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Granger Whitelaw, winner of the $10 million manned space vehicle competition has started a new sports league. We can consider this a rich man’s NASCAR, well more like NASA-CAR. This guy apparently has too much money than he knows what to do with. He has started the Rocket Racing League. The league consists of 10 [...]

Some geniuses (sarcastic) over in Taiwan decided that their farm animals weren’t different enough so they decided to breed glow in the dark pigs. This is as necessary as a solar powered flashlight. The “scientists” took jellyfish DNA and mixed it with pig embryos. These aren’t the first flourescent pigs, but they claim to be [...]

So over the weekend I had my 2nd hard drive fail this year. The first one died only because I have had it for over 4 years. My computer sorta just died and froze up and on subsequent reboots, it locks up again. Then my hard drive starts to click and just fail. Not good. [...]

Nissan has developed a polymer based paint that will heal itself if it is scratched. They claim that the scratches will heal itself over a few days time. They are going to release this paint on a future SUV that they haven’t announced. This paint as compared to the regular paint on today’s cars will [...]

So my home back in Maine was named one of the top places to retire. CNN.com has a list of a bunch of places to retire and Brunswick made it onto Money Magazine’s list. You must take this with a grain of salt, but it’s a great place to live. Beautiful houses, great school system, [...]

On the heels of the latest 160,000 Toyota Pri(i?) recall, Wired Magazine decided to write an article of the worst software bugs in history. The Toyota Prius had a problem with the check engine light and the car’s gasoline engine stalling unexpectedly. They soon figured out that it was an embedded software issue. Read the [...]

This company has finally come up with a way to import songs from a CD right to your iPod. This bypasses the iTunes or Winamp interface completely. With a little cord that plugs into your CD player to the Apple proprietary plug and you are all set. The iLoad has not been released yet and [...]

Spirit Airlines is having a promotion where you can fly to Jamaica on certain dates from Atlantic City and a host of other cities for 9 bucks! That’s right 9 bucks! There really isn’t much to say about this except if you have some of those dates open, just book something. But of course there [...]

Finally, something worthwhile to write to the government about. The government will get together and revisit the anti-circumvention portions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). This will allow people who are ticked off and can’t legally put it on their MP3 players. You can actually write them a nastygram via the web or good [...]

On the heels of companies rolling out their national high speed cellular access, Sprint has decided upon WiMax. The future of broadband may not necessarily be the high speed cellular, but in WiMax. The range of WiMax has been tested out to be a few miles and maybe up to 15 miles depending on the [...]