The Wanderer

This Wired article (non-subscribers: Wired is not one of those mags that usually writes breathlessly about flying cars and cyborgs...you're thinking of Popular Science/Mechanics) talks about an Irish company, Steorn, that claims to have stumbled onto a true "perpectual motion" machine--a machine that produces more energy than it uses.  They are currently accepting scientist volunteers to validate their claims.  Count me very skeptical but interested...

Steorn: http://www.steorn.net/frontpage/default.aspx
Video Mirror: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1784833525509845733

Gizmodo has an amazing video taken from YouTube of a technology developed at Microsoft called TouchLight.  The video shows engineers playing around with some simple applications of this cousin-to-touchscreen technology.  The precogs that run the system can't quite be made out in the video, though.  Now if only we can figure out how to print onto wooden balls instead of paper...

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/microsoft/microsoft-touchlight-touch-screen-technology-with-a-twist-194560.php

The Eggcorn Database

You'd have to be star-craving [sic] mad or a total comedic pre-madonna [sic] to not find the contents of the above site hilarious.  It contains some really funny but frighteningly-common malapropisms, re-syllabifications, improperly used idioms, etc...  If we work together, maybe this bad grammar can be nipped in the butt [sic].  If you still don't get what it is, check out the site and I think the idea will be flushed [sic] out for you.  I hope this site passes mustard [sic] for you in the humor department like it did for me.