Arnold Schwarzenegger was virtually unstoppable on his motorcycle as the Terminator, but a minor accident Sunday on his Harley-Davidson sent the governor to the hospital for 15 stitches in his lip.

Schwarzenegger gets 15 stitches on lip after hitting car

In 1994, the Cacophony Society staged the world's very first SantaCon in San Francisco. Influenced by the surrealist movement, Discordianism, and other subversive art currents, the Cacophonists decided to celebrate the Yule season in a distinctly anti-commercial manner, by mixing guerilla street theatre, pranksterism, and public intoxication. However, the idea and event has evolved since then, spawning a plethora of different versions of the event all over the world.

Apparently my assessment of "surrealist" when someone first described Santarchy to me last week was right on.

SantaCon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The federal government's two-year-old antispam law is helping to cut back on unsolicited bulk e-mail, but more must be done to fight the problem. Those are the conclusions of a Federal Trade Commission report, released today, on how well the law is working.

The 116-page report , titled "Effectiveness and Enforcement of the CAN-SPAM Act," is the FTC's first assessment of federal antispam efforts since the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (CAN-SPAM) took effect. It touts the FTC's accomplishments, outlines new challenges, and advocates passage of an additional law that would give the FTC broader authority to go after international spammers.

FTC's CAN-SPAM Report Card

"Maybe we're just not accepting that we're getting older," Ms. Hazen said.

Wheels and Deals in Silicon Valley

"Today is the last day of winter," begins one of nearly 300 poems surreptitiously carved in Chinese characters by detainees on the walls.

Make sure to check out the picture.

Poetic Justice for a Feared Immigrant Stop

Why are so many people turning to Fecalgram.com when they need a gift for that "Special Someone"? Because we send 100% natural, freshly squeezed, human-made turds to anyone in America completely anonymously. Guaranteed.

Once again, I'm a visionary.

Poop flinging has evolved.

Cows belching and breaking wind cause methane pollution but British scientists say they have developed a diet to make pastures smell like roses -- almost.

Cure for cow flatulence cooked up by scientists

The Senate moved the digital TV transition one step closer to reality on Thursday, setting a firm date for television broadcasters to switch to all-digital transmissions.

I thought that something like 80% of households got TV from somewhere other than terrestrial broadcast anyway. If that figure is in fact accurate, it almost makes me want to say "to hell with terrestrial broadcast and spend the $3B to subsidize cable or DSS for the few people that don't have it already." It seems like a huge waste of resources to convert all those transmitters to digital when most people will never tune in the signal in the first place.

Is watching broadcast HDTV in your car ever going to be a killer ap? People seem to have bought a lot of SUVs with (video) entertainment systems but those seem more oriented towards pacifying children.

Am I missing something here? Why is broadcast TV still relevant? Cellphones and PDAs? Is this the right infrastructure to deliver that content to those devices?

RE: Senate Sets 2009 Digital TV Deadline - Yahoo! News

We have this stuff (among various other things) in the fridges at work. It tastes sort of like kambucha without quite so much of the kick to the head.

Cricket Cola

General Motors is most bullish on [fuel cells].

"We're going to prove to ourselves and the world that a fuel cell propulsion system can go head to head with the internal combustion engine," said Lawrence D. Burns, G.M.'s vice president in charge of research and development.

He said that by 2010, G.M. will have designed a fuel cell car that can go as far on a full tank and is as durable as a gasoline car. Some financial analysts are skeptical that G.M. will have even staved off bankruptcy by then.

Taking the Future for a Drive