Unipage firmly supports my faith in the unifying power of html. Their free Unipage Unifier saves a complete web page as a single file that can be viewed in any web browser, without recourse to (godawfully slow) plug-ins. Sounds like a potentially viable alternative to PDF to me.

A star in our galaxy has been discovered to have its inner and outer gas disks counter-rotating. This means that planets formed in this system will have two possible directions of orbit, depending upon which disk they form in. That’s another blow for simple planet-formation models.

Scientists at the UK’s University of York have succeeded in teleporting two nearly-indentical copies of a single original laser beam to two separate locations. The copies aren’t perfect, but apparently that is an inevitable side effect of quantum uncertainty.

The graveyards are getting full. So why not have your mortal remains rocketed into orbit? Star Trek’s ‘Scotty’ is going up next month, in a batch that includes a nurse and a telephone technician.

Guerilla News Network is not exactly an impartial arbiter of truth (but then, who is these days). Even so, in “Annexing Khuzestan” they make specific and falsifiable predictions about the future of the American war in the Middle East, a bold statement that makes for interesting reading.