IBM To Help Vivendi Program PS3 [Game|Life]
Coding for the 8-cored IBM "cell" chip is so irksome that PS3 devs at Vivendi want hands-on training from IBM engineers.
"To the devil with you and your Daguerreotype!" [Table of Malcontents]
Annalee Newitz on a strange, steampunky novel of the 19th Century, by Herman Melville.
"Divine Strake," Stricken? [Danger Room]
Divine Strake, a proposed, just-for-fun recreation of a "small" nuclear blast using "safe" conventional explosives, may never see the dark of night. Noah Shachtman laments.
Autism in Black and White [Bodyhack]
What causes autism? The overwhelming consensus is against vaccine preservatives, so what's left to look at?
