do big compression jobs in parallel with threaded, for SMP machines.

Brain rhythms may be at the root of some neurological disorders and may be treatable with deep brain electrical stimulation.

It returns.

"Outgoing Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is pushing for action in December on a plan to offer free, pornography-free wireless Internet service to all Americans"  I’m sure no porn would ever show up there.

antibiotic development is lagging behind new bug development

This post takes a look at the speed – latency and throughput – of various subsystems in a modern commodity PC, an Intel Core 2 Duo at 3.0GHz.

An Italian masterpiece which was hidden in the attic of a French chateau for 200 years because its owners thought it was too risque is expected to sell for up to £1 million at auction.

MIT spending $25 million to save the story!

distributed network of computers with motion sensors, detecting quakes

suicide prevention via rick warren and creationism. yeah.

writer and BBC documentarian who seeks out and finds the weird

Soul Cleansing, hoop yoga, Medicine Entheogen Intention, The Sacred Energy eXchange (S.E.X.) Temple, and Spontaneous Yoga Portals. What a rabbit warren of excitement we have going on here!

Someone who has read too much Asimov wants to use robots to avoid violating the Geneva conventions.

Lots of talk about gentrification due to light rail. Oddly not much talk about the bonus of rail commute for poor people.

transcripts of six emergency help phone calls, annotated

Best use of CGI Anubis. One hopes it’s the only use of a CGI Anubis.

"Emily the Strange" stolen from children’s book

some detail and analysis about the mumbai attacks

camel play with bucket. camel like bucket.

Very, very strange theme restaurants.

Very simple weather forecast based on your IP.

obamify yourself in photobooth with shephard fairey style plugin

Stash seems to have been intended for buried shaman to use in the afterlife. 2700 years ago it was 4:20!

A woman who won a date with a man a radio station called a "great" catch is suing the station for promoting the man, who had a criminal history and allegedly sexually assaulted her on the date she won.

great monster poster art