A group of American universities have banded together to offer their campuses high speed computer networks beyond anything that is currently commercially available. The Gig.U project will offer one-gigabit connections to university campuses and their surrounding areas, which the project hopes will draw companies to the areas. The New York Times reports that in the test program in a small area near Case Western, three startups moved to the neighborhood within three months.

The patent arm of the University of New Mexico called STC is suing Intel over a patent infringement that is related to advanced chip manufacturing. The Univ. of New Mexico is assigned to patent number #6,042,998: “Method and apparatus for extending spatial frequencies in photolithography.”

Lucien James “Luc” Longley (pictured next to Michael Jordan) attended the University of New Mexico and is a retired Australian basketball player. He played for Perth (Australia), Minnesota Timberwolves, Chicago Bulls, Phoenix Suns, and the New York Knicks. Longley won an eBay auction that gives him the naming rights to a type of shrimp that lives on the southwest coast of Australia.

Anna McCallum, a doctoral student at the University of Melbourne discovered the unknown shrimp while working on a research boat. Instead of naming the shrimp herself, she decided to have an auction on eBay. The proceeds from the auction would be donated to the Australian Marine Conservation Society.

Bob Rosenberry, a publisher of Shrimp News International bid up to $2,000. Then Luc Longley bid $2,900. “It was a total surprise that a basketballer would be interested in this little deep-sea shrimp,” said McCallum in an interview with The Scientist.

Longley chose the named the shrimp Lebbeus clarehanna after his daughter Clare Hanna Longley. Luc previously worked on marine conservation efforts. The eBay auction took place in March and the name of the shrimp appeared in the Zootaxa magazine recent issue.

At the University of New Mexico, a couple of players at Brigham Young seemed to be pushing Elizabeth Lambert’s buttons. Lambert responded back in a manner that gained some attention from the camera. In the above video Lambert was elbowed in the chest by Brigham player Carlee Payne. Lambert responded by walking up to Payne shortly after being elbowed and punching her in the back.

Towards the end of the clip, you will also notice Lambert pulling Brigham Young player Kassidy Shumway by the hair and pushing her on the ground. You might think Lambert was being abusive for no reason, but if you look closely you will notice that Shumway was pulling up Payne’s shorts. Perhaps Shumway and Payne knew that Lambert had a short temper and decided to mess with her. But Lambert did end up getting suspended shortly after the above video became a viral hit. Personally I think that the two Brigham Young players should have received some sort of suspension for their behavior too. These three players showed unsportsmanlike conduct and there is video evidence that shows that with over 1 million people watching.

After the jump is another video of the incident being covered by ESPN. ESPN’s video coverage shows even more abusiveness taking place where a girl gets tripped and takes a ball to the face shortly after. Remind me never to let my non-existent daughter ever play soccer for Brigham Young or University of New Mexico.

Carlos is a robot project that works with a remote control, car batteries, aluminum parts, and cables.  The project has a pair of legs walking that are intentionally caught on fire and is taking a shopping cart for a stroll.  Here is the project on display in public.  Most of the people around just ignore poor Carlos and go about their day. The project was put together by students at the University of New Mexico.

[More details at GizmoGarden.com]