How to shoot an anvil 200 feet into the air
If you’ve ever wanted to see someone shoot an anvil 200 feet into the air, you should watch this video. (And not just someone…a world champion anvil shooter.) )
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Don’t Ask The Wall Street Journal How To Wean Your Kids Off Reading Science Fiction [Books]
IO9, just provided me with a good chuckle… Somebody wrote to the Wall Street Journal’s book advice column to ask how you go about convincing your 13-year-old nephew to stop reading science fiction. Thank goodness the WSJ’s in-house book nerd was smart enough to say: You don’t. Be glad that when you were a teenager, […]
At&T to Roll Out MMS Today
AT&T will today begin rolling about MMS for iPhone customers in the U.S., the patch which will enable the service will be available from iTunes and will allow iPhone users to begin sending and receiving photos and videos. The rollout will begin late on Friday morning, Pacific time. MMS Update: We know you’ve been eager […]
The Last Lecture
Ever sit through a bad software demonstration? Â Well, I have, and boy can it be bad…. Â Though, not quite as bad as this… Lumalin Productions present, The Last Lecture. GRRF – The Last Lecture from Lumalin Productions on Vimeo.
10 computing conspiracy theories examined
What would the day be without a good conspiracy theory?  Here’s the top 10 computing conspiracy theories examined. Number two, still makes me laugh… 2. SETI program is a smokescreen The Theory: The US government knows that little green men exist – and it also knows that we’ll never find them by listening for radio signals. […]
The TCO & Hazards of an Hackintosh
I just finished dealing with a thread somewhere else, where the dialog went something like this: Q> Why isn’t this driver for this device working on Snow Leopard? A> It’s working for us, what type of Macintosh is it? Q> It’s not a Macintosh, it’s a PC A> A PC? Â You mean it’s not an […]
Blue light special: Earn $10 by installing spyware
This is what is wrong with the number crunchers running everything. Let’s gather more information, so that we can sell it to other people, “absent-mindly”, forgetting that they are hurting people in the process…. Ars technica is reporting on the ruling from the FTC about the software shenanigans of Kmart and Sears. The marketing geniuses […]
“Anonymized” data really isn’t—and here’s why not – Ars Technica
The simple fact is that large set of data can be used to ascertain certain things. For example, using NetFlix’s data set, the most popular movies among men over 40. But consider when that data set becomes huge… How many restrictions would be needed to find an entry that is yours? Even if it’s made […]