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Today is the First of April

 
 
grant
15:49 / 01.04.08
First item of interest:
Scientists locate breed of flying penguins. They migrate from Antarctica's winter to a mountainous South American jungle every year. The video, captured by BBC's Miracles of Evolution, is truly breathtaking.

Second item of interest:
Google mail introduces "custom time" option.

Ten times a year, you can pre-date your emails to arrive in the recipient's box dated before you sent them.

How do I use it?

Just click "Set custom time" from the Compose view. Any email you send to the past appears in the proper chronological order in your recipient's inbox. You can opt for it to show up read or unread by selecting the appropriate option.

Is there a limit to how far back I can send email?

Yes. You'll only be able to send email back until April 1, 2004, the day we launched Gmail. If we were to let you send an email from Gmail before Gmail existed, well, that would be like hanging out with your parents before you were born -- crazy talk.


The user testimonials are interesting.

Google is also launching a new Mars colonization project with Virgin. If SpaceShipOne worked, why not go the whole way?
 
 
grant
16:21 / 01.04.08
Oh, and two Italian researchers have published an explanation for poltergeist phenomena having to do with the quantum properties of pubescent brains. The full text is in the Journal of NeuroQuantology:

Poltergeist accounts concern at least four kinds of strange spontaneous manifestations, such as burning of materials, failures of electric equipments, rapping noises and movements of objects. A simple analysis of phenomenology of these disturbances shows that they might have a common origin, that is, a reduction in strength of molecular bonds due to an enhancement in polarization of vacuum which decreases the actual electron charge. Arguments based on Prigogine' nonequilibrium thermodynamics are proposed, which show how transformations in brain of some pubescent childs or young womans might be the cause of these effects.
 
  
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