June 2009
Vader Back Buddy Pack Still Not As Lame As Those... →
Way back in 2006, a young, eager Jason Chen brought the world word of a Yoda Back Buddy that mimicked the training scene from The Empire Strikes Back. Now Darth Vader, ever the envious…
LiveSpark Is an Audio Visualizer Made of Fire... →
The LiveSpark Fireplace features music-reactive flames, meaning, like a real-life visualizer, that the fire will jump and shrink itself based on the thumping beats it detects. …
"Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox... →
Brian Krebs:
Big deal, you say? I can just uninstall the add-on via Firefox’s handy Add-ons interface, right? Not so fast. The trouble is, Microsoft has disabled the “uninstall” button on the…
LiveSpark Is an Audio Visualizer Made of Fire... →
The LiveSpark Fireplace features music-reactive flames, meaning, like a real-life visualizer, that the fire will jump and shrink itself based on the thumping beats it detects. …
The Only Way It Would Be Cooler Is If It Also Made... →
On the recommendation of the Director Parents and Rorschach - and drinking coffee at both their houses recently - I got myself a Keurig B60 Single-Cup Brewing SystemThis is just a neat little toy,…
"Hope you're f%#&@% proud of... →
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I’ll bet those cheetah were damn tasty though…
Hunting Threatened Species
Hunting for food certainly isn’t always bad - especially compared to factory farming - even if…
Deeper or wider →
If you want to grow the size of your customer base, you need to confront the buffet dilemma.
Any decent buffet has foods that please 85% of the population. Meats, cheeses, potatoes… the typical…
Good Trips on Travel Safety →
Great tips here (via Cowen). I would add: When in a cab, I always sit directly behind the driver. If anything goes down, I am going to strangle him or gouge his eyes out. (This is easy to do…
Vader Back Buddy Pack Still Not As Lame As Those... →
Way back in 2006, a young, eager Jason Chen brought the world word of a Yoda Back Buddy that mimicked the training scene from The Empire Strikes Back. Now Darth Vader, ever the envious…
Obama DoJ Goes Against Film Companies →
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “If one attempted to distill a single prevailing emotion or attitude about government on Slashdot, I think it is fairly arguable that the winner would be cynicism or…
Last Survivor of the Titanic Dies at 97 →
Millvina Dean, who died in a nursing home in England, was just over 2 months old when the ship sank in 1912.
Richard Feynman plays the bongos →
Here are two videos of the amazing physicist Richard Feynman tearing it up on the bongos drums.
Neighbors, city agree to preserve pergola site →
The controversy over San Diego’s plan to spend a half-million dollars rebuilding a 1920s-era pergola has ended, with neighbors and their councilman settling on a modest way to spruce up the site. The…
Sarah's Smash Shack: rental rooms you can... →
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This outfit was on the local (KUSI) news. Pretty cool…
Sarah’s Smash Shack in San Diego rents out soundproof rooms full of thrift-store crockery for you to smash. They…
Dead Plants: kick-ass shoutin' hillbilly blues... →
Wandering through east London today, I happened upon a damned good shoutin’ R&B duo busking on the street. They’re called Dead Plants, and the act I saw consisted of one guy slapping the…
Paul Wilmott Wants to Retrain and Reform Wall... →
theodp writes “What if an aeronautics engineer couldn’t reconcile his elegant design for a state-of-the-art jumbo jet with Newton’s second law of motion and decided to tweak the equation to fit his…
Weird Science →
(Rudy Rucker is a guestblogger. His latest novel, Hylozoic, describes a postsingular world in which everything is alive.)
Looking back over the advance of physics over the last two hundred…
Matador Gets Gored and Learns How It Feels... →
Israel Lancho is currently in serious condition after undergoing surgery for a 20cms hole, and we’re assuming the bull was put down shortly thereafter.
Kansas abortion doctor killed →
Media reports say that abortion provider Dr. George Tiller has been shot and killed at his Wichita church. Tiller had been among the few U.S. physicians performing late-term abortion.
May 2009
Double Fail →
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Pool Hall Sign Fail →
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Conference Board of Canada admits that its... →
The Conference Board of Canada, a Canadian think-tank that was caught regurgitating a US lobby-group’s press materials in a tax-funded report on the Digital Economy, has withdrawn its…
AMA Alliance wants R rating for every single film... →
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Fuck you people. Just fuck you all.
Smoking more important than sex?
Korean BBQ Taco Truck Twits Its Way Through Your... →
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The verb is “to tweet” not “to twit”, you twat…
I have the best Mexican taco truck parked at all times a few blocks from my home, but I wouldn’t mind following this…
Pool Hall Sign Fail →
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Time as Religion →
Sometimes I like to dredge up an argument I have made before if I think I have a new and better way of expressing it. So I apologize if this looks like a repeat. People keep sending me links to…
Ricky Gervais on atheism →
A quote attributed to Ricky Gervais about his atheism. It annoys me that the burden of proof is on us. It should be: you came up with the idea. Why do you believe it? (via cyn-c) Tags: …
Double Fail →
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Nigerian Authorities Shut Down Femi Kuti's Club... →
Nigerian Authorities Shut Down Femi Kuti’s Club The Shrine
Femi Kuti
On the eve of Femi Kuti’s tour, which begins in NYC next week, Nigerian authorities have just shut down his…
An Electric Jet Ski As Quick As It Is Expensive →
Tesla Motors isn’t the only outfit building a very fast, very expensive electric toy.
Ex-boat-racing champion on trial in arson attempts →
A former powerboat-racing champion is on trial in El Cajon Superior Court for allegedly trying to burn down the homes of his estranged wife and stepdaughter while they were inside last year.
Obama Says New Cyber Czar Won't Spy on the Net →
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Because the NSA does that already?
The administration’s internet overseer will secure government networks and protect critical U.S. infrastructures, but will not spy on private…
Hulu Releases Desktop Application →
Hulu has just released their new Hulu Desktop application, which is part of their recently launched Hulu Labs.
Hulu Desktop is a lean-back viewing experience for your personal…
45-Year-Old Modem Used To Surf the Web →
EdIII writes with this awesome snippet from Hack a Day: “’[phreakmonkey] got his hands on a great piece of old tech. It’s a 1964 Livermore Data Systems Model A Acoustic Coupler Modem. He recieved it…
On the White House: Fund-Raising Still Has Its... →
President Obama’s new choices for ambassadors are a reminder that there are limits to just how much change he intends to bring.
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Is Out of Beta →
On a Friday afternoon in mid-March Jimmy Fallon stands on the stage of NBC’s Studio 6B fine-tuning tonight’s monologue. Twenty or so Rockefeller Center tourists are quietly ushered in to watch the…
Allegedly Rigged Product Demo In SAP Suit Goes... →
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Maybe it was accidently taken to a landfill by an environmentally friendly garbage truck…
narramissic writes “Waste Management sued SAP in March 2008 over a failed ERP…
Conference Board of Canada admits that its... →
The Conference Board of Canada, a Canadian think-tank that was caught regurgitating a US lobby-group’s press materials in a tax-funded report on the Digital Economy, has withdrawn its…
Steve Jobs spotted on Apple campus - report →
Steve Jobs made a surprise appearance at Apple headquarters on Wednesday where he met with members of the company’s leadership, according to a new report.
Netherlands runs out of criminals, has to shut... →
The Netherlands (where most drugs are cannabis is legal) has so few criminals that it is now faced with the choice of shutting down its prisons and laying off the staff, or importing criminals…
Netherlands runs out of criminals, has to shut... →
The Netherlands (where most drugs are cannabis is legal) has so few criminals that it is now faced with the choice of shutting down its prisons and laying off the staff, or importing criminals…
Art piece returns after cownapping →
A month after a life-sized fiberglass cow was stolen from the CowParade art display in La Jolla, it mysteriously reappeared early yesterday at the same site. A few nicks and a lot of grime were the…
Viral Video Hoax, or Proof of Impending Cyber... →
A top computer security firm is alarmed after discovering a video of hackers taking over the lighting controls in an urban skyscraper to play the world’s most awesome game of Space Invaders. We’re…
10 Tasty Fish You Don't Want to Eat (Slideshow) →
Photo via CybersamX The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch offers a list of fish you can enjoy and those you can’t. Many on the list you may or may not enjoy depending on where and how…
Judge orders San Diego to evict seals, but frowns... →
The city of San Diego must remove the seal colony at Children’s Pool beach in La Jolla, but a judge isn’t sold on a proposal to use the sounds of barking dogs to evict them. Superior Court Judge Yuri…
Steve Jobs sounding "energetic" a month before... →
Steve Wozniak had to opportunity to speak with Steve Jobs recently and said the Apple chief executive sounded “healthy” and “energetic” a little over a month before he’s scheduled to return to the…
Giant earthworms →
Forgetomori has a nice photo gallery of giant earthworms. I’m not sure if they are real or not.
The worms in the images all look they are up to a meter in length, compatible with the…
Fluorescent Monkeys Cast Light On Human Disease →
Hugh Pickens writes “BBC reports that a team of Japanese scientists has integrated a new gene for green fluorescent protein into the common marmoset, causing them to glow green under ultraviolet…
Same-sex couples fill wedding license office in... →
Forty people who staged a sit-in of sorts at the County Administration Center have left the downtown San Diego building without any arrests or disruption.
Bugs getting it on →
Webphemera has a great gallery of many species of insects making the beast with two backs, 18 legs and 96 eyes.
Insects In Flagrante (Thanks, RJ!)