Paper cuts, that’s right, you’ve had them, but why do they hurt so much? Check out paper cuts on Wikipedia. “A Moment of Science” by Indiana University Bloomington has a article about paper cuts. If you scroll down to the bottom of the article you can have it read to you or click here. (You need RealPlayer, but I’d recommend Real Alternative) Also Carbonless.org is a site about the evils of carbonless copy paper. They also have photos of paper under an electron microscope.

So as I was looking around the net I noticed there were a few things today, more than usual, that people have pet peeves about.

Some are:
• The plural of the word ‘virus’
• The proper usage of apostrophes
• It’s or Its (a simple explanation of each is here) and
• To who or whom it may concern.

• More people reading and writing blogs.
• More sites and a variety of projects using wikis.
• More people using RSS for blog syndication, getting podcasts, getting torrents.
• More cross-site integration.
• More mashups.
• More people listening to and creating podcasts.
• More vidcasts.
• More people using Flickr for sharing photos.   My Flickr Photos
• More people using BitTorrent for all kinds of content, free and legal content licensed under Creative Commons.
• A broader user-base for all of these.
• More hardware hacking fun.   To learn more about it go to Hack-a-Day, Make Magizine

Science is cool and now even more fun! link

3D printing is pretty cool, but when you print Escher’s art in 3D, that’s awesome! link and Beyond Escher For Real

This guy in germeny created a 8 x 8 pixle display that uses punched paper to display animation. link

This guy in Norway did timelapse photography for a year out of his window. link

The important event that isn’t in the history books. link

Steve Jobs looked pretty young on the cover of the first issue of Macworld magazine. link