links for 2007-12-20

I don't see enough movies to do a sensible "Year's Best" list any more, but the AV Club is one of the most reliable review sites out there.

Jon Zobenicaoverthinks Playboy and Maxim

A new scheme for a single-electron transistor might make it possible to do a better definition of a current standard.

"The researchers have studied1 the aerodynamics of a flexible, rippling sheet moving through a fluid, and find that it should be possible to make one that will stay aloft in air."

"The materials under study form alternating organic and inorganic layers that work together to produce these effects. One contracts while the other expands, and the net effect is zero."