And this is infotainment too

Yahoo CEO says company is not 'under siege'

Yang and Yahoo President Susan Decker said the company was reorganizing around four pillars: home page, search, mail and mobile services.

"The essence of Yahoo is being defined today," Yang said. "We have to be incredibly relevant to the consumer. We want you to start your day at Yahoo."

Now I get it. Just an online version of "Good Morning America" (a property of the Mickey Mouse company). (Prediction: Yahoo! will be acquired by Disney. It's a much better fit than with Microsoft. (Regarding which, see here.) And if it happens, you read it here first.)

And exactly when will people wake up to realize they are being insulted when referred to as "consumers"?

This is infotainment

Japanese scientists create microscopic noodle bowl

Japanese scientists say they have used cutting-edge technology to create a noodle bowl so small it can be seen only through a microscope.

Mechanical engineering professor Masayuki Nakao said Thursday he and his students at the University of Tokyo used a carbon-based material to produce a noodle bowl with a diameter 1/25,000 of an inch in a project aimed at developing nanotube-processing technology.

A "carbon-based material"? Aren't all of us carbon-based materials?

What on Earth does the writer of this piece think the information level of readers has sunk to, if it's necessary to use such a locution instead of "carbon nanotube"? And since when is "1/25,000 of an inch" a better way to say "1 micron"?

The Japanese-style ramen bowl was carved out of microscopic nanotubes, Nakao said.

Nanotubes are tube-shaped pieces of carbon, measuring about one-ten-thousandth of the thickness of a human hair.

Carbon nanotubes are being explored for a wide range of uses in electronics and medicine because their structure endows them with powerful physical properties such as a strength greater than steel.