News: US Navy ships fires on Polish Port...on accident

Accidentally. Accidentally. While cleaning a machine gun, it went off. Fired three rounds in the port. No one was hurt. Thankfully, because that means I can laugh now. HAHA!

List: 15 things guys lose to a relationship

It just happens. Nothing really to be done about it. And, yeah, some of these are a bit over-exaggerated, but many of them are spot on, too.

News: Mesa woman breaks stripper pole, falls, sues sports bar

I don't know all the details...so I really can't say much...except that this is funny.

Study: US needs FEWER science students

They problem, according to said study, isn't that there aren't enough science students...but that the students don't go into science/tech jobs. Many are taking MIS-like degree enhancers and going into business. Until corporations need to pay science/tech employees better than the managers who manage them...many of the best and brightest techies will go to the bigger salary, not to the job we need them in. And with more and more tech students, there is lower demand...and therefore, lower wages for those tech jobs. Catch-22 much?

News: Schwarzenegger Flips Off Lawmakers in Hidden Message

Couldn't pass this one up. Read the letter sent by the Guvinator to lawmakers. Then read JUST the first letters of each line. Enjoy.

Awesome: Nathan Fillion dresses as Mal on new show, Castle

As a Halloween costume, but none the less!!! Someone asks 'Didn't you wear that 5 years ago?' Priceless. Why yes...yes he did.

News: Google Voice Light means free voicemail transcription!

OK. This is awesome. The reason I (and apparently most people) were kind of wary about joining up with Google Voice was the necessity to use your Google Voice phone number in order to get all the cool features. This means updating all your contact info and having everyone use your new phone number. BUT NO MORE!

Now, mobile users can sign up and use their CURRENT mobile phone number to utilize a small but not insignificant set of cool features. This includes the transcription of voicemail to text (which can be sent via e-mail OR SMS text), the ability to save voicemail forever even if you switch carriers, and other fun stuff.

It only it wasn't in invite-only beta....if only.

News: Companies to debut retina display tech as soon as next year

Woohoo!!! Forget heads-up displays. Think about displays that appear about a meter in front of you. Just information floating in the air in your peripheral vision. SWEET! I want to feel like a cyborg. Get some wireless connectivity standards and think of the possibilities. Jump in your car, it interfaces and shows you your dashboard info on the sides of your vision...not down on the dash. Sit at your TV, and get stats from the game you're watching, right in front of you. Add some kind of manual interface device and be able to CHANGE that information dynamically based on what you see and how to want the info to change. EEEEEE!!!!

Sweet: XKCD redesigned to commorate Geocities shutdown

This is pretty cool. Yahoo Geocities is probably the first interaction with the web that MOST people had, visiting and/or building sites. Myself included. So, to see it end is sad. But to see XKCD.com redesigned in perfect 1990 Geocities layout...is priceless.

Comics: ZITS ZOMBIE WEEK!

Woot!

News: Olympic flame successfully lit by sun in Olympia

The Olympic flame can now make its way to Vancouver. The flame was successfully lit by the sun's rays in an ancient ceremony Thursday...ready to start its journey to Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Games.

List: 5 things Wired likes about the Barnes & Noble Nook

I still want one. I'm getting closer and closer to getting one. Free book reading in the store? With free Wi-Fi in the store? Nifty...

News: Former Miss California Prejean sued for breast implant cash

First of all, HAHAHAHAHA. Second, what the hell is the Miss California pageant saying to women? That even if you ARE the most beautiful girl in California, you aren't good enough? WTF? They gave her money to get a boob job. A beauty pageant winner. Seriously. Funny thing, from the article, the Executive Director of the pageant is quoted as saying that the money they get from the two lawsuits (the other being a suit to get all the profits from the tell-all book Prejean will release next month in breach of her pageant contract), will go to charity that 'promotes the values of our organization.' So, a plastic surgery clinic then?

News: Plagiarism-Detection software links play to Shakespeare

Pretty cool. The software matched 200 strings from other Shakespeare plays to this work, 'The Reign of Edward III.' According to the article, works by two different authors will usually only have around 20 matching strings. This leads the company to believe, with high probability, that the play is indeed Shakespeare, co-wrote by Thomas Kyd.

News: MN swine test positive for H1N1; 1st US case in swine

Uh oh. Pork futures will be taking a dive. Fast. Pork chops with swine flu built in? Yummy.