New Anti-Sleep Drug. Washington Post article about modafinil, a new drug that kills the urge to sleep.

In trials on healthy people like Army helicopter pilots, modafinil has allowed humans to stay up safely for almost two days while remaining practically as focused, alert, and capable of dealing with complex problems as the well-rested. Then, after a good eight hours' sleep, they can get up and do it again—for another 40 hours, before finally catching up on their sleep.

[Boing Boing Blog]

A con man's worst nightmare. I hate those door-to-door magazine salespeople, especially the ones from American Community Services. They are as pushy as hell, and the prices are a rip-off. (Here's an article about some of the crimes commited by ACS agents.) When some magazine scamster came to a town in New Jersey, residents started posting warnings about him on the town bulletin board. He showed up at someone's door and before he could start his spiel, the homeowner asked him if he was "Mr. Williams." It freaked this guy out and he skipped town. [Boing Boing Blog]

Ukelele video clip from Hawaiian public TV. I usually save my ukulele-related posts for my uke blog, but this clip is too good not to share with the boingers. See what you non-uke players are missing out on? [Boing Boing Blog]

Yoz "Internet Yiddish" Grahame has whipped up a little Web app that takes the specifics of a wireless access point as parameters and spits out a printable PDF of the wibo warchalking mark for it. [Boing Boing Blog]

Franco-Japanese high-concept interactive art. Bruce Sterling points out these amazing Japan-based French interactive artists. This is pure high-weirdness cyberpunk g0ld. [Schism Matrix via Boing Boing Blog]