Weekend Links

• In Industry First, Voting Machine Company to Publish Source Code – Even if the source code was absolutely complete—representing every element of logic in every piece of hardware in the entire voting system (which isn't going to happen)—and absolutely correct, and absolutely uncorruptible, how would voters, or election officials, know that it was that software running in the machines they vote with? This is a nice gesture, but, ultimately, a meaningless one.
• House, Senate get separate bills to kill net neutrality
• Intel touts NAND-killer breakthrough
• Little, big, and green: a biography of the solid-state disk
• Slim, warm superconductors promise faster electronics
• Quantum gravity theories wiped out by a gamma ray burst
• Baffling Patterns Form in Scientific Sandbox
• Silence! The Last of the Giant Radio Telescopes Is Listening to the Universe
• 3,000 Images Combine for Stunning Milky Way Portrait – It won't really be stunning until we get a much higher-resolution look at it, but it sounds like a great piece of work.
• Huge Explosion Was Biggest Space Rock to Strike Earth Since 1994
• Taking Earth’s Temperature With 30-Mile Thermometer
• NASA assessing parachutes and dented Ares 1-X booster
• Parachute failure causes damage to Ares 1-X booster
• Pad 39B suffers substantial damage from Ares I-X launch – Parachute update
• Asteroid blast reveals holes in Earth's defences
• Little X-Plane Pushes Bottom Edge of the Envelope
• Army’s Robot-Man Walks Like the Real Thing
• Animal Robots: Marine Machines Made in Nature's Image
• Magnetic 'eyesight' helps birds find their way
• A Short History of Vaccine Panic
• The secret history of swine flu
• US swine flu vaccine too late to beat autumn wave
• Swine flu: Eight myths that could endanger your life
• Autoimmune disease cells harnessed to fight cancer
• US FDA says omega-3 oils from GM soya are safe to eat
• Inside a Cellphone Radiation Testing Lab
• Where do ghosts come from?
• Don’t Tell Geico: You May Be a Natural Born Bad Driver
• Clever 'chopped' cars promise cheap electric commuting – Of course, they'll still sit in the same traffic jams as conventional vehicles.
• Probably guilty: Bad mathematics means rough justice
• Daylight Savings Time 2009: When and Why We Fall Back