• A clueless Senator wants to ban iPods because people habitually walk straight into oncoming omnibuses when possessed by it's nefarious musical spell. The photograph of the senator is priceless: he looks like the typical dour politician. You know what I mean: the gray skin, flabby jowls and joyless demeanor of a man whose only passions include stamping down upon the liberties of others through the establishment of a Nanny State and perhaps (perhaps!) the kind of man who enjoys a good spanking. At Gadget Lab.
• And that's not the only stupid law being reported upon today by Gadget Lab: John McCain wants to ban internet yaoi! Somewhere in San Francisco, sleeping peacefully in a bed swaddled her twelve husbands and fourteen wives, Annalee just woke up in a cold sweat, an icy invisible hand clutching her heart. An example of the sort of hot, sexy imagery we'll never be able to see on the Internet again here.
• Over at Bodyhack, Dotinga examines the war between Medical Journals and organizations that want to make medical research open source. The debate is total bullshit: medical knowledge should be free whenever possible.
• What a relief: Thomas Jefferson was not, I repeat, not an Egyptian. Also at Bodyhack.
• "Quitting smoking has, at times, been called harder than swearing off crack, heroin, or Pringles, but researchers at the University of Georgia are finding that a trip through virtual reality can help ease the pain." The person who claimed that swearing off smoking is harder than watching a dead heroin baby creep across your ceiling is probably on crack himself. Video Game Helps Smokers Call It Quits at Game|Life.
