Women's professional golf celebrations are a lot more interesting than men's. (Here's a picture of the trophy from a less salacious angle. Thanks to my brother Tim for the link.)

The Science-Fiction Tax: A Republican congressional candidate from Alabama has proposed a 1% tax on all science fiction books to pay for NASA. (Via Geeknews.net)

MIT researchers have invented a mobile phone that transmits both voice as well as vibrations. According to the article, "When you squeeze with a finger, a vibration signal is transmitted to your caller's corresponding finger, its strength dependent on how hard you squeeze." This adds new meaning to the slogan, "Reach out and touch someone"...

Gates Shrugged: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates warned that if the US Government forces him to modify the Windows operating system against his will, he might just have to take it off the market.

Doesn't add up: Officials at the Iowa State Mathematics Championship tournament added the scores incorrectly and awarded first place to the wrong school.

The real Scorpion King was one bad dude. (Via Fark.)

Transplantation breakthrough: Stanford physician have found a way to transplant human kidneys without requiring the recipient to stay on a lifelong course of anti-rejection drugs. The donated kidneys do not have to come from a relative either. Part of the technique involves using adult stem cells from the donor to teach the recipient not to recognize the new kidney as "foreign". According to the article, this is "the direction in which transplantation will move in the future".

Dead links multiply very quickly on the internet according to a recent study, which is why the Internet Archive will be such a valuable resource when it gets up and running.

The Brava breast pump is a device that supposedly allows women to enlarge their breasts by applying gentle suction overnight to the tissues. For those impatient customers who want to monitor their development, the manufacturers have also thoughtfully built in a modem into the recharging device so that it uploads breast measurement changes daily onto the Brava website.

Ultrawideband sensors may be able to look through walls and track object locations down to the fraction of an inch. Which is why Sony, Motorola, Intel, and DaimerChrysler are now very interested in this technology.

Black holes aren't black holes according to this new theory from Los Alamos National Laboratory. Instead, they are spherical voids in space surrounded by "an ultra-thin, ultra-cold, ultra-dark shell of material that is virtually indestructible" which they call Gravastars. (Hey, isn't this the hideout of the dread Emperor Zurg and his Fortress of Doom?)

My old Sony Vaio was pretty cool, but the new ones look very slick.

Three clone pregnancies now supposedly exist, according to the controversial Dr. Antinori.

RightWingNews.com has a great interview with Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit on a variety of topics ranging from political blogging to 2nd Amendment rights, internet music trading, and the war on terrorism. My favorite quote:

"I don't think I'm really a 'conservative' in any meaningful sense. At least when you apply the term 'conservative' to describe someone who supports gay marriage, the legality of cloning, and the eventual modification of the Martian climate to make it earthlike, I'm not sure what, exactly, is being conserved."

The Yahoo! yodeler Wylie Gustfason has settled his lawsuit against the Yahoo! company. By the terms of the agreement, he was not allowed to disclose the exact amount but he did reportedly yell a big "Yahoo!" when it was all over.

Forbes reviews space tourism options for the (very) well-heeled.

"Super-bacteria" that are resistant to multiple advanced antibiotics are becoming a serious problem in Western medicine. Fortunately, viruses from the former Soviet Union may be just what the doctor ordered.

A British composer will premiere "an interactive symphony written for the ring tones of 30 mobile phones" this summer.

Oral sex and cooking don't mix.

It's not junk, it's valuable legacy hardware: When historians need to retrieve old computer data from obsolete storage media, they turn to people like Lee Tydlaska. Lawyers really love him as well.