] A Danish biotech company has developed a genetically
] modified flower that could help detect land mines and it
] hopes to have a prototype ready for use within a few
] years.

Yahoo! News - Flower-Power Could Help Clear Land mines

Very pointless...yet somehow compelling.

virtual bubble wrap

] Defenses lacking at social network sites
]
] Sites like LiveJournal and Tribe are poised to be the
] next big thing on the Web in 2004, but their security and
] privacy practices are more like 1997.

Thought this hit a little close to home...

SecurityFocus HOME News: Defenses lacking at social network sites

] Microsoft has issued a stay of execution for Windows 98,
] 98 SE and Windows ME, extending support for the geriatric
] trio until the end of June 2006, and tidying up their
] status a little, while it's about it...

I thought April Fools day isn't for another 3 months...

The Register

New Life Lodge
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To Whom It May Concern,

Please accept this donation offered in memory of our friend Brad Blines. Brad was a part of our online community, called MemeStreams. One of the features of this community is that it tracks the popularity of the posts members make to it. Out of some 800 members, there are only three people in the community who have a higher popularity score then Brad, and they are the people who created the software the community runs on. This fact should illustrate the significant impact that Brad has had on our lives. We owe many smiles and laughs to his posts and comments over the past year. His presence will be missed by all of us.

Sincerely,
Tom & Marie Cross

For CrankyMessiah...

] There is not a better CPU cooling system than liquid
] nitrogen. We learned firsthand how to sufficiently cool
] the Intel P4 to -196°C to bring it past the 5 GHz mark.
] For the non-believer, the THG video capture it all on
] tape.

Tom's Hardware Guide Processors: 5 GHz Project: CPU Cooling With Liquid Nitrogen Record Attempt: The 5 GHz Project

Hey, how hard would it be to hook up network visualizations with something like this?

Wilmascope 3D graph visualisation system

The name says it all, just play it.

Escape From Neverland

] FedEx Corp. said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire
] Kinko's, the business services retailer, for $2.4 billion
] in cash.

Holy @$*&(@^#*! And I thought the UPS Store deal was big!

FedEx to buy Kinko's for $2.4 B in cash - Dec. 30, 2003

] It costs more than $130 and weighs about 18 pounds, and
] its cover features a pair of chefs hiding in the reeds
] and hunting for flying cows. It is also one of the best-selling
] books of the season -- "The Complete Far Side," a two-volume,
] 1,250-page collection of 14 years of the iconic comic panels
] drawn by artist Gary Larson.

CNN.com - 'Far Side' fans snap up comic compendium