Surprise, surprise: U.S. broadband is slow. Really slow. – “U.S. broadband speeds are the focus of a recently conducted study by Communications Workers of America (CWA) union and the results are not especially flattering for broadband service providers on these shores. The U.S. comes in 15th on a worldwide scale, far behind the leaders Japan, South Korea and Finland…”

Rat snacks can solve world food price crisis – “Eating rats is the best way for rich and poor people to solve the global crisis of rising food prices, an Indian official said Wednesday as he unveiled his plan to put rodents on menus…”

GUIDs are Great – “A Globally-Unique Identifier (GUID) is generated algorithmically, usually using your network card’s MAC address (edit: this is no longer the case, please see comments below) as well as the number of 100 nanosecond periods elapsed since 12:00 AM on October 15, 1582 (naturally). Using these two pieces of data ensures that your computer won’t generate the same GUID twice and two different computers won’t generate the same GUID at the same time…”

19 Most Essential Open Source Applications That You Probably Want To Know – “Today, we are listing here 19 Most Essential and useful open source applications that you probably want to know to use in your daily life. Most of them are top of the list projects that have an open source industry leading popularity and many of them are not listed here but over all the list has variety of projects for every one of you. Just take a look at them and share your thoughts here…”

Home science under attack – “Authorities concede that the chemicals found in Deeb’s basement lab were no more hazardous than typical household cleaning products. Despite that, authorities confiscated “all potentially hazardous chemicals” (which is to say the chemicals in Deeb’s lab) from his home, and called in a hazardous waste cleanup company to test the chemicals and clean up the lab…”

14 Cool Computer Keyboards for Geeks – “Keyboards can arrive in many shapes and are a very important part of the daily use at the our home or office. Moreover, the evolution of computers is incomplete without the evolution of its accessories. In recent years, we have seen that keyboards have evolved from old and bulky to new wireless keyboards that have become so popular. What follows is a list of 14 cool computer keyboards which are currently available in the market and every geek will long for…”

US boasts of laser weapon’s ‘plausible deniability’ – “An airborne laser weapon dubbed the “long-range blowtorch” has the added benefit that the US could convincingly deny any involvement with the destruction it causes, say senior officials of the US Air Force (USAF)…”

Ivory Poaching At Critical Levels: Elephants On Path To Extinction By 2020? – “African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989. But the public outcry that resulted in that ban is absent today, and a University of Washington conservation biologist contends it is because the public seems to be unaware of the giant mammals’ plight…”

20 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Stick In Your USB Socket – “When they introduced the “Universal” Serial Bus in 1996, man, they weren’t kidding. You can stick so many things into the socket it’s only a matter of time before somebody electrocutes himself with the most erotically inappropriate “I/O Error” of all time. Hell, there’s probably already a forum for that. To help you forget that horrific image, have a look at these instead…”

NVIDIA PhysX Particle Fluid Demo – “A tech demo based on particle fluids for NVIDIA’s GPU-accelerated PhysX technology. This video was recorded on a machine running an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 graphics card with Forceware 177.83 drivers and PhysX 08.08.01.”

6 ways to use your mouse wheel to do more in Firefox – “Did you know that in Firefox, you can do more with your mouse scroll wheel than just scroll a web page up and down?”

Texas Man Rebuilds $1.5 Million Ferrari Enzo Destroyed By Eddie Griffin – “As part of the run-up PR-fest for Redline, a schlock-fest of a movie, actor Eddie Griffin “lost control” ( can someone say “publicity stunt?” ) of a $1.5 million Ferrari Enzo and crashed it in spectacularly excruciating fashion. The car suffered major front end damage and most considered it totaled due to the delicate carbon fiber bodywork. Not Texan luxury car repair and salesman Matt Groner. No, Groner figured if he could get his hands on the Enzo, it had a fighting chance. As you can see from the picture gallery below, he was right. Jeez, who knew when we launched the “Save The Enzos” campaign, someone would actually save one? The dramatic video of the original incident, pictures of the carnage and Matt’s exclusive story of how he brought the Enzo back to life…”

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