Two men trying to trace a loaded .357-caliber Magnum as a pattern for a tattoo accidentally shot themselves.

A 71-year-old Japanese farmer found a solution to grow 11 different kinds of fruit on a single tree.

A wealthy Portuguese bachelor, who had no children, left his fortune to 70 strangers selected at random from a telephone book.

Coincidence: front-page photos help capture thief [story].

These are not the only shocking abuses of President Bush’s two terms in office, made in the name of fighting terrorism.

A book reveals the 22-year effort by FBI director J Edgar Hoover to get Albert Einstein arrested as a political subversive or even a Soviet spy.

The price of oil briefly hit $100 a barrel. What does it mean, aside from the obvious point that the economy is under extra pressure?

Woman finds dog, tells owner in Dallas that she’s keeping it.

1903: Thomas Edison stages his highly publicized electrocution of an elephant in order to demonstrate the dangers of alternating current.

Female monkeys may shout during sex to help their male partners climax, research now reveals.

‘Painkiller’ gene turned off in mice.

ER docs prescribe narcotics for painmore often for whites than non-whites. Overall prescribing of narcotics for pain rose from 23 percent to 37 percent.

“When you don’t have that thing in your head that tells you you’re full, it’s disgusting the amount of food you can eat,” world’s heaviest woman said.

Obese Eames.

Fat Tax: a leading Australian nutritionist has urged airlines to charge obese passengers more for their seats.

Starting in 2008, there are new rules for bringing lithium batteries on airplanes.

Wikipedia launched an open-source search project, dubbed Wikia Search, that eventually hopes to challenge Google and other established players.

Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 February 2008. In the mid-1990s the browser was used by more than 90% of the web population, but numbers have slipped to just 0.6%.

Concerned over libellous flaming and the ease with which children can access pornography online, Japan’s communications ministry is suggesting the government starts regulating the internet by 2010.

Hackers for the first time are targeting Facebook with a phishing scam that harvests users’ login details and passwords.

Sony BMG to drop DRM.

Steve Jobs gives a legendary keynote at Macworld SF every January, launching products and giving a state of the union view of things at Apple. I wondered what effect the Jobs keynote had on Apple’s (AAPL) stock price in the short term. What if you invested $10,000 the day before the keynote, then sold at the end of the keynote day? What if you waited until the day after?

Steve Jobs’ tiny iPod has turned his company into a category killer for the digital era–first wiping out music stores and now, potentially, the corner video store. The iPod has killed before. It will kill again.

Dual dock iPod alarm clock.

2008 is the International Year of the Potato.

A classification of the different stages an AI might go through, from “hypohuman” (most existing AIs) to “hyperhuman”.

Nanotechnology images from the Science as Art competition.

Terry Richardson and Michael Lauin Hong Kong.

Doors.

Recursive escalator sign.

Small hotel rooms.

Victoria Beckham’s perhaps paying homage to Marcel Marceau.

Background [gif].

Pussy snorkel.

One drink per person.

Cheers!

And a happy new year!

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