History

Hebrew tablet suggests tradition of resurrected messiah predates Jesus [IHT] - Prepare for the onrush of religious zealots, this tablet means that one of the more crucial parables in the Bible got it wrong. Will this further call into doubt other aspects of the foundations of Christianity?

Acoustics Expert: Cavemen Must Have Loved to Sing [Foxnews] - Analyzing the famous, ochre-splashed cave walls of southwestern France, the most densely painted areas were also those with the best acoustics. Humming into some bends in the wall even produced sounds mimicking the animals painted there.

Geek Tech/Science

The Amazon Kindle has not been a big seller to date [Examiner.com] - The market for electronic book readers has not taken off, with analysts saying cost - first for the device, then for the content it holds - a major drawback. I saw this coming which is why I’ve been hesitant to get it for my mother, though she’s been hinting for almost a year.

Planet Mercury Shrinking In Size, Latest NASA Probe Reveal [BBC] -  Scientists believe the shrinkage is due to the planet’s core slowly cooling. Or if you ask me, maybe the earlier measurements weren’t that accurate and the planet isn’t shrinking. Hmm?

AT&T’s Odd iPhone Offer [TechNewsWorld] - Some of the details surrounding AT&T’s iPhone prices make little sense, writes Eric Benderoff. The company will sell a 3G iPhone with no contract for a $400 premium.

Games

Recycled Auto Part Chess Set [Coolest-Gadgets] Think about how many junky cars you see people driving. Where do you think those cars will be in five years? Rotting away in some landfill no doubt. Old car parts can be used for so many productive purposes, rather than gathering dust on some abandoned lot.

Guitar Hero Expansion Answers Aerosmith Enthusiasts’ Prayers [eFluxMedia] - “Guitar Hero: Aerosmith” is much like Guitar Hero III, but with more of a personal feeling for all those classic rockers out there. They now have the opportunity to be a part of the Aerosmith history, from the Nipmuc High School to the star-studded halftime show at the Big Game; includes 40 tracks mostly by Aerosmith but also includes Stone Temple Pilots, Run DMC and a few others.

Medical Tech

New technology could improve cancer treatments [International Herald Tribune] - Researchers have developed a test that can identify minute amounts of tumor cells floating in the blood of cancer patients, a discovery that could lead to better treatments with fewer side effects. It uses a microchip scanner no bigger than a business card to analyze a patient’s blood, hunting for stray cells shed by tumors and can detect a single cancer cell among a billion healthy blood cells.

The CIA Gets Social With Web 2.0 Collaboration Tools - Spy agency discusses ‘Intellipedia’, their newest online tool for analysts

The Next Step in Space Exploration - Private space travel is the next big thing?

Patch vaccine holds off traveller’s diarrhea: study - Needle free vaccine may stop Montezuma’s Revenge

Mars lander fills test oven with pinch of soil - Shake, shake, shake that booty.

Robotic fish ace swim test — as a team - Robofish can work as a team by wirelessly communicating underwater

Chinese suspected in US hacking cases - Chinese hackers infiltrating PCs of politicians. Gov’t sponsored hacking? Naw.

Telescope launched to scout out gamma rays - Scouting out elusive, super high-energy gamma rays lurking in the universe

Sun goes longer than normal without producing sunspots - The sun has been laying low for the past couple of years, producing no sunspots and giving a break to satellites.

Mozilla Firefox 3.0 to be released June 17 - The countdown begins

Citysense Uses Mobile Data To Pinpoint Night Life Hot Spots - The mobile map app takes data from mobiles to identify the ‘happening’ spots of the night

Red Hat Settles Some Infringement Lawsuits - Red Hat has been slammed with many lawsuits, this week it’s settled two of those with Firestar and DataTerm.

HP thumps the Macbook Air with its Envy 133 notebook - HP has announced a new line of ultra-thin notebooks that are actually thinner and more powerful than Apple’s Air

8 Types Of Annoying People You’ll Find Inside Starbucks [Holy Taco]- The 8 types of people guaranteed to annoy the sh*t out of you.

From Atari Joyboard to Wii Fit: 25 years of “exergaming” [BoingBoing] - Wii Fit is hardly the first example of an attempt to meld videogaming and exercise — it’s not even the first fitness offering from Nintendo.

Inside a Classic: The TRS-80 Model 100 [PC World] - Released in 1983, internal 300 baud modem, Instant-on, with a comfortable keyboard and 20 hours of battery life: Little wonder this Radio Shack model is one of the most popular portables of all time.

Paralyzed Man Walks in Second Life [Kotaku]- A 41-year-old Japanese man who suffers from a progressive muscle disease that has left him almost totally paralyzed, moved his Second Life character about a virtual environment using his brain wave.

PGP rolls out Whole Disk Encryption for Mac [ZDNet] - Whole Disk Encryption is already used on the Windows platform in multiple verticals, but PGP Corp., a security company focused on data encryption, plans to announce that it is offering a Mac OS X version of its product next.

Lost Cameras Phone Home to Catch Thieves [eWeek] - Equipped with a memory card and wireless Internet, a stolen camera sent home lost family photos and images of the thieves. While they were walking by an unsecured wifi network, the camera ‘discovered’ it and automatically uploaded all photos to it’s master.

Hasbro Unveils New ‘Star Wars’ Toys [Extreme Tech] - Here’s some video of the upcoming versions (larger scale) of the Millennium Falcon that can hold 18 action figures, a big AT-TE walker that can hold 20 clone troopers, and of course an army of action figures including R2, Anakin, Yoda and more.

- Cylon Baseships Run Windows XP?

- Wiener water soup - I can’t believe someone green lighted this recipe on cooks.com?

- A blog dedicated to pipe-dream ideas, broadcast for anyone to pursue.

- Mötley Crüe Sells More Through ‘Rock Band’ Than iTunes

- A fact of the male brain “Bikin-clad women make men impatient” - A recent study shows that men who watched sexy videos or handled lingerie sought immediate gratification–even when they were making decisions about money, soda, and candy. Duh.

- Fractal furniture! 

- How Rock Band saved my marriage

- The sad demise of whimsical teasing in Comic Chat

Fred and Wilma Flintstone attempted to deliver a simple message (on a stone tablet) to the European Parliament recently, after winding their way through the streets of Brussels in a ‘Flintstone car’.

Their message was simple: Stop listening to the stone-age bilge of the car lobby, and start standing up for the climate.

What they got for their efforts was to be arrested and hauled off in a paddywagon.

Read the blow by blow account at Greenpeace’s blog. Go to the blog to see more photos, I love the beard the guys have donned.