âPhantomâ Lurks Again
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The sixth film version of âThe Phantom of the Opera,â Gaston Lerouxâs enduringly popular musical, is literally awash in the Andrew Lloyd Webber music that made it such a mega-hit on international stages.
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Evolutionary biologists have long theorized that the pace of evolution quickens when a species faces great environmental stress. This idea, of course, is a tough one to âprove,â but we can see examples of it all around us. Just look at the IT security industry, where something akin to drastic environmental change is happening right now: Organized cybercrime groups are punching truck-size holes in enterprise security defenses as regulators, shareholders, and attorneys general are putting pressure on companies to lock down sensitive data. The pressure for change will make this weekâs RSA Security Conference in San Francisco less an industry shindig than a live experiment in evolutionary biology. So walk quietly and keep your field glasses handy to spot some exotic new species in these areas:
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While some scientists try to build nano machines from scratch, others are discovering uses for single-celled organisms that are already available. By Monya Baker from Wired magazine.
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By John Weiss, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  Jun.
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All the incense and intrigue of another papal conclave is upon us again. Well, sort of
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JUST over a year ago I travelled from Barcelona to Madrid on one of Spain&#39;s inter-city trains. It was quite an experience. But there again, so is an attack of mumps.
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LOSTPROPHETS have been forced to add yet another date to their November tour due to overwhelming demand.
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A strology does not come easy to a rational newspaper like The Independent.
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These pachyderms aren't just going after peanuts.
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In my last blog post, I mentioned the work on rubinius (then at a 0.7 release and now at 0.8) and JRuby.  I also promised I&#8217;d follow up on them.  Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s been going on so far.
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Gabe: We're playing Pokemon (the TCG) Tuesday the 12th at the Comic Stop. We got off schedule because of a Magic tournament last week but we're back at the regular time starting tomorrow. We'll start the matches as close to 6pm as possible. New players are always welcome.The latest copy of EGM arrived at the office today. Apparently their adologists have finally broken the single cover barrier. It used to be that magazines only had one cover to sell but now EGM comes with a second cover pasted over the real cover like some kind of shell. It says "your favorite magazine starts inside" up at the top of this new cover cover. Unless you consider ads to be content this statement isn't very accurate. I guess "your favorite magazine starts in eleven pages" doesn't have the same ring to it.-Gabe out
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The fossil of a sea reptile with a neck twice as long as its body is solving the mystery of how some ancient reptiles used such unusually long appendages.
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Now hereÂs something that just happened to catch our eye.
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Now hereÂs another interesting development that is sure to catch you
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By Munz, Tania  LORRAINE DASTON and GREGG MITMAN (eds.), Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+230. ISBN 0-2311.3038-4. Pounds 32.00, $49.50 (hardback).
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This fall education is a particularly hot topic in publishing. New books raise a wealth of ticklish questions.
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Keep an eye on Shuffle Master, but don't ante up just yet.