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270-year-old cipher has been cracked, revealing Charles Wesley "fled home amid allegations that he had sex with a colonist after trapping her husband under a tree for three days."

Make your own neurons with some simple electronics hardware.

Stanford is offering free computer science courses, such as introductory programming, robotics, machine language processing, machine learning, linear dynamical systems, fourier transform, and convex optimization. Includes all course materials!

"I was already in this mental cone of silence when the doctor lifted up the covers of my eyeball flaps using what looked like metal chopsticks, mixing around a stir fry while I watched, first-person perspective, from within the wok."

A neat way to visualize stock market performance by industry sector. Similar to the disk space treemaps generated by http://www.derlien.com/ and http://windirstat.info/.

Makes it easy to use symbols in your twitter posts.

"Objectives: To determine whether parachutes are effective in preventing major trauma related to gravitational challenge." This is a peer-reviewed paper?? Tell me it ain't so.

Very sophisticated and professional-looking UI widgets and components

Yet another hilarious image-captioning blog by the makers of ICanHasCheezburger.com

The real reason to worry about something going wrong.

GoodGuide lists out all of the reasons this product is rated poorly: Toxic/unsafe ingredients, company environmental performance, company human rights and treatment of employees. And all the data sources are cited. Very informative!

"GoodGuide provides free & easy access to the world's largest & most reliable source of information on the health, environmental & social impacts of products & companies. Today, GoodGuide offers ratings on over 60,000 products commonly found in your home."

Be informed via Twitter whenever new planets are discovered outside out solar system.

Hilarious collection of grammar and spelling gaffes.

Could very well be the first direct image of a planet outside our solar system. Still undergoing confirmation.

McCain finally posted his responses for Science Debate 2008 (Obama responded about two weeks ago).

A nice-looking open source AJAX framework for Java. The widgets in the demo impressed me.

An MIT project to build autonomous undersea vehicles by duplicating the complex dynamics of a biological tuna. They used a genetic algorithm to search for optimal parameters for their simulations. Is the robotic tuna swarm dolphin-safe?

Dennis Kaufman claims his stepfather was the infamous Zodiac Killer. His evidence includes a set of handwriting samples, composite sketch similarities, the hood used in one of the killings, rolls of film depicting murder victims, and more. Is it a hoax?

"Generates live desktop images of the earth as well as other planets in the solar system with additional informations such as the current clouds, storms, satellites, volcanos, earthquakes and times and locations of cities."