dre in the morning

Canadian rescued from Arctic ice
A Canadian teenager has been rescued from an ice floe drifting in the Arctic sea, where he was reportedly stranded with two polar bears. Bears make everything worse. (bbc)

Atom Hackintosh netbooks crash and burn
Apple has apparently struck a deadly blow against the burgeoning Hackintosh community by disabling support for Intel’s Atom processor in the latest version of Snow Leopard. (tgdaily)

Scientists develop apple that won’t rot
For the past 20 years, researchers at Queensland Primary Industries
and Fisheries (QPIF), a department of the Queensland government, have been developing a new variety of apple which they claim can stay fresh for months. (independent)

Scientists say curry compound kills cancer cells
Researchers at the Cork Cancer Research Center in Ireland treated esophageal cancer cells with curcumin — a chemical found in the spice turmeric, which gives curries a distinctive yellow color — and found it started to kill cancer cells within 24 hours. (reuters)

Nelly Furtado | Girlie Shirt
nellody said…cool. I have shirt like this, but it’s white with subtitle “Maneater”.

Carrie Prejean confirms ‘sex tape,’ but…
Prejean replied — insert teasing pause here — yes, there was a tape she had done as a teenager. She made it for a distant boyfriend whom she loved at the time. She said TMZ can call it a “sex tape” if it wants. But she was alone on the video and no one else was in the room. (latimes)

Retiring makes you ten years younger: Aches and pains just melt away, say experts
Physical illness and mental pressures melt away with the end of work and the benefits last a decade, research shows. (dailymail)

6 Insane Laws We’ll Need in the Future
From the war on drugs to gay marriage to file sharing, it seems like the law is in a continual, often losing, battle to keep up with the modern world. But it’s only going to get worse from here. Advances in genetic engineering and AI are going to change what it means to be human, and that means lots and lots of work for the future’s lawyers. (cracked)

Does anyone else watch the show Intervention and end up drinking a little too much by the end of the show?
I used to watch The Biggest Loser while cooking dinner/eating take out. Then I’d feel bad about myself when over the course of 2 hours the fatties would lose 12-15 lbs, and all I did was polish off a family-sized portion of sesame chicken. (reddit)