The 13 Types of Friends on Facebook
mentalfloss.com — What kind of friend are you? (Submitted by nmffffd9) More…
Florida Gov. Misplaced 18,000 Buildings -- Yes, Buildings
blogs.miaminewtimes.com — Losing a single building is completely understandable, right? But 18,000 buildings? How could any one lose track of 18,000 buildings? Well, the Florida Government has done just that, and has no idea how much it will cost to track down thousands of missing taxpayer-owned buildings. (Submitted by socivitus) More…
6 Great Sports Careers Defined by a Single Moment of Failure
amog.com — Remember Scott Norwood as the guy who passed O.J. Simpson as the Buffalo Bills all-time leading scorer? Probably not. He's better remembered as the guy who pushed a long field goal wide, thereby losing Super Bowl XXV for the Bills.... (Submitted by skored) More…
Build a Bootable Rescue SD Card For Your Mac
maclife.com — For the hardcore users out there, Apple decided to give the SD port super powers -- you can use it to build a bootable SD card. That bootable card can then become an awesome tool for performing emergency hard drive repairs, data recovery, recovering deleted files, and much more. (Submitted by backwardscompat) More…
Crossing the line: how aggressive cells invade the brain
rdmag.com — In diseases such as multiple sclerosis, cells of the immune system infiltrate the brain tissue, where they cause immense damage. For many years, it was an enigma as to how these cells can escape from the bloodstream. Until now, tissue sections provided the sole evidence, but a team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology (Submitted by wjappe) More…
Microsoft pulls Windows 7 tool after GPL violation claims
arstechnica.com — Microsoft has pulled the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool from the Microsoft Store website after a report indicating that the tool incorporated open-source code in a way that violated the GNU's General Public License (GPL). (Submitted by DiggUnderground) More…
Which communist economy rules?
business.blogs.cnn.com — I've got my own piece of Berlin Wall stuffed away somewhere in my house. I had borrowed a hammer and chisel from a man at the wall and hacked off my very own piece. It was a week after "Checkpoint Charlie" - a crossing point between Easy and West Germany - in Berlin had been thrown open, a week after a divided city and a divided Germany were reunit (Submitted by swiftsurfere) More…
Gorillaz will be working with Watchmen Mastermind Alan Moore
nme.com — Gorillaz pair working with Moore on new opera where Moore will supposedly be doing a Libretto spoken word Libretto in a musical sequence. Following this Moore just may choose to use Gorillaz characters in an upcoming graphic novel! (Submitted by darthsand) More…
Fat People Now Illegal in Japan (Should Be Easy to Catch)
globalpost.com — In Japan, being thin is the law! People there are fighting fat to comply with a government-imposed waistline standard, as well as to ward off dreaded "metabolic syndrome" -- a combination of health risks including stomach flab, high blood pressure and high cholesterol that can lead to cardiovascular disease and diabetes. (Submitted by weirdralph) More…
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