Military Cyborg Menagerie [Danger Room]
Noah Schachtman on the history of cyborg animals, ranging from sexed-up bugs to manipulating sharks with squid juice.
Parking Goes to Highest Bidder [The Luddite]
SpotScout keeps an eye on congested public parking areas and will, for a price, tell you about freshly-vacated spots. Useful info service, or just bidding to be the stupidest startup on the block? Tony Long rants.
RIAA Launches P2PLawsuits.com [Listening Post]
Eliot Van Buskirk's keeping a weather eye on the RIAA's plans to extort money from consumers it suspects are pirates, thanks to its notoriously unreliable assumption that IP addresses legally match up to individual people. P2PLawsuits.com will offer the victims of this harassement a way out of an expensive lawsuit: giving the RIAA less money that they'd have to pay to retain a lawyer to fend off their arbitrary and oft-wrong accusations.
Diesel Among Greenest Cars [Autopia]
The editors of the Green Car Journal pipe up with something sensible drivers have known for years: the spewing fumes of a diesel engine are more than counterbalanced by the fuel's superior efficiency. John Gartner reports.
More on Bioelectriticy and the Spinal Cord [BodyHack]
You've seen the cyberpigeons, now read about the long history of bioelectric interference. From Kristen Philipkoski in Bodyhack.
The pressure is on for HD DVD [27B Stroke 6]
Now you know for sure the HD format cracks are for real: DMCA takedowns have resulted in applications based on the proof of concept code being removed from Sourceforge. It turns out, however, that the takedown could only be accomplished on a technicality, in that the software contains unnecessary proprieatary lockdown codes. A sanitized version could go right back up, Sourceforge says.
Attention Suckers: Fake iPhone For Sale! [Cult of Mac]
Parse that eBay billing carefully: "i phone papercraft ~~~Apple iPhone in box- REAL!!~~~~," and the scam is obvious. And yet, bidders have taken the carefully-folded inkject printout to $150 in bidding. Will the fraud-facilitating powers that be at Ebay step in?
Over 1,000 PS2 Titles Compatible With Euro PS3 [Game|Life]
Not so bad as suspected, but the EU PS3 is still urinating on your Eiderdown. Don't take it, European gamers! Also, episodic content> is coming to Dreamfall, last year's disappointing follow-up to The Longest Journey.
