Hot California market daunts first-time buyers

This is a great first sentence in the article: "Pity the poor first-time home buyer in California"

NACUBO Endowment Study

Haven't you always wanted to know how USC's endowment stacks up against all the other universities? Well, we're way down at 22nd place I found out today. Only a paltry $2.4 billion. Download the pdf by right clicking HERE

Roomba's brother Scooba

Hopefully my roommate will get this for Christmas and I'll never have to mop again either!

SEQUENTIAL Pictures \\\ Star Wars Episode Three: A Lost Hope [Revenge of the Sith parody preview]

Pretty funny Star Wars Episode III parody...

Quantum honeybees - research on
honeybee behavior


God is an amazing God! Scientists have just figured out how a scout bee tells the other bees where the new food it found is. An amazingly complex dancing language is the answer!

Here's a quote: "After finding food, scout bees returning to the hive dance on the vertical walls of the honeycomb. A round dance indicates the food is very close, within 35 yards or less. A figure-eight pattern indicates that the food is farther away. The bee indicates the distance to the food by how long it dances; it indicates the food's richness by how vigorously it dances; and it indicates the food's direction by the angle the dance deviates from an imaginary line drawn from the current position of the sun to the dance floor. The code is complex and detailed."

Sony
Four-Legged Robot League


Watch as these Aibos play soccer against each other... pretty cute, funny
and really neat technology too! They actually work together as a
team (sometimes)!

Wired News: Go Forth and Multiply, Little Bot

Holy cow this video is amazing! Watch as this robot makes a copy of itself, using building blocks (food or parts), and then the copy of itself has the knowledge (dna or software programming) to build a copy of itself too!

Howstuffworks "How Lightsabers Work"

The big advantage of using a lightsaber, of course, is that you can both cut and toast the bagel in one stroke.

Tiger Mates With Lion, Gives Birth to Liger Cub in Siberian Zoo - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM

Holy cow, ligers do exist!! Napoleon Dynamite was right!

No sympathy for "runaway bride" - U.S. News - MSNBC.com

Here's a quote from an article by Nina Bradley: “It is important to sit down as a couple and resolve what appeals to you. Make sure the wedding is reflecting what the bride and groom really want, and sometimes that concept gets lost," added Nay.

When my mother has insisted on certain things that she thinks we “must have” at our upcoming wedding, I tell her that this is my wedding day. She’s already had hers. If Wilbanks did not want 600 guests seeing her in her gown, she should have said something."