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Google has a new year's present for Mac users. Posted at MonkeyFilter Jan 6, 18:10 GMT Google has a new year's present for Mac users. Picasa for the Mac is finally available (in beta, like all Google products). Now I can finally wave goodbye to iPhoto. (I am doing a happy dance right now.) [more inside] Intermittens 1 redux Posted at 23 Apples of Eris Jan 6, 13:18 GMT Intermittens #1 has been re-released with kickass layout by Telarus. Click the image below to go to our download page! Using light to move and trap DNA molecules Posted at KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News Jan 6, 12:47 GMT Cornell researchers have shown that a beam of light can trap and move particles as small as 75 nanometers in diameter, including DNA molecules. The research will allow for creating a "lab on a chip," in which a tiny biological sample would be carried through microscopic channels for processing. This could make possible portable, fast-acting detectors for disease organisms or food-borne pathogens, rapid DNA sequencing and other tests that now take hours or days. ... Also posted: Researchers create all seeing 'eye' A Better Way to Make Nanotubes Omnivorous Fuel Cells A New Web of Trust A Moment Of Tooth Sharpest infrared image of Milky Way's core unveile Yeah, yeah, I know embedding content from The Onion is lazy blogging, but I'm [...] Posted at Posthuman Blues Jan 6, 04:30 GMT Yeah, yeah, I know embedding content from The Onion is lazy blogging, but I'm all for making exceptions. Best fiction of 2008. Posted at MonkeyFilter Jan 6, 04:30 GMT Best fiction of 2008. I haven't read a single one of these. Have you? What else would you recommend from last year's new books? Here's Vision TV's press release regarding "Supernatural Investigator." Looks [...] Posted at Posthuman Blues Jan 6, 03:20 GMT Here's Vision TV's press release regarding "Supernatural Investigator." Looks like I'm in the second episode. Also posted: This looks like far more fun than it has any right to be. The Zorgy Award winners have been announced! Alas, Posthuman Blues didn't win, [...] The steampunk dinosaur meme meets the erotic cyborg meme. Don't miss it! How would you feel about a half-human half-chimp hybrid? Posted at MonkeyFilter Jan 6, 01:00 GMT How would you feel about a half-human half-chimp hybrid? Brian Eno: Stealing Gaza Posted at American Samizdat: Rebel Scum Since 2001 Jan 6, 00:50 GMT The Uninvited Posted at MonkeyFilter Jan 5, 20:30 GMT The Uninvited - how to seriously disconcert the new guy in the building. If you need help with your costume let me know, I have made mine by wrapping a black t-shirt around my face with a hooded jacket and cut finger holes in black socks for the gloves. I do not have any black pants so will spray paint my legs on the night. Also posted: Child elopers' Africa plan foiled