According to the news a little earlier today, a tanker full of molasses tumble on a heavy traffic road. It makes the road very slippery which cause motorcycles and other four-wheel vehicle slip the road. The tanks size hinders official to remove it from the road. And its contents continue to flow as cars, trucks and motorcycle pass by. One motorcycle which is caught by the camera is having hard time passing through the slippery road. The driver and its passenger fall down the road with other motorcycles. I bet motorcycle accident attorneys will be busier if the problem continues. Good thing they are not badly injured. But burns are already ground for compensation, I think.

I’m sure that everytime you can figure out something odd you always think you’re pretty hot stuff like configuring your Facebook status from your iPhone, but you’ve got nothing on Lim Ding Wen.

A nine-year-old Malaysian boy in Singapore has written a painting application for the Apple iPhone. He created the finger painting program, known as Doodle Kids, for his two younger sisters aged three and five. Basically, the program allows iPhone owners to draw images on the handset’s touch screen using just their fingers. This program racked up over 4,000 downloads from Apple’s iTunes store in less than two weeks.

Lim, who is now fluent in six programming languages, first started using a computer when he was two-years-old, discovered programming aged seven, and has since completed more than 20 programming projects. What an amazing 9 years old boy that can make something like this.

During the fly-by around Mercury, the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging, or MESSENGER, observed what seemed to be scalloped edged cliffs which had been mostly created by the shrinking action of the planet as it cooled in time. The same evidence has been observed by the Mariner 10 orbiter during its three fly-bys around the planet, albeit Mariner 10 images seem to suggest that they could have only formed in the early history of Mercury.

The real question is: why isn’t any older features remnant of the shrinking of Mercury on its surface. Virginia Tech professor Scott D. King believes that the loss of heat from the mantle through the crust may have also had an important role in the dynamics of the formation of scalloped edges. Thus, while waiting for the MESSENGER spacecraft to collect gravity and topographic data in order to test this theory, professor King started creating a computer simulation of the silicate mantle of Mercury to model the three-dimensional heat convection patterns which take place beneath the surface.

According to King, mantle convection of Mercury would form long and linear rolls on the surface, opposite to compression alone which would create a random pattern. Further still, it is now obvious that these features created by contraction, assisted by heat convection, are much more different that what we have seen on all the other rocky planets in the solar system, because Mercury is much smaller than the others – meaning it would have a thinner mantle and a larger core in relation to its size.

This basically means that the orientation of the features is determined only by mantle convection, thus MESSENGER could collect data to confirm the model, as all evidence points towards a still active convection process. It is clear that scalloped edged cliffs stopped forming a couple of billions of years ago, but the planet is so cool now that not even mantle convection could further modify the structure of the surface.

The 2008 Africa Cup of Nations, also known as the MTN Africa Cup of Nations due to the competition’s sponsorship by the MTN Group based from South Africa, is the 26th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the football championship of Africa. Ghana won the right to host the tournament after defeating Libya 9–3 in a vote among Confederation of African Football (CAF) executive committee members in Cairo. South Africa withdrew their bid after winning the right to host the 2010 World Cup. The tournament is being held between 20 January and 10 February 2008.

Currently Cameroon and Egypt will compete for the finals. Cameroon defeated the home crowd favorite Ghana (1-0) when Alain Nkong made the goal. Meanwhile Egypt defeated Ivory Coast (4-1), Ahmed Fathi, Amr Zaky and Mohamed Aboutreika gave Egypt the advantage over Ivory Coast. Later today Egypt and Cameroon will compete in Ohene Djan Stadium, Accra. The winner of the tournament will represent CAF at the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup. So stay tune on your favorite Sports TV channel for the latest on the on going 2008 Africa Cup of Nations.