The staff of ZDNet’s Tech Update site was laid off not long ago. They apparently liked each other enough to put themselves up for sale on eBay as a working unit. Unfortunately, this must violate some term or condition or something; because eBay appears to have killed the sale. Just as well. After 15 bids […]
Continue reading...You Have the Right to Remain Silent. Please.
A bumper crop from Ananova An Ohio man accused of dialling a sex chat line says he ended up talking dirty to a police chief because he misdialled.
Continue reading...Bicycling Causes Infertility. Or is it the Other Way Around?
There have been a few studies indicating that excessive bicycling can cause male impotence or infertility. Here’s a case where the reverse is true Again, from Ananova: Indian family planning officials are offering men a 」20 bicycle if they undergo a vasectomy.
Continue reading...It Wasn’t Frankincense, But We Haven’t Ruled Out Myrrh.
From Ananova: Marijuana seized by police in Chicago last month turned out to be hay from a church Nativity scene.
Continue reading...Have A Heart. Or Not.
Angela Gunn reminds me that it’s nearly Valentine’s Day. No, it’s not like that. She’s complaining about this year’s crop of Necco hearts. There’s a lot to complain about, apparently. Necco says they sell 8 billion candy hearts between January 1 and Valentine’s Day. You want a customized message? You’d better like it a lot, […]
Continue reading...TIA Funding Snuffed, But…
The U.S. Senate, in an inexplicable display of sense, yesterday killed funding for the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness program. The TIA, you may recall, is a DARPA program that hoped to suck in every piece of electronic information about everyone in the world, then examine it to find evidence of terror plots. This obvious invasion of Americans’ […]
Continue reading...Who Gets to Tell Wolverine That He’s Not Human?
OK, boys and girls. Here’s today’s comic book question: Are the X-Men human or not? How about the Fantastic Four? Spiderman? Is exposure to gamma rays enough to cause expulsion from the race of Homo Sapiens? Genetic mutation? Spider bite? The question’s not from some fanboy bull session at a comixcon. No, it’s from the […]
Continue reading...Emergency Telecom System
Isaac Asimov once said that the sound of science isn’t “Eureka.” It’s “That’s interesting…” Same’s true of journalism. An article floated across my screen yesterday to the effect that T-Mobile is rolling out “wireless priority service” in 15 markets, as part of its contract with the federal goverment. WPS was described as “priority cell telephone service […]
Continue reading...Part of a Balanced Portfolio
Jose Luis Betancourt hit the Texas Lotto before Christmas. Won $7.5 million. But if Texas works like a lot of other states, that’s before taxes and payable over something like 20 years. The cash value today — what the Lottery Commission would cut a check for — was probably something south of $2 million. Not […]
Continue reading...More Bad News for the Red Sox
Researchers find that a cloned cat hardly acts or looks like its “parent.” (Gotta love the name of the second generation kitty….) The body of Ted Williams, the BoSox slugger, is on ice someplace in Arizona. Why? One guess is that his son hopes that Teddy Baseball can be cloned at some indeterminate time in the future. […]
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