It's a big week for the iPhone, with the release of the new Operating System 3.0 and a new model in the iPhone 3G S.
How much can restaurants influence what we order?
First there was the Viagra sandwich. Now come two more items of note on the Viagra front: Harlem’s prize alfresco venue, Hudson River Café, is serving a Viagra seviche (containing squid, crab, lobster, and squid ink) — during Father’s Day, of all times — as part of a $45 prix fixe that also includes a T-bone and a tipple of Johnnie Walker Blue (so you can get dad drunk and horny?).
Muse have announced that their next album, 'The Resistance', will be released on September 14.
We’ve all been there - stuck in traffic, inching along, running late and getting angry when suddenly everyone starts moving. Just like that, the road clears. No flashing lights, no mangled cars, no clue to suggest what went wrong. They’re called phantom traffic jams, and mathematicians at MIT are determined to find out what causes them - and more importantly, how to prevent them.
Phantom jams are born of a lot of cars using the road. No surprise there. But when traffic gets too heavy, it takes the smallest disturbance in the flow - a driver laying on the brakes, someone tailgating too closely or some moron picking pickles off his burger - to ripple through traffic and create a self-sustaining traffic jam.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology mathematicians have created a model to describe how these frustrating snarls form. With this understanding, engineers could design and build better roads to minimize the odds of them happening.
The LA idiot s(avants) with a penchant for fabric softener (try ordering a T-shirt from them and you'll know what I mean) do a pretty hot cover of a pretty lame 'artist'. The last half gets really epic in a really awesome way.
DataViz just launched its Documents To Go suite for the iPhone, which lets you edit and create Word documents, sync work files with a desktop over WiFi, and view other Office documents with the iPhone's existing viewer -- it's not the first app to offer some of these functions for the device, but it's the first with this level of street cred.
Having had no less than one near relationship-deal-breaking argument over which vacuum cleaner would be purchased to take up space in a closet, I'll try not to act too excited about this–especially with its $699 price tag–but truly, I am about as excited as one could be over a vacuum. Being someone who is very particular about the particles I inhale, this vacuum is like a breath of fresh air.
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One of my new favorites chats with Pitchfork from her Brooklyn residence.
There are a few arguments I engage in that continually bother me, and I always want to counter them with some scientific evidence, but never really have a study to point to, so I'm particularly glad to see this article.But what if it’s all a big mistake?
For some scientists, the question will not go away. No study, these critics say, has ever proved a causal relationship between moderate drinking and lower risk of death — only that the two often go together. It may be that moderate drinking is just something healthy people tend to do, not something that makes people healthy. READ MORE.
This guy's either doing some piece of performance art that involves retching or someone figured out how to Frankenstein together the worst humans of all time.
