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Life: Think Of It As Planet Earth Part II
5:00AM Mark Wilson | Life, the BBC’s latest totally unbelievable nature documentary, is airing in 10 episodes between now and Christmas. Not only is the footage as incredible as you’d expect; the studio sent some production notes our way explaining how scenes were shot. More »
Science
Researchers Made Mistake, World Is Ending Sooner Than Expected
4:00PM Rosa Golijan | Supermassive black holes, heat death and entropy could be wonderful dinner conversation as you toast to the end of the universe. Not sure when it’ll happen, but based on some re-calculations of entropy in the universe, it’s sooner than we expected. More »
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Life on Earth In 60 Seconds
1:40AM Jesus Diaz | Seed Magazine has accelerated 4.6 billion years in sixty seconds. Simple, but it gives you a perfect idea about how “fast” life has moved and the scale of evolution. [Seed] More »
Random Stuff
Steve Jobs on the Stupidity of Living in the Past and Uncertaintly of the Future
8:09AM Brian Lam | With so much uncertainty around Apple and even Steve Jobs’ futures, I went back and found these words and philosophies of his on looking back and forward in one’s life. More »
Peripherals
2:00PM Nick Broughall | The Gadget: Australian company Life!’s leather iPhone charging case. More »
Lightning Review: Life! Leather iPhone Charging Case
2:00PM Nick Broughall | The Gadget: Australian company Life!’s leather iPhone charging case. More »
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Cassini Probe To Be Used to Look For Life on Saturn Moon
9:29PM Kit Eaton | NASA is considering re-purposing its successful Cassini-Huygens probe to do something that it wasn’t designed for, but is nonetheless amazing: searching for signs of life on Saturns frozen moon Enceladus. Back in July 2005 Cassini observed a huge plume of ice particles and water vapour shooting from the tiny moon, suggesting the possibility that there’s a liquid ocean hiding beneath its surface. More »
Games
PS3 News Service, Life With Playstation, Now Up For Download
5:08PM Gizmodo US Edition | Speaking of Sony, PS3 users can now try out its new Life With Playstation service, which gives you instant access to real-time news and information in a format that’s much more graphically intense than anything you’ll get on Wii News. The program works in conjunction with Folding@home, so you’ll be helping Stanford researchers while you browse around Life. Download it onto your system by selecting the Folding@Home icon under “Network” on the XMB, and check out the Playstation blog for an interesting video explaining the service’s features. More »
Design
Oasis Table Starts & Ends Fishy Life With Sand
10:00PM Gizmodo US Edition | Here’s something that you might miss among all the crazy junk at SIGGRAPH. It’s an interactive aquatic life table called Oasis, by designer Yunsil Heo, that is completely covered by fancy black sand. Why is it covered, you ask? Well, that’s what makes it interactive. By moving the sand so it will show the LCD screen below you begin to grow aquatic life. At first only little guppies appear, but over time the guppies start to grow into fish and other crazy aquatic creatures. Make the sand-less hole bigger and it starts to populate with more life. Then once your little fishies are all grown up, just cover them up with sand and they’ll be dead. [Oasis] More »
Gadgets
Desk Clock Plays Life, Counts Yours One Second at a Time
10:00PM Gizmodo US Edition | I like this Life Clock. What makes it for me is not the fact that you can do it yourself using Arduino components–the open-source electronics prototyping platform–or that it can tell you the temperature and play Conway’s life on its own. No, what makes it all come together is the simple wood design and the use of 60s sci-fi spaceship computer lights. [Make] More »
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