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Jon Iverson sends along this deeply meaningful site, commenting, "Fun for hours!"

The <I>Oxford University Press</I> announces the top 100 nouns in the English language. Guess what's first? Heck, guess what the first 10 are.

<i>Initially, I thought it'd be a good idea for Kristina to create a weekly blog entry, to be posted each Friday. Kristina, however, has already written two entries, too good to be held onto. And, I think to myself: "Why hold her back?"

"More common than you'd think," says <I>National Geographic</I>. Makes sense&mdash;they can run 60mph over broken ground and, if Huckleberry is anything to judge by, a cat in full jetpack mode pays scant heed to obstructions&mdash;even walls.

<I>Digital Music For the Future</I> says so, asking, "is the record industry ready to face the music?" Interesting essay&mdash;and one that says , "the record industry is stuck in a time warp, always several years behind. That would mean 2006 is the new 1999. The Internet boom and music sales have reached their climax, anything is possible, and the digital entertainment world was ready for something to pop."

Neither, a new article at <I>EE Times</I> suggests: There might be an engineering gene&mdash;and the University of Minnesota has the MRIs to prove it.

Japanese physicists have built a bi-directional single-electron ammeter that can detect individual electrons flowing either forwards or backwards. Practical applications might include nanoelectronics, calibration devices, quantum computation, and biology. That banging noise you hear is John Atkinson in Sioux Falls pounding his head against the desk, muttering "Want one!"