Boys Preferred Over Girls, Poll Shows

Title: Boys Preferred Over Girls, Poll ShowsCategory: Health NewsCreated: 7/9/2007Last Editorial Review: 7/9/2007

Dinner Guest Finds Bodies in Freezer

Police detained a man in eastern Belgium after a dinner guest found the bodies of the host's wife and stepson in a freezer, authorities said Thursday.

Time.com's 50 Best Websites of 2007

Time lists some of the best websites of 2007. Categories include Arts & Leisure, Audio & Video, News & Info, Social Networks, and Web Services.

Daft Punk Dance

This girl can really dance.

Avril Parody

A parody of Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend."

The Origin of Everyday Punctuation Marks.

Here are the origins of several symbols we use in everyday life. Question Mark Origin: When early scholars wrote in Latin, they would place the word questio - meaning "question" - at the end of a sentence to indicate a query. To conserve valuable space, writing it was soon shortened to qo, ...

Seasick: iPhone Popularity Forces Calamari on Menu

The iPhone Calamari commercial was tantalizing enough to tempt our own Brian Lam to write up a seafood craving post of his own. But apparently he wasn't the only one jonesing for the stuff after seeing Apple's ad, as the commercial's featured restaurant, Pacific Catch, was forced to add the dish to their ...

Find your hobby.

Which hobby best suits your personality? Mine would be travel (if I had the time and money). Getting there is half the fun and for you the other half of the fun means going even further once you’re there. You’re ready to travel anywhere at the drop of a hat: your passport is always up to ...

Jewelry made from model railroad landscapes

Cory Doctorow: I love Sarah Hood's "Landscape" jewelry, made from model train landscape miniatures. I gave my mom a necklace like this for her birthday a couple years ago, and she adores it. Link (via Craft)

Stefan Hayden's Vimeo Redesign Review

Stefan Hayden's Vimeo Redesign Review"If you respect the intelligence of the user I fully expect them to rise to the challenge."

Eyeball Tattoo.

Here’s something that even most tattoo enthusiast consider a little extreme: eyeball tattooing. Apparently, you can tattoo an eyeball (it has been done on blind eyes to "hide" corneal defects). In this case, Pauly Unstoppable, Josh, and Shannon Larratt tattooed their pefectly healthy eyes, ...

Yep, Jenga: Jenga! Confirmed For Wii And DS

That Jenga retailer listing uncovered by a NeoGAFer a few weeks back has now been confirmed by Atari, as the company has announced that the block tower building game is coming to the Wii and Nintendo DS. Wii-remote and nunchuk controls for the console version and careful stylus touchscreen controls for ...

"Turn your head and cough."

"Turn your head and cough."

Internet Mysteries: Is Kurt Eichenwald Writing His Own Wikipedia Page?

You know who suddenly has the longest Wikipedia biography in history? Not just Times tech columnist David Pogue, but also former New York Times reporter and current (alleged) Portfolio scribe Kurt...

Hunting and Killing Whales With Their Bare Hands.

For the fishermen of Lamalera, a remote village in Indonesia, the way of life hasn’t changed for hundreds of years: they still hunt and kill whale with their bare hands: Hunts are led by the Lamafa (boat captains), who purify themselves during the six-month whale hunting season by abstaining from ...

Guy breaks his iPhone

This clumsy fool broke his iPhone less than 24 hours after getting it. He brought it back to the Apple store and those glorious bastards replaced it for free. He writes: Well, I guess I'm the clumsiest person in the world. I managed to smash the screen less than 24 hours after I got it. I tried answering ...

Suing Songwriters Don't Like Avril's "Girlfriend"

According to some, Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" is far from "The Best Damn Thing." Songwriters Tommy Dunbar, of the band the Rubinoos, and James Gangwer sued the Canadian...

Vista is Watching You

greengrass writes "Are you using Windows Vista? Then you might as well know that the licensed operating system installed on your machine is harvesting a healthy volume of information for Microsoft. In this context, a program such as the Windows Genuine Advantage is the last of your concerns. In fact, ...

Mystery Unsolved

The ever reticent Ulf Johansson lets his troll out - a little.

Apple Puts a Camera Where Its Mouse Is

Apple just can't bring itself to make a two-button mouse. Partly it's an issue of aesthetics. "Unlike the conventional mouse, the unibody mouse does not include any mechanical buttons thereby making it more elegant than the conventional mouse (e.g., no surface breaks or lines)," a newly published Apple ...