Tuesday, August 17, 2004
- Design-Your-Own 9 Circles of Hell! [via Rantings of a Gen X Misanthrope]
- Speaking of Hell: Ponchos are back [via Lileks]
- Stéphane Piter's magnifique The Keep movie fansite
- Build Your Own "Segway™"
- The economy is flatter in the states that matter [via Gadflyer]
- New York toddler chokes to death on movie popcorn: can a lawsuit and warning labels be far ahead? [via FindLaw]
- Growing up, or giving in? Ms. Razorblade on the odd politics of meat and men [via F-Word]
- A new way of generating truly random numbers for the UK's Premium Bond lottery: Thermal Noise [via New Scientist]
- Journalism as Religion [via PressThink]
- The "Whiff of Piety": Commonalities and Differences in Worldwide Perceptions of Sex and Religion [via The Revealer]
- Crank up "Low Rider" by War: the Schwinn banana-seat Sting-Ray bike returns [via Boing Boing]
- Japan invents a robot tuna watcher [via Dottocomu]
- It's a Toaster-Coffee-Machine-Egg Boiler All in One! [via Gizmodo]
- "[R]emember in the 80s we used to make jokes about Soviet citizens being asked "show me your papers" and needing internal passports to travel in their own country. Now we need internal passports to travel in our country. How did this happen?" The fight for the right to travel anonymously returns [WIRED Magazine, via Slashdot]
- London Heathrow airport debuts new full-body "X-ray Vision" passenger scanning [via Vastly Important Notes]
Which OS are You? [via Greengrl]