Two News Items of Importance - Well, To Some

[wajobu]

The first is audio related--melting eardrums with the most powerful loudspeaker (aside from the egregious misspelling of Procol Harum, "Procul Harem[sic]"): http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/106085/loudest-speaker-on-earth-can-melt-your-face-off/

EDIT: Website of the company that developed the speaker: http://www.wylelabs.com/products/testsystems/acoustictestfacilities.html

And for us geeks who care about Mersenne Primes:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080927/ap_on_fe_st/prime_number_prize

 

[luvvinvinyl]

Cool! A new Mersenne Prime! 13-million digits? They didn't sneak across that 10-million digit threshhold; they rocketed past it

Yeah, I'm a geek. Like you guys didn't already know that.

 

[merrylander]

Is that the one Paulsen discovered?

 

[birddog]

Ya, but how does it sound? East coast or West?

 

[wajobu]

Wyle Labs (speaker item above) has offices around the country: Perhaps a USA kind of sound