Day of Rest.

Blitzweekend was a lot of fun, but it really did wear me out. So today I'm just planning to take it easy and relax. Tomorrow I'll have to head into town to take care of a few minor things (like returning azrhey's sleeping bag) and after that I really need to get back to work on AnticipationSF stuff. But today, I rest.

Freaky Science.

Okay, this one is right up there with the quantum entanglement of holes for its ability to hurt my head. Scientists have now successfully stored and retrieved a squeezed vacuum. Now, a squeezed vacuum is one that would have certain effects on light moving through it, if there was light. So, they managed to store this vacuum, and then retrieve it and pass light though it to show it still had this property. So, they

1. made a special kind of nothing
2. stored it
3. got it back again; and
4. proved it was the same special kind of nothing.

Before I read this article, I didn't even know you could squeeze a vacuum, never mind store the results.

My Blitzweekend Project.

Thanks to Stephane Daury, who videotaped it, here is a link to the final presentation of our product at Blitzweekend. Alas the screen is essentially unreadable in the video, but I hope you get the idea of how our Reverse Payment scheme works.