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Finding the space rock trash within our solar system has, just as with space flight junk been spotted and registered better and better. Flying to Mars seems suddenly a bit tougher.

Flash memory is becoming more and more fragile so it can’t be written and erased many times.
HP is just three years away from bringing the memristor to market as a new product called ReRAM, for Resistive Random Access Memory. ReRAM can read and write memory bits much faster than flash, even as it consumes a tenth of the energy as flash memory. Read More

Read @ EFF: http://www.eff.org/issues/acta

Anton Geesink, Great Champion, only 10th dan in 1999, first to beat ruling Japanese, example for a class of dutch & European Judo/Eastern sportsman ever since. Principle before victory, therefore widely held in awn in Japan.
Off course sometimes made fun of, due this character… and temper.

A sketchy look at family life: Daddy’s on childcare duty while mummy gets the ice creams. (via)

Star Wars Uncut wins an Emmy — the entire film is now viewable, 473 15-seconds clips recreated by fans! (waxy)

Since a while back big fan websites have been taken down, does the movie industry slowly seem to get it now?

Frank nicely points out, that Netneutrality and rights involved have rules that companies not users are proned to follow. Netneutrality is a big part of having a free and open internet. It is a first amendment issue, where the right to publish is at stake. (via)

BoingBoing posted this amusing video of a Japanese tourist trying to buy an ice cream in Istanbul. The server just keeps messing around with him!

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Interesting international variations are seen, both in the amount of time Facebook users spend on the site each month and in the competing networks’ popularity in different countries.

Article: BBC - The ups and downs of social networks