Invisibility cloak moves a step closer | The Register

I just love the opening line on this article, and the implications of the science!

"After generations of being effectively invisible to the opposite sex, physicists have finally laid down blueprints for a functioning invisibility cloak."

The future is here...We just can't see it.

Invisibility cloak moves a step closer | The Register

My Blogging style

I made a solid decision when I started blogging that I wasn't going to put images on my blog. I just want everyone to know that it isn't for lack of knowledge that I rely, alone, on text to get my message across. This is a matter of style. But, everyone's doing it so I have to give you something.

Here is a picture my wife took of our daughter rendered as ASCII. Isn't she a cutie?

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Lightcone RSS: Which stars light have reached me since my birth

I just subscribed to a new RSS feed telling me to which stars I have become visible in my lifetime. So, just eight seconds after my birth, light would have had enough time to reflect off of me and make it's way back to the Sun (It's a boy). Every day the feed is updated to tell me how far my influence has traveled into the universe.

Hat tip: BoingBoing