The New Yorker explains a Time Warner Cable bill:

$14.32 — Landline you promised your parents you would keep as an “emergency backup” and now you only use to order Thai food

$1.35 — Random charge that’s too small to waste your time contesting

Seems pretty accurate to me. Reminds me of the time they accidentally revealed charging the consumer for the ads they send in the bill.

Porsche’s 918 is a plug-in hybrid that will get 94 miles to the gallon.

Porsche’s ground-breaking 918 Spyder hybrid supercar goes on sale officially this week — with an eye-watering £672,000 price, and its own limited-edition 911 to tide buyers over until deliveries start in 2013.

£672,000 is about $1 million in US dollars (as of this morning). Somebody please make sure Nick Hogan doesn’t drive one.

A mother is suing her daughter’s preschool for $19,000, the cost of tuition.

In court papers, Nicole Imprescia suggests York Avenue Preschool jeopardized little Lucia’s chances of getting into an elite private school or, one day, the Ivy League.

As a New Yorker, this embarrasses me.

Anthony Robles, who was born with one leg, won the NCAA national championship in wrestling in his weight class.

He arrived in Philadelphia the No. 1 seed in his weight class, and over two days and four matches, he advanced to the finals, but he was tired. On Saturday he and his family had walked around the city, and he’d watched his brother sprint up the famous steps that Rocky Balboa once did. “I walked,” he said. “I was too sore.”

The NY Times has some interactive before and after photos of the quake damage in Japan. Unfortunately, they look eerily similar to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

For every condom you buy, Sir Richard’s donates one to a country in need:

At Sir Richard’s, we believe safe sex is a basic human right. Only a fraction of the global demand for condoms is met each year. With Sir Richard’s, you’re helping to bridge that gap. For every Sir Richard’s condom bought, we donate one condom to a country in need. We appeal to discerning, responsible individuals who seek to align their purchases with the change they want to see in the world. Doing good never felt better.

Whoever coined “Doing good never felt better” probably didn’t get paid nearly enough as they should have.

Eric Wedum draws headlines:

Each weekday I find a headline on a major news site, and illustrate it without reading a word of the story.

Outstanding.

A NASA scientist claims to have found evidence of alien life in a meteorite:

Though it may be hard to swallow, Hoover is convinced that his findings reveal fossil evidence of bacterial life within such meteorites, the remains of living organisms from their parent bodies — comets, moons and other astral bodies. By extension, the findings suggest we are not alone in the universe, he said.

Phil Plait, of Bad Astronomy, pens a somewhat sane analysis of the news:

Clearly, Hoover thinks terrestrial contamination is unlikely. However, contamination, no matter how unlikely, is a more mundane explanation than extraterrestrial life, and Occam’s Razor will always shave very closely here. We have to be very, very clear that contamination was impossible before seriously entertaining the idea that these structures are space-borne life.

And check out the Journal of Cosmology’s web site…it’s like they stepped into the WABAC Machine and landed in 1995.

moviebarcode is a tumblr that takes every frame of a movie and stacks them side-by-side so you get a unique bar code.

Of course, The Matrix has large swaths of green, and Pulp Fiction almost looks like wood paneling.