“MPAA to Public: All your intermets are belong to us!” The short version: music/movie lobbyists want “network monitoring” provisions in the broadband stimulus bill, to track what you’re doing in the name of anti-filesharing. Snip from Public Knowledge post: Hollywood’s lobbyists are running all over the Hill to sneak in a copyright [...]

Ok, now that’s WAY outta control!

Puny carrots in the produce aisle in your local grocery store not turning your crank? Tokyobling blog ran across this carrot shown above at a supermarket in Tokyo.
Apparently, it’s a breed called the “Javelot” long carrot (I can imagine where they get the name: what do you get when you [...]

Who cut the cheese? Cheese pizza I mean
There are all kinds of pizza cutters on the market. There’s one for everyone’s style and personality. The Pizza Pro 3000 Circular Saw pizza slicer is for manly men, while this $20 pair of pizza scissors is more suited to those crafty Martha Stewart types.

 
Wow this octopus is good
While persons with dissociative disorders, or multiple personalities, have been known to have as many as 100 personalities, they have not been known to morph into totally different creatures — except in the movies, of course. But one cephalopod, the Indo-Malayan octopus, totally transforms itself into at least 15 different sea [...]

A new house or these speakers you make the choice
Look, these NBS speakers are interesting looking if not beautiful, I’ll hand them that. And I’m sure they sound absolutely spectacular. But $200,000 for a set of speakers? You may have picked a bad time to come out with offensively-overpriced audio equipment, NBS.

 
A team with more drama than a middle school girls love life
A Postion-By-Position Guide to the Most Hated Yankees Ever
Buzz up!

The article below sums it up perfectly by saying a split second from oblivion
A split second from oblivion, he saunters across a level crossing, seemingly oblivious to the train thundering towards him.

 
defined by a mouth full!!
A new paper in PLoS Biology reports that a common gene regulatory circuit controls the development of all dentitions, from the first teeth in the throats of jawless fishes that lived half a billion years ago, to the incisors and molars of modern vertebrates, including you and me.

The experiments strongly suggest that the jets are fired out more like bullets or buckshot
Some of the most breathtaking objects in the cosmos are the jets of matter streaming out of stars, but astrophysicists have long been at a loss to explain how these jets achieve their varied shapes. Now, laboratory research detailed in the [...]

 
Dramatic Rise In Sea Level
Scientists have found proof in Bermuda that the planet’s sea level was once more than 21 meters (70 feet) higher about 400,000 years ago than it is now.

Potentially Affecting Climate And Crops
The leaves of soybeans grown at the elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) levels predicted for the year 2050 respire more than those grown under current atmospheric conditions, researchers report, a finding that will help fine-tune climate models and could point to increased crop yields as CO2 levels rise.

What That Has To Do With Climate Change
Two Brigham Young University researchers who just returned from Antarctica are reporting a hardy worm that withstands its cold climate by cranking out antifreeze. And when its notoriously dry home runs out of water, it just dries itself out and goes into suspended animation until liquid water brings [...]