Operational may be an overstatement. Let's call this the "pre-beta" phase.

Do it like the Pacific islanders: wet, wild and counter-balanced.

Trailer for the sequel to the Fantastic Four movie. The first one was weak, but this one shows promise. Read on for more Silver Surfer stuff.

Flying for the rest of us.

Project Gutenberg is a huge online collection of free ebooks available for your downloading pleasure.

I thought all bees lived in hives and made sweet sweet honey but apparently I was wrong.

Funded and built by people who believe Genesis is the literal truth, and partly designed by the same guy who designed the Jaws and King Kong rides at Universal Studios.

ok, well maybe not, i wish... but! it is still cool and worthy of a gander of your time.

Some dude has collected a bunch of screenshots of sound effects from the old Batman TV show. Zowie!

Hundreds of lectures on a broad range of topics from the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics at UCSB available in various video and audio formats.

Psychologists at Newcastle University found that by taping up a picture of staring eyes they could increase peoples' donations to an honor-system coffee cart. Now police in Birmingham are trying a similar experiment to stop crime.

Check your charts, yo.

The Naval Surface Warfare Center at Dahlgren tested a new weapon yesterday that fires a slug over 200 nautical miles using electricity instead of chemical propellant.

Among a variety of tax incentives and other issues, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 changes the dates that Daylight Savings Time takes effect in the United States.

I think we're all kind of over both of these guys but it's still a decently funny interview.

Scientists at University of Rochester have succeeded in coding an entire image into a single photon, slowing it down, storing it, and retrieving the image.

If you tie enough helium balloons together you can lift pretty much anything. Including yourself, apparently.

A whole Chinese village of 100 people is located inside of a cave. Pretty convenient... none of the buildings need roofs!

The Devil will live and die again next Saturday at Bob's house. Read on for more info and pictures of previous Hajj stonings, and leave a comment to RSVP if you're going to make it. All humans welcome.

Comical errors in language - sports edition

Hot Chair Action. May be too much for some viewers.

Abstract for a paper analyzing the effectiveness of "pump & dump" stock spamming schemes. Apparently they work very well, netting an average return better than 5%. Read on for more spam links.

A German website is offering protesters for rent. We should start a rent-a-voter website in areas where elections are predicted to be close.

An interesting look into this massively multiplayer game.

The Christian bible translated into Pidgin for people who don't quite speak English. It's not a joke... but it's funny as hell. Read on for excerpts.