• The petaflop barrier has been broken. Good grief.
• Speaking of computing power, the x86 processor celebrated its 30th anniversary on Sunday
• I will never, ever watch anything on TBS. Not ever. Not after seeing this.
• Leo DiCaprio is set to play Nolan Bushnell in an upcoming biopic on the Atari founder. Guess DiCaprio really is a gamer nerd as has always been said to be true.
• Here’s an interesting write-up on the death of the 60gb PS3. Frankly, if the 60gb model were readily available today, I’d be a PS3 owner.
• A full scene from Wall-E (and links to all the cute little promo reels)
• Gotta be impressed by this one legged little league player
• Get your very own Flux Capacitor
• The 1st anniversary edition of The Smoking Gun’s great “Mug Shots Of The Week” feature
• An amusing law suit against SBC/AT&T (one that was correctly tossed)
• Some cool aerial photography
• A hilarious (and genius) Firefox add-on to prevent you from accidentally wandering onto a MySpace page.
• Is Google making us stupid? An interesting topic, to be sure. Frankly, when I see what gets posted to YouTube comment threads, I weep for the future of humanity. If I look at enough of them, I just wish a big comet would wipe us off the face of the planet, for the good of the universe as a whole.
• Not a big surprise, really, but here’s some interesting info on how airports profit from situations that are bad for everyone but them.
• How broken is the legal system? When they ban the use of the word “rape” in a rape trial, how much more broken can it get?
• The term nerd just hit a brand new level. Holy cow.
• Wow, here’s an approach to the environmental cause that I’d actually back. (language warning)
• Where are the now: Sirhan Sirhan
• Interesting. Burt Rutan has stepped down as president of Scaled Composites. Looks like he’s just shifting focus back to the more hands on stuff. Must have gotten tired of some of the political/corporate flack.
• Define irony
• The math nerds will be happy that the universal solution to Rubik’s Cubes has been cut down from 25 to 23 moves.
• Here’s a fun water slide
• Yikes. Western Digital is prepping work on a 20,000 RPM SATA drive. Wonder what “raptor” variant name they’ll drum up for this one.
• And you thought minutiae was small…

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