I think it's awesome that this fish can walk around on land for up to four days! A cheesy horror movie should be made based on this creature, the best thing about it would be that it is real. Look at those awesome teeth!
There is an awesome blog post on ArsGeek about this, you should go read it!
UC Berkeley is starting to post it's lectures and courses on Youtube. They currently have about 300 hours worth of video online now and will continue to expand.
Looks like iTunes is now going to have some awesome competition. I'm really not sure why anyone would buy from the iTunes store now that you can get DRM-free mp3s from Amazon. I might actually now be willing to buy music online since we are finally now seeing the long-awaited death of DRM.
Amazon uses a 256 kbps bitrate and sells their mp3s for 89-99 cents a track. iTunes uses only a 128 kbps bitrate and sells thier DRM-infested tracks for 99 cents. They do offer some higher quality 256 kbps bitrate DRM-free tracks, but you can looks to pay $1.39 for those.
I love Apple, but it does look like they are slipping hold on their market dominance. Add in the news about NBC pulling their shows from the iTunes store, and it's apparent that Apple is going to have to do something to keep their market share up.
This study was done mostly as a joke, but actually resulted in an interesting find. The find being that with a group of students all taking the same exam, the students that chewed gum came out with better test scores than the students that did not chew gum.
The 591 students were all given a pack of gum before the exam. The students that were actually chewing gum during the exam came out with a mean score of 90 where the class mean being 78. Students the Chewed none of the pack before exam had a mean score of 60, those that chewed some of it had 81, and the students that chewed it all had a mean score of 86.
It's to be noted that this was an informal study. I personally think it coincidental, but maybe there will be more studies done. It states in the article that chewing gum actually increases the flow of blood to the brain, so it does actually kinda make sense that it would help with testing and such.
Claiming the most remarkable science discovery in 100 years.
This article claims that a method for burning salt water has been discovered. Essentially, if you expose salt water to a certain radio frequency, it will weaken the elemental bonds releasing hydrogen and allowing you to burn it.
My favorite part of the article is the fact that the Penn State Chemist doing the research is named Rustum Roy, what an awesome name! :)
I've seen this story pop up on a couple of websites, so I decided I would post it.
There is an extension for Firefox called Adblock Plus [that I've been a long time user of] that blocks ads. Users of Ad-Block can surf the web without the annoyances of the many many ads that plague almost every website. Some website owners are irate because they count on ads to make money. since Ad-Block users are visiting their site without seeing the ads, they think this is essentially stealing.
There seems to be some website owners that are now blocking Firefox users from visiting their site. There is no way to block only Adblock Plus users, so all Firefox users are being blocked. I haven't actually run into any sites doing this, and really doubt is will be a trend. If I ever do run into a site that is blocking Firefox users, so be it, I can go without whatever site that might be.
If you are not already a user of Adblock Plus, you should be. It makes the web so much more pleasant. I'm always amazed at how cluttered the web is when I use someone else's computer.
I was trying to think of some great clever title for this one, but I have failed. It's not a greatly shot video, but it's pretty good none-the-less simply for what happens.
Defcon is a hackers conference. It is attended by hackers, experts in the field of security, press and even feds.
Dateline wanted to capture a great story about Defcon and the evils of the hacker community or some crap like that. I actually read they wanted to catch people doing illegal stuff infront of the federal agents that regularly attend the conference so they could have some great and tristed news story to tell.
Anyways, this is funny because Dateline thought they could slip one by a conference full of people that are into security.
This story is rediculous. This guy records a police officer during a traffic stop and is charged with a felony wiretapping charge with a penalty of up to 7 years in jail. He had a $2,500 bail for this. What I find wrong about this is the wiretapping laws are to protect against privacy, [I feel] police officers should have no expectation of provicay while they are on duty and doing their jobs. well, that's one of many things that is wrong with this. link
More talk and cases of injustices in our legal system? not kidding. Bob Teixeira of North Carolina decided to mod his diesel car so it runs on vegetable oil. Sounds like an awesome and great idea! Break our dependence on foreign oil, and work towards alternative forms of fuel. Our government appearantly doesn't think it's such a cool thing. Bob Teiceira has been fined $1,000 for not paying fuel taxing! Not only that, he has been told to expect another $1,000 fine from the federal goverment, and he would have to post a $2,500 bond if he ever wants to use vegetable oil legally.
this story really isn't that great, but i just want to point out how halarious the pic is. here's a link to the story. the story pretty much says that the kids at this high school didn't pass whatever the TAKS test is, thus they cannot get their deplomas or walk. so, they are protesting. here is the pic for the article, take not of what the signs say.
LET ARE KIDS WALK :) anyways.. . i thought it was funny.
In new york, businesses that serve food and/or drink have to have a licence for dancing. that's some craziness. i suppose there was a protest or something about this in the past week. here's a link link
yep, for anyone who has not already heard, the two satelite radio companies are merging. this does not really effect me because i do not subscribe to either of these services, but this has got to be horrible news for anyone who does. i generally frawn upon this simply because competition is the number one thing that drives quality of any service.
i've been hearing a pretty good bit about this story because it is completely rediculous. a substitute teacher was hit with bad luck and a pop-up storm while in a classroom. this happened a couple years ago when pop-up storms where really at their worse. this woman is being sentence to 40 years in prison. 40 years! that's insane.
Stumble It!
