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Jazz great Lionel Hampton died today.

What Hacker Writing Style really tells you is how to write like a geek, not to construct truly hackeresqe bon-mots like '1 M L3T. g1v m3 w4r3Z D00dZ'. For that, you have to go to here.

Ten Things You Learn About Computers From the Movies

Journalistic integrity bows to Nepotism. Singapore squelches an unflattering Bloomberg article and Bloomberg's glad to do it.

This should get some good discussion going about the wealth divide. CBS is scouring the podunks for hicks to star in a reality Beverly Hillbillies show. Genius or Jerry Springer stretched out to a full season?

All the freaks in the house wax ya' walkin' sticks.
P Diddy has ordered female guests at his post MTV Video Music Awards bash to wax their legs and have a manicure.
Shit... I've been kicking that demand to every chickenhead that's stepped up in my set for years, dog! 'Bout time you put an ixnay on the ape-leg, skillz! Puffy ain't nothin but a biter.

The 5 Million Dollar cat.

How hard can it be to create a comic? One team of fools is about to find out over the next 24 hours, and their experiences will be recorded here, live on Ninth Art

More environmental bad news: The sailor's legend of the Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific may actually melt and become a passable, non-legend passage within 10 years. We're in trouble. There's gotta be a conspiracy theorist out there who's tackled one.
"An ice-free Northwest Passage lets ships traveling between Europe and Asia shave more than 4,000 miles off the route through the Panama Canal, and would allow ships to avoid the occasional delays and the passage fees of the canal."

Evil geniuses take note - a startup has developed a tiny tractor beam.

A motorist - not Wyle E. Coyote - used his cigarette lighter to check the fuel level in his tank. He blew up the car and the service station.

Spoken like a true warmonger. Rumsfeld says we don't need Allied support.

Amazing. A man who has been missing since 9/11 just turned up. Dig this: Amnesia. Yep. For the first time ever outside of The Young and the Restless, Amnesia is a legitimate excuse for going missing for a year.
The family did not apply for any of the financial assistance provided to victims' survivors and did not obtain a death certificate, the newspaper said.

Whoa! Fuckedcompany.com is offline for a couple of days, for violating Ford Motor Company's trademarks. Ford went right to their host to have the plug pulled, and apparently got fast action.

Freedom-hating, uber-prude, buffoon John Ashcroft's beaurocratic neo-facist regime makes news again. Great article. If this guy gets any worse, Reagan-era punk rock is going to come back.
With increasing speed, the Justice Department of Attorney General John Ashcroft is starting to resemble the "always vengeful bureaucracy" that crushed Josef K. Recently, in two federal cases, the Justice Department argued that it is within the president's inherent power to indefinitely detain, without any charges, any person, including any United States citizen, whom the president (through the Justice Department) designates an "enemy combatant."

College students are turning away from computer science: Good. More food for me.
...Besides, he said while packing for a Charlottesville dormitory room, "you can't get the chicks with that anymore."

The Fender Hamburglar Guitar. I've been hearing rumors about this thing for years, and I finally found mention of it on the net. It turns out that a wiseacre graphic artist for Fender hid a picture of the mighty Hamburglar in the simulated wood grain of a Jap Strat. He was found out and fired. I've never seen a pic of one of these. If anyone knows of a scan, PLEASE send it to me. I'm nuts about shit like this.

Metafilter ran this, but since I'm a sucker for crop circles, so will I. These cornmowers are getting geekier and geekier. Not satisfied with basic geometric stunts anymore, they're mowing simulated linescan 3/4 headshots overlaid with crypto messages. As rediculously man-made as this looks, people still think this is from out "there". Why are they just using crops as their canvas? Aren't there any supercenter parking lots they could just as easily distance-etch for greater durability and accessability? Maybe they could shave their messages into the sides of cows or something to keep it fresh...

Astrobiology is concerned with the logistics (human hibernation, Generational starships ) of putting our bodies into space (which, frankly, makes the whole business sound like not so much fun compared to my warp n' blasters ideal). Also some neat stuff on "exobio".
First, you will need to construct a stable environment and community for your travellers - they'll be on board for probably at least 50 years. That means they'll need a large amount of space for housing, recreational activities, research (they'll need to keep busy) and administration.