http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2011/09/30/toto-toilet-motorcycle-neo-b .

 Hold on to your butts everyone! That'snight Japan's number one toilet maker TOTO has crfeated a toilet-motorcycle hybrid vehicle that runs entirely on biogas (read human waste)....

How does cancer know it's cancer? At Jay Bradner's lab, they found a molecule that might hold the answer, JQ1 -- and instead of patenting JQ1, they published their findings and mailed samples to 40 other labs to work on. An inspiring look at the open-source future of medical research.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jay_bradner_open_source_cancer_re

 As promised, the kernel summit has started, and Linux-3.1 is out. The (small) shortlog of changes since -rc10 are appended, we have mostly some sparc and networking changes, along with some radeon and intel iommu fixes (mostly for largepages and integrated graphics issues). Most people probably will not notice the changes.

One big change from -rc10 is that there are tar-balls and patches, so if you aren't a git user (why?) you can download it now in a traditional format. On of the things to note is that the files are now signed by my gpg key, and it's the *uncompressed* version that the signature is for.

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