Yesterday, it was revealed that the venerable Elder Scrolls series will finally take its single player MMO feel to the actual MMO market with The Elder Scrolls Online. We were promised a teaser, and today we have it. Speakers or headphones required, as there isn’t much to take in other than the narrator’s distinguished voice.

One of my biggest problem with tablets is the issue of typing on them. There’s limited tactile feedback; sure you can get haptic, but you still can’t feel your way around the keys. Considering the limited tactile feedback, there are too many “keys” too close together. And since you need both hands to be at all efficient on a standard QWERTY, you have to go find someplace to set the sucker down so you can treat it like a keyboard. Adam Kumpf must have felt the same way, because he’s developed a one-handed tablet keyboard that solves almost all of these problems.

In case any aliens are planning on visiting the planet Earth, they’d do well to make their landing in Bowman, South Carolina. That’s the home of the UFO Welcome Center, built and maintained by Jody Pendarvis. Currently, said welcome center consists of two homemade flying saucers that Pendarvis built himself, one stacked on top of each other, in his role as ambassador to the aliens. Sorry, he shouldn’t have mentioned that. Or the female aliens, he really can’t talk about the female aliens. But he did sit down several months ago to participate in a short documentary about he and his homebrewed UFOs called Welcome to Planet Earth.

There is a $19 dollar a month, unlimited talk, text, and data cellphone plan. Seriously, this is for real. The plan is offered by Republic Wireless and seems to be everything it claims to be, with a few sensible caveats, but hey, it’s $19 dollars a month. It would be sketchy if there weren’t any caveats. The plan was only announced last week, to much jaw-dropping, and now it really exists. It seems that the magic is all made possible by Wi-Fi being used in an exceedingly intelligent way.

Perhaps in the vein of “ask a silly question, get a silly answer,” the White House has formally stated that there is no evidence of extraterrestrial contact with the Earth, and no efforts to hide said non-existant extraterrestrial activity from the public. But that’s just what they would say, isn’t it?

The response comes from Phil Larson of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy in response to two We The People online petitions.

The moon has watched over the Earth for all human history, inspiring poems, paintings, and songs. We’ve mapped its surface, and even went there several times. With all that information, one would assume that we at least know what it looks like.

That seems to not be the case for at least one gentleman who called the Herts Police to report strange lights hovering over his house. After describing the mysterious, silent lights the man remarked several times that he didn’t, “know what the hell it is.” A few minutes later, the man was good enough to call back and inform the police that it was the moon.

Thankfully, the police have released a recording of the call on YouTube. You simply must listen. Hear it for yourself, after the break.

Jose Maldonado, a bricklayer in Guadalajara, Mexico recently managed to do something that no one has been able to pull off: He captured a fairy. Best Week Ever quotes him as saying:

I was picking guavas and I saw a twinkling. I thought it was a firefly. I picked it up and felt that it was moving; when I looked at it I knew that it was a fairy godmother.

Not necessarily his fairy godmother, but a fairy godmother. Still better than, say, a plastic fairy figurine, right? Following his discovery, he took the fairy godmother and preserved her in formaldehyde (presumably because he assumed she was already dead) and is now showing her off to all comers, for a price. Currently unemployed, Jose is asking for donations from the thousands of people who have come to see and, at least to some extent, are convinced. “I’ve seen everything and, yes, I believe the fairy is real,” said one visitor who has apparently seen everything, except maybe Peter Pan.

This amazing video of a guy hitting two baseballs off a series of trampolines has all the makings of a fake viral video. Although, they aren’t selling anything other than their mad skillz and ingenuity for rigging three trampolines to bounce the baseballs around the infield until they return to the hitter creating an infinite feedback loop. The hitter’s accuracy seems too good be true, but if it is this should be the future of batting practice.

(via Viral Viral Videos)

Researchers at Tel Aviv University’s school of chemistry have developed a sensor that can detect if your drink has been spiked by the most common date rape drugs. The sensor can be used as a straw or a stirrer that will light up to indicate if someone has slipped something into your drink.

The sensor absorbs a drop of the beverage, and brings it into contact with a chemical formula created by lead researchers Fernando Patolsky and Michael Ioffe. So far, the exact make up of the chemical formula hasn’t been released. But, the researchers say it is extremely effective at detecting the drugs.

Ioffe told the AFP:

“The drug itself is reacting with this chemical formulation and the previously clear formula becomes dirty and when the light shines it you can detect it. You don’t have to do anything but dip it in your drink.”

Finding a cure for cancer has been the mission of millions of scientists around the world. Significant breakthroughs have been made in developing treatments for cancer, and even some preventative measures have been developed like the HPV vaccine that guards against certain strains of the humanpapillomavirus, one of the few viral causes of cancer. But despite advances in immuno and virotherapy, there remains a need for an effective, easily produced, and easy to tolerate treatment for cancer.

Researchers working in part at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN, and St. James University Hospital in Leeds, UK believe they have developed a new virotherapy with tremendous potential. Their method focuses on prostate cancer in mice, and while very successful it remains to be seen whether this therapy could be translated with the same effectiveness into humans.