Yamaha’s Crotch Air Bag – Gizmodo
And just WHO would test this thing? I understand that it might be better than the handlebars but the concept is still bothering me for some reason. Or it MAY be the expression on the female model…
Slashdot | Lenovo To Shun Linux
Idiots! Guess they will soon be a very short footnote in the history books.
Linux Today – Taipei Times: Government Says All New PCs Must be Linux-Friendly
I am SO waiting for the day that Micro$oft is no longer in the software business and with China mandating Linux compatability with all new PC’s sold I can’t help but think that I may live to see that wonderful day… 😉
Treehugger: Biopolymer Supply Chains To Reduce Toxic Exposures
Good news! Not only are the PLA (corn based plastics) more enviromently friendly but they are worked and injected at lower temps which save energy. Hope they make it to the shelf soon.
Clones’ Debut Is a Test of Genetics, and Bettors’ Wits – New York Times
Camptown races never saw this coming. 2 cloned mules trained in different manners racing against each other, and others if I understood the article correctly. Now if they give the results…
Unusual Sex Terms
Nuff said. Click the link and enjoy… 😉
LiveCD Software Solutions
Haven’t tried it yet as my Freesco router is working fine but looks interesting. Especially the minimum hardware requirement specs –
One dedicated computer with the following minimum specifications: 486 Processor, 16 MBytes of RAM, 2X CDRom Reader, Floppy Drive, 1 or 2 ethernet cards. NO hard disk! Optionally a WIFI card.
Cool use for OLD equipment!
Boing Boing: USA: Russia can’t enter WTO unless it shuts down music website
It keeps amazing me that the RIAA and MPAA are dictating US and world trade policy. How did things get this screwed up?
Boing Boing: Blue Coat censorware company blocks BB for criticizing censorware
Seems to me that companys like this need to be listed and talked bad about in every blog and website out there. That way pretty soon they’ll be blocking the entire internet and then they will be forced to (A) change their policy or (B) go out of business.
With that in mind I am posting a link to BOING BOING’S GUIDE TO DEFEATING CENSORWARE!
OhGizmo! » Gryphon Single Man Flying Wing
Cool! Batman needed one of these things! I can also see James Bond using one in a coming film.

Boing Boing: Anti-mosquito device kills 1200 bugs/night
This $200-400 mosquito trap or the cheap DIY one in the previous post? I’m gonna hafta go with the one that uses an old 2 liter soda bottle…
Built Ford Tough on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Mad Max in Iraq. Cool pix of war mods on trucks and SUV’s.
Asteroid Itokawa just a big lump of rubble | The Register
Then again maybe it’s an alien spacecraft that uses the rubble as an impact shield. 😉
The Pirate Bay is not dead
Glad to hear that Pirate Bay is coming back. I wish them luck in their fight!
Boing Boing: Captain Copyright: Wikipedia pirate!
Sounds like the folks behind Captain Copyright need to take a refresher course on the GNU.
Backfence.com–San Francisco Bay Area local news, information, events and advertising
Meanwhile, it’s time to tell Congress that enough is enough. These people are bothered beyond belief when the government invades one of their colleagues’ offices to look for corruption evidence, but supinely lets Bush and his people turn everyone else’s life into a viewing gallery. Congress needs to hear from us, and right now.
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AMEN! Go and read the rest of the article.