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Scanning through data fresh off the telescope, we saw two ghosts dancing deep in the cosmos. We had never seen anything like it before, and we had no idea what they were. Several weeks later, we had figured out we were seeing two radio galaxies, about a billion light years away. In the center of each one is a supermassive black hole, squirting out jets of electrons that are bent into grotesque shapes by an intergalactic wind....

Chris Coyier, co-author of the popular WordPress guideDigging into WordPresswith Jeff Starr, has published an article that goes into the many lessons and experiences the duo gained from self-publishing the book. The piece goes into printing, pricing, discounting, affiliate programs, piracy and more. Chris says of traditional publishing: “We learned in these talks with publishers that our Step One (write the book), is almost never Step One. Step One is actually get in contact with publishers and work with them from the beginning, from building out the Table of Contents outwards....

The Innovation Center for DenmarkandStart X Labsput on a brilliant event with co-founder of tech giantSun MicrosystemsVinod Khosla. I was lucky to grab Vinod for a quick interview where he summarized his talk about how to teach entrepreneurs irreverence. “It’s important not to learn not to respect authority too much,” said Vinod, who also told the audience that he throws food at his kids across the dinner table sometimes to teach them irreverence and to break conventional molds....

Back in January this year weintroducedyou toIMGuest, a service that lets users improve their networking by ‘following’ other users to see when they’re staying in hotels close to them. Now the Israel-based startup has launchedpremium featureswhich it hopes will get hotels themselves using the service to enhance their online offering for guests. The paid-for offering gives hotels an interactive message service that allows them to award guests with benefits and promote services to them, filtered to target specific demographics....

“From Over Here” is a fascinating exercise in the physical, visual representation of news. From the Flickr gallery description: From Over Here is a physical representation of articles from the New York Times from 1992-2010. Each card represents a month of articles about, or related to Ireland. The people and topics mentioned in the articles are etched on each card. It’s interesting to note that the length of each card corresponds to the frequency of the word–in this case Ireland–in each article, rather than the number of articles that mention the word, making it a more effective measure of relevancy....