Despite having over 2.6 million followers on his Twitter account, @BarackObama admitted to a Chinese audience that he has never used the service.

“I have never used Twitter, but I’m an advocate of technology and not restricting Internet access," Obama told an audience of Shanghai youth on Sunday.

"My thumbs are too clumsy to type in things on the phone," the president added.

Then what the heck is he doing on that Blackberry all the time? Playing tetris?

Yeah, he just broke 10 million points. Top that, Palin.

Cloud computing is the technology behind many popular web services, such as Gmail and Twitter. As opposed to traditional server technologies that only use one server, a cloud uses many, both real and virtualized, as one unit. The advantage is that it is scalable, meaning that a user only uses as much as he needs, and that it is (usually) redundant, meaning that if one server goes down, the others can pick up the slack.

“As one of the world’s leading providers of computing resources to advance science, the Department of Energy has a vested interest in exploring new options for meeting the overwhelming demand for computing time,” said Michael Strayer, associate director of DOE’s Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research.

Magellan, as the project is called, will be powered by thousands of Intel Nehalem CPUs, and possibly solutions from companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.

The DOE hopes that cloud computing’s commercial success will carry over into scientific research.

Let’s just hope the DOE’s data doesn’t get sidekicked, shall we?