Scylla

Over five years ago, scientists succeeded in teleporting information. Unfortunately, the advance failed to bring us any closer to the Star Trek future we all dream of. Now, researchers in Japan have used the same principles to prove that energy can be teleported in the same fashion as information. Rather than just hastening the dawn of quantum computing, this development could lead to practical, significant changes in energy distribution.

Don't think of it as bad news for certain businesses the Netherlands, think of it as a growth opportunity for Americans!

This couple has spent $55k building a LARP business. News article; LARP website.

This is a description of some kind of fuckery, including a link.

A southern California school district has pulled a strange book from fourth and fifth grade classrooms all school shelves: the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Hidden amongst innocent words like "duodenum" and "rape" was "oral sex." ONOES!

(updated link to better story)

Canadian immigrant deported for pot possession conviction (for which he paid a fine) from ten years ago. Finally, we've won the war on drugs, or immigration, or terrorism, or, uh, something...

A douchebag sports promoter is attempting to start a white-only basketball league.

Fact: Trig "Trigonometry" Palin has Down Syndrome.

Fact: Down Syndrome means you have 47 chromosomes.

Fiction: Praying will remove that pesky chromosome.

I'm not sure if everyone already knows about this, but I just found it. A cool way to see if a site's really down, or if it's just you. ;)

Valve says no new Half-Life this year. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

What a terrible idea.

Japanese fluorescent tube ring fights.

For the body modification zealot that really wants to make a statement: tattoo your eyeballs.

I'm not sure there needs to be a further description here. Awesome pictures here.

In a very small study in and around Roanoke, VA, 48% of soda fountain samples contained coliform bacteria. Mmm, carbonated poo.

...but not the usual sort. Really, this story illustrates perfectly what's wrong with the whole soiree.