"A 75-year-old Phoenix man stored his wife's body in his backyard for nearly six years, hoping she could be brought back to life.

Police found Marcia Lynn Rowlette's body twisted and upside down in an old freezer.

They also found dozens of cats, faeces and urine inside the house, after a tip-off from Edwin Rowlette's daughter."

Im glad re-animators are starting to pop up.

Man stored wife's body for six years in hope of new life

"Johnny died due to complications from diabetes, which resulted in respiratory failure," Cash's manager, Lou Robin, said in a statement issued by Baptist Hospital in Nashville.

Thursday was a crappy day, as John Ritter also passed away unexpectedly while working on his TV show.

One very interesting tidbit that was on NPR this morning, but I can't find references of on Google yet, is the statement that while in the Air Force, Johnny Cash was a codebreaker. This would make Johnny the Alpha-Geek, and most beloved, as the original codebreaking Man in Black.

Music Legend Johnny Cash Dies at 71

"President Bush visits rural Oregon to tout his forest plan. Suddenly, huge fires burn. Now a small town is consumed by conspiracy theories."

Black copters over Oregon

"Astronomers have detected the deepest note ever generated in the cosmos, a B-flat flying through space like a ripple on an invisible pond. No human will actually hear the note, because it is 57 octaves below the keys in the middle of a piano."

Black Hole Strikes Deepest Musical Note Ever Heard

"Genetically-modified vaginal bacteria may be able to serve as a "living condom", secreting proteins that protect women against HIV, suggests a new report."

I dunno---I think Vaginal bacteria sounds like a bad thing. It makes me think of yogurt.

'Living condom' could block HIV

] Los Angeles, CA - The RIAA announced that they would
] begin a strategy of profits by lawsuit, which should keep
] them a viable business indefinitely.
]
] "It's really a bold new idea that really gets back to the
] roots of the RIAA," said new RIAA Chairman and CEO Mitch
] Bainwol. "We'll no longer be worried about distributing
] music. The file sharers will do that for us, but now
] we'll just make our money from suing them and that's
] really what we're all about."
]
] According to a report by The Inquirer it will take the
] RIAA over 2,000 years to sue every file sharer, which
] confirms the long-term viability of the business model.

BBspot - RIAA Says Future of Music is Suing File Sharers

" In Caldwell's scenario, the universe will last about 20 billion more years. Sixty million years before the end, dark energy will cause the Milky Way galaxy to fly apart. Three months before the end solar systems will break down, flinging planets helter-skelter. Finally, at a tiny fraction of a second before the end of everything, dark energy will be so great that it will overcome the powerful forces that hold matter together, throwing apart atoms. Kablooie! "

Dark Energy May Rip Apart Universe

Please keep in mind that these are static jpgs...
Hold onto your seat...

Freak out man!!!

"Mice with virtually identical genes can grow into quite different-looking animals—fat and yellow, or lean and brown—depending on what their mothers ate during pregnancy. As this ScienCentral News video reports, researchers are studying a twist to heredity that goes beyond our genes."

Blame Your Mother

" He built a prototype for what he thinks could be the future of voting: an agent that mines your online and other computer habits to extract a political ideology, and then makes voting recommendations — or more omniously, even casts the ballots for you."

Voting by Net Proxy?