Coredump

But good enough for me, considering.

Heh. Natalie Portman raps in Saturday Night Live with The Lonely Island.

via Boing Boing.

Apparently, a 12-year-old boy didn’t think so.

The boy (who wouldn’t stand a rat’s chance in Singapore) stuck gum on a $1.5-million abstract painting on exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts. The gum left a stain on the “The Bay” by Helen Frankenthaler. Curators and restoration experts are still researching the chemical composition of the gum to decide which solvent to use.

The painting — though it’s purity has been stained (heh, just had to say that, sorry) — is “going to be fine,” museum authorities said.

The boy, meanwhile, is probably off to MOMA or the Louvre, after being suspended from school. He’s got a promising career ahead of him. via Boing Boing.

Via Boing Boing:

At the recent KinnerNet 2005 [Israeli version of Foo Camp], [co-founder Yossi] Vardi and his pals Shimon Schocken and Ami Ben-Basat demonstrated that snails can be faster at data delivery than both ADSL and pigeons.

Called SNAP (SNAil-based data transfer Protocol), the system uses “biological carriers, and, for the first time, taking advantages of the unique merits of the wheel for data transfer.” Test results showed that SNAP (at 37,000 kbps) is significantly faster than ADSL (1,500 kbps) and WiFly TCP (Transmission by Carrier Pigeons, also known as “IP over Avian Carrier”) (2,270 kbps), which has a glaring limitation of not being able to “fly through Windows”.

A distinct disadvantage of SNAP is the risk of DOS (denial-of-service), “most notably in France, (where) culinary habits may pose a risk — French users will have to choose whether they want to be served data-ex-cargo or an escargot.”

LMAO on this one.

Speaking of job hunts, I’m on one right now. Not that I don’t like my current work — heck, I’m in for more interesting things — but I need fresh opportunities. [via Pearls Before Swine]