All you need to know about The Church of Scientology, including fun facts such as this: Tom Cruise is an Operating Thetan, enlightened beings who are said to have total control over themselves and their environment. OTs can allegedly move inanimate objects with their minds, leave their bodies at will and telepathically communicate with, and control the behavior of, both animals and human beings.

If you’re interested in the current state of cancer treatment and you only have five minutes of free time today, this article is for you!

Here’s a sobering thought: “If everyone stopped smoking, cancer deaths could be cut by one-third…”

“AT&T provided National Security Agency eavesdroppers with full access to its customers’ phone calls, and shunted its customers’ internet traffic to data-mining equipment installed in a secret room in its San Francisco switching center…” Be afraid.

How long will your password stand up? This site shows the approximate amount of time required for a computer or a cluster of computers to guess various passwords. For example, the time it takes a single Pentium 100 computer to break a 4 digit pin is ‘instantaneous’, and a supercomputer can break a 7-digit alphanumeric password in less than one hour.

I remember when I was a wee-kiddo I used to spin my Led Zeppelin records backwards and try to hear the hidden satanic messages. Now, thanks to the Internet and technology I can’t even begin to understand, all we have to do is press buttons! Oh! And Britney Spears has backwards messages too!

RoboDump is a robot. And it poops. Forever. A horrible, never-ending bowel movement complete with straining grunts, horrific gas, splashes, and pee sounds.

Two questions regarding this one: 1) Where can I buy one? and 2) How do you nominate someone for the nobel prize?

Loose Change is an 80 minute documentary exploring some well known conspiracy theories regarding the events of September 11th 2001. At the very least it is quite well done and showcases the ability of the internet to serve as a free distribution mechanism.

FindSounds allows you to search for audio files based on keywords. It seems to work well, though I am basing that entirely on my one search for ‘fart’. The results definitely left me satisfied!

Can you tell the hard-core programmers from the hard-core murderers? I sure can’t, and will probably wind up dead by morning.

Do you know an introvert? Perhaps you are curious as to how you should be caring for him/her beyond making sure their litterbox is clean, their water is fresh and that they have plenty of kibble.
Now I’m off to sleep with models since I am most certainly not an introvert… *soft crying*

A family in Argentina have been taking pictures of themselves on June 17th every year since 1976, creating a fascinating look at the aging process. They were lucky, because unlike my family they completely missed out on the giant-clown-glasses phase of the 80s.

What do you get when you combine French people, bicycle messengers and an ice race track? Good times, that’s what!
(If you’re curious about just what the hell is going on in those pictures, check out the site.)

NASA scientists, no doubt in a down period between shuttle explosions, give spiders various drugs and take photographs of the resulting webs. There’s a prize for guessing which drug results in the most dysfunctional web! (The prize is love.)

Now hold up a minute here… Am I the only person who watches Battlestar Galactica? Does anyone remember a little movie called ‘The Terminator’? Human robots = bad idea. Honestly I don’t know why we’re so worried about the terrorists. We need to invade Japan.

I mean, who wouldn’t think of building an intelligent MIDI sequencer with hamster control for a school project?

These are fake cat paws with claws that can be controlled by a small switch hidden in the “handle”. Probably best to purchase two. And while you’re visiting the site, why not pick up some USB dog flash memory?

the technique seems complex; magical even, but once mastered, imagine how useful the knowledge could be.

Not only are physically unattractive teenagers likely to be stay-at-homes on prom night, they’re also more likely to grow up to be criminals, say two economists who tracked the life course of young people from high school through early adulthood

120 years of electronic music machines.

Derek Glover, a 72 year old man who lost his hearing 15 years ago, was 7,000 feet up on a ski lift in the Italian Dolomites when he heard a loud pop and his hearing returned.