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| Notice: GeekPress is back up and running, thanks to Paul! It's still a not-so-serious tech news blog, but the format is significantly looser. Diana, having given up programming for philosophy, has her own philosophical blog NoodleFood. More of her work can be found at DianaHsieh.com. |
| Room temperature superconductor? |
| 12:04:24 am mst / 16 March 2001 found by paul / filed in inventions / source The Economist 124 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| The Economist reports on an unpublished manuscript that is rapidly making the rounds through the scientific community purportedly describing how to make a room temperature superconductor. The article is careful to note that the claim has neither been confirmed nor disproven by the various independent laboratories attempting to duplicate the reported results. |
| This is either a huge breakthrough or another cold fusion fiasco. No doubt we'll find out which soon. |
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| Digital Breathalyzer Review |
| 4:30:16 am mst / 16 March 2001 found by diana / filed in humor / source Daily Radar 77 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Those crazy folks over at Daily Radar at it again -- this time getting drunk in order to review a digital breathalyzer from Sharper Image. |
| In the end, I'm not sure whether they were testing the effectiveness of the beer or the breathalyzer! |
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| Should you refrigerate batteries? |
| 9:46:48 am mst / 16 March 2001 found by diana / filed in science / source Straight Dope 257 hits / 2 comments / 2 e-mails |
| A staff writer from The Straight Dope settles the question of whether storing batteries in the fridge makes them last longer. |
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| Australian White Woman + Hotwheels car |
| 10:10:33 am mst / 16 March 2001 found by diana / filed in humor / source eBay 321 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| An Australian woman and a hot wheels car are for sale on eBay. There is a colorful description and the buyer is warned to put away all alcohol. |
| Very strange! This probably won't last too long... |
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| The Science of Smug |
| 12:04:30 pm mst / 16 March 2001 found by diana / filed in science / source ABC News 150 hits / 2 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Most people see themselves as above average in morals and skills, even though (by definition) that's just not possible. But now researchers have managed to pin down whether we are wrong about our own superiority or about the inferiority of others. |
| I guess that the road to average, as well as to hell, is paved with good intentions. |
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| Record Industry Plays Both Sides |
| 1:28:07 pm mst / 16 March 2001 found by diana / filed in digital media / source Wired 90 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| The RIAA is running into some bizarre problems in their attempts to sell music over the internet. They don't want to share the profits with the other copyright holders, namely the publishers (who represent composers and lyricists). The publishers aren't too pleased. |
| It boggles the mind that the RIAA could turn around and make the same arguments that they were just disputing in the lawsuit with MP3.com! |
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| 10 Worst Places to Be Drunk |
| 5:22:23 pm mst / 16 March 2001 found by diana / filed in humor / source Daily Radar 329 hits / 0 comments / 1 e-mail |
| What activities do you really not want to do drunk? Daily Radar tells us the ten worst. (There's also an essay on the best place to be drunk.) |
| That last picture is pretty damn scary! |
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| Real Shooting at Virtual Office |
| 10:16:06 pm mst / 16 March 2001 found by diana / filed in humor / source SatireWire 142 hits / 0 comments / 1 e-mail |
| A disgrunted employee of KragenTech on a conference call "representationally opened fire on his geographically distributed co-workers," throwing everyone into a panic. |
| Thank goodness that the assailant was "all but actually subdued by a pair of Kragen security guards telecommuting from their homes in Toronto, Canada, and Sao Paulo, Brazil." |
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