Video of the Week – First Video of a Volcanic Eruption 4,000 Feet Underwater

This year a research expedition sent a remotely operated vehicle 4,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean and within ten feet of an exploding volcano. Today the first video footage from that expedition was released. Ka-boom.

Ok, maybe there's no ka-boom because there's no sound, but just looking at this video makes me imagine all that water wooshing by as everything begins to shake. Simply stunning. [Physorg]

Screenshots of Samsung's Bada OS Leak

The details about Samsung's Bada OS have been scarce, and while even these leaked screenshots don't tell us much that we didn't know, we can at least look forward to an eye-pleasing interface design.

It's a shame that these screenshots don't really reveal much aside from social media integration, a music player, a dialer, and the obligatory Twitter app. That aside, is it me, or is there something familiar-feeling about the interface? [Engadget Germanyvia Unwired View]

The Ten Netbook Positions of Exquisite Pain

I revisited this summer post from Core77 by Dave Malouf. I must have missed this amazing piece of research that explains the different positions one can use a netbook in and the corresponding points of pain and stress each causes.

Researchers found that "a conventional small clamshell laptop is most comfortably used lying down in bed with the device on the thigh when the knees are kept up."

I spent months working in that very position after a bad motorcycle wreck in my twenties, and I concur that the best ergos I ever experienced, were in this position. (Could have been the vicadins, though.) I miss this working stance; I need a desk chair that somehow emulates a bed. Or a bed that emulates a desk.

The study is part of an entire class taught by Malouf, sponsored by Freescale, investigating the form factor of the netbook in its entirety.