From YahooNews: 
Scientists Concoct Chocolate That Won’t Melt
Chocolate is not widely consumed in the tropics, even though that’s where most of the world’s cocoa is produced.
 
The reason: It’s too hot.
High temperatures in countries like Nigeria reduce chocolate into a sticky, gooey mess.
Food scientists have been trying to remedy this situation for decades, and now researchers in […]

Very Cool. Who would think something like this could be aerodynamic?
If I had one of these I would to take it to parks and mess with people, have someone push it around like they’re really mowing the lawn then just have it take off.

So an aspiring young entrepreneur who shows some initiative by finding a new use for rotting skulls gets thrown in jail.
What’s this country coming to? 
From The Caldonia Record: 
Grave Robber Sentenced
BY JAMES JARDINE Staff Writer
A Morrisville teenager who broke into a tomb and used a hacksaw to cut the head off of a corpse was sentenced […]

Special Thanks to Graham Linn of “A Day In That Place” Blog for sending me a note about a very “Special” event taking place in Missouri.
Apparently there will be a Fund Raiser for The Special Olympics of Missouri featuring special Krispy Kreme Burgers!
The Krispy Kreme burger is a thick and juicy burger topped with sharp cheddar […]

I came across this cool site that shows a live view of boats moving around San Francisco Bay.  It shows the past few hours, and then a live view.  I never realized there were so many tugs moving around out there.

 
Robot Sex in just 5 years?   woo Hoo!
From The Times Online:
Other dilemmas may arrive sooner than we think, says Christensen. “People are going to be having sex with robots within five years,” he said. So should limits be set on the appearance, for example, of such robotic sex toys? The greatest danger, however, is likely […]

 
Snow Crash is right around the corner.
‘Mind over matter’ no longer science fiction
Sitting stone still under a skull cap fitted with a couple dozen electrodes, American scientist Peter Brunner stares at a laptop computer. Without so much as moving a nostril hair, he suddenly begins to compose a message — letter by letter — on […]

This one is for you Kat!  
 

 
Anyone notice you’re seeing more and more Smart Cars on the road these days?  I remember the first time I saw one was maybe 5 years ago when the CEO of the company I worked at had one.  It was a novelty then, but now I see them all the time.
For those who have never […]

On the Honda Website they have a cool article about the history of their robotic development projects.  Starting with the rather clunky EO in 1986, up to the modern Asimo of the 21st century.
For those who are unfamiliar with the Asimo, it’s a pretty incredible robot, click here to see a video of it running […]

From SPACE.COM: 
Voyager 2 Detects Odd Shape of Solar System’s Edge
Voyager 2 could pass beyond the outermost layer of our solar system, called the “termination shock,” sometime within the next year, NASA scientists announced at a media teleconference today.
The milestone, which comes about a year after Voyager 1’s crossing, comes earlier than expected and suggests to […]

From Nature.COM: 
Chew on this: the gum that fights cancer
Slow-release treatment could mop up carcinogens in the mouth.
Michael Hopkin
It freshens breath, protects teeth and even, if you believe the commercials, makes you immensely popular. But Finnish researchers are hoping that chewing gum could soon pull off an even more ambitious trick: helping to stave off cancer.
They […]

Pretty Nice M.P.G, if you don’t mind lying on your belly riding in a giant hotdog (or turd) shaped death trap.
While the tech involved is pretty cool, one can’t help wonder; wouldn’t it just be easier to rebuild (or re-invent) our rail infrastructure, build multi-use pedestrian friendly urban centers, and discontinue the destruction of our farmland […]

 
From MSNBC.COM:
World’s biggest passenger jet lands in U.K.
Airbus tests whether Europe’s busiest airport ready for superjumbo
LONDON - The world’s biggest passenger airliner landed at Europe’s busiest airport Thursday to test whether London’s Heathrow was ready for the Airbus A380.
Two British flags hung from the plane’s cockpit windows as the superjumbo jet taxied toward a specially […]