Not only a new species, but the smallest fish ever discovered and the smallest vertebrate.

With Disney’s purchase of Pixar, it seems that they have decided that Toy Story just isn’t a very good story. Well, not good enough that they should make another sequel.

“One immediate sign of Lasseter’s influence is that plans for Disney to make the long rumored sequel “Toy Story 3″ on its own have been scrapped. If the film is made, it will be done by Lasseter and the other creators of the original film, the companies said.”

I have been pondering this purchase, and I haven’t decided whether I think its a good thing or not. On the one hand, it means theoretically they are trying to get back to the point of telling good stories, something they apparently lost along the way (Emporer’s new groove). But, then on the other hand, I get stuck in conspiracy mode, and see that this makes Steve Jobs a very powerful man. He becomes the largest single shareholder in the Disney corporation I believe, as well as a director. He runs Apple, and influences Disney, which also owns ABC and ESPN. Are we going to see the U2 iPod disappear and become the Mickey iPod? Will the first mobile streaming iPod channel be ESPN? Or am I just looking behind the smoke and plists and imagining more than a merger that will grow two animation companies into a large and potentially untouchable studio?

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Though there isn’t much on the official site from sony, they have officially said that Daniel Craig will be the next Bond.
And, according to Craig the new Bond will not wear a Tuxedo. Now I am not as dedicated a Bond fan as others, but I think that this may be problematic. I was not particularly a big fan of Pierce Brosnan as Bond, but, the movies weren’t too bad. Also, I haven’t found official notice of who the next Bond girl will be, but, I did read somewhere that Rose Byrne is soon to be announced. So, I am just curious what other people’s oppinions are, has the Bond series run its course, or am I wrong and this is possibly an upswing for them?

‘Family Guy’s’ Stewie hosting Web talk show - Yahoo! News

The tyrannical tyke in the Fox animated series “Family Guy” will be the virtual host of a talk show being developed strictly for the Internet later this year.

Is this life imitating art or the other way around?

A computer chip based on the esoteric science of quantum mechanics has been created by researchers at the University of Michigan. The chip might well pave the way for a new generation of supercomputers.

Is Microsoft’s Titanic hitting an iceberg?

I figure most of you have probably already heard about this since it’s pretty mainstream news but it’s not posted here yet so just in case…

People’s Daily Online — China to build world’s first “artificial sun” experimental device

A full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, which aims to generate infinite, clean nuclear-fusion-based energy, will be built in March or April in Hefei, capital city of east China’s Anhui Province.

If this happens this would be huge, the way we look at energy as humans would change.

TOKYO - Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one’s a 3.5-inch dwarf hamster; the other is a four-foot rat snake. Zookeepers at Tokyo’s Mutsugoro Okoku zoo presented the hamster — whose name means “meal” in Japanese — to Aochan as a tasty morsel in October, after the snake refused to eat frozen mice.

PHOENIX, Arizona (Reuters) - A Swiss businessman won the keys to James Bond’s silver 1965 Aston Martin DB5 coupe on Friday with a $1.9 million bid at an annual classic car auction in Arizona.

This past Friday Google lost nearly 8.5% percent of it’s stock value. Now granted this stock has been on a whirlwind since it’s IPO 18 months ago, but investors are beginning to question Google’s “can do no wrong” image. Revenues have doubled from last year but are still overwhelmingly from existing but growing ad revenues. As a daily Google user I have been continually impressed with many of Google’s product offerings which I think have huge potentials as revenue streams. The question has to be: From a business prospective is Google going in too many directions and beginning to spin out of control from it’s unprecedented growth?

A simple example of Google’s awesome ability to offer up new products that do not necessaryily generate revenue is this site. Blogger.com is owned by Google, I’m not paying to use this site and neither are you… So what’s in it for Google?

The Goldfish Online

“I had suspected that there would be a large number of logic devices using mechanic principals, but a search for mechanical logic devices didn’t get many hits. I got one hit on mechanical logic detailing the use of rods to make logic gates. To my suprise I only came across two LEGO webpages that gave any details of mechanical logics gates.”

Fun for logic geeks, or lego geeks. We call them LGs on the street.

The Software Chronicles: How The NSA Really Finds You

We haven’t had a good conspiracy theory post in awhile. Well maybe its not theory, read on.

ECHELON - wikipedia