September 2009 - Page 2 of 3 - L7 World - Page 2

Grass gets PageRank 10

You know Google is getting pervasive when it starts ranking plant & animal life. Ecologist Dr. Stefano Allesina realized he could determine the keystones in coextinction, or the loss of one species upon the extinction of another, by reversing Google's algorithm. "In PageRank, a web page is important if important ... [Read More]

Yahoo Mail – Unresponsive Script

If you use firefox to check your Yahoo Mail there's a good chance you've seen the following error message: Warning: Unresponsive script A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete. Script: ... [Read More]

It’s Alive – Review

Lenore Harker (Bijou Phillips) is just one thesis paper away from earning her master's but when she gets pregnant, she decides to leave school and have the baby. After an unexpected growth spurt, Lenore is rushed to hospital for an emergency C-section. It's Alive! Despite a large looking head, everything seems alright ... [Read More]

Mini Ninjas (Xbox 360) – Review

When an evil samurai warlord captures the creatures of the forest and transforms them into his mindless warriors, the ninja master sends his best ninja to stop him. But when they all mysteriously disappear he sends you. You play as the pint-sized hero aptly named Hiro. And although you start off relatively weak, you quickly ... [Read More]

Plan 9 Trailer

It's the remake no one asked for, Ed Wood's cult classic Plan 9 from Outer Space! It's nonsensical plot about aliens that reanimate the dead to stop the Earth from making a sun-bomb, non-existent production value ($60,000), and a drugged up Bela Lugosi earned it the title of "worst movie ever made" but that didn't discourage ... [Read More]

Silent but Deadly

No one can hear you in space but they sure can smell you! The cramp quarters and lack of laundry facilities make for some otherworldly funk at the International Space Station. Recently Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata test drove some high tech odor free underwear called J-wear. "I haven't talked about this underwear to my ... [Read More]

Japan’s First Lady is Out of this World

In the land of Godzilla and contorted ghost girls, perhaps the scariest thing in Japan is its new First Lady. Miyuki is outshining her newly elected husband Prime Minister Yukioi Hatoyama with the revelation that she likes to "eat the Sun." She demonstrated this ability on a Japanese talk show by grasping at the air and ... [Read More]