It's that awesome time unscheduled by conventional schedules for the blog that everyone loves to power Fridays with. Line Noise! 

First up, Ali found a paper on someone implementing a sublanguage within haskell in order to enforce data flow control, for security reasons. A cool in concept, especially if you're a fan of the functional programming.

Here's a set of new UI concepts. The first one takes a bit to get going, but it's really impressive when it's done. Some seem new-ish, but like they were implemented in 1982. Go see what I mean.

Ali noted improvements to fiber optic materials in order to speed up the net. They're actually talking about slowing down the light to increase speed. This is also the exact opposite of how most Austinites drive, don't ask how that works.

The body of a priest trying to raise money for a chapel for truckers in his highway parish came up with the idea of floating over the ocean hanging from hundreds of helium balloons was finally found three months later. His last contact before his demise was a cell phone call he made to his friends notifying them he was about to crash into the ocean.

Designers at the University of Kitakyushu in Japan have created a life-like robotic red snapper fish. The realistic design is hoped to help the robot blend in while in the wild. Robotic red snapper... very tasty. I'd still take the mystery box.

You probably remember it from TED, now Microsoft has finally released Photosynth. Based off the multitude of pictures taken of me from various conferences over the years, this technology scares the crap out of me. But then, so do the people that would be trying to map pictures of me on Microsoft photosynth.

You may have caught this and thought "Hey reversing iPhone binaries ON the iPhone? does it support batch mode of ida-python scripts?".. or maybe that's just me. Then again, if you did, maybe you'd be a shoe-in for this job (props to Ryan Naraine for finding that one).

Spanish automaker IFR has developed a steering wheel capable of electronically tweaking your vehicle's valve timing, rev limit, ABS, and other characteristics.

Now you're probably thinking "Hey! It's been a month, and that's al you've got?". Well, I went to Black Hat, so our IRC has been very quiet. If you want to read about that, you'll have to check our write-up here.

That's it for now, stay classy blogosphere!