WIRED Magazine November 2010 [COVER]

The is cover is brilliant (strategically placed thumb came seperately) ...the story on tissue engineering is pretty damn cool too. Imagine all the plastic surgeons that will be collecting unemployment... tsk tsk

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Star Factory Shows Off Three Kinds of Nebulae [PHOTO]

Stunning. Makes you think, no?

This swirling ball of pink and blue gas is the Trifid Nebula, a rare combination of three different kinds of interstellar clouds located 5,500 light years away in the constellation of Sagittarius.

Captured by the European Southern Observatory’s 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, this image shows off the three distinct types of nebulae found in the Trifid. The bluish patch in the upper left is known as a reflection nebula because it scatters light from nearby stars. The largest of these stars, which were all born in the Trifid, can be seen shining in the center of the reflection nebula. It radiates hot blue light in the visible spectrum and gives the cloud a bluish tinge.

The bright pink circle in the lower half of the photo is an emission nebula, which glows red because it contains a core of hydrogen gas heated by hundreds of super-hot new stars. At the bottom of the emission nebula, a finger-shaped projection of gas points up at the Trifid’s central star. Known as an evaporating gaseous globule, or EGG, this dense blob of gas is a birthplace for new stars.

The Trifid’s third kind of nebula can be seen in the dark stripes that criss-cross the rest of the image. Called dark nebulae because of their light-obscuring properties, these clouds of gas and dust contain the remnants of previous star births. As higher pressure and temperatures build up inside the streaks of gas, nuclear fusion will lead to the formation of yet more stars.

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Bathroom iPod Mirror [GADGETS]

Also houses a clock, and barometer to help monitor how long you are actually gazing back at yourself! Check the Product page.

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Girl Talk's Gregg Gillis Lets It RiP on Copyfight, Tour Vlogging

From the sampled-based hip-hop of Run-DMC and De La Soul to Gregg Gillis' lift-happy releases under the moniker Girl Talk, creative borrowing has been at the center of a musical copyfight cyclone that threatens to underwhelm us all.

The song remains the same, so to speak: We call it recycling. The man calls it stealing.

Last year, Gillis (pictured), 27, released one of the densest repurposings of all time: Feed the Animals, the fourth Girl Talk album, was built on more than 300 samples.

The fact that Feed the Animals became one of the most acclaimed releases of 2008 is instructive, given that the disc was built wholly from digitally rearranged samples of pop music's hottest hits from across the temporal spectrum.

And it's not like it was hard to spot them: From Ludacris and Outkast to the Spencer Davis Group, the samples stuck out like sore virtual thumbs. That was, after all, the point.

The copyfight mechanism that has claimed Pittsburgh-based Gillis as its center is explored in the forthcoming movie RiP: A Remix Manifesto, which lands online and onscreen March 15. The film, billed as the world's first open source documentary, analyzes the current strain of creative borrowing and capitalization with the help of Cory Doctorow, Lawrence Lessig, Gilberto Gil and more.

Wired.com caught up with Gillis by e-mail to chat about RiP, copyfight, tour vlogging and why he's advertising that he's a PC rather than a Mac.

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