Computer generated hair is getting very realistic these days, also the cool river in the new Bjork music video explained

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16008-computergenerated-hairstyles-get-real.html

Interesting article about the information about you thats out there on the net for all to find…
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16162-what-the-data-miners-are-digging-up-about-you.html

Also interesting, about sexual strategies
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026841.700-the-dizzying-diversity-of-human-sexual-strategies.html?full=true

Qrio was sony's final robot toy and is fantastic, fluid movement and wicked actions. Shame that Sony decided to discontinue their robot products Qrio was never commercially available, only some prototypes are out there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33a33XEVHKE

This looks so sweet, i must have one!

Zeno

Youtube movies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI1XCclwuKY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q88FK37Q8jU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoApP9×0TKI

One of my favourite sites for science related news

http://www.newscientist.com

Very interesting site about cults and various types of psychology.

http://www.rickross.com/

So i was reading up on manipulators. People who can bend people to their will by saying the right things. Interestingly they do this with any means but open aggression. They look like they are the victim and make you feel guilty or ashamed of your (confrontational) behavior all the while getting exactly what they [...]

Niels sent me through a very cool link for 2 webcams at the LHC in CERN.

Check them out here: http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

Article on the CERN LHC

Protons have made their first complete lap of the world’s most powerful accelerator to cheers and high fives from assembled physicists.

At 1025 (local time) scientists sent a single beam of protons in a clockwise direction around the full 27 kilometres of the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, [...]

This may be my final entry as it could be that today is the end of the world.

Fun times!

But seriously. CERN in switserland are going to be switching on their Large Hadron Collider today. Essentially an machine to recreate the big bang. They mention that small black wholes could be created and.. uuh.. [...]