Musician LeRoi Moore, saxophonist for the Dave Matthews Band and one of its founding members, died Tuesday afternoon. According to a statement released on his website, the death was caused by unexpected complications from an ATV accident he sustained at the end of June earlier this year, at his house in Virginia.

From the Website:

LeRoi Moore Announcement

LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founding member of Dave Matthews Band, died unexpectedly Tuesday afternoon, August 19, 2008, at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles from sudden complications stemming from his June ATV accident on his farm near Charlottesville, Virginia.  Moore had recently returned to his Los Angeles home to begin an intensive physical rehabilitation program.

Tom Muzquiz

RCA Music Group Publicity

J Records / Arista Records / RCA Records

Is it just me, or is everyone dying all of a sudden? Well, it has to happen sometime, but some old age for warning seems, at least, reasonable–that’s all I’m sayin’.

If your college is receiving federal funding, watch out for the piracy police when you return to campus in the coming weeks.

The College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2008, requires, “colleges and universities that get federal funding have to come up with ways to deal with “Campus-based Digital Theft Prevention.”

The bill doesn’t give specific methods for hunting down campus pirates, so the universities themselves have to devise creative ways, like Missouri S&T’s P2P quiz, to manage the illegal piracy on their own closed networks.

In the second part of their look at anti-piracy efforts at American universities, Torrentfreak.com analyzes the tactics used by piracy hubs - Ohio University, Texas A&M University, Tulane University and others as they implement methods preferred by the RIAA and MPAA.

Either China is such an oppressively un-sexy place, or Olympic athletes have collectively given up on safe-sex practices, because two thirds of the 100,000 free condoms available to the Olympians sit untouched, on a shelf. This compared to previous Olympiads, which sound more like an international orgy of unfathomable proportions than a distinguished competition.

“Organizers ran out of prophylactics at the 2000 Sydney Games, which forced Athens organizers to nearly double the total available to 130,000 four years later,” says Yahoo Sports. Despite this, reports of the mood signal a change in “ambiance,” as more events come to a close and athletes are able to think less about the medal they need to win and more about the rainbow of booty that awaits them in the Olympians lounge.

Read the whole story at Yahoo Sports, here!

Nothing ruins a day like crapping your pants. But if you live in New York City, the inevitable ass-mergency we all experience from time to time just got a hell of a lot easier to deal with. Some kind and thoughtful people have started Diaroogle.com, which uses Google Maps to help you find the closest available public restroom.

Once you search, using address, zip code, neighborhood or the closest cross-street, Diaroogle doesn’t just show you where the bathroom is on the map, it tells you exactly where to go once you’re inside–and how to avoid anyone making your explain yourself in those last crucial seconds before it all lets loose. Read More »

You may have heard a few weeks ago that around three tons of cocaine were seized from smugglers by the Costa Rican government. You may have also heard that they were using a submarine to do so.

Now, when we heard this, we laughed. It conjured up visions of a giant derelict craft stolen from Russia after the USSR’s collapse. That vision would be wrong.

The ’sub’ these guys were using was homemade. Out of wood and fiberglass. These guys used pipes that went to the surface to breathe! That is some serious Daffy Duck/Bugs Bunny sh*t right there.

One, who the f**k thinks ‘no man, f**k planes, planes are played out, lets use a submarine!’ Two, who was the guy who was like “YA AND LETS BUILD OUR OWN!” Read More »

Holy crap! Students at Durban University of Technology detected a signal using a recently tuned-up radio telescope have detected a “strong” radio signal from outside our solar system. After honing the sensitivity on the Indlebe Radio Telescope, situated on the Steve Biko campus of the Durban University of Technology in South Africa, the students received a strong signal from the Sagittarius A radio source, located toward the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Read More »

In an improbable turn of events, Barack Obama seems to have gone crazy, and decided on George F’ing Clooney as his vice presidential running mate for the White House. According to a high ranking Obama staffer, the candidate made the decision after speaking with the Actor and political activist late Friday night in a Beverly Hills Mansion. Clooney flew back from his Lake Como, Italy villa specifically for the meeting.

“Celebrities have enormous power with the American people,” the spokesman, who wished to remain anonymous, told us early Saturday. “They have money, fame and a way to get the message out to millions of people–George Clooney best represents that community.” Read More »

Actor and comedian Bernie Mac of The Bernie Mac Show and Ocean’s Eleven-franchise fame died early this morning at Northwest Memorial hospital in Chicago at the age of 50. While the cause of death has not been unconfirmed, Mac was recently checked into the hospital for pneumonia, which may be related to his death.

The news surfaced after the family contacted Sun-Times columnist, Stella Foster only an hour after Mac was confirmed dead.  “It brought tears to my eyes because Bernie Mac has always been my all-time favorite entertainer and comedian. It pains me to have to report that,” Foster told SuburbanChicagoNews.com during a phone interview this morning. Read More »

Random House has pulled 46 year-old Sherry Jones’ novel The Jewel of Medina “for the safety of the author, employees of Random House, booksellers and anyone else who would be involved in distribution and sale of the novel.” Why is the novel so dangerous? It is about the life of A’isha, bride of the Prophet Mohammed and father of Islam.

The novel begins with A’isha’s engagement to Mohammed when she was six years old to the Prophet’s death where “he died with his head on her breast.”

Ms. Jones said they had a “great love story” and was shocked to hear it was pulled. “I have deliberately and consciously written respectfully about Islam and Mohammed…I envisioned that my book would be a bridge-builder.” Unfortunately Random House and the PC Police don’t think so. Read More »

Damnit! Getting away with doing illegal sh*t just got a smidge harder. A new fingerprint technology allows law enforcement to detect traces of weed, cocaine, explosives, even disease and other illnesses.

Using a technique called desorption electrospray ionization (DESI), which involves spraying a finger printed area (like your car door handle) with a solvent and anylizing the droplets that come off of the fingerprint to create a “chemical image” of the finger print.

The result is a higher resolution image of the print than past techniques allowed, give those doing the anylizing the ability to see particles down to one billionth of a gram of “material.”

“The classic example of a fingerprint is an ink imprint showing the unique swirls and loops used for identification, but fingerprints also leave behind a unique distribution of molecular compounds,” Prof Graham Cooks, who helped develop the technology with colleagues at Purdue University in West Lafayette, told the Telegraph.co.uk. Read More »