Weekend Links

• Maryland Voters Test New Cryptographic Voting System – Hmm... Interesting....
• Texas snatches voter system from $863m IBM contract
• Xoie Claims $1 Million Lunar Lander Prize
• 'Space elevator' wins $900,000 NASA prize
• NASA juggles manifest for future Ares test flights
• Video: Aerial View of Ares I-X Flight Test
• Aerial video provides view of Ares 1-X parachute trouble
• Hubble’s New Camera Delivers Another Stunner
• Orbiter camera sees ice-covered Phoenix lander
• Mars rover plans its escape – Spirit not a weather station, yet.
• Ground teams struggle to save Mars orbiter from itself
• Strange Brew at LCROSS's Crash Site
• LRO Image of Apollo 17 Landing Site
• Signature of Antimatter Detected in Lightning
• Ionic batteries could multiply battery life by 11
• How to Keep Planes From Colliding With Lasers
• Nov. 3, 1993: Theremin Fades Out
• Generation specs: Stopping the short-sight epidemic
• Does Vitamin D Improve Brain Function?
• Oldest American artefact unearthed
• Darwin’s Wolf Mystery Solved
• Was life founded on cyanide from space crashes?
• Frozen Antarctic lakes yield new viruses
• Giant crack in Africa formed in just days
• Civil War In Corporate America: Banks Battling The Chamber On Accounting Rules
• Copyright Treaty Is Policy Laundering at Its Finest
• The ACTA Internet provisions: DMCA goes worldwide