Submission Summary: 0 pending, 28 declined, 30 accepted (58 total, 51.72% accepted)
Submission + - Scientist: Tae Bo workout sent skyscraper shaking (cnn.com)
timothy writes: Seventeen people performing a vigorous Tae Bo workout caused tremors that forced the evacuation of a South Korean skyscraper earlier this month, the building's owners say.
Submission + - Plant a Garden? Go to jail! (geekmom.com) 4
timothy writes: Oak Park, Michigan, apparently frowns on vegetable gardens visible from the street. 93 days in jail's worth! I would like to see pictures (with visible mailbox numbers, please) of all the local bigwigs who thought this was a smart fight to get into.
Submission + - Someone Random Trademarked "bitcoin" : Now we can' (bitcoin.org)
timothy writes: TRADEMARK FAIL! From the forum post linked: "Someone Random Trademarked "bitcoin" : Now we can't use the term?"
Submission + - Steampunk Nudity And Photography Playboy Complete (completenerdom.com)
timothy writes: Courtesy of my adult industry consultant friend (and orgasm enthusiast) Jenn Ramsey come these photos that could serve as excellent false advertising for most steampunk conclaves. (Mildly NSFW, probably, depending on the W.)
Submission + - Florida High School Principal Lied About Hypnotizi (go.com)
timothy writes: "A Florida high school principal lied about having hypnotized a student who committed suicide and another who died in a car crash, a school district investigation has revealed."
Submission + - Food Blogger Jailed for Calling Noodles "Too Salty (foxnews.com)
timothy writes: Judge hoped to teach a lesson: "We have ways to make you yelp!" So, it wasn't the cockroaches or bullying — those are fair game. But if you insult the sodium level, it's the hole for you!
Submission + - Former university head jailed in prostitution case (yahoo.com)
timothy writes: "Police say five people have been arrested and two more are sought in connection with a prostitution website operated by a New Jersey professor." Yeah, and one of them used to head a major state university. Jeesh! I wonder if this will affect the Newsweek ratings for schools by forcing them to include a whole new column listing the best crimes committed by the university president.
Submission + - Apple to start making TVs, report says - CNN.com (cnn.com)
timothy writes: 'Apple might want to sell you your next TV,' says this CNN report. Which makes a lot of sense, considering that Apple's razors-and-blades, vertical-marketplace model for iTunes (and the various iDevices) doesn't make as much sense with the world of TV, where your Sony, Samsung, or (egads!) Westinghouse TV set is just as happy with a Google TV box, or a Roku, or one of many other media devices, as it is with an Apple TV attached.
Submission + - Pixel Qi introduces 10 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel sunl (liliputing.com)
timothy writes: Compared to their dumber e-ink cousins, tablets with LCD screens suffer at least two notable disadvantages: their batteries last hours or days, rather than weeks (or months), and they're notoriously hard to read in the sunshine. Neither of these problems are likely to be licked soon, but the gap may be shrinking: Mary Lou Jepsen's OLPC spinoff Pixel Qi has now shown off a 10", 1280x800 panel. Pixel Qi's screens are well-known, though not currently widely adopted, for their ability to run in a high-contrast, low-power greyscale mode as well as a still-frugal color mode. Though the company is currently showing prototypes rather than a shipping version of the new high-resolution screens, it's reason to renew hope for a long-lived, daylight-readable, color-screen tablet.
Submission + - Teen daughter shoots dad with hunting bow | (themorningwoodnews.com)
timothy writes: "Police in Washington state have arrested a teenage girl for allegedly shooting her dad with an arrow after he took her cell phone away," says the story. This is what the family plan is for! (From the "no dad you're grounded" dept)
Submission + - How Much is a Dragon Worth? - Michael Noer - Backs (forbes.com)
timothy writes: Forbes magazine's "crack team of fictional reporters" creates annually a list of the 15 richest fictional characters. Good work, if you can get it, right? To silence critics who seem to think they might pull their numbers straight out of some nether orifice in a land far, far removed from fictional reality (vs. real reality, or fictional fiction), they've now put up a piece explaining their methodology.
Submission + - Russia and Ukraine squabble over fairytale charact (telegraph.co.uk)
timothy writes: Russia and Ukraine have become embroiled in a bizarre spat over their respective folklore with both countries claiming the same popular fairytale characters as their own.
Submission + - Gnome 3's on-screen keyboard Maliit Demoed (jonnor.com)
timothy writes: Awesome — Gnome's new on-screen keyboard running on a tablet. Cross-pollination rocks!
Submission + - ASUS EeePad Transformer review | Android Central (androidcentral.com)
timothy writes: Android Central has taken a close look at the new Transformer tablet from Asus, giving it an overall positive review, with minor points deducted for a "plasticy" feel. The Transformer joins the Motorola Xoom in the world of Honeycomb (Android 3.0), and has very similar, high-end specs (though it's Wi-Fi only) with one big difference: the Transformer is marketed with a not-included-in-the-price attachable keyboard that adds a battery. I wonder what other OSes will eventually be hacked onto this device; 16 hours of battery life in a netbook-sized computer sure sounds good to me, but I might want that to be with standard Linux apps instead of only with Android.
