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Archive for March, 2010
Amazon to Produce YouTube Clips of Your Shipments?
How strange would this be? Amazon emails you a link to a video that allows you to watch a person packing your product. Well, it just might happen. In a newly unearthed patent application, Amazon describes a process that involves recording the shipment of your product, in both stills and video, for buyers to view online. At first, it sounds [...]
Ubuntu gaining traction in Cloud Computing markets
As Ubuntu's presence in the server space grows, it is showing up in some unexpected places. Weta Digital, the New Zealand company that did the special effects for Lord of the Rings and some of the 3D rendering for Avatar, reportedly runs Ubuntu on its 35,000-core render farm and virtually all of its desktop computers. The Wikimedia Foundation, the [...]
Rand Paul hit with sleazy attack ad
It didn’t take long after getting Dick Cheney’s endorsement for Trey Grayson to start wallowing in the mud: Six weeks out from the Kentucky Republican primary for Senate, Secretary of State Trey Grayson and ophthalmologist Rand Paul are in a pitched battle over that most touchy of political subjects: the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, [...]
New Super Mario Bros Wii
Amazon.com offers New Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo Wii, model no. 045496901738, for $39.54 shipped. That's a buck under our mention from two days ago and the lowest total price we could find by $4.
Hacker vows to fight Sony PS3 update, restore Linux support
iPhone hacker George Hotz, aka "GeoHot," was able to finally crack the PlayStation 3... three years after the system's release. He praised the hardware for its security, but now that Sony has responded by removing the Linux capabilities of the PlayStation 3 entirely, the hacker has decided to fight back, warning gamers not to update their systems [...]
Throwzini 6-Piece Knife Set Block
Amazon.com offers the Throwzini 6-Piece Knife Set with Block for $54.13 shipped! That's $16 under our December mention and the lowest total price we've seen. This knife set features a hand crafted wood knife block fashioned to resemble a circus knife thrower's rotating "Wheel of Death." It includes five stainless steel chef knives held securely by [...]
PS3 Linux is dead
It looks like Sony's experiment with Linux is about to end with the new v3.21 firmware which disables the OtherOS option. They cite security as the prime mover and they are right. George Hotz has accessed the hypervisor which is the PS3's 1st line of defense and it's a matter of time before backups can be played via this Linux backdoor. I guess [...]
Love, sex, and the male brain
Perhaps the biggest difference between the male and female brain is that men have a sexual pursuit area that is 2.5 times larger than the one in the female brain. Not only that, but beginning in their teens, they produce 20 to 25-fold more testosterone than they did during pre-adolescence. If testosterone were beer, a 9-year-old boy would be [...]
Cocaine and Grand Theft Auto
Tom Bissell is a young book author and contributor to The New Yorker and Harper's. He is also a cocaine addict and Grand Theft Auto enthusiast. In The Observer this week, he wrote a fascinating piece about the relationship between blow and gaming, and the impact of both on his life. From The Observer: In Vegas I had made a friend who shared my [...]
Tron title sequence, reimagined for 1960
The original Tron title sequence gets reimagined, ’60s-style, in this flashy animated clip by Vimeo user Hexagonall. (more...)
Verizon shelves plans for future FiOS rollouts, relocations to Massachusetts set to boom
Was fun while it lasted, yeah? Verizon's FiOS has provided a much-wanted (or much-needed, some would argue) sliver of competition in markets that were previously offered just one or two ISP options, and the wicked fast speeds available through the fiber-based service were just one big stream of cherries-on-top. We've personally noticed that the [...]
Girl reciting Pi while balancing books and spinning a Rubik’s Cube
The aptly named YouTube user Booksonmyhead made a video in which she balances 15 books on her head while reciting Pi to 100 digits and manipulating a Rubik's Cube. This young person has a real future ahead of her... imagine how effective she'd be in running a local government!
How the American phone companies used to feel about privacy
Back in 2008, Matt Blaze put the push for immunity for telcos that participated in GW Bush's illegal wiretapping program in context: "As someone who began his professional career in the Bell System (and who stayed around through several of its successors), the push for telco immunity represents an especially bitter disillusionment for me. Say what [...]
Discarded photocopier hard drives stuffed full of corporate secrets
Your office's high-end photocopier probably has a hard-drive used to store copies of documents that are scanned from the glass. Harvesting scanned documents from discarded office copiers (often returned at the end of a lease) yields a treasure-trove of fascinating corporate secrets. Of the dozens of multi-purpose copiers Beitner has cleaned out [...]
iPhone SMS database hacked in 20 seconds
It's a story tailor-made for the fear-mongering subset of news media. This week, a pair of gentlemen lured an unsuspecting virgin iPhone to a malicious website and, with no other input from the user, stole the phone's entire database of sent, received and even deleted text messages in under 20 seconds, boasting that they could easily lift personal [...]
Jeremy Clarkson: Horoscopes
We are told that because there are 12 signs of the zodiac, all humankind can be split into a dozen distinct groups. Those born in February and March like to weep at the slightest provocation. Those born in August like to boss everyone around. And those born in May like to invade Poland. And because Lisa Stansfield and I were born on the same day, [...]
Gmail hijack detection tool
Google has launched a new Gmail tool that uses some clever auto-sleuthing to predict when your account has been hijacked and warn you about it before some illiterate crook can send all your friends emails saying that you've been arrested in Jamaica and need! cash! fast! Keep in mind that these notifications are meant to alert you of suspicious [...]
