Crap and Crapability

...or at least glow in the dark. BBC has more on the three pigs that "glow in the dark". The pigs are transgenic, created by adding genetic material from jellyfish into a normal pig embryo. ...In daylight, the researchers say the pigs' eyes, teeth and trotters look green. Their skin has a greenish tinge. In the dark, shine a blue light on them and they glow torch-light bright. Via Random Good Stuff

The $100 burger doesn't look like much but contains meat from three continents; American prime beef, and meat from Japanese Kobe and Argentine cattle. Where? The Boca Raton Resort and Club, where a membership costs $40,000 and an additional $3,600 a year.

Another "scoop" by the Onion: U.S. May Have Been Abused During Formative Years WASHINGTON, DC—A team of leading historians and psychiatrists issued a report Wednesday claiming that the United States was likely the victim of abuse by its founding fathers and motherland when it was a young colony. The War of 1812, an example of early abuse by the motherland. "In its adulthood, the U.S. displays all the classic tendencies of a nation that was repeatedly mistreated in its infancy—difficulty forming lasting foreign relationships, viewing everyone as a potential enemy, and employing a pattern of assault and intimidation to assert its power," said Dr. Howard ...

Comparative trial of Girlfriend 6.0 vs. Wife 1.0 Last year a friend of mine upgraded from GirlFriend 6.0 to Wife 1.0 and found that it's a memory hog leaving very little system resources available for other applications. He is now noticing that Wife 1.0 is also spawning Child Processes which are further consuming valuable resources. No mention of this particular phenomena was included in the product brochure or the documentation, though other users have informed him that this is to be expected due to the nature of the application. ... I myself decided to avoid the headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by sticking with Girlfriend 7.0. Even here, however, I found many ...

The Football World cup is not only bad for traffic, it will bring the British internet to a halt as well: The British broadcaster plans to offer broadband-connected office workers the chance to watch World Cup games at their desks. The move risks bringing corporate networks to a halt, warns network management firm Packeteer, in what we suspect will be the first in a string of announcements for networking vendors on the subject.