Bruce Sterling notes a java program for cellphones, which lets people in the first life communicate with those in the second. A player can use his cellphone to control his avatar, who picks up a virtual cellphone to call another player, and so on ina recursive labyrinth of nerdliness.
Wired Science discovers that nukes are the technology of old men, and it's time to bring these most awesome weapons into the new millennium. That's U.S. Strategic Command's opinion, anyway. Did you know we have nine government agencies responsible for control of warheads? Erin Biba reports from AAAS.
Table of Malcontents' Eliza Gauger discovers NASA's action plan for deflecting Earthbound asteroids. Right now, it's just "a string of panicked expletives, followed by a poorly-doodled depiction of a mushroom cloud."
Three-wheelers are all the rage these days. John Gartner at Autopia finds the latest movie-prop trike-cycle of the future.
Stylometry is the study of subtle, tell-tale characteristics in the way creative work is executed, allowing experts to detect forgeries. Randy Dotinga at Bodyhack wonders if it could be used to detect mental illness.
