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The US Navy Special Forces will have a new high speed experimental craft with a very small wake.  Great photos.

Roughly 550 million years ago the first complex animals, such as
trilobites, appear in the fossil record. Many scientists have concluded
that an increase in the amount of atmospheric oxygen was critical to
the relatively sudden evolution of these animals.

It used to be a practice confined to pacts with the devil, but now
an anonymous vendor in America is attempting to sell the soul of the
London whale.

Unemployed British radio producer Karl Pilkington has become an
unlikely superstar by using the new medium of podcasting for his
bizarre statement about eating an animal’s private parts.

He didn’t have to go, it wasn’t his job and nobody paid him to do
it. But Michael Yon says he went to Iraq because he wanted to see for
himself what was happening in the war zone.

Four questions for the freeway exit-ramp beggars

I live in an area of Los Angeles where trashcans urge us to love one
another, obituaries are scrawled in spraypaint on the steps of public
stairways, and every sidewalk stain has a sad story left untold.

The Homeland Security Department is scheduled to test federal and
private-sector readiness for cyberattacks next week, an industry
executive said.

Janos Marton:  I already had a powerful computer setup so I wanted something more
quiet, small and low power consumptioning to function as a basic home
server. I love to tinker with hardware etc. so I wanted to make something
quite unique for a case.

What do you get when you add music to your exoskeleton device? Strange music for sure. Great photos.

Enryu’s 15-foot arms are powerful enough to lift a small passenger car,
and its hands are almost as dexterous as a human being’s. And the
5-ton, 11.5-foot robot may soon be helping communities across Japan
reach avalanche sites and clear snow, as the nation struggles to deal
with its snowiest winter in decades.  Great photo.

Why would any self
respecting geek care about an acoustic musical instrument invented 30 years ago by a hippy artist in San Francisco?
Because everyone has heard a Waterphone, they just don’t know it.  Great photos.

Electric motor attached to a wheel attached to a handlebar.  Does this look like fun or what.

George Dvorsky: 
In the 1995 anime sci-fi classic, Ghost in the
Shell, a futuristic world was envisioned in which cybernetic
individuals routinely operate in the virtual world as easily as in the
real one. Transhuman cybernetic minds are inextricably connected to the
cyber-realm, leaving them vulnerable to attacks.

It’s no wonder why banks now rate so high in the customer abuse index. In an attempt to throw another landmine into the mix,
Barclaycard customers who pay their bills in full each month may have their payment date suddenly brought forward.