Know your (Disk) Fault... The sound of pain

http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php
Failing hard drive sounds - Datacent.com - Datacent

And today's "Best use of Muons, in a Geological Project" award, goes to...

http://inventorspot.com/articles/scientists_use_muons_take_volcano_xrays_19796
Cosmic Ray Detector Can Look Inside Volcanoes

Simon Pegg - The dead and the quick

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/04/television-simon-pegg-dead-set

Make your own doppelganger visage with That's My Face

http://www.thatsmyface.com/
I'd really like one with the printing on the inside... (not that blue/plain finish + mini-pic) - That way it'd look as though it was following you round the room

via BoingBoing Gadgets
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/11/13/make-your-own-doppel.html

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US Elections 2008 | Obama family dog 'a major issue'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/us_elections_2008/7716985.stm
World for many has turned to cr@p both in and out of the US. But he's just finished his first Press briefing on the current financial crisis and the US economy... and some stupid asks him about his dog!

At first I was disappointed. I wish he'd taken the opportunity to put the media in its place more and torn a strip off that reporter, but I suppose a moment of comic relief is OK.

Northern Lights captured in 3D for the first time - earth - 07 November 2008 - New Scientist Space

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn15147-northern-lights-captured-in-3d-for-the-first-time.html?feedId=space_rss20

TED | John Francis walks the Earth | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/john_francis_walks_the_earth.html