Kinda adds new dimension to the tech term "fat pipe", no? :]

] The human genome is about 3,120,000,000 base pairs long,
] so half of that is in each spermatozoa -- 1,560,000,000
] base pairs.
]
] Each side of these base pairs can either be an
] adenine-thymine or a guanine-cytosine bond, and they can
] be aligned either direction, so there are four choices.
] Four possibilities for a value means it can be fully
] represented with two bits; 00 = guanine, 01 = cytosine,
] and so forth.
]
] The figures that I've read state the number of sperm in a
] human ejaculation to be anywhere from 50 to 500 million.
] I'm going to go with the number 200,000,000 sperm cells,
] but if anyone knows differently, please tell me.
]
] Putting these together, the average amount of information
] per ejaculation is 1.560*109 * 2 bits * 2.00*108, which
] comes out to be 6.24*1017 bits. That's about 78,000
] terabytes of data! As a basis of comparison, were the
] entire text content of the Library of Congress to be
] scanned and stored, it would only take up about 20
] terabytes. If you figure that a male orgasm lasts five
] seconds, you get a transmission rate of 15,600 tb/s. In
] comparison, an OC-96 line (like the ones that make up
] much of the backbone of the internet) can move .005 tb/s.
] Cable modems generally transmit somewhere around 1/5000th
] of that.
]
] If you consider signal to noise, though, the figures come out
] much differently. If only the single sperm cell that fertilizes
] the egg counts as signal, you get (1.560*109 * 2 bits) / 5 s =
] 6.24*108 bits/s, or somewhere in the neighborhood of 78 Mb/s.
] Still a great deal more bandwidth than your average cable modem,
] but not nearly the 5,000,000 Mb/s of the OC-96.

Penises have higher bandwidth than cable modems

] The much-ballyhooed roller coaster, opening to the public
] Sunday, soars 420 feet - a third higher than the
] current record holder. And it hits 120 miles per hour,
] nearly twice as fast as most coasters.

Cedar Point turns me on.

Roller coaster lovers get a new high - 420 feet

Wow, I'm speechless.

Climber Amputates Own Arm to Save Life

As was the case 33 years ago, the United States was involved in an undeclared war and protesters gathered at Kent State. Fortunately, no one was shot this time.

12 anti-war demonstrators hauled in near KSU campus

Broadband internet connections should come with pamphlets explaining the risks of repetative motion injuries and how to avoid them. After all, you could hurt yourself downloading porn at up to 50 times the speed of dialup.
-Jon

News of the Weird (founded 1988) is the most widely-read bizarre-but-all-true news feature in the United States indeed, the gold standard of weird-news reporting. The weekly News of the Weird column appears in more than 300 daily and weekly newspapers and websites around the world.

Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird

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CUYAHOGA FALLS -- A member of Ohio's 5694th National Guard Unit in Mansfield legally changed his name to a Transformers toy.

Optimus Prime is heading out to the Middle East with his guard unit on Wednesday to provide fire protection for airfields under combat.

"On Sunday, we were awarded as the best firefighting unit in the Army National Guard in the entire country," said Prime. "That was a big moment for us."

Prime took his name from the leader of the Autobots Transformers, which were popular toys and a children's cartoon in the 1980s.

He legally changed his name on his 30th birthday and now it's on everything from his driver's licence, to his military ID, to his uniform.

National Guardsman changes his name to a 'Optimus Prime'

"Do you need a break from the daily mobile soap? Surround yourself with soothing space. Simply press your pocket-size BuBL device. Release a bubble of silence. You'll feel pleasantly isolated inside, even in a crowded place. Evaporate all phone signals up to three meters around.
Enjoy the silence.
Create your Personal BuBL Space."

Read carefully... Great idea.

I work in a deli and I get really annoyed when people try to talk on their cell phones and place an order at the same time. This would be great to have at work, but it would probably mess with the wireless networking units in the scales. Too bad.

BuBL Space

] Compared to most holiday snaps of London, this one's out
] of this world.

Yahoo! News - Glittering London snapped from space

] An 80-year-old British retiree has been called up by the
] Ministry of Defense for possible action in Iraq, the Sun
] newspaper reported on Thursday.

Yahoo! News - Retiree, 80, Gets Call-Up to Fight Iraq