Majel Rodenberry Passes Away

Star Trek: The First Lady Of Star Trek Passes Away



Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the most ubiquitous actor in Star Trek, died today at age 76. The wife of Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, she also provided the computer voices on every version of Trek. And she played three pivotal characters: Number One in the pilot, Nurse Chapel in the original series, and Lwaxana Troi in TNG and DS9. She was providing the computer voices for the new Trek movie, and it's not clear if she had finished recording them.

Smell like meat!!!

Burger King Unveils Meat-Scented Cologne

The 8 phases of dating

The 8 Phases of Dating - by Mingle2, a Free Dating Site

Santa when you are asleep

What Santa REALLY Does While You're Asleep - BumblePigs.com

OSX upgrade crashes Mac

OSX upgrade crashes Macs- The Inquirer

readers have been finding their Macs hanging or suffering from
post-update reboot blues. The Airport and wired network connections
keeps dropping and there are audio bleeps when users try to restart.

The Mail application refuses to quit, fails to connect or crashes
while attempting to connect to the mail server. And it really hates
messages with attachments according to reports.

The upgrade is self-censoring too. Instead of warning the user that
there is a problem, the system goes mysteriously silent as if there was
no problem at all. Much like the Apple press office when it comes to
bad news.

One user reported that the upgrade made his Imac into a brick,
complete with a white screen which just bleeps at him, which is
probably a wrongly-reported RAM fault.

On the nationalization of the AbitibiBowater mill and hydro plant in Newfoundland

LA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Analysis And Comment: Danny Boy Nationalizes AbitibiBowater

Now lets do that to other industries demanding bail outs. Like Chrysler, which is threatening to shut down productive plants in Ontario, as well as in the U.S. and Mexico. Over to you Dalton McGuinty.

Ancient find could help decipher one of Africa's oldest languages

Ancient tongue inscribed on Sudan statues - Science- msnbc.com

Exercise is good for you - but you already knew that

People who exercise on work days are happier, suffer less stress and are more productive | Mail Online

People who exercise on work days are more productive, happier and
suffer less stress than on non-gym days, scientists revealed today.

University
of Bristol researchers found that employees who enjoyed a workout
before going to work - or exercised during lunchbreaks - were better
equipped to handle whatever the day threw at them.

It also found that people's general mood improved on days of exercise but they became less calm on non-exercise days.

Drawing on Drugs

Picture, J.W.E.: Drawing on Drugs

Read the link - very interesting.

More progress in electric cars, in China

Chinese build electric car while US automakers beg for money | DeSmogBlog

BDY's F3DM model can travel up to 100 kilometers (62 miles) on a single
battery charge and it contains a back-up independent gas-powered motor.
The big kicker is that its retail price is $22,000 US

Alternative energy study puts wind power on top

Good news for wind, bad for ethanol in major energy study



The results of his mathematical ranking are both rational and
unexpected. Wind power emerged as the overall victor. When teamed with
battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, it claimed the top
two spots by winning seven of the eleven categories. Photovoltaics are
an unexpected also-ran, failing to make the top five. Politically
favored ethanol stands out as the big loser of the study, falling
behind "clean coal," a technology many consider a dead end. Ouch.

Ho Ho Ho

San Francisco - The Snitch - San Francisco Overrun With Drunken, Smoking, Half-Naked Santas Again

Sales of Mac declining

Apple suffers in economic downturn - The Inquirer

THE US PRESS seem deeply shocked that even Jobs' Mob is feeling the pinch in the economic downturn.

A recent article by the Wall Street Journal said that even
Apple is beginning to suffer in this year's dismal holiday season, as
if it expected the outfit to be immune to the woes of the economy.

With hushed breath it noted that sales of Macs had actually declined
a year ago while sales of other brands of PCs managed to increase by
two percent. 

How can that be? People always buy Apple don't they? Steve Jobs told them so.

NPD analyst Steve Baker pointed out that there had been a 35 per cent drop in sales of desktop Macs

Adults - get ready to rumble at Chuck E. Cheese

Chuck E. Cheese Arcade: A Place Where Moms Punch Dads In the Face



Chuck E. Cheese, the arcade with robot band, is a violent place. An
uninvited kid joined a birthday party. And when the cops showed up,
they found a rumble between 40 bloodthirsty parents.

Americans don't know where America is

Steven Shehori: Poll: 37% of Americans Unable to Locate America on Map of America

Poll: 37% of Americans Unable to Locate America on Map of America

TV the detroyer of lives

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Thin Japanese buildings

Bouncing Red Ball » 20+ really thin buildings and houses in Japan

Canada DOES have a subprime crisis

Just Another Willy Loman: Now we know what the 75 billion was for

The Harper conservatives deregulated our mortgage insurance, and created a Canadian subprime mortgage crisis that should start to hit our economy in about six months and they are lying about.

The economy is going to get worse than both Harper and Flaherty have forecasted and it would appear our government's finances could be in worse shape than they have reported hinted (since they have to date avoided and discussion or disclosure in parliament).

Regardless of the plan presented in January the Coalition needs to replace this government, we can no longer afford their ideological incompetence or believe a word they are saying.

Nice Christmas songs (not)

Twelve Songs For Christmas at Kontraband

Christmas got you down? These songs are for you. NSFW or for children or polite adults.

Shoes thrown at Bush

YouTube - Shoes Thrown at President Bush

More Bacon pictures

funny bacon photos | TheChive




(thanks Heather!)

Zombie Portraits

Concept Art: Cultural Icons Memorialized in Zombie Portraits

20 Movers and Shakers in Science Fiction

The Power List: 20 Movers And Shakers In Science Fiction

Internet becoming more popular than sex?

Almost half of women prefer Internet to sex- The Inquirer

First, the Internet has become more popular than TV. Now, it seems, it threatens to become more popular than sex. Oh my goodness!

Another good summary of what has happened to Canada's government

Macleans.ca - WELLS: Parliament in chaos–just how Harper likes it

Hypocracy on sepratists

Bouquets of Gray: Separatists on parade, 3: western separatists in the CPC


If Harper And The Conservatives HATE Separatists ... (the Quebecois
version) ... Why Don't They Also Condemn Western Separatists? A fair question, as I'm sure anyone would admit.

Another
question. Wouldn't it be best if the Conservative Party restricted its
membership to non-separatists? A case in point: David Crutcher is the
Executive Director of the new separatist Western Business and Taxpayers
Association. His profile on the WBTA's website happily identifies him as federal Conservative.

Women pleasuring themselves

92% of women like to go solo | The Sun |News

And two-thirds of women admit to pleasuring themselves three times a week,
with women in London finding the time for four sessions every seven days.

Water Vapor Confirmed on Alien Planet

Water Vapor Confirmed on Alien Planet | Wired Science from Wired.com

Snot news

ABC News: You Think It's Mucus, but It's Not

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Mucus and Phlegm

Brain images to computer

Mad Science: Technology Puts Images from Your Brain onto a Computer

Japanese scientists have unveiled a device that can pluck images out of your brain and recreate them on a computer screen.

Using
an fMRI brain scanner, researchers read electrical signals coming from
people's brains while they thought about letters in the word "neuron."
The research team led by Yukiyaso Kamitani at ATR Computational
Neuroscience Labs has designed software that can process the output of
the fMRI and search for signals associated with vision. (Many of the
same parts of the brain that process images in the real world are also
used to create images in your mind's eye.)

Once they'd processed the signals they received, researchers were
able to recreate the word "neuron" from what they'd picked up in
subject's brains.