Friday roundup

Some interesting links that you might not have stumbled across yet:

-->FoldIt: Solve Puzzles for Science! This is Web 2.0 at its best: putting users to work to fuel scientific research.

-->Esquire's 75 Skills Every Man Should Master. I'm not sure which one of my dude-friends del.icio.us'd this first, but I love this list. It reminds me of a grown-up Dangerous Book for Boys-- there a wide range of entertaining ideas here, from how to tie a bow tie to "create a play-list in which ten seemingly random songs provide a secret message to one person."

-->And just because I love Queen, here's a NPR story on Dr. Brian May, guitarist turned astrophysicist. (Actually, astrophysicist with a stint as a guitarist.) I rushed home to retell this story to my brother, who of course gave me The Eyebrow and said, "You didn't know that?"