The Rigged-Up Net

You know, every so often Tom Greene does something pretty funny: (Yes, its clean – work safe) SLUT MOBILE

It is healthier to walk along a busy road and breathe in exhaust fumes than to sit in the comfort of an airconditioned car, a U.S. researcher said on Wednesday. Air inside car said to be more harmful than outside

You gotta hear this… Mario Bros. played by London Symphony Orchestra

I recently discovered that a few important machines at a certain educational institute’s datacenter allows all students, faculty, and staff to authenticate against them via ssh. Everyone’s shells appear to be set to /bin/false (or some derivative) on said machines, so the only thing you’ll see after you authenticate is the login banner and your […]

Ok fine, Alec, its true: Claim: A Houston doctor was decapitated by an elevator. Status: True. Lift and Separate

In May, the Minnesota Office of Higher Education posted the inevitable culmination of a trend: Last year for the first time, women earned more than half the degrees granted statewide in every category, be it associate, bachelor, master, doctoral or professional. College gender gap widens: 57% are women

Good stuff: Start-Up Sound

Older women are not the only ones prone to having defective eggs – young women have flaws in about half of theirs too, two separate studies suggest. Young women have flawed eggs too

Check this out: With Millennials/Gen-Y entering the workplace, managers are starting to feel the effects of over-involved Boomer parents. Like, say, after Johnny gets a not-so-glowing performance review, Johnny’s mom calls his boss: “The best way to motivate Johnny is not through negative feedback!” reprimands Mom. That isn’t going to fly in this company, you […]

The EFF has broken the tracking code for the Xerox DocuColor. The DocuColor prints a faint 15×8 grid of yellow dots on every page. To see these dots you need a magnifying glass. You can also use a blue light to make the dots appear black. The EFF page has a built in application for […]

This is got to be the most simple, yet cool, thing I’ve seen! Airtrax Sidewinder Video You can see more of Airtrax here: http://www.airtrax.com

Before dawn on a rainy Friday, John Richards totes a stack of CDs and a paper cup of coffee into the booth at KEXP. On the wall, yellow-headed pins stuck in a world map mark the origin of song requests. Baltimore. Boston. Baghdad. Tiny Seattle station emerges as leading force in indie radio

Fibre to the home is coming! And its already avaible in parts of Dallas: Verizon FiOS TV User Review

Waistlines are inching up on hemlines as fashion’s barometer. Navel-obscuring in the ’80s, they were navel-baring a few years ago, and this fall they’re creeping up toward the bellybutton again. Jeans lowdown: Waistbands are inching up

My Canon SD300 arrived home safely today after having its flash module replaced… all repair done free of charge – I love Canon. 🙂

YAY! JetBlue is coming to Austin! Between Nov. 8 and April 6, the New York-based carrier will add 52 weekday departures, including high-frequency service between its base at New York John F. Kennedy and Boston Logan. JetBlue also is adding service to Richmond, Va., and Austin. JetBlue to expand routes

With a good night’s rest increasingly losing out to the Internet, e-mail, late-night cable and other distractions of modern life, a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that too little or erratic sleep may be taking an unappreciated toll on Americans’ health. Scientists Finding Out What Losing Sleep Does to a Body

So it looks like Treo is blaming a faulty SIM tray for its problems… we’ll see if this helps: Palm offers a Treo 650 SIM tray replacement

Ditch the rice cereal and mashed peas, and make way for enchiladas, curry and even — gasp! — hot peppers. It’s time to discard everything you think you know about feeding babies. It turns out most advice parents get about weaning infants onto solid foods — even from pediatricians — is more myth than science. […]

Woohoo! Current Repair Status Date:11-02-2005 Status:Completed (Unit will be delivered to you within approximately 4 business days) Shipping / Tracking: Not yet shipped

This is very well done… I’m assuming it was done on SNL… Matrix in the City

When compiling our second annual list of The Most Expensive Restaurants in the U.S., a question arose. Has fine dining gotten a little too fine when bills for two (including a good bottle of wine and maybe a snifter or two of cognac) at the best establishments in the country routinely approach–and exceed–the $1000 mark? […]

I ordered mine tonight – should be here by friday [crosses fingers]. 😀 With the OSx86 (OSX Tiger for Intel chipsets) leak, hundreds of people have been attempting to install OSx86 on their home computers. Some are having great luck, while others are finding that their hardware is not compatible, and it just wont install. […]

Is it just me, or is this creepy? This picture released by LifeGem, shows one of their creations: a diamond made from the ashes of cremated remains. LifeGem uses super-hot ovens to transform ashes to graphite and then presses the stone into blue and yellow diamonds that retail for anywhere from 2,700 to 20,000 AFP/LifeGem

In the back room of an unmarked brown building in a run-down strip mall, eight machines, each the size of a bass drum, are making diamonds. That’s right — making diamonds. Real ones, all but indistinguishable from the stones formed by a billion or so years’ worth of intense pressure, later to be sold at […]