The Internets have been abuzz today about a picture taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of P/2010-A2. NASA thinks it may be remnants of a collision of two asteroids impacting at speeds of up to 11,000mph. Twitter seems to think it’s a Klingon Bird of Prey. Either way, it’s impressive.

Asteroid fragments? White Ranger Falcon Ninjazord? You decide.

The complex structure of the debris is what makes astronomers think they may be seeing something new around the sun. The main nucleus of the object, P/2010 A2, is actually located outside its dust halo, something that’s never been seen in a comet-like object before.

Folks, this could be it. The Mayans predicted the world would end on Dec. 21, 2012 (the same day my friend’s student loans expire… sucks to be her). Maybe this is what they foresaw.

The science geeks at NASA really don’t have any clue as to what this thing is. Could be a comet. Could be the result of intergalactic billiards gone horribly wrong. Could be an alien invasion which will attack our most populated cities, leaving us crippled and helpless until the president makes a stirring speech and Jeff Goldblum figures out he can give it a virus with an ancient Mac that just happens to be compatible with alien technology. On the plus side, Obama does know how to give a stirring speech.

Personally, I think it looks like Toy Story was right. The earth is one big claw machine game. The Claw is our master. Nirvana is coming, the mystic portal awaits. Ooooooh.

Despite the flashy marketing claims and convincing Internet buzz, many of these products deliver far less than they promise.

Either the science behind them is weak, nutritionists warn, or their steep price tag is simply not worth what you get in return.

Source:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct-overrated-food-trends-pg,0,6975867.photogallery

Yeatarday I saw a report on CNN about how social networking sites like facebook and specially twitter are serving as havens for cyber criminals. A large number of users post all sort of private information on these websites and people take advantage of this information. Also, people are mislead by posting wrong information about certain high-demand topics.

In my opinion the most destructive aspect specifically with respect to the twitter is the URL Shortening ot Tiny URL’s. From the last many years people have become increasingly cautious about visiting malicious websites and it is a general best practice now not to click/download links that you don’t trust.

The Tiny URL phenomenon takes this all away, where you are following hunderds of people, celebrities wicthout actually knowing who is behind the username and then there are literally millions of tiny url’s which people post daily and you access the link without trusting its authenticity. You never know where it will redirect you.

Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror also has a different take on Tiny URL’s.

Just realized that Google Shared Items are sorted with the date of the post and not the date on which you have shared the item. I think it should probably be sorted by the date of sharing than the date of the original post, after all its your shared items and you should have control over sequence of sharing.

Most of the times I skip a log of blogs and only choose a particular few, but when there is time I tend to catch up all what i skipped through. If a share something which actually is a post from an old date, the shared item list shows it down the list after the items which I shared earlier.

This actually caused a problem with TwitterFeed which would only select based on the last updated item (probably with date) and do not update the items which I share from previous dates.

My crazy eBay gimmick got written up at Quill and Quire.

Greg Santos Mentioned it on his ubercool blog.

Something on it here

and here

And in this place

There was the HTML Giant mention

And the thing in Black Heart Magazine

and something at target audience magazine

and, oddly, this car forum

my fame grows, but my eyes fade

Dirty Projectors are dropping “Bitte Orca” on June 9th 2009* (something to note on your calendars, everybody) and there’s already buzz all around the internet about it’s extremely promising sound. till then check out the first single off the album called “Stillness is the Move” which sounds exactly as it’s titled- light as air melody backed by a steadfast drum beat that is sure to get your foot tapping without even thinking about it. 10 bucks says so, i’m willing to bet on it. DANKVIBE

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