This is just a great example by science fail that turns to a win, pretty funny
This is just a great video, had a really good laugh about it, so I advise you to take a peak 
For the #Lego fans around here
Some people decided not to wait for the robot invasion and instead decided to take matters in their own hands. Flickr user thire5 is one of those people, and he has created one heck of a detailed T-800 Terminator bust entirely out of LEGO. It’s created as a display with a brilliant looking stand and red glowing eyes. The detail is flawless, and you know you are obsessed with Terminator when you start researching its parts comparing it to LEGO to be able to assemble it.
This is unbelievable... How far can someone go ...
Burglar uploads his picture to Facebook victim's account
Do you recognise this man?
If so, Marc Fisher, a reporter and editor at the Washington Post would probably like to hear from you.
The photograph shows a man, wearing Marc's brand new winter coat, and holding a wad of notes that he's lifted from Marc's 15-year-old son's desk.
Not only was cash stolen in the burglary, but Marc's son's laptop, iPod, and some savings bonds were also taken.
What's astonishing is that the thief also decided to open the stolen computer, take a picture of himself posing with the stolen items, and posted it on Marc Fisher's son's own Facebook account.
You can read the full story on the Washington Post website where the reporter appears to be underwhelmed by the police's response so far, but at least reports that Facebook acted quickly to shut down the burglar's access to his son's account.
You have to wonder just how far Facebook addiction has gone for someone to feel compelled to upload evidence of their crimes while still out on the job.
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Now this is really amazing ...
Dust off that old typewriter if your boring rental-white-colored walls could use a bit of cool artwork. British artist Keira Rathbone uses typewriters to create incredibly cool art pieces that bring back fond memories of typing in the days of clack, clack, clack, ching.
I just gave a try at this new service, and although I like the features and the possibility of customization, I think storify(storify.com) is better...
Sometimes some things go to far !
There was a time when you had to go down to the arcade or pizza shop and pump quarters into machines if you wanted to enjoy a video game experience. Then computers and home gaming consoles brought video game entertainment into our living rooms. Now Sega is cornering the niche bathroom gaming market with a gaming interface named “Toirettsu” in which the user controls the game by peeing on sensors in a urinal.
If you can’t go standing up, perhaps Toirettsu isn’t for you (sorry ladies, but your hands-free method allows you to play Angry Birds on the can anyhow). Toirettsu targets restaurant and retail environments, ostensibly in hopes that by giving users goal-oriented mini-games to focus on, their men’s room floors might stay a bit cleaner as gents have somewhere to aim. And, of course, it gives establishments (and Sega) somewhere to place an ad.
A delightful article on malware, a small history, very interesting, a must read ...
A short history of Christmas malware
Since the very earliest days of computer viruses, malware authors have been inspired by the Christmas holidays when developing attacks.
Here's a quick, and probably incomplete, history of some of the Christmas-related malware that we have seen over the years.
Christmas 1987
"Christmas Tree" (also known as "CHRISTMA EXEC"), which spread in December 1987, was an early example of an email-aware worm.
Using the subject line
"Let this exec run and enjoy yourself!"
The worm was blamed on a German student, who claimed he just wanted to send greetings to his friends.
Christmas 1999
The WM97/Melissa-AG virus (also known as Prilissa) infected Microsoft word documents, spreading via email using the subject line
As a final destructive gesture, the virus would attempt to format the C: drive on the next reboot.
Meanwhile, rumours were spreading far and wide that a game called "Elf Bowling" was infected with a computer virus.
However, all copies of the game examined by Sophos researchers were found to be uninfected, and the warnings were nothing more than a hoax wasting users' time.
Christmas 2000
The W32/Navidad virus spead via email, masquerading as an electronic Christmas card.
Infected computers could be identitifed by the mysterious blue eye icons it would place in the Windows system tray.
Users who moved their mouse cursor over the eyes would be presented with a variety of different messages:
Another example of malware which tried to leave its mark on the holiday season in 2000 was the W32/Music email-aware worm.
Sending out messages similar to "Hi, just testing email using Merry Christmas music file, you'll like it.", the worm was attached as a file called music.com, music.exe or music.zip.
Christmas 2001
The Maldal virus spread via email, again using the tried-and-trusted technique of pretending to be a seasonal electronic greeting card called Christmas.exe.
Once installed, the Maldal malware would display a picture of Santa Claus on skis accompanied by a prancing reindeer, with the message "From the heart, Happy new year!".
Christmas 2004
The Zafi-D virus spread fear rather than cheer, attached to emails offering offering seasonal greetings. The virus, created in Hungary, could communicate in a variety of languages - spreading messages such as "FW: Merry Christmas", "Joyeux Noel!" and "Feliz Navidad!"
In a somewhat un-Christmassy twist, it embedded a vulgar animated GIF graphic of two "smiley" faces which appeared to be enjoying themselves in a way that would make Rudolph the reindeer red-faced as well as red-nosed.
Christmas 2007
The creators of the Dorf-AE worm (also known as the Storm worm) launched an attack that posed as a sexy striptease being performed by none other than the wife of Santa Claus.
Using a wide variety of subject lines, including "Your Secret Santa", "Santa Said, HO HO HO", "Warm Up this Christmas" and "Mrs. Clause Is Out Tonight!", the emails attempted to direct internet users to a website containing images of scantily clad young women in a Santa suit.
Christmas 2009
The pesky Koobface worm, which targets users of social networks such as Facebook, adopted a Christmas disguise by hiding on a Santa-themed webpage.
The webpage pretended that you need to install an update to Adobe Flash Player but that was, of course, in reality a carrier for a version of the worm.
There are, no doubt, plenty of other examples of Christmas-related malware we have seen in the past - but hopefully this gives you an insight into some of the more visual examples we have seen in the past at least.
Remember that you need to take computer security seriously all year around - don't let your guard drop and don't fall into bad habits just because it's the holiday season. My colleague Paul Ducklin has written up some guidelines for staying safe online this Christmas, and even made a cheery video to get you in the mood.
funny , right ?
One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Have you heard about the new Cray super computer? It’s so fast, it executes an infinite loop in 6 seconds.
CIA – Computer Industry Acronyms
CD-ROM: Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months
PCMCIA: People Can’t Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
ISDN: It Still Does Nothing
SCSI: System Can’t See It
MIPS: Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed
DOS: Defunct Operating System
WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System
OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too
PnP: Plug and Pray
APPLE: Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
IBM: I Blame Microsoft
MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers
COBOL: Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language
LISP: Lots of Insipid and Stupid Parentheses
MACINTOSH: Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs
AAAAA: American Association Against Acronym Abuse.
WYSIWYMGIYRRLAAGW: What You See Is What You Might Get If You’re Really Really Lucky And All Goes Well.
One of the downsides of the modern lifestyle ... Guess no one has seen this coming ...
In my opinion of course
A great infographic wich explains a some of the SEO elements, very good for newbies, starting bloggers, etc ... enjoy !
A very interesting infographic, the main graphic listings contains the catch phrases from the movie, not the title.
Well, with all the eco madness going on lately, this seems and old but very interesting idea...
Boat mills: water powered, floating factories
The waterwheel was seen as the most important power source in the world, from the Middle Ages to the end of the nineteenth century. When smaller streams became saturated, medieval engineers turned their attention to larger rivers, eventually leading to the development of the hydropower dams that still exists today. Lesser known are the intermediate steps toward that technology: boat mills, bridge mills and hanging mills. Boat mills had already appeared in 6th century Italy and spread all over the world. Most of them remained in use up until the end of the 1800s, with some of them surviving well into the 1900s.
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