February 2008
I am legion.
January 2008
Real Programmers →
Wine Matcher →
Thinking about by a Well membership, just because it gfeels like a piece of computer history.
Organlegging nurse sold diseased corpsemeat for... →
An oral surgeon-turned-nurse-turned-organlegger has been busted in Philadelphia for buying corpses from funeral directors, extracting their valuable tissues, and selling them on to be used in surgery in the US and Canada:
Mastromarino, a former oral surgeon, paid funeral directors $1,000 per corpse, then sold the parts to tissue banks, Sagel said.
The body parts fetched up to $10,000 apiece,...
Ruins of 7,000-year-old city found in Egypt oasis... →
CAIRO (AFP) - A team of US archaeologists has discovered the ruins of a city dating back to the period of the first farmers 7,000 years ago in Egypt’s Fayyum oasis, the supreme council of antiquities said on Tuesday
[from warrenellis] Strange Creature Immune to Pain... →
Park and his colleagues unexpectedly discovered the rodents lacked the chemical Substance P, which causes the feeling of burning pain in mammals. bookmark this on del.icio.us - posted by warrenellis to med - more about this bookmark…
RPM for OS X →
shut up and buy →
Kanye West, Man Of The Future [Kanye West] →
This is the fastest road vehicle in the world, the Acabion from designer Peter Maskus. It can go up to 342 mph and gets about 70 miles per gallon at 60 mph. I found it on Kanye West’s blog, where he posts futuristic (and super-expensive) toys almost every day. One day, it’ll be a self-cleaning kitchen that uses plants developed by the aerospace industry that produce water and vegetable...
Lede Of The Day →
“A teacher at a Tokyo school was arrested on Monday for making a group of boys undress at knifepoint and stealing their underpants, Kyodo news agency reported.”
(I’m tempted to create a new standing head: “Japan: Just Fucking Stop It Now.”)
Judge Says RIAA Should Be Fined For Bundling File... →
Years ago, before the RIAA’s decision to sue individual file sharers, the group used to send subpoenas to ISPs asking for IP addresses of users even though no lawsuit had actually been filed. Verizon actually stood up and fought the RIAA on this, eventually winning. In response, the RIAA started filing mass lawsuits, suing multiple “John Does” and then using those lawsuits to get...
USPTO Examiner Digs In Heels, Rejects 1-Click... →
theodp writes “Most corporations would be delighted to have their patent application assigned to the USPTO’s Mark Fadok. After all, this is the Primary Examiner who didn’t stop Amazon from patenting Blurbs or block Microsoft from patenting the Wish List. But Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ 1-Click Patent - which Fadok has been rejecting since 2002 - is another matter. Why? Just...
Expressions of privacy →
Privacy concerns spotted in Geneva over time:
And the answer as proposed by this huge sticker hat encourage people to pay attention to digital cameras:
I haz can cheezburger? →
No…nothing to do with those stupid cat pictures. Im all for cute pictures of cats but theres only so much you can take.
This is an actual cheeseburger in a can…
Yeah right!
via AWV & Spluch
Journal 2 →
Trying to wrangle EC2 images into line.
Reduced social interaction and ultrasonic... →
Several such monogenic heritable ASC forms are caused by loss-of-function mutations in genes encoding regulators of synapse function in neurons, including NLGN4. We report that mice with a loss-of-function mutation in the murine NLGN4 ortholog Nlgn4, whic
gotAPI/HTML - Instant search in HTML and other... →
Cop Gets Investigated Because MySpace Friend Links... →
Rich Kulawiec writes in to let us know about a ridiculous situation in Florida, that has some similarities to the ridiculous Julie Amero situation. Basically, a bunch of school officials and local newspaper folks are freaking out about the potential for students to access porn and are blaming the wrong people while displaying stunning levels of ignorance.
The basics of the situation are pretty...
Merb Supports rSpec Text Stories →
Swiss Officials Tell Anti-Piracy Company Its... →
There have been some claims that the recording industry’s investigative techniques may be illegal. While court cases alleging these techniques are illegal are still pending in the US, in Europe there seems to be a lot more support for the idea. In the Netherlands, for example, a court ruled that having ISPs hand over IP addresses to the recording industry would be a violation of privacy...
Grunge Textures - Free Stock Photos, Images,... →
DryIcons.com - Free Icons Download →
Robbie Williams CDs will be used to pave roads in... →
[Image: Panorama of Shanghai, courtesy of Siemens; view larger!]. EMI has announced that “unsold copies” of Rudebox, by British pop star Robbie Williams, “will soon be used to resurface Chinese roads.” More than a million copies of the CD “will be crushed and sent to the country to be recycled,” we read, where they “will be used in street lighting and road...
Al Gore Throws Hat Into The IPO Ring... →
While there’s still some speculation about an Al Gore run for the presidency, it appears he’s got bigger fish to fry, such as an IPO for his cable TV station Current Media. Honestly, it looks like a tough sell as an IPO. It’s not profitable. There are some serious questions about how viable a business it can be, and its “unique” angles, such as embracing the internet,...
THE ASSAULT ON CULTURE: UTOPIAN CURRENTS FROM... →
Feelgood Eats: Personal Chef Sue Bette on Food... →
The Cost Of The 21st Century War (So Far) →
This is kind of chilling:
The U.S. has suffered more than 72,000 battlefield casualties since the start of the war on terror in 2001, a Freedom of Information request has revealed.
…263,909 soldiers with experience of the two 21st-century wars have so far received treatment for everything from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to the aftermath of amputated limbs…
Harvard University...
macosxhints.com - 10.5: Make a bootable Time... →
Twitterific seems to be the only good looking twitter client for osx but I’m not willing to pay for it.
I need to stop phrasing questions as “I was wondering…”
vozMe →
Test to speech web app.
