BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Butterfly wings work like LEDs When scientists developed an efficient device for emitting light, they hadn’t realised butterflies have been using the same method for …

Wired News: Tainted Sony CDs Used Open Source In short: Sony’s ill-conceived, ill-executed, and ill-handled copy protected CDs that inserted a rootkit on your Windows computer that were designed …

Daily Kos: Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY! Last weekend we picked up three of Jack Handy’s Deep Thoughts books. While he avoids the political (after all, the thoughts are deep), we found …

Pandagon: ‘Tis the season to ‘persecute’ Christians A couple more years of this hysteria and the use of “Merry Christmas” as shorthand for, “I hate you and …

Eschaton Alito: “he’s an I’m gonna do what I want and fuck you if you think otherwise kind of guy” Nice.

O’Reilly opens new front in “war” on Christmas … [Media Matters] O’Reilly is ridiculous and a hypocrite. He is trying to create a controversy where one does not exist …

-dash Rainbow Crack is a time/memory tradeoff tool that can break passwords knowing just the password hash. So, those people who still think that disclosing password hashes is not a big deal… …

Hubble & Spitzer Space Telescopes on Yahoo! News Photos Beautiful, wonderous, cool stuff. This undated infrared image captured by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, released by NASA on …

Congress May Curb Some Patriot Act Powers - Yahoo! News Now that congress has apparently taken the time to read the PATRIOT Act, they are more likely to do the right thing before voting for it a …

AMERICAblog: Religious right bigots upset that a US Senator called them on their religious bigotry Yet another reason to love Vermont Senator Pat Leahy.