Which country has the 2nd most home internet users after the USA? Surprise -- it's China.

Graduate students in biotechnology are getting the royal treatment from startup companies eager to hire them, much the way that Unix and PERL gurus were treated a few years ago by the dotcoms. Will history repeat itself?

The blog of the guy who created Blogger. (Via ThreeRiver.)

It's hard to get smaller than a single-molecule electronic switch.

I'd love it if my home computer and electronics equipment could automatically network themselves together.

Do we really need another musical recording format?

Virtual reality body suits will of course have many useful military and industrial applications. But we all know that the real money will be in the sex industry.

A great way to learn about American culture is to study its conspiracy theories.

The following words are not considered libelous: "skank", "chicken-butt", "local loser". And oh yeah, "big skank".

I always wondered if Jesus had a good 3-point shot. (Via Khava.)

In Missouri, "junk faxes" are apparently considered Constitutionally-protected free speech, even though the recipient has to pay for paper, toner, etc. Maybe Missouri should change its state motto to "The 'Fax Me' State".

Some people have used this PayPay hack to buy stuff for nearly free. As the article says, "Crooked shoppers can edit the HTML of ThaiGem's PayPal Web Accept page and mark a $2,000 white diamond down to $1 if they desire."

I never knew that there were so many penis euphemisms.

High speed internet access via laser beams shot through your window.

The $1 billion hack? One multinational corporation is suing another for allegedly hiring computer crackers to steal its corporate secrets and post them on the internet. As the article notes, "Stealing your competitor’s secrets to cash in on them is as old as commerce itself. But stealing your enemy’s secrets and giving them away, thereby diluting or eliminating their value? That seems to be a new corporate weapon born of the Internet age."

Anna Hardin and Kelty Allen, two roommates at a South Carolina residential high school both scored a perfect 1600 on their SAT's. It is expected that their room, now known as "Room 3200", will be in great demand in the future.

NASA wants you to help them discover comets for them over the internet. This amateur astronomer did.

3-dimensional displays without the dorky glasses.

Human cloning may be the current hot political issue, but here are some of the more interesting upcoming bioethics problems.

Darth Vader and Joe Pesci do tech support.