] If you've ever longed for a way to monitor your dog's
] social life, map out its buddy network and sense who its
] true friends really are, you might have been waiting for
] SNIF.

Have a very vocal and discriminating dog means that no, I have never really considered needing electronics to determine which of the dogs mine runs around with he likes or dislikes.

Wired News: Collar Cultivates Canine Cliques

] Lamp components come neatly packed into a postal tube.
] Surprise a friend with a unique gift: first you write the
] address on the tube, then choose the nicest stamps, and
] hop! On reception, no two lamps are the same! Different
] stamps, addresses, the lamp becomes a unique object.

2pm

] A Baltimore man tried to pay for a Best Buy car stereo
] installation with $2 bills -- and was arrested.
] Apparently the man was already upset with the Best
] Buy's service, so thought he'd stage a minor
] protest by using the uncommon currency

Best Buy Has Customer Arrested For Using $2 Bills : Gizmodo

] The internet is a great thing. Many people and
] organizations put a lot of information on their websites,
] which only have to be combined. If done properly,
] it's interesting how much information can be
] retrieved within a very short time.
]
] My goal was to identify a nuclear power plant in the
] United States of America on a satellite picture.

How to find nuclear power plants

] Looks like internet overseer ICANN is in hot water over
] some less than angelic industry moves recently. Techdirt
] tells us that they appear to be doing secret deals with
] Airline front groups over the .travel Tld among other
] things...

ICANN under Fire for Dodgy Deals | Threadwatch.org

] proper shaving has become a lost art. Shaving is one of
] those glorious male traditions that used to be passed
] down from father to son, but somewhere along the line,
] when shaving became more about cheap, disposable razors
] than a nice, precision-made metal tool in your hand, it
] became a brainless routine to rush through in the morning
] without even thinking about it. A dull disposable razor
] dragged across a layer of foam or gel on your cheeks is a
] step backward from the past, not an improvement. Now that
] men of all ages are paying more attention to their
] appearance, it%u2019s no wonder that the hottest trend
] right now in male grooming is a return to the traditional
] wet shave %u2013 and millions of men have been shocked to
] discover that the %u201Cold fashioned%u201D method of
] shaving they thought went out with the Hula Hoop is
] actually the best quality shave you can get.

How to get that perfect shave - Today, Weekend Edition - MSNBC.com

] The biggest equity impacts so far has been twofold: it
] has put a damper on sales at retailers of the most price
] sensitive consumers -- Tthat means the bigger discounters
] (Wal-Mart,Target, Kmart, Kohls, etc.).
]
] Second, sales of the largest and most profitible SUVs are
] slowing. This has a disproportionate impact on GM and
] Ford. I'm not sure what the net net is on an individual
] (consumer) level; if you own a large SUV, I expect you
] will be disappointed at what you can sell it for, as long
] as gas stays near $2.50 per/gallon. Now consider all of
] the SUVs which have been leased over the past 3 years:
] Dealers will soon have a glut of them on their lots, if
] they don't already, as lease renewal/extensions and trade
] ups slow.

The Big Picture: Gasoline Prices (Adjusted for Inflation)

] Apologists for the industry are replacing the catchphrase
] "Its illegal" with a new mantra.
]
] Are you ready to hear what it is? (Hold onto your seat):
]
] "Its morally wrong."
]
] Allow that to sink in a moment. One of the most corrupt,
] decadent, morally bankrupt industries the planet has ever
] seen is now making the argument that people should not
] use P2P -- due to the ethical considerations:
]
] I find that approach utterly fascinating, more than a
] little infuriating, and outright hilarious -- all at
] once. The Recording Industry must be hellbent on getting
] into the Guinness Book of World Records for the most
] hypocritical, disingenuous, cynical, and intellectually
] dishonest arguments in the history of mankind.

Spelling it all out, yet again, with little geekspeak

The Big Picture: New Arguments Against P2P: The Phony Moral Debate

] The unraveling of the Toothing hoax started yesterday
] with the question by Jim Hanas of What Ever Happened to
] Toothing?. Slashdot picked up on it and ran. By the end
] of the day, Hanas had an update from the creator of the
] hoax himself:

Toothing is one big hoax :: Blueserker :: Berserk about Bluetooth

] Plenty of severed limbs, decapitations and other forms of
] freelance flesh make appearances in Sin City. Blood flows
] in a number of colors -- bright red, fluorescent white
] and gruesome, neon orange. Bullets pierce bodies, swords
] splinter skulls and other unlucky souls suffer
] castrations, cannibalism, the electric chair and a score
] of other defilements.
]
] And then there is the snow. Even with all of this
] carefully choreographed gore, I still found a blizzard to
] be Sin City's most powerful visual effect. In the film's
] final story -- Sin City weaves together three pulpy tales
] -- the flakes fall quietly and steadily, and they are
] luminescent, magical and gorgeously artificial.

Watched this last night. It really is quite impressive from many angles -- visuals, cast, gore. The visuals especially -- lots of special effects, but not just of the "glorious explosion" or "watch them fly" but just... color balance, depth of field, mixed cartoon and live action, etc. Very pretty.

Wired News: Sin City Expands Digital Frontier