Archive for April, 2005

New law cracks down on P2P pirates

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Wiretaps in U.S. Jump 19 Percent in 2004

It’s no surprise wiretaps jumped 19% last year when judges granted EVERY SINGLE REQUEST that authorities made. Of the 1710 wiretaps made, 1507 of them were portable devices (cell phone, pager, etc.). "We’re still seeing a huge trend toward increased surveillance," said Edgar. We’re seeing huge trends toward increased surveillance all over the place, aren’t [...]

Egads, exploding toads!

Toads are exploading – no one knows why. Scientists only know 2 things about this phenomenon: (1) "The bloated animals suffer for several minutes before they finally die"; and (2) as far as the cause of explosion is concerned, they have "ruled out the possibility that it is a fungus that made its way from South [...]

Feds Rethinking RFID Passport

Finally the Feds are pulling their heads out of their asses and rethinking the notion of using RFID passports. Back in October the State Department thought it would be a good idea to store each persons Name, Address, Phone, SS#, etc. on an RFID tag stored in that persons passport. This information would not be [...]

Liger cubs on display in Serbian zoo

Bred for their skills in magic, a couple of liger cubs are on display in a Serbian zoo. Zoo director would have us believe that although this mating is "practically impossible in the wild", this was not a scientific experiment – the lion and tiger just didn’t have anything better to do.

IQ Loss for email users more than double IQ loss for Potheads

First it was TV, then marijuana, now email is the thing sucking our brains. The Guardian reports that email, with it’s "addictive, drug-like grip" will drop 10 points from your IQ on average, more than twice the 4 point loss caused by cannibus. Read the article here. The Register also has a story on this here.

Why Geeks and Nerds Are Worth It…

I happened upon this posting on craigslist today and thought that it’s a good bit of information that should be read – one of those things that make you go hmm. In the wide world of dating, there are many options. Do you go for the flashy guy with the smooth smile, or the dude [...]

New Living Will

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Drum Machine

A rather cool Shockwave file hosted at RockStar games called Drum Machine.

Pooping just got safer

India Railways has decided to go with "passengers-friendly amenities." What does that mean? "…shock absorbing coaches, which will be designed in such a way that the toilets at the end of the coaches will not pass on the impact of collision to the passengers." How have we survived this long without shock absorbing toilets? HOW?! Article [...]

Pope John Paul II reincarnated as “Incredible Popeman”

It looks like the late Pope is now the star of a new comic book in which he "wields a faith staff with a cross on top and carries holy water and communion wine." Next to come: Popeman action figures.        

New site is up

… and yes, it still sucks…