. Processors A. Tom's Hardware's live stress test of Intel and AMD sees the Intel system fail four times, AMD still going 1. http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050603/index.html 2. Intel suxx0rz B. So, how's Vanessa? No, not your girlfriend, your heatsink... 1. http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050607/cpu-cooler-22.html 2. WTFBBQ? A heatsink called Vanessa, with BUTTERFLY SHAPED FINS? 3. And THIS is what tops the benchmarks?! WTF!! C. Quad cores by Q1 o' `06 1. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23747 2. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23748 3. AMD for the win! However, seriously, when are we getting back to actually developing better technology and stop just patching it together? . What we're dealing with here is total lack of respect for the law. A. Proposal for extending British copyrights to 100 years 1. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1641428,00.html 2. Yay now people can keep making money after the artist is dead! 3. Apparently US copyright is 90 years . News A. All Chinese websites required to register with the government 1. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23782 2. Bloggers report most licenses being denied B. Cold fusion, really 1. http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2005/0606/p25s01-stss.html 2. Method uses pyroelectric crystals to generate 100,000 volts at only 100 degrees C. Nearly 2/3s of corporations have employees whose job it is to read other employees' mail 1. http://www.aviransplace.com/index.php/archives/2005/06/07/63-of-corporations-plan-to-read-outbound-email/ 2. Um if I were going to leak corporate secrets, I wouldn't use the corporate email system to do it D. Japanese invent exoskeletons 1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050607/lf_afp/afplifestylejapantechnologyrobotelderly_050607141415 2. These suits will give them strength on par with caucasians apparently (seriously, the first thing I thought when I saw their pic was, "That's it? No flipping cars? I can do that without an exoskeleton. Big deal.") E. British h4x0r to be extradited 1. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/19164714?source=Evening%20Standard&ct=5 2. Totally 0wn3d many systems at the Pentagon and Nasa, deleted files and user accounts costing about $1,000,000 . Misc A. iPod toilet paper dispenser. I wish I were joking. 1. http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/ipod/index.php#at-ilounge-106704 2. Make it stop.