A Payoff For Distributed Computing
Remember all those CPU cycles you donated to the SETI Project? Well it seemed they weren't just humming in the vacuum after all. According to Nature magazine, there is a short list of radio sources worth checking again, about 150 of them.

Meanwhile, at a time when US credibility is having some major problems, this doesn't help much

Call to honour space aliens

A bill has been put forward in the United States to designate a day to honour space aliens.

Dan Foley, a Republican from Roswell, New Mexico, the area where some say aliens landed, proposed an "Extra-terrestrial Culture Day" every second Thursday in February.

Mr Foley asked for the bill "in recognition of the many visitations, sightings, unexplained mysteries and technological advances... of alien beings" in New Mexico.

The legislation aims to "enhance relationships among all the citizens of the cosmos, known and unknown," he added.

Mr Foley said by creating a day of alien celebration - interest in aliens and economic benefit - can be spread to the rest of the state. ..."If we can capitalise on something that did or did not happen in 1947 then it can help the entire state," he said.

And while you have some spare CPU cycles, maybe you can sell them.

File-sharing network offers 'Honest Thief' software

A Dutch Internet company has announced the launch of file-sharing software that could be used to compensate artists for music stolen over the Internet.

Which reminds me, whatever happened to Mojo Nation? So far, SETI looks like its top of that heap.