These are my links for November 23rd through November 29th:

• Farewell To Empire Strikes Back Director Irvin Kershner –
• TCU accepts invitation to join Big East Conference –
• The Curious Case of the Backwardly Aging Mouse – ScienceNOW – As we age, many of our cells stop dividing. Our organs, no longer able to rejuvenate themselves, slowly fail. Scientists don't fully understand what triggers this, but many researchers suspect the gradual shrinking of telomeres, the protective DNA caps on the end of chromosomes. A little bit of telomere is lost each time a cell divides, and telomerase, the enzyme that maintains caps, isn't typically active in adult tissues.
• Microsoft Altair BASIC legend talks about Linux, CPRM and that very frightening photo – Monte Davidoff
• Breakfast Quinoa Porridge –
• Printable Organic Body Armor developed after studying Alzheimers plaque –
• There Will Be Blood – the G.O.P. isn’t interested in helping the economy as long as a Democrat is in the White House.

These are my links for September 21st through October 4th:

• George Lucas Stole Chewbacca, But It’s Okay
• First World War officially ends
• Infusion Profusion: Game-Changing Fast ‘N Cheap Technique
• Tilt-Shift Van Gogh
• Electron Switch Between Molecules Points Way to New High-Powered Organic Batteries – University of Texas discovery
• How-to: set up dual-band WiFi (and juice your downloads)

These are my links for August 25th through September 7th:

• The Wilderness Downtown
• Court allows agents to secretly put GPS trackers on cars – with no warrant
• Why George Lucas convinced Carrie Fisher to take her bra off – “He explained that in space you get weightless, and so your flesh expands. What? But your bra doesn’t, so you get strangled by your bra. That’s why I couldn’t wear a bra in the first Star Wars. George actually came backstage when I did the show in San Francisco and told me that.”
• The Littlest Redshirts – Postponing Kindergarten

Yes, this is quickly developing into a Youtube meme, but that is because it is good.

A 3-year-old girl explains Star Wars succinctly, in less than 2 minutes: