Friday, July 07, 2006

GhostBusters.gif

You read that right. The entire movie, in a gif.

Tad misleading. It's the whole movie as an animated GIF file, but it's not SCREENCAPS from the movie it's actually re-animated by the authors. Still cool though.

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// posted by Joel Polkinghorne @ 5:05 PM 0 comments

"Me So Horny" declared legal by the US Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of [the rap act] 2 Live Crew, thereby guaranteeing that no piece of art can be declared too obscene to be sold, which is why we can listen to all the rap we like nowadays.

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// posted by Joel Polkinghorne @ 11:50 AM 0 comments

Mini solar system could reveal hidden dimensions

A tiny, artificial solar system could reveal hidden spatial dimensions and test alternative theories of gravity, a new study suggests. If the system's "planets" moved slightly differently than expected from standard gravity, it would signal the presence of new physical phenomena.

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// posted by Joel Polkinghorne @ 11:38 AM 0 comments

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Sleep

#16 - Dreaming is connected to bursts of electrical activity that blow through the brain stem every 90 minutes during REM sleep. Over a lifetime, an average person spends more than six years dreaming, clocking more than 136,000 in all.

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// posted by Joel Polkinghorne @ 9:27 AM 0 comments

Western Union Won't Deliver to "Ahmed" or "Mohammed"

Dubai-based representatives from Western Union Financial Services and Minnesota-based MoneyGram International said their clerks are simply following U.S. Treasury Department guidelines that scrutinize cash flows for terrorist links. Most of the flagged transactions are delayed a few hours. Some are blocked entirely.

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Kerry writes Intel chief, insists bin Laden unit re-open.

"I write to express my concern over recent reports that the CIA has closed down the unit responsible for hunting down Osama bin Laden. This unit should be reconstituted immediately and given all resources necessary to finish the job of holding bin Laden accountable and preventing him from organizing or inspiring future attacks against the US"

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Hate Groups Are Infiltrating the Military

Recruiting shortfalls caused by the war in Iraq have allowed "large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists" to infiltrate the military, according to a watchdog organization.

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Hacker Goes Public with Unpatched Browser Bugs

"It doesn't really matter if Moore is doing this for publicity or to promote public safety on the Internet," said Gartner analyst Avivah Litan. "The fact remains that the browsers have too many vulnerabilities and we are all better off if Moore exposes them before the criminals exploit them."

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First Issue of Nintendo Power - PDF

Download a complete PDF of the first issue of Nintendo Power Magazine -- You can't help but love the Claymation Mario on the cover!

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// posted by Joel Polkinghorne @ 9:18 AM 0 comments

'google', verb, small 'g', added to Webster's Dictionary

The word 'google' with a small 'g' has been added to the 11th edition Merriam-Webster dictionary as a verb. The definition: "to use the Google search engine to obtain information � on the World Wide Web." As in, "Let me google that."

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The Plot To Hijack Your Computer

"They watch you surf the Web. They plague you with pop-up ads. Then they cripple your hard drive. Inside the spyware underground by Ben Elgin..."

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// posted by Joel Polkinghorne @ 9:16 AM 0 comments

Real Masked Superhero and Friend Patrol Indianapolis Streets

"Mr. Silent just brushes it off. People aren't accustomed to seeing superheroes patrolling the city . . . yet. But since the duo began this "experiment," as Mr. Silent calls it, the superhero trend has started to catch on. Others have e-mailed the duo asking how they can join and superheroes have popped up in other cities worldwide, he said.

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Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Busted for wearing a peace T-shirt; America has gone insane!

Mike Ferner served as a Navy corpsman during Vietnam War. He was aressted for wearing a t-shirt while sitting down by himself, drinking a cup of coffee. Some Americans have obviously totally lost the plot. This is going to be the last story posted here today as I feel it needs to stay on top to keep it in a place where all can see it. Definitely the most important story we've posted in a long time.

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// posted by Joel Polkinghorne @ 3:56 PM 0 comments

The 10 Most Destructive PC Viruses Of All Time

Computer viruses are like real-life viruses: When they're flying around infecting every PC (or person) in sight, they're scary. But after the fact...well, they're rather interesting, albeit in a gory kind of way. With this in mind, we shamelessly present, in chronological order, the 10 most destructive viruses of all time.

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// posted by Joel Polkinghorne @ 3:52 PM 0 comments

Nintendo's Wii may get early launch

Industry observers expect company's new video game machine to launch before the PlayStation 3 - perhaps by a month or more.

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// posted by Joel Polkinghorne @ 3:51 PM 0 comments