MIAMI (Reuters) - An eagle ray leaped onto a boat off the Florida Keys on Thursday and stabbed a woman with its barb, knocking her to the deck and killing her, a Florida wildlife investigator said.

Jumping eagle ray kills boater off Florida Keys | U.S. | Reuters

Arthur C. Clarke, a writer whose seamless blend of scientific expertise and poetic imagination helped usher in the space age, died early Wednesday in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since 1956. He was 90.

Arthur C. Clarke, 90, Science Fiction Writer, Dies - New York Times

As news of Arthur C. Clarke's death spread through communities of scientists, writers and science fiction fans, many people shared their memories of how the visionary writer, inventor and futurist inspired and influenced them.

SPACE.com -- Arthur C. Clarke: Luminaries Pay Tribute

Very cute.

DOTHETEST

Customs officials had no plans to upgrade the $5 bill until they discovered that counterfeiters were bleaching $5 bills and printing $100 bills on the paper because the security thread was in the same spot on both. In addition, both bills contained a portrait watermark in the same spot, making them difficult to distinguish.

New $5 bill goes into circulation - Los Angeles Times

The STEPS project is setting out to create “Moore’s Law Software”: a high-risk high-reward exploratory research effort to create a large-scope-and-range software system in 3-4 orders of magnitude less code than current practice.

This is new from Alan Kay's Viewpoints Research Institute.

From the archive:

"Thinking" is a higher category than "just" math, science, and the arts. It represents a synthesis of intuitive and analytical approaches to understanding the world and dealing with it.

STEPS Toward The Reinvention of Programming

dmv wrote:

March 6, 1937: Birth of a Soviet Hero, First Woman Into Space

Happy birthday, Dan!

RE: March 6, 1937: Birth of a Soviet Hero, First Woman Into Space

Don't miss the First USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats, which will take place in San Francisco, CA, on April 15, 2008.

Best conference name ever!

First USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET '08)

Other information:
Ghosts I-IV is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license.

An exciting partnership and experience regarding this release will be announced soon.

Linked from Lessig's blog.

Latest NIN Album released under a CC license

Soaring birds, it turns out, use pretty much the same approach. And it’s a good bet that they have never heard of Paul MacCready, the man behind the formula.

Falcons Used Formula for Glider Thermals Before Human Pilots - New York Times