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Our cell phones are tracking us and spying on us–are they doing anything GOOD? Well, they may be delivering some good sex.

Vibrators are now sold in your local drug store, but you don’t need to buy one–you can buy an iphone app that will do the job instead. In the April 21st edition of the New York Times, Hilary Howard reports that Suki Dunham, a former business manager for Apple, has created a line of vibrators that synchronize rhythmically with iPods, iPads, iPhones and other smartphones.
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At least 272 people have been killed, a nuclear power plant has been knocked out for weeks, and property damage is expected to exceed a billion dollars in one of the worst spring storm outbreaks in memory. There were 364 reports of tornadoes across the southeastern US, and flooding from Arkansas to Vermont. Tornadoes were sighted in 16 states from Arkansas to New York, with the hardest hit state being Alabama, where 184 people were killed. The Mayor of Tuscaloosa has said that the city’s infrastructure has been "decimated." The worst previous tornado outbreak recorded in the US took place in April of 1974. killed 308 people and spawned 148 tornadoes in 13 states. (Click on photo and scroll down to bottom of story to see video.)
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Despite the severe storms now raging across the country, the long term future will be a drier one. The long lull in sunspot activity at the end of the last 11-year solar cycle gave us more time to work on solving the climate change problem, but a new analysis of the magnitude of climate change during Earth’s deep past suggests that future temperatures may eventually rise far more than projected if society continues its pace of emitting greenhouse gases.read more