Cult o' SAoS

Canon's past HD camcorder efforts resulted in the XH G1 and XH A1, feature rich and
having impeccable clarity however coming with price tags that kept them out of reach of most people.
Dont get me wrong, both are quite powerful and come equipped with HDMI outputs.
I have always salivated at the prospect of using HD camcorders, crisp video that is beyond comparison
to SD 480p/480i video.

However what what was sorely lacking was a entry level variant.
Entry level here is used very very loosely as they still cost 3-4 times more than traditional SD camcorders.
After months of speculation that canon was working on a consumer friendly variant,
word of its features trickled out. A magical cmos able to capture images at 2048x1536,
10x optical zoom, a 2.7-inch LCD display, and miniSD.
To cut to the chase one retailer jumped the gun and here we are:-
Enter the iVIS HV10, retailing for $1,299 but lacking a HDMI port has all the above speculated features.
Its retailing at a good $500 less than Sony's comparative offering, the HDR-HC3.

You can read about it on the offending page here.

NASA is all up about its spacecraft Stardust returning back to the green planet.
"Stardust is the first U.S. space mission dedicated solely to the exploration of a comet, and the first robotic mission designed to return extraterrestrial material from outside the orbit of the Moon. "

Their main focus was to collect comet material aka spacedust and preserve it without any physical altercation throughout the journey. Here is what makes the mission work: Aerogel
For those who continued to read without bothering about the link, here's something fascinating about Aerogel:

• It is 99.8% Air
  
• Provides 39 times more insulating than the best fiberglass insulation
  
• Is 1,000 times less dense than glass
  
• Was also used on the pathfinder mission
  

I remember seeing something similar on Discovery long time back. The material was in a cube form. A scientist would then demonstrate how light the substance was by balancing it on a feather. Then to prove its negligible density, he would crush it to a size of a chiclet and swallow it.

A couple of days ago, Yahoo announced that it has indexed more web pages than any other engine on the planet.

not always does quantity equal quality, as is usually seen. But in this case, just due to sheer size of their database, one might find some of the most unknown resources on the www.

MSN, as of now, sucks. officially.
Yahoo! still looks bulky and nascent (in terms of relevancy of results)
Google is THE LEADER. But it is losing colour due to its higher ranking of old pages, which does not always mean that they are better.

As somebody commented (source): "Google is the Net version of Paris Hilton. People are starting to get tired of both. Why? Well, the G search results are truly crappy. The first two pages tend to be all linkfarms and dinosaur sites launched in 1995 which have a ton of incoming links and nothing more. Adwords has lost its effectiveness as a marketing tool for many businesses. No one clicks anymore and when they do they don't buy. And Adsense is so froth with fraud it's a wonder that any advertiser uses allows their ads to be published on other people's sites. Thank god for the new competition from Yahoo and MS."