Honeybees are found to interact with Quantum fields

Jane Bennet tagged Elizabeth Bennet in her note Bad News About Lydia.

Spock Proxy supports range-based horizontal paritioning of a large MySQL database. The proxy intercepts SQL queries from the client, sends queries to the correct databases based on how the database is partitioned, then aggregates the results from each database and returns them to the client as a regular MySQL result set.

well designed toys for nerds

Attractively done food site. Everything links from images.

The founder of the Whisky A Go Go and possibly the inventor of the Go Go dancer has died.

Yet another reason to detest AARP

including 3 eyed beetle, big flat frog

lots of stuff made from balloons. I like the van gogh and the tank best

Max Planck Institute thinks they put classic Chinese poem on cover. Turns out to be strip club ad.

vinegar obsession

tacky screensaver brings you total happiness and success forever!

A bible bound in purple crocodile leather.

remote controlled droid tower with sensors, machine guns, missiles

Smallish death robot. Carries rockets that kill at 30 meters and can hop over a 1 meter obstacle.

Yeah, it’s a sewing machine autographed by Metallica.

scienticians induce out of body experience

Red and Jonny bought their first Stormtrooper helmets on their honeymoon, and haven’t stopped taking photos of themselves in them ever since.

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