I was right. The case against John Mark Karr for the killing of JonBenet Ramsey has collapsed, to the surprise of almost no one. Prosecutors abruptly dropped their case Monday against John Mark Karr in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, saying DNA tests failed to put him at the crime scene despite his insistence he sexually assaulted and strangled the 6-year-old beauty queen. … [Read more...] about Karr Didn’t Do It
Wa-Shing-Ton
Here's some weird bit of pop culture that I just don't get. It's stupid, it's poorly drawn, and it makes no sense. Video: George Washington (Probably not safe for work) Can't. Get. It. Out. Of. My. Head. … [Read more...] about Wa-Shing-Ton
A Sleepy Day
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Bummer
Pluto is not a planet. Despite earlier indications that the International Astronomical Union might adopt a broad definition of a planet that includes Pluto and additional objects in the list of planets, they've decided that Pluto isn't a planet after all, and neither are the other three objects they had been considering: Charon, Ceres, and 2003 UB313. The good news, I … [Read more...] about Bummer
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Building on top of their S3 service, Amazon Web Services has announced the beta phase of a new service: The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Simply put, EC2 provides web-accessible virtual servers that you can provision as a service in just a few minutes. Let's say you have an application that requires a database server, an application server, and a web server. You … [Read more...] about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)