Harvard Scientists' Discovery Opens Door to Synthetic Life The technology can be used to program cells to make virtually any protein, even some that donâ™t exist in nature, the scientists said. That may allow production of helpful new drugs, chemicals and organisms, including living bacteria. It ...

It's a keyboard. It's white chocolate. Aaaand that's all I've got. I don't think it's full-sized. It might be though. But I doubt it. Also, if you ladies out there like white chocolate, that's what I'm made of. But if you don't like white chocolate, then I'm milk chocolate. Unless you don't like cho...

Magazine Preview - All Boarded Up - How Cleveland is Dealing With Mass Foreclosure - NYTimes.com “a Cleveland police officer was so angered by all the abandoned properties that he volunteered last month to serve warrants to bank officers should they ever be issued.” (tags: realestate cle...

trailer for Transcendent Man The Ray Kurzweil story (tags: trailer movie Singularity raykurzweil) Why The Smartest People Have The Toughest Time Dating Not all pearls of wisdom, but a couple of good points in there (tags: psychology funny relationships sex culture) Romantic trick tattoo to stay A st...

Chicago Reader | The Slow Listening Movement | Former Reader contributor Michaelangelo Matos proposes an antidote for MP3 fatigue; the NVDRS Tape brings digital music into the age of the cassette tape. By Miles Raymer “You don’t have to be a music critic,� says Seattle music critic and former ...

Worldchanging: Bright Green: Ik R.I.P. Asks 'What Will Happen to Your Digital Remains' at Mediamatic Amsterdam Mediamatic offers a memento mori sort of perspective on our digital shadows. And it's in their new digs. (tags: PersonalArchiving personal lifestreaming mortality archiving) ...

Salt & Pepper Shaker Map of the United States « Making Maps: DIY Cartography “A set of salt and pepper shakers, one each for the 48 contiguous U.S. states.” (tags: maps) YouTube - The Most Hated Family in America (1 of 8) “TV documentary written and presented by the BBC’...

Linux System Administrator Wanted - Send Word Resume’ – The ERACC Web Log When are human resources (HR) people going to realize that most Linux folk are not Microsoft fanatics nor Microsoft serfs? The true Linux guru will most likely be able to use Word just fine, if he has it at all. Sure, he c...

The McNuggitini is a cocktail inspired by the deliciousness that is a McDonald's (all clay) milkshake and Chicken McNuggets (which do constitute an emergency). Ingredients: 2 McNuggz (plus more for snacking) 1 tub McDonalds Brand Barbeque Sauce (plus more for licking off pinky finger) 1 lg. Mcdonald...

I just don't get it -- why take the chance? What's wrong with paying some pimply adolescent $6/hour to serve ice cream? You have to look at his ugly face, that's what. Still, I want the record to show that I am anti-robotic ice cream server. These Kuka industrial robots were programmed by 26 student...