Zombies take over Baltimore University curriculum
It is a class to die for – Zombie studies is now on the curriculum at the University of Baltimore.

Scientists: Go ahead, kill all the mosquitoes. The world will be better for it.
Scientists are fond of saying all of the world’s organisms form a web of life, and that when one species dies it sends cascade of negative jolts into the system. I have no problem with this.

Ninth human foot washes ashore in the Pacific Northwest
A human foot washed up on a Washington State island Friday morning, raising the tally of feet found on beaches in the Pacific Northwest since 2007 to a total of nine.

Now Apple’s iPads Are Cannibalizing The Whole PC Industry (Sorry, Microsoft)
It started with netbooks–those cheap little compact laptops that were once the greatest thing since sliced bread: In the months leading up to the iPad’s launch, the growth of sales of netbooks hit a wall.

Justin Bieber Has Dedicated Servers at Twitter
Justin Bieber uses 3% of Twitter resources at any moment. According to a Twitter employee—talking to designer Dustin Curtis—Bieber has “racks of servers dedicated to him. I’m sure this will excite his haters (hello 4chan!) even more.

The death and rebirth of Duke Nukem Forever: a history
The game has now been in development for six years. Take Two doesn’t have much leverage over the cash-flush 3D Realms, and begins to wish for the game’s release.

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Apple’s New Nano Doesn’t Make Sense
I’m not convinced that the Multi-Touch Nano announced today will be that easy to live with for runners, no matter what Apple says. A click wheel is easy to use without looking at it, a screen isn’t. The existence of volume buttons on the top of the device says to me that the company realizes this on some level. So while adjusting volume should be easy to do by feel, changing songs may not be.

How to Set Up Plex on Your iOS Device
Mac OS X and iOS: The lastest update of media center app Plex brings support for iOS devices. Here’s how to get Plex going on your HTPC and your mobile.

New Apple TV: What We Know So Far
We, geeks, need more, that’s obvious, and that’s why we are so disappointed with the new device. The only thing we can do now is to try to squeeze as much as we can out of this hockey puck when we put our hands on it sometime at the end of September.

New Apple TV is iPod Touch in sheep’s clothing
The inside of the new Apple TV likely resembles the interior of the iPod Touch, a move that allowed Apple to dramatically cut costs, a Canadian research company said today.

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Academy Award winners live longer than runners-up. Interview for med school on a rainy day and you won’t get in. Class presidents die sooner. More people die in car crashes on election day. Who would’ve thunk that medical statistics would be so interesting?
Presidential elections can be fatal.

How to make perfect pesto
Do you have a passion for pesto? What’s your favourite recipe, and is there any better way to eat it than with linguine and green beans?

Stephen Hawking: God did not create Universe
There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe, Professor Stephen Hawking has said.

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Deep-fried beer invented in Texas
The beer is placed inside a pocket of salty, pretzel-like dough and then dunked in oil at 375 degrees for about 20 seconds, a short enough time for the confection to remain alcoholic. When diners take a bite the hot beer mixes with the dough in what is claimed to be a delicious taste sensation.

Monty Python fans in pilgrimage to Scottish castle
Monty Python fans from around the world are preparing to make a special pilgrimage to a 14th century Scottish castle to mark the 35th anniversary of a cult movie.

The Mongoliad
It’s spring of 1241, and the West is shitting its pants (that’s “bewraying its kecks” for you medieval time-travelers). The Mongol takeover of Europe is almost complete. The hordes commanded by the sons of Genghis Khan have swept out of their immense grassy plains and ravaged Russia, Poland, and Hungary… and now seem poised to sweep west to Paris and south to Rome. King and pope and peasant alike face a bleak future—until a small band of warriors, inheritors of a millennium-old secret tradition, set out to probe the enemy.

P.J. O’Rourke’s Progress
P.J. O’Rourke has changed his mind. In an article in the Weekly Standard, the leading magazine of the neoconservative, pro-war faction in America, O’Rourke reports on his recent trip to Afghanistan. I defy anyone to read that article and conclude that he thinks it’s a good idea for the U.S. government to stay in Afghanistan.

Gizmodo Liveblog of Apple Event
This is Gizmodo’s liveblog for the Apple iPod Event on 9/01. Coverage officially starts at 10:00 AM PT (1:00 PM ET), but we’ll be blogging before that. Here are some other quality liveblogs: gdgt, Ars Technica, Wired, NYT, and Apple Insider. Check Gizmodo.com for more news after the liveblog’s complete.

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Meteorite nugget pushes back age of the solar system by nearly 2 million years
The solar system is 4.5682 billion years old, according to a new study published in the scientific journal Nature Geoscience. This is up from about 4.567 billion years, the previous estimate, and is based on a new analysis of metal deposits left by meteorite impacts.

The strange virtual world of 4chan
Coventry cat tormentor Mary Bale has become the latest victim of 4chan – a website credited with creating some of the web’s biggest phenomena, whose users wreak havoc across cyberspace. Just what is it all about?

iPhone app to replace the stethoscope
Peter Bentley invented the iStethoscope application which monitors heartbeat through sensors in the phone as just a bit of fun.

Mmmm… pancetta!

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In Dreams: 50 Mind-Bending Movies

50 Essential comic-book Movies, with Edgar Wright

Comic Con Interview: Natalie Portman And Kat Dennings Are The Ladies Of Thor

Lost Rod Serling Video Interview

All the Emmy Winners and What We Think About Them

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Laker Star Kobe Bryant Sues Japanese City Over Naming Rights To High-End Beef
Kobe Bryant was actually named after the expensive and highly sought after Japanese beef when his father, whose nickname is “Jellybean,” saw it on a restaurant menu. Now, the tables have turned, and Bryant is suing the city of Kobe itself over naming rights to the beef.

Is this Britain’s vilest couple? As woman who urinated on war memorial escapes jail, boyfriend gives veterans Nazi salute
Lewis, 32, was originally due to be sentenced last week but fled after being confronted by a group of ex-servicemen who vented their anger by slow-handclapping and shouting ‘disgusting.’

How the Brain Stops Time
Now a research team from Israel reports that not only does time slow down, but that it slows down more for some than for others. Anxious people, they found, experience greater time dilation in response to the same threat stimuli.

Apple likely to announce iPods, iTV, new iTunes on Sept. 1
Apple surprised industry insiders Wednesday afternoon with an invitation to its exclusive event at the Yerba Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco on Sept. 1.

World’s Most Advanced Machinery Was Reason For Apple’s Liquidmetal Deal, Expert Says
Apple’s recent deal with Liquidmetal Technologies will give it access to the most advanced manufacturing machinery on the planet, one insider says.

Windows Phone 7 will cost Microsoft $1bn
But will that mound of cash get Windows Phone 7 off to the right start in its fight with Android and the iPhone 4? Short answer: No.

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Female Depression: Why Women Are Unhappier Than They’ve Been in Years
It’s because of Angelina Jolie, right?

6 Baffling Flaws in Famous Sci-Fi Technology
As a species, we are tool makers first and foremost. That’s why we love to see gadgets in our movies, and to watch our Captain Picards and Batmans and David Hasselhoffs defeat the bad guys with technology we know we’ll never own.

No Jailbreak for Devices Shipped With 4.0.2
The Jailbreak Team reached a milestone with JailbreakMe. JailbreakMe allows iPhone and iPad users to jailbreak their devices without any complications. The jailbreak was based on a PDF exploit and users found it really easy to jailbreak.

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A black day for lager?
Despite the launch of a new upmarket Stella Artois there’s still a dearth of readily available, quality lagers. What do you rate as the least bad high street lager?

The 72-Hour Expert
Everything you always wanted to know about Afghanistan .  .  . BY P. J. O’ROURKE

FaceTime could be Apple’s iTV killer app
On Saturday, Digg’s Kevin Rose posted that Apple’s rumored Apple TV replacement, expected to be called the iTV, will (and I quote) “change everything”. His premise is that the iTV will replace cable and satellite services.

Windows Phone 7: Don’t bother with this disaster
Windows Phone 7 is a waste of time and money. It’s a platform that no carrier, device maker, developer, or user should bother with. Microsoft should kill it before it ships and admit that it’s out of the mobile game for good.

Theories on Why ‘Scott Pilgrim’ Bombed
Now that Scott Pilgrim has just wrapped up its second week in theaters, the constant chatter has somewhat fizzled out, but folks are still examining the divergence between critics and fans that has occurred more than once this year and could certainly effect the types of films the major studios pump out in the future.

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