links for 2008-02-09

Bill Hicks: "We're a virus with shoes."

A cover of "Crazy" with the vocals replaced by a theremin.

I hope this is satirical.

"Using a tunneling scanning microscope and two roomfuls of equipment to move around individual carbon monoxide molecules on a copper surface, they built tiny walls only one-molecule high and shaped them into nine-sided enclosures that could resonate like

Demonstrating the many-worlds interpretation by superimposing many play-throughs of a Super Mario game.

First laser cooling and trapping of neutral mercury, with possible applications in "new physics" searches and precision measurement.

Gory collisional details galore...

I know nothing about the paper, but I love the title.