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Slashdot | Black Holes Don't Trap Information Forever

"New calculations suggest that black holes are not a one-way street. Anything that falls into them may eventually come out. The findings lend important support to quantum gravity, but fly in the face of Einsteinian relativity. They also support Stephen Hawking's reluctant admission that information couldn't be destroyed by black holes. Penn State researcher Ahbay Ashtekar was quoted saying, 'Once we realized that the notion of space-time as a continuum is only an approximation of reality, it became clear to us that singularities are merely artifacts of our insistence that space-time should be described as a continuum.' Let the physics infighting begin."

All I can say is, "WOW".

L.M. Montgomery Research Group » Anne of Green Gables: A Literary Icon at 100: Exhibit Opening & Symposium is at ACCUTE in Vancouver next month. I'm in there somewhere.

Merchandise masterpieces "and even an action figure replicating Kenneth Emig, Ottawa's multi-talented sculptor-dancer-performance artist."

Clinton creaming Obama in Ky is, as Rochelle notes, 'unfortunate headline of the day'. From LJ

The Harrow: Original Works of Fantasy and Horror is back up!

It took a couple of days to realize that dreamhost.com had changed something, and either didn't know or wouldn't admit it. The OJS folks (thanks alec) really helped to fix things up.

Stolen Mac helps nab burglary suspects | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

A remote desktop access feature found in some Macintoshes is being credited with leading police to two suspects in the burglary of an apartment in New York.

While police in White Plains, N.Y., were coming up empty with their investigation, Duplaga learned that her computer was being used on the Internet and turned on the Back to My Mac feature installed on her Mac from another Mac, according to the report.

The feature allowed Duplaga to see immediately how the computer was being used at the time, as well as operate it remotely. Recalling that she had a camera installed on the computer, the fast-thinking Duplaga snapped images of one of the burglary suspects before he realized what was happening, according to the Times. Duplaga showed the image to friends who recognized the suspect as someone who attended a party at the apartment.

Now, if that's not going to help boost the idea of security.

I've set up a new blog/domain at The Complicity Theory. It is just for photography. I'll sometimes note that there's new stuff there, or it will be on Complicitytheory @ Flickr, but the best of the best will be on the new site. This site will be more informational, because I use it for teaching, and I don't want to spam students with pictures.

Nice to know there is a Jason Nolan USA Black Belt Champions out there.