Cody Taylor

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been ousted from office after being found guilty of abusing his powers.

That’s right folks, that’s a freaking cake right there — the city of Minas Tirith in all it’s fondant-y glory. Wow. Now I’m confident I speak for all of us when I say ‘my God would I lay siege to that city — with a fork!’ Am I right? “Thou shall not pass….on seconds!” Thanks Gandalf, I’ll have another. Oh, uh-oh — whip-cream fight!

An anonymous reader writes “Thailand is ramping up their media wide censorship of anything that remotely offends Thai royalty. In the last three weeks, another 2,300 websites have been blocked. Another ~4,000 are soon expected. And not just websites, but books as well as the Economist have been blocked. And anyone caught publishing such material, including foreigners, will get 3 to 15 years in a Thai prison. You don’t want to be in a Thai prison!”

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eldavojohn writes “It’s often assumed that representing data reaches a limit when you get to the point that an atom represents one bit in some form or fashion. But Stanford University researchers have used a quantum hologram model to store the characters ‘S’ and ‘U’ by encoding the data at a rate of 35 bits per electron.”

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