This Wired's article says there are nearly 50 visionary entrepreneurs profiled in a new 495-page book titled They Made America. It is an encyclopedic, entertaining tome by Sir Harold Evans is now the subject of a four-part PBS series (check this informative site out for names, history, images, etc.) of the same name.

From Yahoo! Finance's Press Release News post: Fast as light, Verizon is moving to roll out advanced fiber-based broadband technology to customers in six more states.

Mousey's original post: I don't know why people send me these things... It just seems natural that I might be interested in the evolutionary links between female promiscuity and the size of your testicles right? I mean, that's a perfectly normal topic of discussion at work, right?? Engineers are weird.

Redmond has a list of the ten best presidential candidates we'll never see for election 2008.

eCoustics has an article about maximizing home theater experience by tricking in a room with the subwoofer.

Tonight's Dilbert cartoon cracks me up. I know that feeling at work. :P [sighs]

Here is the reason why Mars Rovers got power boosts.

A new funny StupidVideos' video clip to see. This is the correct way to get even with someone jealous in taking your winning money from a card game. Hopefully, that kid didn't get busted by running in public with that gun. [grin]

... by monsters! Ack! Click here to view it. Ahhhhhhhhhhh!

Seen on Blue's News.

Like World of Warcraft's real-life costume contest mentioned in last Sunday's article, City of Heroes did a costume contest recently and now has the results.

Not for kids' viewing... Ouch! from /.'s Humor in Game story comment.

Worth1000 has a contest on "What if celebrities lived in different time periods?" There are 81 entries.

This BBC News story says Roman cosmetic secrets revealed. The fashion conscious women of Roman Britain used a tin-based foundation to get a pale and appealing look.

The Quicktime movie trailer for Pixar's upcoming movie, Cars, is up.

Related to Ashlee Simpson's SNL music performance, The Ashlee Simpson Lip-Syncing Hoe-Down was created in Flash. It is cheesy and funny.

Seen on Blue's News.

According to Yahoo! News' story, airlines increasingly have to worry more about the weight of their passengers according to a new federal government study. America's growing waistlines are hurting the bottom lines of airline companies as the extra pounds on passengers are causing a drag on planes. Heavier fliers have created heftier fuel costs.

Through the 1990s, the average weight of Americans increased by 10 pounds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites). The extra weight caused airlines to spend $275 million to burn 350 million more gallons of fuel in 2000 just to carry the additional weight of Americans, the federal agency estimated in a recent issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

This article shows various photographs of overworked Japanese people sleeping in weird places like subway trains, restaurants, sidewalks, etc. It's sad.

Be warned some non-related photographs have fingering. Seen on memepool. [collapses, falls asleep, and starts snoring at his office desk]

This Wired's article says there are five top contestants vying for the title of most beautiful virtual woman in the world.

None of them are attractive to me.

TheShadow shared a Yahoo! News' story about Pioneer Corp. developing a next-generation disc that is made of corn to let the eco-conscious consumer dispose of data in the soil.

The Japanese electronics maker said the Blu-ray optical disc, which can be written once and stores 25 gigabytes of data, is 87 percent natural polymer derived from corn and biodegrades.

"If the starch polymer is incinerated, it will not emit dioxins and any other harmful chemicals," the company said.

U.S. Election for 2004 is over, but there are still plenty of stuff to see. My good friend, Matt Major, sent me this link that shows details of counties in each state on U.S.A. map.

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith teaser trailer is online.

Thanks to #starwar IRC channel on some random server. Click a link to download: mirror1 (thanks Element), mirror2 (thanks Ulic; uses referrals), and mirror3 (from a PvP Forums thread; not zipped).