Stephen Fry’s take on the iPad. Reminds me how much I miss reading interesting writers such as him.

iPad About « The New Adventures of Stephen Fry.

Funny stuff this, considering that the US created a cyber security force to protect its citizens from rogue organisations and governments, whereas the Chinese government cyber security is to protect the government from the people.

Don’t impose double standards on “Internet freedom” – People’s Daily Online.

I never knew the answer to this, until now.  I only remembered a reference to stercobilin from Silence of the Lambs.

“Bile comes from your gall bladder and helps your body digest food,” said Anish Sheth, M.D., assistant professor at Yale Medical School and author of the book What’s Your Poo Telling You? “It’s metabolized by the bacteria in your large intestine, leaving behind a byproduct called stercobilin—and it’s that stercobilin that gives stool a brown pigment.”

Without stercobilin, your poo would actually be a sort of pale, off-grey color, like white clay. This really does happen from time to time, Dr. Sheth said, when something is blocking a patient’s bile duct, so that bile can’t get from the gall bladder into the intestinal tract. The cause could be as simple as a gall stone, or as ominous as pancreatic cancer.

Science Question from a Toddler: Why is poop brown? Boing Boing.

…in Vietnam, of all places.

This Google’s made from 100% Virgin pulp, not chrome — Engadget.

A funny and radical attempt at repairing an old iBook that has the famous graphics problem.

DIY obsolete iBook logic board repair :: projects :: geek technique.