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Researchers have finally found evidence for what good Catholic boys have known all along, erotic images make you go blind. The effect is temporary and lasts just a moment, but the research has added to road-safety campaigners calls to ban sexy billboard-advertising near busy roads, in the hope of preventing accidents. [continue]

This helps explain why Smith is legally blind.

A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far as to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line. [continue]

New iBooks cost between $999 and $2000 depending what accessories you get.
All this for a 4 year old laptop?
Seems like the school district lost some money on this, they could have easily made another 50k or 100k.

It was one of the great riddles of the cosmos. Along with black holes, the structure of space-time and the origins of the Big Bang, some of the greatest scientific minds have struggled with the dry spaghetti question.
Why does uncooked spaghetti snap into more than two pieces when bent? [continue]

Interesting.
I do not break spaghetti anymore because of this. End up with pieces all over the place.
There are a couple witty comments to be made about this article, but I am too tired to find them.

As long as I can remember I have always eaten Red Delicious apples.
Unlike Bryan, I have always been mesmerized by the dark red apples and looked down upon the lighter red and green apples, even when I would get Red Delicious apples that would taste crappy.
I do not think that Red Delicious will be gone soon like the article seems to imply. Red Delicious is such a well known name in apples. Producers could very well modify the Red Delicious to make it a little less red and a little more delicious and still retain its name and some of its market share.
I for one for the first time ever, will pick up some non-Red Delicious apples the next trip to the market.

Consider the fate of America’s favorite apple. It emerged from an Iowa orchard in 1880 as a round, blushed yellow fruit of surpassing sweetness.
But like a figure in a TV makeover show, it was an apple that its handlers could not leave alone. They altered its shape. They made it firmer and more juicy. They made it so it could be stored in hermetically sealed warehouses for 12 months. Along the way, they changed its color and hence its name — to Red Delicious. [continue]

We’re happy to announce that a new version of WordPress is now available for download. This set of improvements and security fixes is in line with our commitment to maintaining an extremely stable 1.5 series. [continue]

Updated HoM to 1.5.2, very quick and easy.