September 17, 2005

Tongue-eating bug found in fish. It gobbles up a fish's tongue to a stub and then replaces it with its own body.

Woman complains to cops after hitman she hired fails to get the job done.

Boy gets beat up at school after wearing a shirt depicting two black people being dragged behind a car. This is what he had to say about the incident: "I'm not racist or anything. It's just, some people I hate, some people I don't get along with. And black people just happen to be the ones because they think they're better than everyone else."

September 16, 2005

Suresh Joachim broke the Guinness world record for the longest time spent watching TV at 69 hours and 48 minutes.

A self-portrait by Rembrandt has been recovered by Danish police, nearly five years after it was stolen in a daring raid on Sweden's National Museum.

Anchorage zookeepers are installing a seven-ton treadmill to keep an isolated elephant from getting fat during the long, cold Alaskan winters.

Researchers have built an inchworm-like robot so small you need a microscope just to see it.

Researchers find a baby dinosour footprint. And it's tiny.

When Lego executives recently discovered that adult fans of the iconic plastic bricks had hacked one of the company's new development tools for digital designers, they did a surprising thing: They cheered.

How to shuffle and cut a deck of cards one-handed. This would have been more helpful with pictures.

Nintendo Revolution controller. It's actually different than any other controller before it. The possibilities are intriguing.

September 15, 2005

Boston's Gabe Kapler ruptured his left Achilles' tendon while rounding second base on a home run.

Bill Gates Goes To College. Napoleon Dynamite spoof shown at PDC 2005.

How Atomic Fireballs are made. A virtual tour.

All reported domain sales of $10,000 or more in the first half of 2005. $700,000 for a domain? Impressive.

A Chinese cosmetics company is using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe. That's not disgusting at all.

Microsoft Max. Trying to take on Flickr?

Hummer laptop. The most unnecessary laptop ever.

Five things I'd ask every Supreme Court nominee if I sat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. "If you knew to an absolute moral certainty that you could capture and consume a live infant without being caught, how many do you suppose you could eat in a weekend?"

Paper X-Wings out of a ticket stub. Impressive workmanship.

President Bush asks Condoleezza Rice for a bathroom break. That's just funny.