Plasticky wire to wrap around food prior to cooking. Cory Doctorow:

The thefoodloop is a replacement for kitchen string, a heat-resistant, nonscratch, microwave safe plasticky wire that you can wrap around food before cooking it.

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(via Crib Candy)

[Boing Boing]

That lloks like it was designed by an engineer who was a cook. I wonder if it come in other colors?  6:02:27 AM    

Cassini images of Enceladus suggest liquid water on Saturn moon. Xeni Jardin:

Snip from a message posted today on the "captain's log" for the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations:

Our detailed analyses of these images have led us to a remarkable conclusion, documented in a paper [...] published in the journal SCIENCE [...], that the jets are erupting from pockets of liquid water, possibly as close to the surface as ten meters ... a surprising circumstance for a body so small and cold. Other Cassini instruments have found that the fractures on the surface and the plume itself contain simple organic materials, and that there is more heat on average emerging from the south polar terrain, per square meter, than from the Earth.

Gathering all the evidence and steeling ourselves for the "shockwave spread 'round the world", we find ourselves staring at the distinct possibility that we may have on Enceladus subterranean environments capable of supporting life. We may have just stumbled upon the Holy Grail of modern day planetary exploration. It doesn't get any more exciting than this.

A great deal more analysis and further exploration with Cassini must ensue before this implication becomes anything more than a suggestion. But at the moment, the prospects are staggering. Enceladus may have just taken center stage as the body in our solar system, outside the Earth, having the most easily accessible bodies of organic-rich water and, hence, significant biological potential...

Link to report released today in Science, Link to CICLOPS blog post, and here's the media release. Wowza. Oh, right, and here's the NASA website, and here's the Cassini mission. (Thanks, John Parres!)

Previously on BoingBoing:

- Liquid water discovered on Saturn moon

[Boing Boing]

I had ot heard about organic compounds being in the plume. Really exciting.  5:56:00 AM    

"Dubai royal family "furious" and threatens to hit back at US" [Daypop Top 40]

We have been hearing from the Administration that nixing this deal could have repercussions. Looks like it might. But this president took Kerry to task about letting foreign interests dictate our security needs. Looks like they are going against that. This is exactly why we do not want UAE involved in something like our port management and their security. If we wanted to do something, they could just say no and threaten us with the same thing they are now . 'We'll cut off acces of ourports to your military.' We would be over a barrel and have very little leverage. Why even go there? Just deal with it now. Hope the fact that theyare dropping interests in our ports does not leave any lingering resentment. But tough. I'd rather they resent us now but leave us with a better chance to fix our own security then try to fix that security AFTER they gain control.  5:41:00 AM