What drives me up the latest tree is the incredibly egoistic idea that I might want to listen to your choice of badly-transmitted “music” while your bloody mobile phone rings. It’s bad enough I have to listen to the stupid robot if you don’t pick up. Why should I have to listen to some bullshit […]
Genital application of talcum powder and use of talc on products such as condoms can lead to a 30-60% increase in the risk of ovarian cancer. Use cornstarch.
Talcum Powder Can Provoke Deadly Ovarian Cancer
One hundred and sixty-five eminent thinkers, researchers, and communicators, at the annual request of the edge.org website, answered the following question: “What Have You Changed Your Mind About? Why?”
When the world’s great scientific thinkers change their minds — Edge
For those of you who’ve been wondering where you could put a free blog that will accept all those photographs from your vacation in Patagonia — and Antarctica — and Africa — and China — and… — you need look no further. As of Monday, WordPress is offering 3 Gigabytes of free storage for all […]
From WIRED Listening Post:
As I left the Imax theater after seeing U2 3D, a manasked me, “So, what did you think?” Using my best Larry Davidimpression, I responded, “Pretty good. Pretty… pretty good.”
I was lying. The film I had just seen — the world’s firstthree-dimensional live-action concert film — was astounding. I justdidn’t want to […]
Computer software can distinguish individual dogs by their barks, and also suggests that certain barks act as a “universal language”, carrying information about the dog’s mind-set that is readily understood by their fellow pooches.
Computer decodes dog communication - tech - 17 January 2008 - New Scientist Tech
Can a handheld dogspeak translator be far behind? Do […]
Pregnant Marine Cpl. Maria Lauterbach was believed to have been killed by a crowbar blow to the head, a federal law enforcement official involved in the case tells the Blotter on ABCNews.com.
ABC News: Official: Marine Killed by Crowbar, Baby Was a Girl
I’m still against capital punishment, but I’m thinking maybe tattoo “Killed Pregnant Woman With […]
Silicon Alley Insider reports the following about credit protection outfit LifeLock.
We hear that Goldman Sachs is investing $25 million in LifeLock, a three-year-old company that promises to protect consumers from credit fraud.
Credit Protector LifeLock Raises $25 Million; $220 Million Valuation - Silicon Alley Insider
Disclosure: the writer uses LifeLock services.
Anime News Network announces the following guests for Florida SuperCon. For further information, follow the link at the bottom.
* James and Oliver Phelps: Harry Potter superstars! James and Oliver are best known for their roles as Fred and George Weasly.
* Stanislav Ianevski: Harry Potter superstar! Stanislav is best known for his role as Viktor […]
The search engine company has developed a series of translation bots for its Google Talk application, which translate conversations in real time.
The service includes 24 translation bots, converting between languages such as English, French, German, Korean, Japanese and Chinese.
Google learns to speak your language
Physicians understand that practicing good medicine requires the constant acquisition of new knowledge, though they often assume their existing medical beliefs do not need re-examination. These medical myths are a light hearted reminder that we can be wrong and need to question what other falsehoods we unwittingly propagate as we practice medicine. We generated a […]
I have finally decided to take the plunge. Last night I upgraded my Vista desktop machine to Windows XP, and this afternoon I will be doing the same to my laptop. …
…Windows XP is both faster and far more responsive than Vista. I no longer have the obligatory 1-minute system lock that happens whenever I […]
Stare at the center for 30 sec. (Not a trick. Nothing will jump out. Just relaxing.)
http://www.psychedelic-art.net/psychedelic-picture/041_24_045.5.html
No. I didn’t misspell it.
4. Prospect Fundraising
3. Police and Firefighter Charities
2. The Email Charity Scam
1. The Donate A Car Deal
Four Charity Scams to Avoid
Julie Logan, a professor of entrepreneurship at the Cass Business School in London, found that more than a third of the entrepreneurs she had surveyed — 35 percent — identified themselves as dyslexic. The study also concluded that dyslexics were more likely than nondyslexics to delegate authority, to excel in oral communication and problem solving […]
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“Facebook is trying to use legal pressure to stop 02138 magazine from disseminating information about Facebook’s origins. The documents are still available online here, but Facebook has a lot of lawyers. If you’re interested, read these things now. We believe that we have a legal right to post them online and that you have […]
Gadgets aren’t immaculately conceived, in spite of what seems like lightning-speed development. That new gizmo you’ll love (or hate) for a few months before discarding received countless hours of attention and forethought from a sizable team of designers, engineers and researchers. Long before most products hit the retail shelf, a company’s design team or an […]
FreeRice has a custom database containing thousands of words at varying degrees of difficulty. There are words appropriate for people just learning English and words that will challenge the most scholarly professors. In between are thousands of words for students, business people, homemakers, doctors, truck drivers, retired people everyone!
FreeRice automatically adjusts to your level […]
One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real. In the future, that will become literally impossible. The distinction between cyberspace and that which isn’t cyberspace is going to be unimaginable. When I wrote Neuromancer in 1984, cyberspace already […]
New flashlight review: Nuwai 2 Stage 2×123A Luxeon III (TM-301X-3)
