Jane Balder who played Diana, leader of the aliens in the original V miniseries and series is officially part of Season 2 of the series reboot, playing another Diana, the mother of Anna (Morena Baccarin), the current V leader. I might actually watch Season 2...

For Caprine. Hell, for everyone.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/09/09/new-line-of-german-stuffed-animals-with-mental-illnesses/

They're depressingly cute.

This is why I will never go on a cruise ship...
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/09/terrifying-vide.php

This video is not faked...

Details on the event (happened back in 2008): Leave a comment  2 

This stainless steel wallet blocks the ability of hackers to access your credit cards with RFID chips in them (as whswhs recently mentioned some concerns about the hacking...)

http://dvice.com/archives/2010/09/rfid-blocking-s.php

Life has often already arrived at great solutions to problems.

Good picture here of experiment: http://dvice.com/archives/2010/09/scientists-disc.php

Better article here: Leave a comment

What happened Conjecture folks? You used to have a really kewl program that allowed us to vote on things and establish interest in programs, give you our bio, apparently it even helped you determine conflicts? I feel like we've stepped a bit back into the Dark Ages. After that questionnaire we were sent, we now get a pretty blank program schedule. ( Read more... )

Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. If you haven't seen them, some were entertaining.

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Hey all you Vor campaign players...if you don't already have it, the Vorkosigan Companion is now out in paperback in a notice from LMB herself. She does a lot of updating on FB too...

Not a joke. Real life Beer Goggles.
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/08/yeast-combined.php

Sings *She's got really yeasty eyes...*

Thought you'd all find this AUTHENTIC and functional Victorian prosthesis quite interesting:
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/objects/display.aspx?id=5936&image=1