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google rules
google does cool stuff. it now has a built-in calculator. and that's only a very small part of the cool part. it does conversions. so you could type in something like 4000 feet in meters or 25 feet per second in miles per second and it'd spit the answer out to ya. here's the details.
kansas: actually flatter than a pancake
a great study has been done to show that kansas actually is flatter than a pancake.
in kansas' defense, there are some pretty landscapes up here and lawrence, home of KU, is a nice city. also, the rich suburbs of kansas city are on the kansas side. however, it's still flatter than a pancake.
i hope our tax dollars didn't pay for this study.
power from blood
Researchers in Japan are developing a method of drawing power from blood glucose, mimicking the way the body generates energy from food.
Theoretically, it could allow a person to pump out 100 watts - enough to illuminate a light bulb.
now i really could light up a room.
riaa hit list
the record industry appears to be serious this time. they're sending out subpoenas at the rate of something like 70 a day to folks they can track down who are downloading illegal music, including a grandfater and "unsuspecting father". wanna know if you're next?
metallica sues
apparently they've been sharing their drugs with their lawyers.
school bans farting
Children caught breaking wind at Hu Zhuang Elementary School in Beijing are fined about 50p.
Zhang, a school teacher, said: " We use the regulation to help students get rid of their bad habits. And nobody has been fined so far."
chinese must have a better control of bodily functions than we do.
spray-on stockings
"This product is really easy to use; it dries very quickly - you just have to spread it over your skin," explained Hanae Seki, the cosmetics manager at the Sony Plaza store in Tokyo's Ginza district.
The stocking is simply sprayed onto the leg "It's perfect for Japan's summer season, when traditional stockings are too hot. We're selling several hundred bottles a month - people are coming from all over Japan to buy them."
The product is called the Air-Stocking - a fine, silk aerosol spray.
animal ringtones
Wildlife recordings from the British Library's sound archive have been turned into mobile phone ringtones.
The library has sold 40 of the 100,000 sounds in its archives, including the noises made by bellowing hippos and cobras attacking.
Some of the ringtones can be downloaded already and others will become available later in the year.
is that a cow in your pocket???
patient's face catches on fire
if you've ever had surgery you know that prior to surgery you have to have a consultation where they tell you everything that could possibly happen. when i had my wisdom teeth out they told me that it was possible that they could cut a nerve and one whole side of my face would become paralyzed. i didn't want to hear that. i wonder if the doctors told this poor lady that this could happen.
consitutional amendment to ban gay marriage
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As drafted, the proposal says:
"Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution nor the constitution of any state under state or federal law shall be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups."
To be added to the Constitution, the proposal must be approved by two-thirds of the House and the Senate and ratified by three-fourths of the states.
clear duct tape
at last there is an alternative to the silver.
ashton kutcher to play batman
no, you're not being punked. i thought george clooney really blew it but i'm sure ashton will screw it up even worse.
new airport xray
Susan Hallowell, director of the Transportation Security Administration's security laboratory, sacrificed a large measure of her own modesty Wednesday to demonstrate the problem.
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The agency hopes to modify the machines with an electronic fig leaf - programming that fuzzes out sensitive body parts or distorts the body so it does not appear so, well, graphic.
something tells me they're gonna have to get the level of detail on this waaay down before the general public is gonna be cool with them using it.
ps3 cell chip getting closer
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Sony is thought to be working on the development of an entirely new operating system to take advantage of the parallel processing and high speed networking capabilities of Cell, and this would be expected to feature on all devices powered by the processor.
Some commentators have speculated that if Cell products are being demonstrated by next March, an appearance by PlayStation 3 at E3 the following May is likely; however, going on previous track record, Sony is unlikely to use E3 2004 as a showcase for the PS3, preferring to emphasise the PlayStation 2 range and, of course, the forthcoming PlayStation Portable. An unveiling at a special event later in 2004 is a much more likely option for our first glimpse of PlayStation 3.
rent jose
you too can rent jose canseco for a day.
Canseco has set up one of the most compelling shopping carts on the Web. Any youngster with $2,500 to spare can rent Canseco for an afternoon and frolic with the former All-Star and home run champ at his Florida pad.
imported cow waste
don't we already have our own supply of this.
They will use the dung and urine produced by the thousands of stray cattle on the city's roads.
The dung will be processed into compost while the urine will be converted into a biopesticide.
The city council estimates it will be able to produce 160 tonnes of compost and 70,000 litres of bio-pesticide each day.
glow-in-the-dark fish
when these are available here, i'll try the fish thing again. i think the lighting was my trouble all along...
xbox 2 in 2006
sticking with the ps3 i think.
girl marries dog
proud to be an american and not a member of the santhal tribe.
ps2 to wireless network
linksys has introduced a device that will get your ps2 onto your wireless network the WET11 bridges any enthernet-equipped device to a wireless network.
cool.
careful what you download
you may end up with a damaged computer.
ama says cloning ok
the ama says cloning is "medically ethical for research purposes only." no it's not.
no more roe v wade?
i just saw norma mccorvey, aka jane roe, on fox news. she has filed to have roe v wade overturned. apparently she has had a change of heart...good.
hatfields and mccoys feud no more
Descendants of the Hatfield and McCoy families gathered Saturday in Pikeville to sign the truce, making a largely symbolic and official end to a feud that had claimed at least a dozen lives from the two mountain families.
phew...glad that's over.
naked man scares shark to death
thieves steal fake phones
“What the thieves did not know is that they were dummy display phones,” said Andrea Iraheta, spokeswoman for the company.
idiots.
wal-mart dvd rental
in case you missed it wal-mart has its own dvd rental service which is very comparable to netflix. basically you rent unlimited dvd's for $15.54 a month. netflix's lowest rung is $19 but you get to have 3 DVD's out at a time, as opposed to wal-mart's 2.
i'm a fan of free enterprise and all but i hate to see wal-mart jump in to a new market, copying someone elses business model and then sink them. maybe it won't happen.
transformers the movie
i'm so there.
of course...i guess you have to consider the source.
internet don juan
You get the idea.
Col. Kass Saleh of the U.S. Army was part of the force that fought the Taliban in Afghanistan, work fraught with peril and often lonely. But apparently not that lonely. The Army said Wednesday it is looking into allegations that he managed to line up dozens of prospective wives back in the United States and Canada whom he met through Internet dating services. Virtually all of them posted ads on a site called tallpersonals.com, which specializes in men and women who are taller than average.
In recent days, as his chronic courting has come to light, some of the betrayed women have compiled a list of 49 women who were romanced by him. The women are heartbroken and intent on revenge. They have complained to the Army that they want to see him court-martialed.
well i hate to say that's what they get but...i will. that's what you get.
suicide chicken
A member of the public alerted the authorities after seeing a fanatical fowl charging around the city sporting canisters and wires. Quite rightly, the police responded in force and, after cornering the bird in an alleyway with the aid of the bomb disposal squad, safely "put down" the terrorist threat. No explosives were subsequently found.
cool camera
very small, very cool, very powerful and very expensive digital camera. only available in japan though.
junk food tax
i really hope no one in washington notices this.
The British Medical Association (BMA) is discussing a proposal to charge 17.5% VAT on high-fat foods such as biscuits, cakes and processed meals.
250th post!!
mt-refsearch
i just added eliot landrum's mt-refsearch. basically search engines do a pretty crappy job of indexing blogs. people come here via google or what not and are directed to the home page instead of the archives where the information they have come in search of lives forever. mt-refsearch detects that the user has come from a search engine and then automatically searches my blog for those same terms and returns the top 5 entries matching those terms. if you wanna see it in action use this search or this one.
this is the first of many improvements and elements of redesigning i'm working on. basically cause i want to make a change. if you have any suggestions leave a comment.
gollum wins
if you didn't know, gollum, from "lord of the rings the two towers", won "best virtual performance" at the mtv movie awards, beating such notables as scooby doo, yoda and kangaroo jack. his acceptance speech is definitely worth seeing. there's a bit of bleeping out but it's pretty funny.
grinding nemo
it's all a hoax. flushing fish does not result in them being freed to the ocean as disney & pixar would have us believe.
A company that manufactures equipment used to process sewage issued a press release Thursday warning that drain pipes do lead to the ocean -- eventually -- but first the fluid goes through powerful machines that "shred solids into tiny particles."
duh.
teens teaching fbi
three teenage girls are teaching the fbi how to chat like them so they can catch pedophiles online.
"They're, like, do you like Michael Jackson?" said Karen, 14, rolling her eyes at just how out of it adults can be.
Probably the youngest instructors ever in an FBI classroom, the girls have become an invaluable help to Operation Innocent Images -- an initiative that tries to stop people from peddling child pornography or otherwise sexually exploiting children, FBI officials said.
say it ain't so bad sammy
according to wired, corking bats isn't such a big deal. well, except for the whole being against the rules thing.
"You have a slightly lighter bat, and you're going to hit the ball a little less far," said retired Yale professor Robert K. Adair, the author of The Physics of Baseball.
submit your nominees
They're all nominees for the first annual World Stupidity Awards, a dubious honour to be bestowed June 6 - whether they like it or not - on some of Canada's, and the world's, most recognizable public figures. "Some people think we're joking with these awards," organizer Albert Nerenberg said Friday in a news release.
dead man talking
so this candid camera shoot didn't go exactly as expected.
just do the time
all this for 3 months in jail...
Remi Tsolakis was taken to a hospital and received surgery to try and restore his eyesight, doctors said.
Tsolakis was arrested late Monday after flying to Athens from the island of Rhodes. Airport authorities discovered he had an outstanding three-month jail sentence for a minor offence.
meat bearing trees
when they have cows bearing grapefruits, then they will have gone too far.
Fruit from the new Meat Trees, developed by British scientists using gene-splicing technology, closely resembles ordinary grapefruit. But when you peel the large fruit open, inside is fresh beef.
iloo was a hoax..well maybe not
In a statement issued last night Microsoft UK had this to say.
The MSN iLoo was not false or a hoax.
It follows a UK strategy to bring the Internet to as many people in Britain as possible and encourage debate about how the Internet can affect our lives now and in the future.
It follows other initiatives such as MSN Street and MSN Internet Bench where we placed the Internet in real world scenarios.
The press announcement was a UK story about a UK market initiative and naturally was aimed at British culture and humour. However it was a serious concept that came about after the success of MSN Internet Bench. It was properly researched to concept stage with product designers and specialist manufacturers to see how people would react to it in the UK. It was always meant to be a one-off pilot not a major manufacturing project.
The attention the story generated has made us sure that the concept is valid, however there was some misunderstanding about the context of the initiative along the way and therefore it will not be built.
once again microsoft proves itself.. something
deadly dead fish
apparently these frat boys didn't practice their skit beforehand.
Junior business economics major Kevin Sanderson was sent to the hospital Sunday after a mishap in the belly flop competition at the Delta Gamma Anchor Splash. Sanderson entered the competition with three of his Sigma Chi fraternity brothers - Jeff Thorp, Sten Ericson and Gavin Kelly - and three dead catfish. During the course of events, Sanderson ended up with a fish stuck to his face and a trip to the hospital.
"It was hilarious," Sanderson said. "The guys were laughing and I was laughing too, but the girls were all screaming."
As part of their performance, the fraternity brothers threw the three catfish into Campus Pool, performed their belly flops, swam after the fish and then planned to beat each other in the head with them. Unaware that their fish of choice- the catfish - have sharp, pronged spines in their pectoral and dorsal fins, Thorp began pummeling Sanderson over the head with one of the fish.
"It was part of the skit to hit each other," Thorp said. "If he hadn't hit me, I would have hit him."
The final blow came when one of the fish's inch-long spines got stuck in Sanderson's forehead.
priceless.
superman name is a no-go
just in case you ever thought about naming your kid "superman"
Aside from collecting taxes, the authority also oversees rules for names in the Scandinavian country. Officials have nixed the plan of a couple to name their baby Superman.
mike price mess
this whole thing with mike price has brought quite a bit of negative attention to the university. i think they made the right call, especially with some new info that has come out in the sports illustrated article about it. the best quote from the article is from the owner of "arety's angel's", the infamous strip club where price spent his evening in florida.
i feel for price, but if he does has an alcohol problem, which this incident and some previous incidents may indicate, this is probably best for him. i wish him well and of course can't wait to see what mike shula can do with the tide now.
roll tide.