There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
- Remember when Science decided, willy-nilly, that Pluto wasn't a planet anymore? People went bat-guano crazy! According to Wikipedia, "The U.S. state of New Mexico's House of Representatives passed a resolution... which declared that Pluto will always be considered a planet while in New Mexican skies." Even some third-graders decided to register their protest by sending hate mail to the American Museum of Natural History. From now on, we're totally going to start all of our correspondence with "Dear Scientist." [From: Kottke.org]
- So, you got your fancy new iPad and you're all like, "Yeah, I'm gonna go hop a plane and multi-touch the hell out of Haifa!" Guess again, nerd! The Israeli government is currently confiscating iPads that attempt to cross its borders because their wireless broadcasting is too powerful for the country's standards. The Communications Ministry is supposedly reviewing the device for approval, but for now you'll have to Skype on your 'Pad from the West Bank. [From: Consumerist]
- Speaking of iPads, it turns out that animals love them! Well, cats do; dogs seem more suspicious. The touch-screen is apparently an intuitive-enough interface for kittehs to get their paw on -- but this Corgi is wary of the device, obviously worried that humans have come to rely on technology too much. But, if you think about it, there's a reason that the Internet is made of cats: kittens and technology work together much better than your dumb dog, who's more interested in eating poop, anyway. [From: Buzzfeed, and: DVICE]
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Subscribe to commentsLaurelApr 18th 2010 1:13AM
Science did not decide that Pluto is no longer a planet. That was done by four percent of the IAU, most of whom are not planetary scientists. Their decision was immediately opposed in a formal petition by hundreds of professional astronomers led by Dr. Alan Stern, Principal Investigator of NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto. Stern and like-minded scientists favor a broader planet definition that includes any non-self-luminous spheroidal body in orbit around a star. The spherical part is important because objects become spherical when they attain a state known as hydrostatic equilibrium, meaning they are large enough for their own gravity to pull them into a round shape. This is a characteristic of planets and not of shapeless asteroids and Kuiper Belt Objects. Pluto meets this criterion and is therefore a planet. Under this definition, our solar system has 13 planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris.