A new post with some old good news.

Ecology:
-Energy geeks compete for coolest solar home. I like the design on this one.
-No time to waste. Firm aims to turn municipal garbage into electricity and fuel.
-Detergentless Haier WasH20 Washing Machine. The french webpage of the machine can be found here. Although the fact that the official webpage of Haier did not mentioned this product is suspiscious.

Science:
-Physicists Discover Inorganic Dust With Lifelike Qualities. An international team has discovered that under the right conditions, particles of inorganic dust can become organised into helical structures. These structures can then interact with each other in ways that are usually associated with organic compounds and life itself.
-X-ray Images Help Explain Limits To Insect Body Size. The head data predicted an unrealistically large, foot-long beetle. In contrast, the leg data predicted a beetle that nicely matches the size of the largest living beetle, Titaneus giganteus. And all this time I tought it was gravity and no indoskeleton that prevented them from growing more.

Technology:
-Electric sports car outspeeds a Porsche. It can go from 0 to 60 in three seconds.
-Transonic's goal: A car engine that gets 100 miles per gallon. Sadely the ignorants that left comments will never see the potential of such a design.
-NASA is firing up the 5M15, which runs on compressed liquid methane. The odorless substance has multiple advantages over conventional rocket propellants: It's cheaper, it requires much less insulation, and it exists on several planets.

Society:
-Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz admitted today that it was Brazil that forced Sun to open source Java. If you have any doubt about the growing importance of BRIC [Brazil, Russia, India and China]...
-British troops leave Basra base to Iraqis, it seems they are keeping their promise.

Portugal:
-40 empresas nacionais na Feira Internacional de Maputo, a mais importante de Moçambique, que abre as portas na próxima segunda-feira e decorre até 2 de Setembro.... mmm já passou....
-Velejador açoriano parte hoje [25-08-2007] para a segunda volta ao mundo. Como se isso não bastasse, Genuíno Madruga propõe-se fazer o trajecto no sentido contrário ao que é habitualmente feito, ou seja, contra as correntes e os ventos predominantes.