droplet Bouncing on a Superhydrophobic Carbon Nanotube Array". (Via BBspot.)

X-shaped asteroid? Or Klingon Bird-of-Prey visiting the solar system?

I sense a cover-up here! (Via A.M.)

Advanced microphone can pick out single voices in a mob of people.

I'm just glad this technology won't ever be used against us by a future totalitarian government!

Newcaster teleprompter hacked:



(Via Instapundit.)

Wearable robots.

Economics of helium. (Via MR.)

Superman's Facebook nightmare. (Via BBspot.)

Can the government recall a book?

The Economist on biometrics and the dangerous of over-reliance on such "fuzzy" systems.

"Why You See 'Free Public WiFi' In So Many Places".

Related story from NPR.

New colored electronic ink with high refresh rate and low power consumption.

Still a few years away from commercial use, however. (Via @AriArmstrong.)

The true size of Africa.

Autonomous robots to guard part of US nuclear stockpile.

As long as it's not called SkyNet...

911 call of the day: Lost elephant

Scotch tape is a tiny particle accelerator.

An innovation in the simple cupholder. (Via @GuyKawasaki.)

Helicopter? Airplane? Or a little of both? (Via David Jilk.)

Bruce Schneier overview of Stuxnet.

Video of the day: "How Not To Fire a Watermelon Out of a Huge Slingshot"



(Via A.B.)

Rand Simberg on alternatives to rockets for space travel:

There have been plenty of alternative means of getting into space proposed over the years that don't employ traditional chemical rocket engines. The list presented here isn't exhaustive but representative, and they fall into four broad categories -- cannons, external-energy vehicles, static structures and dynamic structures.

(Via Instapundit.)

E-mail vs. snail-mail infographic.

Paul Graham: "Where to see Silicon Valley". (Via GusVanHorn.)

JK Rowling hints at three more Harry Potter novels. (Via @briggsb.)

"How the Internet Works". (Via BBspot.)

Need to create some parallel universes? There's an App for that!

"The strange but inevitable rise of pornography for the Amazon Kindle"

"Young Boy Becomes First Human to Live With a Permanent 'Robot Heart'". (Via Instapundit.)

"Moon Landing: Unrated Director's Cut to be released". No, really. (Via @BBspot.)

Oatmeal: "If you do this in an e-mail, I hate you".

Mutant worms produce miles of super-strong spider silk.