August 2008
59 posts
Crank 2 Is Most Offensive Script Statham's Ever... →
Crank 2: High Voltage is one of those ratshit insane movies that makes me proud to be alive. “High voltage is an understatement,” he said about the movie. “They locked themselves in a room for three…
10 Good UNIX Usage Habits →
Adopt 10 good habits that improve your UNIX® command line efficiency — and break away from bad usage patterns in the process. This article takes you step-by-step through several good, but too often…
Google Cutting Perks For Employees →
A worker at Google tells us the company is taking evening meals off the menu: “Google has drastically cut back their budget on the culinary program. Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin had promised…
If You Hate A Person.... [PIC] →
Hermann Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game which…
Peter Jackson & Guillermo del Toro Writing Hobbit... →
Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro have officially announced that they’re writing The Hobbit and its follow-up themselves. I never thought so much buzz could come from an announcement about…
Free Will vs. the Programmed Brain →
If our actions are determined by prior events, then do we have a choice about anything—or any responsibility for what we do?
Pidgin update
MSN: * Update MSN support to protocol 15 (Elliott Sales de Andrade, Jorge Villaseñor, Mike Ruprecht, Carlos Silva, Ma Yuan, Daniel Ljungborg and others) * Personal messages are now supported. They are treated as status messages. * Offline IM is now supported.
Woot! Great news!
Muxtape Shut Down By RIAA? →
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) appears to have ankled popular (but illegal) music-sharing site Muxtape. “Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a…
Incredible Lifelike Animation: A New Era for... →
Extraordinarily lifelike characters are to begin appearing in films and computer games thanks to a new type of animation technology. Emily - the woman in this embedded video - was produced using a…
Gag Order Slapped on MIT Students for Finding... →
A court order put a stop to a planned presentation at the Defcon hackers convention by three MIT students who found security flaws in the electronic ticketing system used by the mass transit…
“Yang Peiyi, you’re not ugly. The regime that refuses to respect its people is...”
– Epoch Times - Yang Peiyi, You’re Not Ugly; They Are
“The haters offer their assessment. The forums are ablaze with vitriolic rage....”
– The Apple Product Cycle
Do subatomic particles have free will? →
Human free will might seem like the squishiest of philosophical subjects, way beyond the realm of mathematical demonstration. But two highly regarded Princeton mathematicians, John Conway and Simon…
A Trip to the Future, as seen from 1979 (PICS) →
First published in 1979, The Usborne Book of the Future was “A trip in time to the year 2000 and beyond. See the robots, machines and cities of the future, and then travel to the stars.” It’s crazy…
Hacker Runs Blu-ray Backups From Hard Drive On PS3 →
According to internet reports, a hacker going by the alias SKFU has managed to run a Blu-ray disc backup on the PS3. Details are sketchy and the actual hack has yet to be released, but at minimum…
Vectoroids Playable Web Game →
Retro classic mashed up with physics, powerups and a lot more bad guys. Yeah it even has the old school controls.
Team Fortress 2 Heavy Update Coming Tuesday,... →
The update will include new maps, achievements, game modes, and weapons for the Heavy class.
Is it normal that PHP’s socket_read($sock,$length,PHP_BINARY_READ) on Windows continues waiting until it receives $length bytes? Even when you send a zero byte (\0) to it?
Team Fortress 2 Fiesta →
A classic TF2 video.
First footage of Quake Live from [HD Video] →
The first footage of id software’s upcoming Quake Live title from this past week’s QuakeCon. This video is a duel match between two top Quake competitors, rapha and ZeRo4, in the $15,000 1v1 Quake…
gOS's New Linux OS Embraces Google Applications →
gOS—a company known for its debut in the US$199 Wal-Mart gPC and Netbooks—announced the details of gOS 3 Gadgets, the newest version of its Linux OS for consumers.The main feature of gOS 3 Gadgets…
Neowin.net - Vista's Security Rendered Completely... →
Hacker Claims Apple Can Spy On iPhone Users... →
Apple may have opened up the iPhone to third-party applications, but it is keeping a very close eye on those apps. According to hacker Jonathan Zdziarski, the iPhone can “phone home” to tell Apple…