A beach house

"A beach house doesn't have to be on the beach, though the best ones are. We like to congregate at boundary conditions - where air meets water, where earth meets air, where body meets mind, where space meets time.

"We like to sit on one side and look at the other."

Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

A Two-Time Universe? Physicist Explores How Second Dimension of Time Could Unify Physics Laws

USC College theoretical physicist Itzhak Bars has pioneered efforts to discern how a second dimension of time could help physicists better explain the laws of nature.

http://www.physorg.com/news98468776.html

Salvador Dali on "What's My Line?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXT2E9Ccc8A

Mixed Feelings

Can our senses be modified? Expanded? Given the right prosthetics, could we feel electromagnetic fields or hear ultrasound? The answers to these questions, according to researchers at a handful of labs around the world, appear to be yes.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/esp_pr.html

Through the Patent Looking Glass with Microsoft's Brad Smith

But I think that in this case, Microsoft may be making a miss step. By focusing so much attention on this issue, it causes more articles – like this one – to be written to dispel the FUD. And it spawns more patent-focused efforts like those noted above to support open source software development and use. The result is that instead of cowing the little people, it helps pull back the curtain.

And then you find that all-powerful Oz (and his patent portfolio) doesn't look so all powerful, after all

http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070516070856610

Study hints that fruit flies have free will

A spark of free will may exist in even the tiny brain of the humble fruit fly, based on new findings that could shed light on the nature and evolution of free will in humans.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18684016/

Traffic Waves

Boredom led me to fantasize about the traffic being like a flowing liquid, with cars acting as giant water molecules. Over many months I slowly realized that this was not just a fantasy. Why had I never noticed all the "traffic fluid dynamics" out there?

http://www.amasci.com/amateur/traffic/traffic1.html