Papa Ratzi toying with abolishing Limbo. Unbaptized babies, Plato to go to Hell, Divine Comedy to have rewrite.

The Sound of The Universe Being Born Physicist John Cramer of the University of Washington in Seattle calculates what the universe sounded like in the first 750,000 years of its existence. Then ratchets it up a few hundred thousand times (okay, 100,000 billion billion times) so we can hear it. "During the 100-second recording, the frequencies fall because the sound waves get stretched as the Universe expands. 'It becomes more of a bass instrument,' says Cramer" Something Bootsy already knows, baby! Kirk Out! Totally sampled and ripped from TheFi

In which is revealed a device to encourage the recitation of tongue twisters. This may be old, juvenile, and requiring of translation from our Asian monkeys, but I'm still glad we didn't have these in school.

MoFi London/Dublin/Firenze Meetups! It's a bit last minute, but I thought I'd bump this very old meetup thread to the front page to (1) alert any eyes in those locales who haven't followed that old thread and (2) taunt all of you who can't go. We'll be meeting up Monday the 9th in London...where? Dunno. Let's work that out here. We'll be meeting up in Florence...when? where? Dunno. Let's, like, talk about it and stuff, baby. more inside