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Texters hurt as they walk, ride — even cook ER docs warn of serious injuries, deaths from text-message mishaps. I've seen people walk into phone poles and out in front of moving vehicles while texting. (via)

More Performance and cognitive enhancement “Within the next few years, we’ll see the second generation of these drugs,” says Mark Gordon, an endocrinologist in Los Angeles. “Like all second-generation drugs, they will be stronger, longer-lasting, and have fewer side effects.” (via)

Floatation tank horror A 30-year-old became the first person ever to drown in a floatation tank, an inquest heard yesterday. James Richardson, of Woodley, died in Floatnation in Oxford Road after taking the drug ketamine – used to tranquillise horses. Well, I can scratch that off my list of things to do before I die. (via)

also:
How to build a free computer from spare parts
76-year-old experimental music legend Pauline Oliveros on WFMU
Are figs really full of baby wasps?
19 Portrait Photography Tutorials (via)
The 7 Biggest Asshole Computers in Science Fiction (via)
Montana Meth Project does not pull any punches. (via)

viddy:
Intriguing Bigfoot video (real or hoax, it's pretty good)
Social engineering: How to Get Into Any Club (this method probably won't work forever, but it is worth a look) (via)
419 - the Nigerian Scam trailer (via)
Iran Missile Test (yeah, that one)
Darth Vader Meets Wolfman Jack!

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Cannibal mum fed son's flesh to relatives... bizarre and disturbing; A Jura F90 Coffee Machine can be hacked remotely over the Internet (via); It appears that elusive felines are behind a new bridge being built between two hostile governments. The governments, you ask? That would be Iran and the USA; and, a Palm Frond Used As Weapon In 'Most Bizarre' Central Fla. Store Robbery (via)

Lagniappe: Listen to or download the full audio from the rare LP record First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival, 1979 (via)

Sunday Excursions: For Your Consideration

Today, we're going to fling some links on the wall and see what sticks.

First, a few interesting posts.

Low-tech Magazine's A world without trucks explores the alternatives in underground transport. Pneumatic networks, conveyor belts and 'Email for things' are a few of the options being blue-skyed in the search for cleaner, greener and more efficient methods for moving goods.

Low-tech Magazine warrants scrutiny. Good stuff. The next post links to the tres-cool Museum of Retro Technology

via KurzweilAI.net
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Sentient Developments posted Seven ways to control the Galaxy with self-replicating probes, an exploration of one of John Von Neumann's many and varied musings. Self-replicating robotic spacecraft may be second only to the technological singularity as the one of Von Neumann's off-topic ideas that stimualted the most thought and speculation.
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Friday, FringeHog asked, "If you could have one superhuman power, what would it be?"

If you read my comment, you'll get an idea of what a hopeless geek I am. That would be mine.
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...and then, some random nuggets...


FUH2 is a site devoted to photos of people flipping off Hummers.

I had no idea.

From kottke.org




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The amazing sticky-note trick, posted by Dave Gray on Communication Nation, is actually quite useful.
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Dung catapult to target vandals.

Thanks a lot, Danger Room.
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Loren Coleman posted the latest Bigfoot video. I don't know.

The next day he posted another, that was later exposed as a hoax.

The hoax video was kinda creepy at first, but I thought it looked familiar.
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And finally, disinfo.com posted a slightly dated writeup on the 10 Zen Monkeys story Dead Woman Blogging.

I decided to follow this up by checking the blog in question. No new entries, but in the last 24 hours since I checked, someone seems to have changed the look and even added some new material. I swear some of those photos weren't there yesterday. Weird. I'm confused.

I'll keep you up-to-date if anything else develops.

Now, shut off your computer and go get some sun.