Jack Sparrow - Pirate of Caribbean speed painting

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http://www.5min.com/Video/Jack-Sparrow---Pirate-of-Caribbean-speed-painting-25317006

Talk Like a Pirate Day (19th September)

"Talking like a pirate is fun. It's really that simple. It adds a zest, a swagger, to your every day conversation. Do you need another reason?

Try it out. Let go, have a beer, burp in public. Say "Aarrr!!" Feels good, doesn't it? "

 http://www.talklikeapirate.com/faq.html


"It recently came to our attention that Google was not accessible to a large, influential, and notoriously quick-tempered community: Pirates. As of today we are proud and rather relieved to announce that Google Search is available in Pirate."

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-in-one-more-language.html

Aarrr!

Stephen Hawking to unveil strange new way to tell the time

"The Corpus Clock has been invented and designed by Dr John Taylor for Corpus Christi College Cambridge for the exterior of the college's new library building.

It will be unveiled on 19 September by Prof Stephen Hawking, cosmologist and author of the global bestseller, A Brief History of Time."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/14/scihawking114.xml

A knot of light

"Imagine twisting a beam of light into a knot, as if it were a piece of a string. Now grab another light beam and tie it around the first, forming its own loop. Tie on another and another, until all of space is filled up with loops of light."


http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/36400/title/A_knot_of_light

Scientist Uncovers Miscalculation In Geological Undersea Record

"The precise timing of the origin of life on Earth and the changes in life during the past 4.5 billion years has been a subject of great controversy for the past century.

The principal indicator of the amount of organic carbon produced by biological activity traditionally used is the ratio of the less abundant isotope of carbon, 13C, to the more abundant isotope, 12C. As plants preferentially incorporate 12C, during periods of high production of organic material the 13C/12C ratio of carbonate material becomes elevated. Using this principle, the history of organic material has been interpreted by geologists using the 13C/12C ratio of carbonates and organics, wherever these materials can be sampled and dated.

While this idea appears to be sound over the last 150 million years or so, prior to this time there are no open oceanic sediment records which record the 13C/12C ratio, and therefore, geologists are forced to use materials associated with carbonate platforms or epicontinental seas."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080910104202.htm

"Research Finds Carbon Dating Flawed"


http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/10/2257242

Octopuses have six "arms" and two "legs": study

"Octopuses' eight tentacles divide up into six "arms" and two "legs", a study published by a chain of commercial aquariums said on Thursday.

Octopuses are reckoned to be the world's most intelligent invertebrates and are able to use tools with their sucker-covered tentacles.

Helped by over 2,000 observations by visitors, teams of aquatic specialists carried out a study showing that the creatures seemed to favor their first three pairs of tentacles for grabbing and using objects, Sea Life aquariums said."

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSLE12120720080814