The cat piano – a 1650 device designed to torture cats to entertain royalty. Kinda like Siegfried & Roy

So you think you know all the ways to have fun in the water? Well, here are several ingenious new devices that will give a whole new definition to water sports. Great photos.

YouTube is very much like flickr,
but for videos.

The name says it all.

A scientist walks into a bar. More than 100 people are there, eager
to hear all that she has to say and ask a lot of questions. No joke.

Declarations of emergency in US border states like Arizona and New Mexico have kicked the immigration debate into high gear.

A new suite of free and open tools let you watch TV, make TV, and
recommend TV in a way that’s easier, cheaper and more accessible than
ever before.

The popular view of our ancient ancestors as
hunters who conquered all in their way is wrong, researchers have told
a major US science conference.

Yahoo! is banning the use of allah in email names – even if the letters are included within another name.

According to AOL’s second annual "Love@AOL" survey, a national poll of more than 4,000 unmarried men and women conducted by Opinion Research,
online dating works — 76% of the singles who used online dating sites
reported finding romance, and nearly 60% said they formed long-term
relationships.

The planet’s population is projected to reach 6.5 billion at 7:16 p.m.
EST Saturday, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and its World
Population Clock.

Unlike traditional snow shovels that require bending and lifting heavy
piles of snow with little or no assistance, this wheeled unit uses
adjustable leverage and your own body weight to greatly reduce strain
and effort while quickly clearing driveways and sidewalks in less than
half the time.

This is the first human powered vehicle (HPV) to have a carbon fiber
monocoque chassis, the same material found in the fastest
high-performance Formula 1 automobiles, making it the worlds most
advanced three-wheeled velomobile. Cool photos.

Bloggers of the world, pay attention.  The thing that seperates you from the top blogs listed on Technorati is the number of comments people write on your posts.  Well… that and the sheer volume of traffic they receive, and of course the fact that they have something interesting for readers to read.

Detroit Free Press: Want tax reform? Start with simplifying the system. It is a monster, and like "The Blob," it just keeps growing.

Thousands
of biscuits and sweets are being used to build a cityscape in a London department store. Cool photos.

This website 455,042,511 entries, all of which are prime numbers. You
can also specify a range of any two numbers and have all the primes
inbetween emailed to you.