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Duke beats Gonzaga in the first ever meeting of the two teams, improving to to 11 and 1. The best part, though, is that Greg Paulus finally had a strong, breakout game.

Greg Paulus had five stitches in his chin and a wide smile on his face.

The sophomore point guard scored a career-high 20 points and combined with Josh McRoberts on three big plays in the second half to help No. 6 Duke beat No. 22 Gonzaga 61-54 on Thursday night in the Aeropostale Classic at Madison Square Garden.

Paulus' career night paces Duke past Gonzaga

Prosecutors have dropped the rape charges in the Duke Lacrosse case. I thought this was going to happen when it came out that the lab results showed biological material from several people inside of the accuser and none of those people were any of the accusers. Apparently that wasn't the only hole in the story.

Durham district attorney Mike Nifong dismissed charges of first-degree rape against the three former players after the accuser told detectives she was not certain about a crucial detail in the alleged assault, the newspaper said.

Rape charges dropped in Duke lacrosse case - Yahoo! News

I'm not a wine drinker, but this certainly made me raise an eyebrow. A Japanese company (Innovative Design and Technology Inc) has invented a machine that uses electrolysis to rearrange the molecules in wine to give it a more aged taste. The "machine is a two-chambered device roughly the size of a stereo. Wine passes through one and tap water passes through the other; a membrane the company has patented separates the two. Platinum electrodes provide the juice, driving negative ions -- the cause of acidity -- from the wine into the water." (source) This process apparently breaks up the water molecules so that they mix more freely with the alcohol, a process that takes place naturally while aging in a barrel. Obviously there has been a lot of skepticism with the traditionalist, but the company did manage to talk a couple of wineries in California and Washington into trying it out. What I found most interesting about the whole thing is this video ad that explains (sort of) the machine/process.



(AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Wired Magazine has a great article on machine translations. The article talks about the various methods which the translation is done and some of the problems associated with each method. I'm in a little bit of a quandary, on the one hand we desperately need translators (machine) that don't suck, but on the other hand Babelfish provides for endless hours of entertainment. Here's Lewis Carroll's "The Mouse's Tale". English to Chinese and back. I realize that poetry is kind of hard to translate, but it's still funny. Okay, this one wasn't THAT funny. And no I didn't set the type in a tail, I've done that once already this year (by hand no less). If you want to see, I'll send you a copy.

"Fury said to a mouse,
That he met in the house,
'Let us both go to law:
I will prosecute you.—
Come, I'll take no denial;
We must have a trial:
For really this morning
I've nothing to do.'
Said the mouse to the cur,
'Such a trial, dear sir,
With no jury or judge,
would be wasting our breath.'
'I'll be judge, I'll be jury,'
Said cunning old Fury;
'I'll try the whole cause,
and condemn you to death.' "

"愤怒对老鼠, 那认为他遇见在房子里, ' 让我们两个走法律: 我将检控您。- 来, 我不会采取否认; 我们必须有试验: 为真正地这早晨我有没什么做。' 对杂种狗老鼠说, ' 这样试验, 亲爱的先生, 没有陪审员或法官, 会白费口舌。' ' 我将是法官, 我将是陪审团, ' 前述狡猾老愤怒; ' 我将尝试整体起因, 和谴责您对死亡。' "

"angrily to the mouse, that thought he meets in the house, ' lets our two walk the law: I will prosecute you. - Comes, I cannot adopt the denial; We must have the experiment: Has any for truly this morning me not to do. ' said to the hybrid dog mouse that, ' experiments like this, dear gentleman, does not have the juror or judge, can waste the argument. ' ' I will be judge, I will be the jury, in front of ' state slyly old am angry; ' I will attempt the overall cause, with will condemn you the death. ' "

People with clever logos make me happy.