Friday's Link Salad

• Aerogel. This stuff is both incredibly absorbent and adsorbent; scientists are currently testing to see if it will be an economical way to soak up oil spills.


• New methods of tracking the origin and cleanliness of foods. These new technologies include, check it out, edible identification tags microscopically etched with lasers. This must be the future, because I can say that without having to immediately add "wouldn't that be awesome?!"


• In the "Real Life as Written by Tim Powers" category, we have this: Geronimo's heirs are suing Skull & Bones because they stole his skull and have it on display. I hear the scritch-scritching of a dozen new novels...