‘Antimatter factory’ starts work
Scientists at Europe’s biggest high-energy physics laboratory have built an “antimatter factory” to study why the world is made of matter, not its mirror image.
A spokesman for one of three antimatter projects at Cern, Rolf Landua, said: “We are looking at how the Universe would look if it was made out of antimatter. Would there be the slightest difference between our Universe and the Universe of antiatoms?”
Advice from Lance, ignored as usual. I’ve been doing it for nearly a year now and for some reason people keep coming back (at least I think they do)…
“My life is really boring. I can’t think of anything to write. I redesigned again.
My life is really boring. I’m going to talk about my hair, again.
I have a real love/hate relationship with Tuvok, the black vulcan on Star Trek: Voyager. I promise I will never expose anything about my personal life, nor the lives of my friends and family, ever. And now I’m going to list all my CDs in alphabetical order by artist, subclassified by genre and year of release, detailing my favorite tracks on each and the people in my life they remind me of. My life is really boring.“
I can’t believe that I didn’t notice that boylog wished me Happy Birthday on the 19th. Thanks!
Just discovered that barbelith (and I) are all over Jason Kottke’s site today. Which is a really strange feeling. It’s stirring up a lot of weird resonances in my head. Part of me is clearly delighted: Jason’s site must get ten/twenty times the traffic I do. If he mentions me, then more people come and read my stuff.
But along with that is a slight feeling of foreboding – almost dread. I don’t really know how to explain it. It’s a pretty bloody strange reaction (maybe it’s because I’m drunk). Part of the foreboding comes from him bringing up the stuff about the starting of the meme again – a situation which resulted in a few arguments around the place between myself and prominant web luminaries. Arguments which I would really rather forget.
But I think the weirdest thing about it is that I have only ever been mentioned on kottke.org in passing (to my recollection, at least) – and I think that was a pretty brief, incidental mention at that. This time … I don’t know – it’s like Icarus getting too close to the sun. Part of me has in my mind that line from Greek Tragedy: those whom the gods love die young…
I’m still getting images for the headline competition. Keep them coming.
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“Minors Refuse to Work After Death” [Meg Pickard | notsosoft.com] |
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The BBC is known for it’s high editorial standards and the supreme quality of it’s reporting. This being the case, could someone please explain this article on Big Brother UK: “Third time unlucky for Caroline”.
Good god. I can’t believe it. Mark seems to have got his whole family writing weblogs now. Some favourite quotes follow:
Momblog
“I try to keep track of what is going on in Mark’s life by reading his blog but sometimes that’s not a good idea because reading what his says often makes me want to do any one of a number of different things, such as (1) Call home immediately. (2) Call Ted immediately (3) Hop on the first plane home to Connecticut. (4) Call 911.”
Blogging on Riothero
“Thanks to my poll, I learned that someone’s sister, named beth, has a crush on my brother (probably because of the nakedness on his webcam). So I send him email asking if he knows beth. His reply:
‘no, i don’t. but i go to the strip club on
saturday nights, i usually don’t
ask them for their name. i just say, ‘do me,
bitch’ so maybe i do, but
probably not.'”
Okay, I admit it, I could probably cope with winning an Webby…
Another headline:
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“Chef throws his heart into helping feed needy” [Neale Talbot | wrongwaygoback.com] |
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