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Bizarre Stories of People Whose Brains Have Rewired Themselves
Imagine waking up with a foreign accent. Or discovering you can taste the 'flavour' of any word spoken to you. These strange things have happened to ordinary people: here they tell their extraordinary stories.
The Associated Press: Spy tales: a TV chef, Oscar winner, JFK adviser
Where do you look when you want to recruit spies? Just about everywhere, judging from the formerly top-secret records of the World War II agency that became today's CIA.
The Planetary Computer: It's in Your Pocket
Never mind Web 3.0: The next stage in technological evolution is a single worldwide computer. Collectively, we are already assembling this megacomputer from our billions of Net-connected PCs, cell phones, PDAs, and the like. As an increasing number and variety of devices are lashed to one another via the Internet and other communication systems, they form the components of what we might call the One Machine.
The 5 Most Obviously Drug-Fueled TV Appearances Ever | Cracked.com
The 5 Most Obviously Drug-Fueled TV Appearances Ever. We've embedded our five favorite moments of drug-fueled hilarity for your viewing pleasure.
Dr. Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon CS professor, Dead at 47 - washingtonpost.com
Noted Computer Science professor Randy Pausch passed away today after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Dr. Pausch was a founder of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University and worked on the Alice program, an animated educational system for high school and college...
Nissan gas pedal to push back when drivers floor it
Nissan Motor Co. will soon sell cars with an accelerator that pushes back when drivers try to put the pedal to the metal. It has also developed a test model packed with additional sensor technology to help vehicles avoid crashes.
Esquire Print Mag Will Use E-Ink Cover
The September issue of Esquire will have an e-ink cover, jumping out at your eyes with shifting images. Esquire first thought up the idea eight years ago, but the technology was still too clunky. Since then, the Kindle has gone on sale, and the same company that invented the tech used in Amazon's device — E Ink — is making the covers. The price, although undisclosed, is prohibitive, and Ford has been brought in as a "sponsor": A moving car ad will appear on the inside cover.
Buy evidence of my husband's adultery on eBay| Oddly Enough| Reuters
CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian woman has taken revenge on her cheating husband by putting a photograph of his lover's underpants up for sale on the auction site eBay.