First, I think you should all know that I am recovering from shoulder surgery. So, if I tend to ramble aimlessly, please be patient. Hopefully, I will be myself again real soon. I blogged about it on my personal live spaces page, if you're interested. Otherwise, let's get on with it, shall we?

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Improve your golf game

Although the United States Golf Association (USGA) regulates golf ball design, including size and weight, the dimple pattern is not standardized. Up to now, sporting goods companies would design dimple patterns by trial and error, testing prototypes against one another. A new study looks at how to design dimple size and pattern based on mathematical equations that model the physics of a golf ball in flight. Read more...

Is your IT department afraid of Web 2.0 technologies, such as social networks and widgets? Even though companies are using more of these technologies to reach employees and customers, there aren't a lot of successful implementations so far. Read more...

Carnivorous Sea Squirt discovered

Until last December, no one had ever seen the bottom of the Tasman Fracture, a trench that drops more than four kilometers below the surface of the ocean. A group of Australian and American researchers recently spent a month hundreds of kilometers southwest of the Tasmanian coast, exploring the fracture's depths. Read more...