Crazy But Able

Cartoonist shrugs at Islamic death threat (Meanwhile, web cartoonist Chris Muir ups the ante)

Poisonous toads overrunning Australia, destroying what little ecosystem Australia has left. [more] [wiki] [BBC on evolution of predators] [related]

Interesting LKML post by Alan Cox listing all of the possible things that can cause silent data corruption when dealing with multi-petabyte (!) data sets. See also this pdf from CERN detailing the original observed problem.

Dungeon Master of the Rings. Hilarious!