Random

• Mathematicians at UCLA used a network of 75 computers running Windows XP to discover a 13-million-digit prime number. Half of my geeky friends are saying, "Wow, imagine what they could have done with 75 Macs!" The other half are rolling their eyes, "I could have done it with 50 machines running Ubuntu." ~ link

• Making biodiesel on Guam -- a baby step ~ link

• "The director of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will take another 20 years before it can control Puerto Rico's infamous flooding problem..." ~ link

 And once they're done there perhaps they can hop over to the Western Pacific to help out another one of the protectorates. It's raining dumping on Guam -- again! How is it that a place which gets so much rain (about 95 inches annually -- compared to Seattle's 37 inches) has so little infrastructure to handle it?