A StarCraft themed cake with a Zerg Hatchery, minerals and drones harvesting

via StarCraft Zerg Cake / Funny Pictures / cSlacker.com.

A woman, checking out a female friend’s house on Google Maps, was surprised to see her husband’s Range Rover parked out front, complete with blingy hubcaps, reports The Sun. A divorce is underway.
Google Maps: Cheating Husband Said Caught Via Google Street View

Working might also be causal $ appearing in my account every two weeks, then again, maybe not. :p viaxkcd

All we need is an annoying host

The Fertility Institutes recently stunned the fertility community by being the first company to boldly offer couples the opportunity to screen their embryos not only for diseases and gender, but also for completely benign characteristics such as eye color, hair color, and complexion.
Slashdot | Designer Babies

Funny, though, what happens when groups ask that the same network management tools be used for alternate purposes such as Canadian content rules. When that happens, Rogers, the same ISP that acknowledges traffic shaping, now says “We’re a dumb pipe. We don’t know what you’re downloading . . . so how can we be responsible for the content?” In other words, when Rogers appears before the CRTC during the new media proceeding it runs a “dumb pipe.” When it returns several months later for the network management proceeding, it runs a smart pipe engaged in deep packet inspection to identify the traffic on its network.

Michael Geist – Rogers – “We’re A Dumb Pipe”

CTRL-V (via Bad-Control)

HA! Great Idea For a Video

The Internet is overrun by geeky boys who can give your startup a boost. Realizing this and that geeky boys are like all boys and will stop to look at any mildly cute girl, a site is launched.

GirlInYourShirt

Charging enough so she can get loaded on weekends, this girl will promote your company.(via TechCrunch)

Availability cascade — a self-reinforcing process in which a collective belief gains more and more plausibility through its increasing repetition in public discourse (or “repeat something long enough and it will become true”).

List of cognitive biases – Wikipedia