FDA May Take Vicodin And Percocet Off The Market
consumerist.com — Bad news for Dr. Greg House and other, non-fictional chronic pain patients. The FDA advisory panel that met yesterday about the effects of excessive doses of acetaminophen made another recommendation to the FDA—to take popular painkillers Vicodin and Percocet (and their generic versions) off the market because of the effect both drugs can have. More…
Linux : Welcome to iPod Nano Linux !
home.gna.org — So far, a customized uClinux kernel has been successfully ported to several iPods by iPodLinux Project. Note that, others are also quite successful for other operating systems (e.g. Rockbox). A simple interface and additional applications/modules have been written too. Unfortunately, Apple has protected iPods firmware through encryption since... More…
World's First 'Self-Watering' Plant: Desert Rhubarb
sciencedaily.com — Researchers have managed to make out the "self-irrigating" mechanism of the desert rhubarb, which enables it to harvest 16 times the amount of water than otherwise expected for a plant in this region based on the quantities of rain in the desert. This is the first example of a self-irrigating plant worldwide.... More…
OpenBitTorrent Tracker Muscles In On The Old Pirate Bay
torrentfreak.com — On Friday Jamie King, director of the Steal This Film documentaries, speculated here on TorrentFreak that the brand new OpenBitTorrent tracker could prove to be a replacement for The Pirate Bay if certain conditions were met. Now, just 48 hours later - has that dream already become reality? More…
Sarah Palin Threatens To Sue Entire Internet, Via Twitter
[Reported by Diggers as Possibly Inaccurate]wonkette.com — How did you spend the Fourth of July? *****-insane American Quitter Sarah Palin ended her own special “Independence Day” by posting a series of desperate grammar-challenged nonsense and vicious threats on her Facebook and Twitter pages. Really. More…