Eerste foto’s van planeten rond andere sterren

Astronomen maakten met behulp van de Hubble Space Telescope de allereerste directe foto’s van planeten buiten ons eigen zonnestelsel, “including a visible-light snapshot of a single-planet system and an infrared picture of a multiple-planet system.” This 2006 Hubble Space Telescope optical image shows the belt of dust and debris (bright oval) surrounding the star Fomalhaut …

New York Times, Special Edition

Communters in New York were surprised today by a free edition of The New York Times. Something was up, because it was a lot thinner than normal. Another clue is that it’s dated July 4, 2009, and full of articles talking about a future where Gitmo is closing, oil companies are nationalized, and the National …

Spam volumes drop by two-thirds after firm goes offline

The volume of junk e-mail sent worldwide plummeted on Tuesday after McColo Corp., a Web hosting firm identified by the computer security community as a major host of organizations engaged in spam activity, was taken offline. Nice, but how am I supposed to enlarge my penis now?