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The claim by Ion Torrent on Tuesday that a reasonably affordable machine capable of mapping an individual’s complete genetic makeup for $1,000 will be ready by the end of the year has technology geeks in a tizzy.

Why can't anyone tame the social stream and just give us the good stuff? Illustration by Debaser Every minute of every day , the more than a half-billion members of Facebook collectively create almost 1 million photos, wall posts, status updates, and other bits of ephemera. The firehose at Twitter looks tame by comparison--the network sees more than 125,000 tweets a minute, only half of them about (or from) randy congressmen.

The new Personal Genome Machine was used to decode the DNA of the deadly strain of E. coli that ravaged Europe this spring

Many users are finding themselves unable to access the torrent site today. Comcast says it doesn't restrict websites to any of its customers, and indeed, the problem seems to be global. Then what's going on here

Wondering what it's like to explore Osama Bin Laden's now famous compound? Google Earth Blog points us to the Google 3D Warehouse , where a number of 3D modelers have taken it upon themselves to sketch up Bin Laden's home--in both serious and amusing detail. Once you've found a model you like, you can view it in Google Earth and feel even more like you're wandering around Pakistan.