Weekend Links

• Meteor shower this week as we cut through comet trails – NASA’s Fluxtimator says I’m out of luck on this one.
• Paranoia Strikes Deep – Thanks to Jay Lake.
• Court Silences CIA Operative Despite Yellowcake Scandal
• Government Will Pay $3 Million in Coffee Table Spying Suit
• Bush Feared Successor Might Revoke Telco Spy Immunity – Sadly, there seems to be no danger of that.
• Copyright Time Bomb Set to Disrupt Music, Publishing Industries
• SPDY: Google wants to speed up the web by ditching HTTP
• Go: new open source programming language from Google
• SFLC tech director finds one new GPL violator every day
• First universal programmable quantum computer unveiled
• Examining science on the fringes: vital, but generally wrong
• Nov. 11, 1930: Einstein Gets Ice Cold – Einstein’s Icebox – Cool!
• Using photosynthesis to power hydrogen production
• In SUSY we trust: What the LHC is really looking for
• Will probe's upcoming fly-by unlock exotic physics?
• Comet Hunter’s Last Look at Earth Is Haunting
• Impact reveals lunar water by the bucketful
• Scientists confirm abundant water in lunar crater
• Lunar Impactor Finds Clear Evidence of Water Ice on Moon
• NASA sees "significant quantities" of water on the moon
• Pluto 2015: Journey to the Rim of the Solar System
• Two solar sailing trials readied for launch next year
• Propelled by light: the promise and perils of solar sailing
• Mars rover battles for its life
• Spirit's roving chances bleak, team cheered by discoveries
• Troubled asteroid mission stumbles on road home
• NASA’s Scrubbed Escape Pod Glides to New Home – X-38 lifting body finds a retirement home.
• Backward star ain't from around here
• City Streets a Mortal Threat to Pedestrians
• Tuna in peril as catches reach triple the limit
• Extinction Countdown: Tuna fishing kills an albatross every 5 minutes
• Natural Gas Drilling Produces Radioactive Wastewater
• Stop selling out science to commerce
• Yes Men punk US Chamber of Commerce on climate change, sued
• Mini ice age took hold of Europe in months
• Common cold may hold off swine flu
• Less loud sounds can still damage ears
• New Brain Cells May Knock Out Old Memories
• Darpa: Freeze Soldiers to Save Injured Brains
• Bering in Mind: Who says love hurts? Romantic partners alter our perception of pain
• The Peeriodic Table of Illusions
• Human-Chimp Gene Comparison Hints at Roots of Language
• Bones Show Biggest Dinosaurs Had Hot Blood
• Colfer’s Hitchhiker’s Guide Sequel Will Be His Last
• Scott Brown on Why America Is Finally Ready for Doctor Who