Love the cover photo of this month’s 28MM

Whoa, is Thermal Depolymerization the future? From this month’s Discover: Anything into Oil

“This plant will make 10 tons of gas per day, which will go back into the system to make heat to power the system,” he says. “It will make 21,000 gallons of water, which will be clean enough to discharge into a municipal sewage system. Pathological vectors will be completely gone. It will make 11 tons of minerals and 600 barrels of oil, high-quality stuff, the same specs as a number two heating oil.” He shakes his head almost as if he can’t believe it. “It’s amazing. The Environmental Protection Agency doesn’t even consider us waste handlers. We are actually manufacturers—that’s what our permit says. This process changes the whole industrial equation. Waste goes from a cost to a profit.”

Besides its noise problems, it also looks like the Kodak DCS Pro 14n also has weak color. More photo stuff:

• Luminous Landscape reviews Capture One – LE processing software. (dpreview’s Capture One LE review, Uwe Steinmueller’s review)
• GO inside: Canon EOS 10D: The Digital SLR Comes of Age
• GO inside: Canon EOS 10D Further Tests: Soft focus, Bad apples, & Other stories

Anyone sickened but not surprised? And just when I thought I’d kicked the habit.

So, has anything come out of Helix yet? I don’t necessarily want anything except a binary of a Helix DNA Client that doesn’t have annoying popups out the ying yang (yeah, I’m looking at you Real ONE)

Lisa’s been covering the burning of Baghdad’s National Library. It’s just… I dunno. I was sorta angry about this whole going to war thing, but I’ve been more sad, than anything else about everything since.

Gilliard wrote about this (chaos) earlier on the Daily Kos. Unfortunately, it seems that it continues… See also, Juxtapositions, and Perspectives:

In 47 B.C., Julius Caesar torched ships in the port of Alexandria, and fire spread to the Great Library (known contemporaneously as “the Museum”). Later on (391 A. D. ), “riots instigated by fanatical Christians damaged the collection heavily” And in 641 A.D. “the Caliph of Baghdad exhibited the same spirit of religious fanaticism” as the restored collection was burned to heat the public baths.

Few of us know the date (or even the century) offhand, fewer still could name the players or detail the political circumstances, much less care who won … but we remember and regret the event whereby civilization lost irreplaceable clues to where we came from and how we came to be.

Linux Media Jukebox on the Cheap – lots of good talk about pitfalls when building your own PVR.

Operation:Iraqi mackin’