Sea lion found in desert near San Diego
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20040209-1044-ca-valleysealion.html

The sea lion near San Diego had a bullet wound
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/02/11/roundup.DTL

Model railway setup that's also a Turing Machine
http://www.monochrom.at/turingtrainterminal/
via jwz
(which I guess solves the halting problem. It halts when it runs out of power.)

Intel have made chips that switch light like electricity
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/02/11/2359232.shtml?tid=118&tid=137&tid=187