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

We promised not to give bonuses so we’re calling these "cash awards"  for "retention"  $3 million to the retirement exec? Nice.

Maxim spent some time with legendary Mortal Kombat announcer Hernan Sanchez, during which time they did exactly what I would do in that situation – make him say silly things in a menacing voice.

feeding hippo with puppet

recommends users, tags, bookmarks

designer of games, including irl adventures

large list of high-quality elephant jokes

dingle? weenie?

Area disease not inclusive enough to warrant charity, says student association. Forehead slap from others heard the world ’round.

The Last Psychiatrist is a weblog about our failure to be critical. Why do we practice the way we practice? How do we know what we know?

"President Obama should demand and receive a full briefing by his military services and intelligence agencies regarding the extraterrestrial presence and related phenomena…"

buy nothing… except BEER

everything is explained by a few simple graphs here, folks

big chunks of science and econ data hosted at aws

The Disney Haunted Mansion ride in Counterstrike