From Debby, my OLG.

World’s fastest internet connection used to dry laundry. Excellent way to waste 3 minutes of your life: Queen Kong. Scientific American article on game theory and drug doping in sports. From the October 1936 issue of Modern Mechanix, Woman Invents Dimple Machine. US banks are foreclosing on formerly overpriced sub-prime housing and then not taking title to them, in order to avoid the taxes. 7 Weird Superheros Who Won’t Ever Hit the Silver Screen (including Arm-Fall-Off-Boy, whose superpower is that he can pull one arm off with the other). National Geographic article about interesting research on animal minds. British boy breaks record by balancing 16 spoons on his face. Math model predicts Baseball’s Top Teams in 2008. In the 1960s, Heineken made square beer bottles so that after you’ve finished drinking the beer, you can use the bottles as bricks. Mystery fanged fish found in Utah. Excellent article by one of my favorite writers on the underappreciated Leonard Euler. The boy band New Kids on the Block has reunited and plans to release a new album and go on tour. Billionaire College Dropouts. Gallery of photos on prepping the space shuttle. Spiffy new designs for UK coins. Interesting study – men shown erotic pictures are more likely to take financial risks. Detection of foreign bodies in chocolate with pulsed terahertz spectroscopy. An Italian winemaker and philosopher has created three wines he claims can help a person identify his or her true sexuality or ambiguity. In case, you know, you haven’t already figured it out using other methods. Video: Lego minfigs teach biochemistry. How much free space is left in the broadcast spectrum? College students playing real-life quidditch. Without the flying, of course. Here’s another (older) article on it.