I was watching Alien Resurrection the other night, and alas! I also remembered one of my big beefs with that movie. There's one scene where Wren, Gediman and Perez have just visited the queen, and we watch them through the glass from the queens' perspective. They keep on talking, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what they're saying.

C|Net news reports that "A month after accusing the Motion Picture Association of America of conspiring to commit data theft, the operators of a file search engine presented more details regarding the alleged relationship between the MPAA and a man who admits hacking the small company's network."

How much attention do you pay to how your spelling and grammar comes across while typing posts, blogs, emails and such? On a daily basis I see more and more bulletin board posts containing things like "u" instead of "you", misues of "their", "they're" and "there", as well as an occasional "OMG!!1 lolz!!1eleven". Granted, there are some pretty benign misspellings like "teh" instead of "the", while others are a bit more severe. Some (like double-capitalization) are caused by speed, while others (l

It is today 20 years since the horrific Chernobyl accident, where the unit 4 reactor of the Chernobyl power plant (known as Chernobyl-4) suffered a catastrophic steam explosion that resulted in a fire, a series of additional explosions, and a nuclear meltdown. The accident left death and injuries in its wake from the radiation fallout (which was 400 times greater than that of the Hiroshima bomb and and affected Europe, Scandinavia, an

Microsoft has released their Office Live product in Beta. Initially, customers can sign up for one of three (all free in beta, one to remain free, two to charge $29.95/month) packages, all consisting of various supersets of your own domain name, easy-to-use design tools, five e-mail accounts, and web site traffic reports. Yes, it looks like Microsoft is doing something pretty cool. However - has anyone read th

After studying the S&P 500 index and focusing on small deviations from the long term index trends, a Japanese team from the University of Tokyo realized that the price fluctuations follow a pattern similar to earthquakes and hea

According to scientists lead by Dejan Stojkovic of the Case Western Reserve University, a high-energy (multi TeV) cosmic ray particle (such as neutrinos) that passes close to particles in our own atmosphere, could create a very small black hole. A newly built observatory (Pierre Auger Observatory) is designed to detect the following shower of particles. Dejan does however argue that the number of mini-black holes created woul

After a period of time, mouse pads are bound to get pretty cruddy. The question now is - how do you clean your mousepad? Mine is made of neoprene, with a (presumably) glued on wrist rest. Do you toss them in the washing machine? If so, will a front-loaded machine work better than a top-loaded one? Maybe the dishwasher? Strap it to the hood and go to the carwash?