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ARCHIVE1.8 UPDATED SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 13:27 EST, 2003





The Killer

The adventures of a stone cold hitman



The age of white guilt:

and the disappearance of the black individual.



Silent pump for water cooled PC developed



Political correctness: the scourge of our times

The origin of political correctness



Beginner's guide to assembling your own PC



A fight for free access to medical research

Online plan challenges publisher's dominance



Alabama having a hard time being part of the United States



Italian dilettante discovered E=mc^2 three years before Einstein.



Hanging wall computer

  • Water cooling going mainstream



    • Samorost

    curious Myst-like interactive animation



    Case uses heat pipes for every component



    Gallery of award winning Japanese industrial design

  • via Things



    • "As much as women will say, 'Oh, toxic bachelors are cads, and we don't want them,' they are time and time again drawn to them."

    It's good to be the cad



    Do teens in Asia get English words tattooed on them?

    Disgruntled Asian Tattoo Artist Inks His Revenge



    Japan develops mini nuclear reactor for home and office use



    New and improved birth control pill better than ever



    I'm sorry Dave, but you didn't mean to do that

    Cognitive psychologist Chris Forsythe has been developing cognitive machines that accurately infer user intent, remember experiences with users and allow users to call upon simulated experts to help them analyze situations and make decisions.



    MindFX

    Pill helps gamers score



    Motherboard manufacturer says "Up yours" to the RIAA with new secure IDE

    Motherboard which encrypts all the data on your hard drive. "...hackers and would be information thieves cannot access your hard disk, even if they remove it from your PC"



    The Lazy Girl's Guide To Good Sex



    10 Japanese cars you can't have

    Plus a couple you don't want



    Nerve.com's Pickup Line Contest



    Trademarks

    There is a middle ground between intimidating your customers and defending your trademarks, and we can get there -- if we demand the right advice from our counsel.



    Fellow Gen-Xers it’s time for inter-generational war. We’re about to be blindsided, Pearl-Harbored, politically cold-cocked by our generational nemesis



    The real pirates these days are crime bosses - and the rewards are plentiful.



    Thermal Images of a Motherboard



    Red vs. Blue Kicks Ass



    Holographic memory storage



    The miniskirt is back



    Why not offshore the CEOs?



    Pharmaceutical manufacturer Chiron closed (PETA) by several bomb (PETA) blasts of a suspicious (PETA) origin. Authorities do not know (PETA) what organization is (PETA) responsible



    Big business pushes porn into the mainstream



    Vending machine serves pizza



    Despite attempts to eradicate it, the goatee endures



    Do it yourself high speed T1 line



    Ink cartridges cost more per ounce than Russian caviar



    Big Pharma and the WTO



    The Art of Machines

  • via Reverse Cowgirl



    • Every Tuesday evening, millions of Japanese are moved, often to tears, by the series "Project X: Challengers," which documents in sometimes numbing detail such things as how Japanese engineers after World War II succeeded in pumping crude out of a particularly difficult oil field, building a bridge in western Japan, inventing the electric rice-cooker or coming up with the VHS standard.



    Impossibly cool Japanese watches

  • via Boing Boing



    • All your credit cards are mine

    Huge consumer database (Microsoft Corp, IBM, Sears Roebuck, AT&T, General Electric and Bank of America) cracked



    A water molecule is not really H20



    24 Year old Merrill Lynch whiz kid Daniel Gordon embezzles $43 million

    (that really is his picture)



    nanostructure material extends life of cells 3 or 4 times in vitro



    Cheap perfect 'cultured' diamonds

    The New Diamond Age



    OLEDs

    Electroluminescent LEDs are brighter, use less power, and require no backlight



    Why men don't want to get married



    $75,000 Studebaker XUV is back on track, promising not to be Hummer-like

    New Studebaker? What the fuck



    Black sues black for racism



    Extreme weather to become more frequent



    Uzi and M-16 are old and busted. This one kills more Palestinians faster, better.

    'Tavor' it's the new hotness



    Cybersex Gone Wrong



    Yeah, Whatever

    United Sates of Whatever



    Key to success of Japanese manufacturing: obsessive-compulsive weirdos



    Initiating Mission-Critical Jargon Reduction



    Has the patent system finally broken down?

    the great debate over software patents



    Life imitates art

    thieves rob armored truck just like in the movie Heat



    Can America rule the world?

    Sure we can



    Making a killing:

    the myth of capital's good intentions



    We're all geeks now

    Not so long ago, getting rid of that blinking clock on your VCR was a serious challenge



    Sirtuins

    Enzymes Found to Delay Aging Process Discovery Could Lead to Drugs to Extend Life Span



    debut of the baby translator



    The Bugatti Veyron 16.4



    Nelly's new Pimp Juice



    Suburbs make you fat (probably stupid and boring too)



    Everyone's favorite phosphodiesterase inhibitor has competition

    Two new Viagras heading to market



    Gallery of obsolete computers



    New Tarantino film most violent film ever



    Scientists reveal that Celebrity Worship Syndrome is good for you



    Ten things you didn't know about women



    Jury finds pilot not guilty of evading taxes on $920,000 after IRS can't show anything in federal tax code indicating liability to pay income tax



    Abstract shootem up games... pretty damn cool

    ABA video games



    Motherhood is boring, say young women



    Microbe makes Hell its home



    Netflix for video games



    On Wall Street passion prevails over logic



    Inventor of the "Buy it Now" feature on Ebay awarded $29.5 million.

    Note to self: must "invent" obvious things, and then sue!



    Type an extra zero, cause the stock market to crash



    Free streaming movies.

    It's Another lawsuit waiting to happen so enjoy it while it lasts



    Digital CD Decks Rule!



    "What was I thinking?"

    In their already classic book Judgment Under Uncertainty, psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman find that people are greatly influenced by the way a choice is framed and are considerably more willing to take risks to avoid losses than they are to achieve gains. This may be part of the reason cover-ups tend to be worse than the original scandals.



    Is hip hop holding back white youths?

    (to funny, a must see)



    Smoke em if you got em

    New drug to stop the clock on aging



    Packard Bell Water Cooled System
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