May 2008
fatsleroy: Right outside this lazy summer home
you... →
Right outside this lazy summer home
you ain’t got time to call your soul a critic no.
Right outside the lazy gate of winter’s summer home,
wond’rin’ where the nut-thatch winters,
wings a mile long…
Barcelona Pipe Club and Contest on photography →
Here are few pictures that were send to Barcelona Pipe Club for photography competition. by Santiago González Barros by Inmaculada Reina Segovia by Copérnico García For more pictures please visit…
WSP Announce Summer Tour →
Widespread Panic Announce Summer Tour
Widespread Panic
Set to kick-off the summer tour at Bonnaroo, Widespread Panic will then jet out to L.A. for a run of dates in SoCal before…
IBM 1001 DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM (Dec, 1961) →
Yup, this is a punched card modem.
IBM 1001 DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM
… new low cost way to send punched card data… by telephone
This IBM 1001 Data Transmission System lets you send…
VIDEO & PICTURES: First Phenom 300 executive... →
The Embraer Phenom 300, performed its first flight yesterday from the Embraer’s Gavião Peixoto test runway. The first Phenom 300, serial number 99801 is expected to enter service in the second half…
Website Attack →
This morning I noticed that this website was very slow to load, which is very unusual as it sits on a pretty powerful dedicated machine. When I was finally able to SSH into the server what I found…
7 Requirements of a Competitive Website →
Commentary by Peyman Aleagha RISMEDIA, May 1, 2008-In today’s market, your real estate website better do a lot more than look pretty. While there was a time not so long ago that having a website at…
[Amusing] Man says fishing trip went good except... →
(Some Guy)
Lesbians Anger Lesbos →
A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world’s gay women. Three islanders from Lesbos — home of the ancient poet Sappho, who…
Former Priest Teaches About Evolution, Stands... →
Francisco J. Ayala - Evolution - Scientists Who Believe in God - New York Times: As challenges to the teaching of evolution continue to emerge, legislators debate measures equating the teaching of…
Class Action Filed Against Lifelock For Deceptive... →
A class action has been filed against LifeLock, the identity protection company whose CEO is so confident in the credit report fraud alerts it places that CEO Richard “Todd” Davis puts his…
Ultimate Hidden Staircase Ideal for Wannabe Bond... →
Giz is a big fan of the secret passageway, but this sub-staircase version really is the mutt’s nuts. A cross between a drawbridge, a private jet and something that, to kids, is straight…
The Lede: A Rock Star’s Pig Is Found in Tatters →
The massive stage prop that escaped Coachella has been located.
Yamaha Keyboard-Notebook Combo Concept For... →
The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.Milan’s Salone di Mobile always has a bunch of concept gadgets designed by tech companies, and this is one of Yamaha’s efforts….
Deconstruction Grows in Popularity, Spawns New... →
In her Teardown Diary, Wall Street Journal columnist Nancy Keates forgoes the common practice of demolition and instead opts for “unbuilding.” Usually referred to as deconstruction,…
Mansinthe: Marilyn Manson endorsed absinthe →
I am an appreciative consumer of alcohol endorsed by rock musicians. I lost my virginity to a freaky girlfriend wooed into the folly of sleeping with me by goblets full of KISS-brand wine (or,…
[Followup] "The drink had a robust, meaty aroma... →
Baltimore Sun
Post-Suicide Account Cracking? →
An anonymous reader writes “A good friend of mine had her younger brother apparently commit suicide last week. He was a young, promising CS major who was close to being accepted into a very…
Patent Appeals System Under Constitutional Attack →
Goobermunch sends in a law.com article going into questions about the validity of recent patent rulings (within the past eight years) by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, due to the…
Grand jury urges fixes for city land use code →
A grand jury investigation sparked by the contentious fight over the height of the Sunroad office building calls for a sweeping revision of the city of San Diego’s land use code and better employee…
Concert festival attendee from La Mesa dead at 21 →
INDIO: A 21-year-old La Mesa man found unresponsive at a campsite after the Coachella Music and Arts Festival has died, authorities said.
Whitehouse Emails Were Lost Due to... →
I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “We now know how the Whitehouse managed to lose about five million emails. It seems that they ‘upgraded’ their Lotus Notes system, which had an automatic…
City Room: Dinosaur Dung, Up for Auction →
Among the items for sale at a Bonhams auction this afternoon, two pieces of dinosaur dung. A Fukang Meteorite, meanwhile, is expected to sell for more than $2.25 million.
Federal Contracting Chief Resigns →
The head of the agency that administers federal contracts has resigned amid allegations of engaging in illegal political activities and doling out no-bid awards.
Judge Bucks Trend: Music Sharing Not Necessarily... →
PoopReport's charity drive for women's latrines in... →
Dave sez,
I’m the editor of PoopReport.com. I’ve been living in India for the last six months. While here, I’ve come across a great cause related to the subject of my site: raising money to…
Declassified NSA Document Reveals the Secret... →
The secret history of how the nation’s spies discovered that their ace equipment was leaking data into the ether has never been told before. But now a declassified NSA document tells how a Bell…
George Bush's lost e-mails - Judge Demands Answers →
Last week a federal magistrate judge ordered the Bush administration to answer some pointed questions about its failure to preserve White House emails as required by federal law. Ars examines what…
April 2008
The Heartbeat of Liberty City - GTA IV Easter Egg →
There’s a chained, beating heart inside the Statue of Happiness. Seriously
The Ultimate Act of Sportsmanship →
Western Oregon senior Sara Tucholsky had never hit a home run in her career. She hit a home run to take the lead vs. Central Washington, then tore her ACL rounding the bases. If a player on her team…
Huge Squid has World's Largest Eye →
Scientists studying the carcass of what they call the heaviest squid ever found have discovered it has eyes as big as soccer balls — reportedly the largest in the world.
Sometimes Its Hard Being a Tiger →
Brilliant ad for the Calgary Zoo.
Reporter details pharmaceutical company marketing... →
Next time you hear a story about how a major medical journal is reporting a treatment breakthrough, you might stop and think for a moment about what lies behind the report.
Jason Snell Digs Up Screenshots From Copland →
The “Huh?” button is interesting.
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7-year-old boy removed from father and placed in... →
Christopher Ratte took his 7-year-old son to a baseball game at Comerica Park. He ordered a lemonade from a vendor and gave it to his boy. Unbeknownst to Ratte (a professor of classical archaeology…
Sorry, Absinthe Trippers: Scientists Say You're... →
German chemists turned their spectrometers and chromotagraphs on absinthe to bring you hard evidence that the liquor, famed for its hallucinogenic properties, is actually just very strong booze.
President McCain →
Last night I saw some pundits on the news discussing the results of a poll. When Americans were asked if they would vote for an African-American for president, more than 9 out of 10 people said yes….
Hard Evidence of Voting Machine Addition Errors →
goombah99 writes “Princeton Professor, Ed Felton, has posted a series of blog entries in which he shows the printed tapes he obtained from the NJ voting machines don’t report the ballots correctly….
Free Richard Dawkins! (That's free as in lecture,... →
Free Richard Dawkins! (That’s free as in lecture, not free as in spring from jail.) Each year in honor of Harvey David Preisler, a lecture is given and this year’s will be delivered by Richard…
Hacked OQO is the world's smallest Mac →
Over at the OQO Talk forums, neonatal member TRF’s initial claims to have successfully hacked his OQO to run OS X Leopard was met only with scorns and cries of hoax. But a couple of days…
Hat Is Latest in Cigarette Cases (Apr, 1932) →
Hat Is Latest in Cigarette Cases
AN “ammunition” hat designed with tuck in which are inserted twenty cigarettes, is proclaimed by stylists as the latest fad for co-eds. Wearing this hat,…
How Solid-State Electronics Will Change Your Life ... →
This article is an exploration of the changes that will be brought on by the rise of solid-state electronics. The author does a very good job extrapolating what will be possible, with very few of…
“Albert Hofmann has died at age 102. He was the Swiss chemist who first...”
– Albert Hofmann Takes His Last Trip (1906-2008) | Laughing Squid
Yahoo Banner Ads Infecting Visitors With Malware →
Over the past few days, Yahoo has been exposing visitors to fraudware banner ads and also ads that try to trick them into installing malware. The ads are displayed across numerous web portal…
Skate boarding on a treadmill. →
You know this wont turn out good.
Twitter Blog: Tracking Twitter →
One of the driving philosophies behind Twitter has always been to get away from the computer, get out there and do something, and tell your friends about it in real-time. That’s why Twitter works over IM and text messaging—you can bring your phone almost anywhere to interact and share. You can follow friends on your phone through Twitter, but what about concepts? What if you wanted an update...
Twitter visualization done right →
Sifting through twitter for something worth seeing.
Hawk Found Dead With Claw Sticking Through Chest →
In what looks like a scene out of the movie ‘Alien,’ a California animal rescue worker finds a hawk with a claw protruding from its chest.
Trapped in an Elevator...With Diarrhea →
This is exactly why it is illegal in the United States to install an elevator within 2 square miles of a Benihana.
