4-year old Jake, a golden retriever from San Fran, doggy-paddled his way into the record books by being the first dog to participate in the South End Rowing Club's 10th annual "Alcatraz Invitational", a 1.2 mile swim from Alcatraz to the mainland of San Francisco.  Go Jake!

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Scared-stiff astronomers have detected a mysterious mass they've dubbed a "chaos cloud" that dissolves everything in its path, including comets, asteroids, planets and entire stars -- and it's headed directly toward Earth!

Discovered April 6 by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the swirling, 10 million-mile- wide cosmic dust cloud has been likened to an "acid nebula" and is hurtling toward us at close to the speed of light -- making its estimated time of arrival 9:15 a.m. EDT on June 1, 2014.

"The good news is that this finding confirms several cutting- edge ideas in theoretical physics," announced Dr. Albert Sherwinski, a Cambridge based astrophysicist with close ties to NASA.

"The bad news is that the total annihilation of our solar system is imminent."

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This webcomic was actually started in 2002 by Chris Dlugosz.  It is a comic about the lives of pixels.  I thought you all might get a kick out of browsing these comics.  Enjoy!

http://pixelcomic.net/000.shtml

Buy it now!  The brand-new CD from University of Washington lecturer/Pop Idol superstar Greg Crowther is here!  You can get all of these classic hits:

• 3.14159/pi!
• Glucose, Glucose!
• Hooray for NMR Spectroscopy!
• The Nucleus I Like Best!
• The Waltz of the Ribosomes!
• And everyone's favorite, Oxidative Phosphorylation!!!!

News/DL link: Wired

Apple's got some new TV ads that feature a PC man and a Mac man discussing some of the finer aspects of themselves--and ruffling a few feathers in the process.

http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

An odd website has people submit pictures of Conan O'Brien in some sort of conflict with a bear.  Who will be the first to submit pixel art?

http://www.conanvsbear.com/

For all of you Jointers out there who have a Facebook account, go join the "Pixel Artists" group over at Facebook!

http://hs.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2208733853

Has anyone seen my rights?

Bush has just signed a bill that may make habeus corpus obsolete.  This  means he will be able to detain, torture and punish citizens and non-citizens without a fair trial.

Check it out here.

Maybe you saw it coming.  Apple has announced that it is making a cell phone.  A cell phone that includes a widescreen iPod, powerful internet and a touch interface.  As if Apple's stock hasn't risen enough...

http://www.apple.com/iphone/