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 Massive cargo ships that can transport battleships, oil rigs, and power stations. The Bush administration has again slashed cancer research funding to enable corporations to control the speed of research and make more money. "We're at jeopardy of losing a whole generation of scientists, of cancer researchers, and that's undoubtedly going to have an effect 10 years down the line." Reports continue that the Bush administration is provoking Iran to have an excuse to retaliate.  Don't feel bad. [via reddit] Netflix upgraded my account over the weekend to add their streaming video service. While the selection of flicks available to stream is somewhat limited compared to their immense library, movies loaded pretty quickly and looked very good. The feature will be enabled on all Netflix accounts by June 2007. 1 in 8 drug prisoners in the U.S. are in for marijuana-related offenses, costing taxpayers over $1 billion annually. Nearly 800,000 pot-related arrests were made in 2005 bleeding taxpayers of over $8 billion in criminal justice costs. What. The. Fuck. Anna Nicole Kidman's bedside fridge contained methadone, Slim-Fast, and spray butter. Classy gal.  A dude gave a homeless kid a camera and film on the condition that copies of photos be sent after a while. Many of the images are stunning. If you want to make copies of your tunes, DVDs, or whatever, and they're crippled by DRM, here's a fairly comprehensive guide to disabling all of it. See also: BoingBoing's guide to defeating censorware. Top 10 gay animals. Everyone's thought of doing Thriller at a wedding, but these people actually did it. [YouTube] Technology is in the works for a full-scale house printer that squirts liquid construction materials into place to form floors and walls. It could complete a house 200 times faster than traditional methods. Imagine using soy- and grass-based filling. Researchers at MIT have trained a computer to recognize objects as a human brain does. Jodi Applegate at Fort Hamilton Parkway. [Flickr] [referenced YouTube clip]  A lost Leonardo painting could be hiding in Florence, painted on a wall about 1 inch behind another fresco. The technology to find out whether it's there does not yet exist. YouTube and their venture capitalist friends are selling every Google share they got in the buyout. The deal now positively reeks of fraud. New York club BED closed this week after last week's murderous bouncer incident. BED, Avalon, and Crobar have all closed in the last few months. The Morning News put together an extraordinarily comprehensive guide to etiquette in NYC. "A smart guest will consult the host on what type of wine to bring; a smarter guest will bring two bottles." Eddie Murphy pwned at 7th Avenue. [Flickr]  10 myths about Windows Vista that should be summarily dismissed. "All of the media that imported from my XP Windows Media Center computer, including recorded TV programs, played without a problem." Xeni Jardin posted a fantastic screenshot of how Wal-Mart's new digital download service renders in Firefox. To call it a mess would be compassionately inaccurate. The Pentagon has decided to send 20,000 homicidal astronauts to Iraq. "Gen. Petraeus said that the bloodthirsty astronauts would arrive in Baghdad armed with pepper spray, mallets, and rubber tubing, 'and they're not afraid to use them.'" These honeybees blinded a hornet with science. Then killed it. [YouTube] Visualizations On A Plane using faces from the SkyMall catalog. The demographics of the models are somewhat disturbing. [via kottke] The one and only Guitar Hero will be making its way to the Wii. [via Waxy] A list of the winners of the 2007 Plug Awards. Among the honored, Spank Rock for Hip Hop album of the year, Thom Yorke for electronic album of the year, Hot Chip for best album art, and Band of Horses got album of the year, whom I have never heard. Check out Alonso Rodrigo's wearable sleeping bag. Sloths!!! [YouTube] The national news networks react to the death of a bimbo celebrity. "Is Anna Nicole still dead, Wolf?" The Doomsday Vault that will contain samples of the world's crops should something, er, expected happen. The design has been unveiled by the Norwegian government. Characters from The Office rendered as Miis. The Chinese military has been harvesting organs from live prison inmates for decades, if not centuries. Maldroid - Heck No (I'll Never Listen to Techno) [YouTube] Labels: Sunday Reader |
 
  
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