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Yale researchers created the first electronic quantum processor. The article doesn't really give a good explanation of quantum computing, so read about it on Wikipedia.

Happy Independence Day!

Bogdan Chesaru takes macro photographs of soap bubbles.

If you need to use PHP's functions in JavaScript, you don't have to reinvent the wheel. PHP.JS was created for just such a purpose.

Very cool NASA test of water bubbles in zero gravity. Droplets within air bubbles within water bubbles!

PHP's substr function can be a bit confusing at times and going through the "edit script-refresh page-edit script-refresh page" cycle while getting the wrong output can be frustrating and, worst of all, unproductive. So here's a tool that can help you test PHP's substr function in-browser. A value of 0 for length will omit the length parameter.

A critic knows more about an artist's work than the artist himself.

Campaigning for various causes is the one way otherwise useless people can feel like they're contributing to society.

Web 2.0 was never about moving the internet forward. It was about making the internet seem less scary and less difficult to those of us with average intellects. What followed was a mass legitimization of the boring lives and thoughts of average people.

A clever video points out how ridiculous clients sound when they try to force professionals to work for free.

How is Google Wave innovative or useful at all? Apart from being an "instant" instant messaging application (because nothing says "the future" like watching people edit their spelling errors in real time), what's the point? If you feel like making a Google Wave competitor, get an IRC server, slap a bot onto it that does what you need, extend DCC so bitmaps can be shown in conversations, and add non-linear messaging for good measure. How did we get to the point that an application based on a protocol that's only 30-40% message data is hailed as revolutionary?

"Computer science" is actually two terms: theoretical computer science and software engineering. The difference between the two is the level of intelligence required. Unfortunately, the bulk of the public mistakes the former for the latter, associating applied mathematicians with code technicians.