From YahooNews: 
Judge: Baby’s guardian gets Smith’s body
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Blubbering as he announced his ruling, a judge said Thursday he hopes        Anna Nicole Smith will be buried in the Bahamas, but he left the decision up to the guardian of her baby daughter
Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin steered a surprise middle course in the dispute, […]

By Restless
The site has info on making your own Tesla coils, can crushers, lasers a potpourri of devices for the advanced nerd. Check it out!

Thx to neatorama.

Sorry about the weird problems with the blog the past 24 hours.  Apparently my host had problems with their database (SQL) servers, and it should be all worked out now, or so they tell me.
You may have noticed a new ad on the sidebar for Dental Plans.  As an experiment I’ve jumped into the world […]

Just so you guys know, I know about the weird SQL error that’s on the blog tonight, apparently my host is having a problem with their SQL Servers, and it should be fixed in an hour or so.
- Porter

Found this today, well done.

By Restless
I’m not reading much of the New York Post as I used to. The Post is a Rupert Murdoch rag and it features regular editorials by such heavy thinkers as Michelle Malkin and Bill O’Reilly. The paper’s hard-news articles are either of the lock-’em-up-throw-away-the-key-true-crime variety of story or heavily-slanted-to-the-right national and international news. Throw […]

By Restless
From neatorama:
Eri van den Biggelaar, 40, has just a few weeks to live after being diagnosed last year with an aggressive form of cervical cancer.
She asked the woodwork teacher, a friend, to build a coffin for her. “Why don’t you let the children make it?” replied Erik van Dijk.
Now pupils of the school in […]

From Yahoo.Com: 
3 ultra-athletes endure sand, heat to run across Sahara Desert
IN THE WESTERN DESERT, Egypt (AP) — Three ultra-endurance athletes have just done something most would consider insane: They ran the equivalent of two marathons a day for 111 days to become the first modern runners to cross the Sahara Desert’s grueling 4,000 miles.
“It will […]

 
 
From Oxford University’s Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science - First published in Free Inquiry 24(1), 9-11, 2004.
Gerin Oil Addiction
Gerin Oil (or Geriniol, to give it its scientific name) is a powerful drug that acts directly on the central nervous system to produce a range of symptoms, often of an antisocial or […]

By Restless
In the never-ending attempts to legislate morality, US & State representatives rush to pass complicated laws on all aspects of sexual behavior. Laws are passed with ever more draconian penalties attached. The Hang ‘Em High mentality that pervades the legal community (judges, DAs, legislators, governors, presidents), our adversarial form of jurisprudence, insures injustice. Two […]

This might be a little geeky for some of you goofs, but I thought this site was pretty cool, it shows how each and every number is special in it’s own little way.

By Restless
I don’t know what software for post-processing Trey Ratcliff uses for the shots he takes of his travels all over the world, but wow! His blog is Stuck in Customs.

Coloseum lit by candlelight.

Cowled Prayer

Icy Pit to Hell

 
From the New York Times:
Lawmaker Apologizes for Memo Linking Evolution and Jewish Texts
HOUSTON, Feb. 16 — A leader of the Texas House of Representatives apologized Friday for circulating an appeal to ban the teaching of evolution as derived from “Rabbinic writings” and other Jewish texts.
“I had no intention to offend anyone,” said the lawmaker, Warren […]

By Restless
In the Vietnam War era, there were many, many protests over a variety of things. University students “took over” some campuses in protest of university policies that limited free speech, and since there was a draft, there were many nationwide protests against the war and the draft.
Most of the protesters in these demonstrations were […]