These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 06/25/08 … please enjoy:
The Itch | The New Yorker
The human body is a scary, scary thing! This is about an itch so intense that it caused a woman to actually scratch through her skull to her brain.
Actor Sparks BK-Card Freakout | Advertising Age
Burger King got a deluge of publicity after the blogosphere picked up on a London Times interview with Hugh Laurie, who told the paper his celebrity perks include his "Burger King gold card." There's one hitch, however: He doesn't actually have one.
Is Google News scapegoating technology to cover up its inherent flaw? | NetworkWorld
Google blamed a technical problem for the delay on reporting the death of Tim Russert of NBC News this month and said it was not a sign that its news site, whose content is compiled entirely by computer programs, lacks timeliness.
Recording Industry Decries AM-FM Broadcasting as 'A Form of Piracy' | Wired.com
The recording industry and U.S. radio companies have squared off for decades about whether AM and FM radio broadcasters should pay royalties to singers, musicians and their labels.
Mad Science: Could You Shoot Bendy Bullets, Just Like in "Wanted"? | IO9
MYTH: Wesley Gibson and a few select others have a special, super-shooting ability that makes it possible for them to curve the trajectories of the bullets they shoot.
FACT: Don't try this at home!
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These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 04/22/08 … please enjoy:
World’s Greatest Cunning Stunt | Google Sightseeing
We?ve all been there - the camera is on us, and we suddenly feel a burning desire to impress it. Sadly, not everything turns out how we plan. Check out this awesome stunt, captured by the GoogleMobile!
A chart showing public acceptance of evolution in 34 countries. | LiveScience
A chart showing public acceptance of evolution in 34 countries. The United States is ranked near the bottom, only above Turkey and just below Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, and Bulgaria.
The Most Annoying Song Ever, Scientifically Speaking | Gizmodo
Russian-American artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid conducted a poll a few years back of the music people hated the most, and they’ve compiled all of it into a single 23-minute long song odyssey of suck.
Laser Pointers Classed as Weapons in Australia | Slashdot
An article in the Sydney Morning Herald which says that New South Wales will prohibit the possession of certain types of laser pointers, defining them as weapons. Wow.
VitalJacket: Heart Monitor And T-Shirt in One | Gizmodo
Some of the same kind of health telemetry that the French army may be using could be yours in the new VitalJacket product: it’s a smart T-shirt with a built-in electrocardiogram monitor!
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These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 04/01/08 … please enjoy:
Exclusive: Hands-on video with the 3G iPhone | CNET
n easily the largest scoop CNET.co.uk has ever had, two days ago our mobile phone editor Andrew Lim was invited to Taiwan, along with a select group of other journalists from around the world, for a sneak preview of the 3G iPhone.
Helvetica Serif | The Serif
FontFont have announced that they are to release Helvetica Serif, following the discovery of drawing of that typeface by Max Miedinger. The sketches which were discovered by Miedinger?s granddaughter have been redrawn to create the digital version shown
CIA demands UK halts interrogation tactics | The Register
A human rights lawsuit filed on behalf of prominent US government agencies - including the Central Intelligence Agency and the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base - has been filed in a European Court. The lawsuit, which plaintiffs also sent to Foreign Minister Davi
Gmail Custom Time | Gmail
Just click “Set custom time” from the Compose view. Any email you send to the past appears in the proper chronological order in your recipient’s inbox. You can opt for it to show up read or unread by selecting the appropriate option.
RAPIL - a slap in the face for hackers and virus writers | Sophos
An exciting day in SophosLabs. After long and arduous efforts, we announce our new beta technology offering to defeat the hackers, which we are currently referring to as RAPIL (Recognition and Analysis of Potentially Intruding Lifeforms).
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EDIT (April 2nd) - Gotcha! April Fools!!
Google has unveiled a project they have been rumored to be working on for the past few years… Project Virgle. As a science geek, you can see why this excites me!!
For thousands of years the human race has spread out across the Earth, scaling mountains and plying the oceans, planting crops and building highways, raising skyscrapers and atmospheric CO2 levels, and observing, with tremendous and unflagging enthusiasm, the Biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply across our world’s every last nook, cranny and subdivision.
Earth has issues, and it’s time humanity got started on a Plan B. So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.
Click here to find out more about this ground breaking project!! Project Virgle @ Google
EDIT (April 2nd) - Gotcha! April Fools!!
I will now be dishing out some sweet, sweet adsense ads on my blog. They’re not that flashy, so it shouldn’t disturb most people, and if it ends up being a hassle, I’ll just remove them. I figure it’ll be a nice experiment to see what happens! 
