Archive for June 30th, 2005

How Ice Melts: Longstanding Mystery Solved

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

Until now, scientists could not explain why ice cubes in your drink melt. They’ve known the basics, but the details remained elusive. A breakthrough new study, announced today, supports a leading theory that melting starts when the fundamental structure of matter begins to crack.
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Microsoft, RSS, and Ethics

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

Nick Finick has “had a few discussions with Robert Scoble, Nick Bradbury, Jeremy Wright, Tristan Louis, Andru Edwards and others about the announcement of the [Microsoft] RSS Extension”:
What Microsoft is doing is pretty much inevitable. RSS is big game today and Microsoft needs to be a part of that for survival. I do not [...]

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