New Scientist News – Three cosmic enigmas, one audacious answer

This article in New Scientist presents an interesting new theory behind the phenomena we currently think of as a black hole. However, this new theory not only matches the external characteristics of black holes, but manages to obey the laws of quantum mechanics. As if that weren’t enough, the predictions made by this new theory suggests that, unlike black holes, such a dark energy star would also emit particles. (which could explain some observations from our own galaxy) Very exciting indeed..

iPod Nano MAME Cabinet – Gizmodo

This just makes my inner-geek smile. 🙂 Now all we need to do is fashion a little red/yellow arcade-style joystick to fit over the clickwheel and it’ll be good to go! I’ve mentioned the iPod Linux project here before, but this new project just gives it a whole new “cool” factor. I’m definitely going to have to try this…