This looks pretty cool -- Leonardo Faoro, a medical resident at Mayo Clinic, has set up a message board to answer questions that people with cancer have.Link

Here's a neat little JavaScript counter:

These images are from a Huckleberry Hound book. The backgrounds are great! Link (Via PCL LinkDump)

By using various data, mobile, and VoIP services, Glenn Fleishman is going to save about $130 a month in data/telecom charges.

One reason we could make this switch is that I moved my $25 per month unlimited Vonage service home. We'll move Lynn's business line--about $60 per month--using number portability to ring on the Vonage line, so that won't increase costs there and will save us about $55 per month. We'll shift the $20 to $25 in long-distance calls we were making on our landline to Vonage, saving that much per month.

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Former BB guest blogger Johannes Grenzfurthner says:

"One of the non-robotic projects of Roboexotica is online now. It's called 'special forces'. We co-operated with Loka Daun (she was part of the artist-in-residence programme) and set up some short stories about a very special bio-squad and their deadly business."

It's sickeningly sweet and deliciously frightening. Link

Lots of photographs documenting the liberation of Fallujah. (graphic) Link (Thanks, Emeka!)

It's common for people living in Europe to buy computer hardware in the US where prices are lower and the Euro is strong. Just don't try it with the new iMacs. An article in today's International Herald Tribune points out that the G5 iMacs sold in the US are strictly 100-110 volt, unlike every other Apple machine on the market with the exception of the eMac. Plug a new iMac into a standard 220-240 European outlet without a transformer and your motherboard will fry. From the IHT article:

It was a sudden, unexpected and little publicized change for Apple...

I asked Apple why and have not received an answer. Postings on Internet discussion boards are thick with speculation. The most likely reason is that limiting the reach of U.S. and Japanese computers is meant to help preserve European sales, where PC sales are relatively strong but the economy is weak. A company also gains if its revenue is in a more valuable currency than the one its costs are in.

Link (Thanks, DMD!)