Nerd News

Slashdot is reporting that the Library of Congress is putting together a digitized library of US newspapers published between 1836 and 1922. Readres should note that the Brooklyn Daily Eagle is available online through the Brooklyn Public Library for the period between 1841 and 1902.

AFP/Yahoo report that NASA has successfully tested an unmanned scramjet plane clocket at speeds of mach 10.

Space.com has an interesting article about the eixistence of a new black hole in the Milky Way. Apparently, black holes come in three sizes, and scientists have just identified one of the medium sized ones.

Finally in tech news, Novell's moribund earnings have been bolstered this quarter by its distribution of Suse Linux. Could this be the emergence of Linux as a viable comercial enterprise? Read the whole thing.
- posted by Base10 @ 8:04 AM