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Australian scientists have discovered that crocodiles are capable of fighting off HIV as well as bacteria that are resistant to penicillin. Currently they are collecting blood from crocodiles to isolate the antibodies involved in order to fine tune their “crocodile-serum.

Lately I have noticed when accessing my blog that occasionally links or text in italics gets compressed against other text. It doesn’t consistently happen, and ceases upon a page refresh. I am currently trying to figure out what the hell is causing it so I can stop it, but of course now I’m wondering if this is just happening to me and if this is a quirk of my browser.

Go over and read this recent post on Boing Boing about how DRM is affecting attempts to advance mobile music. It is good stuff. You don’t want to make bunny cry do you?

I found this link through Boing Boing about a man whose cat lost the use of his rear legs in a traffic accident. The owner's solution: build a robotic platform and teach the cat to drive it around the house.

Elizabeth Kostova’s debut novel, The Historian is a scholarly thriller set in Cold War Europe. It is the tale of several academics who become obsessed with the legend of Vlad the Impaler after having mysterious volumes delivered to them containing only a detailed illustration of a enormous dragon within.

Well, it has finally happened, someone has used their iPod to kill someone else in a domestic dispute. Apparently, the woman in question killed her boyfriend after he deleted the contents of her MP3 player.

I just found an article through Slashdot about some software being developed that can monitor phone conversations and provide you a score to display how much of a jerk you are being.

The following is a Public Service Announcement. For the love of God, please write the IDv3 tags for your files consistently! It is driving me absolutely nuts going through and correcting your tags by hand every time I download one of your files.

Well, maybe not a superhero, but an article I found on Wired.com describes how researchers may be able to turn our cell phones into a huge distributed network for detecting pollution levels.

This morning, I found myself thinking of how technology can alter communication, particularly in the way it alters our way of storytelling. At its base, conversation is a means of exchanging information and can be used to make collaborative decisions.

I just read an article I found through Boing Boing about a young man in South Korea that died of exhaustion after playing a FPS game for 50 hours straight. All I have to say is wow, man.

Seriously, this kid at a young age is dancing his ass off to Joan Jett before an audience. He’s awesome. I so don’t have the guts to ever do something like this.

I just got home from seeing The Island. Official Verdict: Meh. This was a mediocre action movie at best, with the potential for an interesting storyline, but the screenplay and directing strangles the concept.

I am really a very lazy person. This may not always be apparent to the casual observer because they may see me at work, where I am very focused and willing to help out with anything.

Well, I am finally starting to understand the way Linux works, and I am getting better and better at using and navigating it every day. This is really good, because although my friends and coworkers have this image of me as some kind of computer guru, I have secretly known that I am really just a retarded man-child among computer geeks.

Okay, I should have been in bed a couple hours ago, but I stayed up to try out a new Linux installation. SuSE 9.3 rocks my socks off. Not only does it support my sound card (a problem I had with other distros), I can even access ALL the files on my Windows partion from here without booting over to the other side!

Okay, I just found out about this little game online. It may be the most pointless thing I have seen in a while, but it involves a monkey so of course I played with it for about 10 minutes.

Well, I have finally started writing the DDL to build the database that the diplomacy server will run on. For a while there I was getting pretty down on myself for putting it off for so long, but as I began creating the tables I realized that all that time I spent just thinking about it has been priceless in the development process.

I was just on the Penny Arcade site and found a link to a bizarre little RPG game that runs in your browser. It is strangely simple and infuriatingly difficult in some ways.

I highly recommend you go read Cory Doctorow’s article on Apple embedding Trusted Computing technology into their OS kernel in an attempt to prevent circumvention of DRM. By extension, this technology can also have the result that if you are using proprietary applications, you will not be able to open files created on those programs in another piece of software even if the file format is supported.