Shanghai Expo 2010: the national pavilions in pictures .
Australian Museum – nature, culture, discover – Australian Museum.
The World Chocolate Wonderland theme park in Beijing .
Watch this video and you will have a great day and wonder at what great things can happen once in a while:
Call it Lethal Weapon: The Next Generation. Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan make an unlikely pair of veteran cops in this action-comedy helmed by Kevin Smith (Clerks, Dogma). Willis playing a badass hero doesn’t exactly scream fresh, but we’re hoping Morgan and Smith’s irreverent, coarse, and hilarious senses of humor can breathe new life into the tired buddy cop genre. (February 26)
Hollywood is 100 years old: a history of Tinseltown in pictures .
How Your Brain Groups Words | Brain Blogger.
Social Cognition in Dogs, or How did Fido get so smart? .
The Soviet Mayan Playing Cards.
As testosterone dips, quality of life dims.
Quantum physics breakthrough: Scientists find an equation for materials innovation.
The Truth About Sexless Marriage – .
Which supplements really work? An interactive guide to evidence.
Huge New Dinosaur Found via “Mind-boggling” Skulls.
During a medevac mission by the U.S. Army’s Task Force Pegasus, flight medic Sgt. Bryan Eickelberg, bottom right, directs Marines as they help him strap a wounded comrade onto a backboard, following an attack on their armored vehicle by a planted improvised explosive device, in Marjah, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Tuesday Feb. 23, 2010. AP
New inhaled drug protects from flu in single dose | .
Vitamin B ‘can rewire stroke patients’ brain’, study finds .
The ten most valuable comic books in the world .
New booze on the block – ‘natural’ wines .
Egyptian priests ate like gods – and paid by dying young .
Cryptome, the secret-document-spilling site, is back online Thursday, after Microsoft withdrew a copyright complaint that shuttered the site the day before.
Microsoft’s efforts to suppress a document about how to subpoena online user data backfired, leading instead to widespread attention to (and republication of) the document it tried to suppress
Q: Do any search engines not store records of what their users do?
Yes. Ixquick.com, a start-up funded by Holland Ventures of Amsterdam, pledges to do precisely that.
The Netherlands-based company proudly says it doesn’t keep records of its users’ Internet addresses. In other words, it does save search terms, but the company says it’s unable to link them to any person, unique ID number or Internet address.
“I’m a firm believer in the privacy cause,” Ixquick.com CEO Robert Beens said in a recent interview with CNET News.com. “I can imagine a lot of people are keen on their privacy.”
ps: bonus. witth each search, you are given the option of using a proxy and thus even the site you go to can not track you.
Love and Baseball. As spring training nears, a sportswriter looks at baseball as a metaphor for life and relationships.
My Solar System lets you select how many planets you want and adjust their orbits and other parameters. Then set it in motion and watch your planets crash into each other or fly off into deep space -or build a working system. (via J-Walk Blog)
