Not sure if this going to get much play, but it should. Apparently, a Chinese submarine surfaced within 160 ft of one of our aircraft carriers in the middle of a freaking naval exercise. In theory, we have an impenetrable circle of ships and subs that would protect against such things. If you want to read more, check it out.

By the time it surfaced the 160ft Song Class diesel-electric attack submarine is understood to have sailed within viable range for launching torpedoes or missiles at the carrier.

According to senior Nato officials the incident caused consternation in the U.S. Navy.

The Americans had no idea China’s fast-growing submarine fleet had reached such a level of sophistication, or that it posed such a threat.

One Nato figure said the effect was “as big a shock as the Russians launching Sputnik”

In case you wanted to learn the guitar, but couldn’t deal with tuning it all the time Gibson has just made a self tuning guitar.

And here is a cool “window” (likely some sort of modified LCD) developed by Philips that can block the light out at any level you see fit and create tree shadows, etc. Bad sound quality on this one though.

If you want to see the full power of what an online application can be look no further than Adobe’s entry into the online word processing field. If you go here you can see what I’m talking about, but it is programs like this that make Microsoft worry about its future.