] The unraveling of the Toothing hoax started yesterday
] with the question by Jim Hanas of What Ever Happened to
] Toothing?. Slashdot picked up on it and ran. By the end
] of the day, Hanas had an update from the creator of the
] hoax himself:

Toothing is one big hoax :: Blueserker :: Berserk about Bluetooth

] Plenty of severed limbs, decapitations and other forms of
] freelance flesh make appearances in Sin City. Blood flows
] in a number of colors -- bright red, fluorescent white
] and gruesome, neon orange. Bullets pierce bodies, swords
] splinter skulls and other unlucky souls suffer
] castrations, cannibalism, the electric chair and a score
] of other defilements.
]
] And then there is the snow. Even with all of this
] carefully choreographed gore, I still found a blizzard to
] be Sin City's most powerful visual effect. In the film's
] final story -- Sin City weaves together three pulpy tales
] -- the flakes fall quietly and steadily, and they are
] luminescent, magical and gorgeously artificial.

Watched this last night. It really is quite impressive from many angles -- visuals, cast, gore. The visuals especially -- lots of special effects, but not just of the "glorious explosion" or "watch them fly" but just... color balance, depth of field, mixed cartoon and live action, etc. Very pretty.

Wired News: Sin City Expands Digital Frontier

] Actually, it is pronouced "Ah-nee-meh" not "Anne-ee-may"

Spamusement! Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines!

] Over the last weeks we've seen an increase in cases where
] DNS poisoning has been used to make money. DNS poisoning
] is when attackers 'poison' a DNS server so that it gives
] a different address to a certain DNS entry.

Viruslist.com - Analyst's Diary

] It took just minutes for the Vatican to alert the world's
] media of Pope John Paul's death -- using text messages
] and e-mail so the 2,000-year-old Church could meet the
] new demands of real-time news.

Wired News: SMS, E-mail Announce Pope's Death

] WillMaker Plus sales rose 63 percent in the five days
] after Schiavo's feeding tube was removed, compared with
] the prior five days. Other software makers -- including
] Cosmi and Socrates Media -- also reported spikes in
] sales.

Wired News: Calling Out Identity Thieves

] Join the thousands who use TrueDater.com to share reviews
] of whether the information in people's online dating
] profiles is true or not.

Epinions or Amazon.com reviews for Date profiles. Of course.

TrueDater: Browse Reviews of People on JDate and Match.com

] It seems that in the wee small hours (GMT) of April 1st
] 2005 Google nuked Australia from the face of the planet,
] or at least the Google datacentres. 1st reports of there
] being no .com.au sites within Google started to appear at
] about 4am GMT...
]
] There was no www.google.com.au according to Google let
] alone any and every business, personal site,
] informational resource or hobbyist site that lived under
] the com.au namespace.

Ooops! Google Nuke's Australia | Threadwatch.org

] 10. It's easy to remember how many teaspoons are in a
] quart (192) with this simple mnemonic:
]
] Over nearly every hamburger, under nearly dead
] raccoons -- every delayed nanosecond inculcates nearly
] every teenager you think wears oranges.

43 Folders: April Power Hacks!

] Meet hipsters, bloggers, freaks and geeks in your area by
] showing off your quirky personality with zany answers to
] our constantly rotating questions.

Category: The Inevitably of Technology Mergers
tags: dating tagging folksonomy geeks YADS memes quizzes

Yep -- cruise by tag. Because A/S/L is so 90s.

consumating - Hot nerdy girls and indie rock boys! With glasses!