The Weekly Weird - 2014-09-19

It's been an extra weird week.

• First of all: LOOK AT THIS COMET! LOOK AT IT: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140915.html
• I've been reading Quantum Computing since Democritus which has put all sorts of quantum weirdness in my head. Namely the concept of storing bandwidth: http://strilanc.com/quantum/2014/05/03/Storing-Bandwidth-with-Superdense-Coding.html and http://strilanc.com/quantum/2014/05/11/Storing-Bandwidth-with-Quantum-Teleportation.html
• I want to be a fly on the wall when this comes up as proof of age in a bar: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-29175870
• Emacs? Eh, it's ok. A bit small for an operating system. http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux.html (I expect emacs directly on xen in about a month)
• I've always wanted to learn one of the single-letter APL-alikes (J,K,Q) and this just increases my desire to do so: http://prog21.dadgum.com/48.html andhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8339389
• Rust (no, I will not shut up about it) has a plan for 1.0: http://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/09/15/Rust-1.0.html
• A new process for making a harder-than-diamond material in a much easier way: http://www.pddnet.com/news/2014/09/new-method-synthesis-ultrahard-fullerite
• 30% of the way to a Rat Thing (read Snow Crash if you didn't get that): http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/mit-cheetah-robot-bounds-off-tether-outdoors
• Planning that flight is harder than it looks: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.itasoftware.com/en//pdf/ComplexityofArlineTravelPlanning_Carl_Sep-03.pdf