Warren Ellis interview: RED, RED 2, Jonah Hex, Gravel, screenwriting and more

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/772097/warren_ellis_interview_red_red_2_jonah_hex_gravel_screenwriting_and_more.html

"When Alan Moore started out, and was getting known in the 80s, pretty much the first thing he did when he got the opportunity, is he set up a column in one of the British comics he was working on, The Daredevils at Marvel UK, where he could review fanzines and things.

Reading that as a kid, I kind of got the impression that that was part of the job. How once your profile got to the point where people actually paid attention to what you were saying, you should use that to direct their attention to things that are worth knowing about, by people who don't have that profile yet. I got the sense that that was what you did.

So, once my profile got to that point, that's what I did. And it didn't dawn on me till later that not everybody does that. And I was never interested in just limiting it to comics, because I'm interested in more things than just comics."

Robots to get their own internet

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12400647

"Called RoboEarth it will be a place that robots can upload data to when they master a task, and ask for help in carrying out new ones."

Ruskie Shooting Water-Filled Milk Jugs Point-Blank With Guns Of Varying Calibers

"This is a video of some crazy Ruskie (whose accent alone makes the video worth a watch) demonstrating the effects different caliber bullets have on water-filled milk jugs."

DNA engine observed in real-time traveling along base pair track

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-dna-real-time-base-pair-track.html

"Resembling a monorail train, the system relies on the self-assembly properties of DNA origami and consists of a 100 nm track together with a motor and fuel. Using atomic force microscopy (AFM), the research team was able to observe in real time as this motor traveled the full length of the track at a constant average speed of around 0.1 nm/s."

Word of the Day: Cataphile

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataphile

"Cataphiles are urban explorers who illegally tour the Paris "catacombs", the term popularly used to describe a series of underground tunnels that were formerly a network of stone mines."

Breakthrough nanotape tech promises cooler chips

http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/1/24/new-nanotape-tech-promises-cooler-chips/

"The new material promises a lot: featuring a thermal conductivity comparable to copper but a flexibility and ability to expand and contract as a result of temperature changes without breaking that is more like a foam, its creators believe that it could be a major breakthrough in the race to create ever-smaller and ever-faster devices."

Tuning Graphene Film So It Sheds Water

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110201155628.htm

"Windshields that shed water so effectively that they don't need wipers. Ship hulls so slippery that they glide through the water more efficiently than ordinary hulls."