Clutter on Your Desktop and Giant Gas Clouds as Telescopes

Clutter

Clutter OK, this is entirely too cool. I now have a nicely floating image of the Royal Tenenbaums CD cover hovering on my Desktop. Mmmmmm. Eye Candy Good!

Merlin points us to Clutter, a new Mac OS X app for the musically obsessed.

Clutter checks to see what song is playing in iTunes, then downloads an album-cover image from Amazon. You can drag the album image out of the clutter window, where it will float above your desktop! Double click an album cover to tell iTunes to play that album. Yummy!… (monkinetic weblog)

Giant Gas Clouds

Gas Clouds As Giant Telescopes

allrong writes "Astronomers have found a way to harness clouds of gas in space to make a natural ‘telescope’ more powerful than any manmade telescope currently in operation. Read the press release or take a look at the images and description of the process."