Doctors at a Dallas hospital "made history" (for certain limited definitions of "making history") by sending a series of Twitter updates throughout a child's kidney transplant surgery this week.
Perhaps none of Netflix's plans could accommodate the needs of Myles Weathers, who reportedly pilfered 3,012 DVDs from the post office where he worked.
One of the most critical things that the space shuttle Endeavour delivered to the International Space Station last week was a system that would allow the astronauts on board to recycle their own urine into drinkable water. Gross, yes, but vital if the station's crew complement is to be expanded from 3 to 6 next year as planned ... and it took a while to get it up and running. "There will be dancing later," mission controllers replied when informed that the pee-drinking was finally ready to commence.
Most experts agree that when the military's Advanced Research Projects Agency laid the basis for the modern Internet with ARPANET in the late 1960s, and when Tim Berners-Lee created the first Web browser in 1991, they had one goal in mind: allowing hilarious cats to entertain all of humanity.
If someone angrily declares "you can't prove anything," it behooves said person not to take pictures of that-which-can't-be-proven and post them on MySpace.
Scientists have implanted genes into the ears of mice embryos to encourage their tiny adorable mouse ears to become much, much hairier -- and to hear better too.
Who knew Canada was foreign country? The Terry family of Portland was horrified to get a five-digit phone bill from AT&T after their son used a wireless network card with his laptop north of the border.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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Perhaps none of Netflix's plans could accommodate the needs of Myles Weathers, who reportedly pilfered 3,012 DVDs from the post office where he worked.