Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-2-2010

[andrewducker]

• Pope Benedict urges bigotry
  (tags: catholicism christianity religion homophobia)
• Spray-on glass could revolutionise manufacturing. Anyone able to track down more about this?
  (tags: nanotechnology science glass TheFuture)
• Lesbian/Bisexual Woman of the Decade - the finalists
  (tags: homosexuality lesbians achievement women)

Comments

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

"The really clever part is that there are no added nano-particles, resins or additives – the coatings form and bond due to quantum forces."

What is he talking about? I have a degree in Chemistry and I have no idea.

[andrewducker]

I have no idea either - it sounds like marketing speak. So far as I can tell there really isn't enough information out there to make a good stab at how real it is, which is worrying in itself.

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

Huge, world-changing claims and no information on which to evaluate them? Ping! My loon-o-gram has just gone off.

[andrewducker]

That's pretty much how I feel, but I was hoping that someone would have something more to offer.

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

It's a fairly standard press release. The inventors have by the sounds of it come up with some sort of novel coating technology which has non-stick properties. What they are most likely ddoing is looking for investment to develop it further. Their website is full of similar press releases, full of buzzwords, designed to get as much mainstream publicity as possible and it seems to be working.

[andrewducker]

Yup, that's what I thought. I was just hoping someone might turn up more details that would let me know if it was real, overhyped or a scam.