Trio of super-Earths found - One of these is, I believe though the article doesn't say, the smallest planet yet found. Considering the distances involved, this is rather impressive.

Let's just get this out of the way: I hate dogs. Beyond my borderline phobia, they're smelly, yappy, require entirely too much attention, and that bit where they try to smell your crotch? That's disgusting.

So Warren Ellis' hilarious reaction to a dog getting sucked up by a street sweeper just about had me in tears, I was laughing so hard.

Biologist Richard Lenski has demonstrated evolution in a lab setting, using E. coli bacteria. It took him 12 years and 44,000 generations of the bacteria, but this is some pretty significant work and a major triumph for evolutionary theory.

The US Department of Energy has just created the world's first computer capable of a petaflop, or 1000 ( Read more... )

So, this is pretty cool. Some guy in Sweden has invented paper with almost 80% more tensile strength than iron, so that has some interesting applications. 

Fuck you, Time Warner and Comcast.

This shit is starting to seriously get to me. And where I am, these kinds of limits are already in effect. So much for unlimited information. Bastards.

Oh, and don't believe what they say about "taxing the infrastructure". The transmission lines are there, and new ones are being brought online every day. We all ( Read more... )

So, Sen. Barack Obama has just cinched the Democratic nomination, beating out one-time favorite Sen. Hillary Clinton. Not that this has been unexpected for the last several months, but it is wonderful thing to finally have for sure. Well, as sure as can be until the actual convention; Clinton doesn't seem to be able to see that the writing's on the ( Read more... )

YouTube of Karparov vs. Aerofallosov

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Ride of the....wait, those aren't Valkyries! What the fuck, are those...? Yes, they are. Flying Penises.  Too bad the one goes down so quickly... *inert tasteless joke about some guys' stamina here*

Y'know, most of the time Reuters has some really good stuff, but this is not one of them. There really is nothing new here, no point to be made. It's really just a reporting of multiple statements by various experts, thrown together onto a single page. There is, however, this travesty:

With gas at $4.00 a gallon, households already have less to ( Read more... )

Wolf whistle works, woman strips - Reuters

Whoever this woman is, I think I'm in love.

Canadian pierces lover's hear in botched sex game.

Win.