Printer dots raise privacy concerns
The affordability and growing popularity of color laser printers is raising concerns among civil liberties advocates that your privacy may not be worth the paper you’re printing on.
More manufacturers are outfitting greater numbers of laser printers with technology that leaves microscopic yellow dots on each printed page to identify the printer’s read more | digg [...]
The Early History of Bungee Jumping
Talk about a serious leap of faith. The first land divers plunged head first toward hard soil, all in the name of agriculture.
I remember seeing bungee jumping on That’s Incredible back in the 70’s when it was presented as a very big deal. Now MTV will take a scared 18 year old girl and let [...]
EU to Extend Music Copyright to 95 Years
The IFPI and mediocre artists around the world are rubbing their hands in glee, after a proposal to extend copyright in the EU for another 45 years. The proposal, intended to ‘benefit musicians’, comes up for a vote on Wednesday. On the plus side, at the same time collecting societies are going to have their [...]
Sony’s PlayStation 3 Gaining Ground on Xbox With Games
Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 3, the 2007 loser in the fight for second place in video-game console sales, is gaining ground on Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360. The PlayStation 3 outsold the Xbox 360 in the U.S. in the first five months of 2008 after trailing Microsoft’s console in 2007. New exclusive games, such as “Metal Gear [...]
Carbon capture needed (Green Chemicals)
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies are very much needed to reduce one-third of the world’s global carbon dioxide emissions.read more | digg story
HBO Gives an Extended ‘First Look’ at The Dark Knight!
15 minute special from HBO gives new behind the scenes and actual footage from the film. July 18th is almost here! $150 million opening week?read more | digg story
10 magazine covers that shook the world
Barack and Michelle, John and Yoko, and other infamous magazine cover photos.read more | digg story
YANKEE STADIUM MEMORIES
Reggie Jackson hit the first pitch he saw in the fourth inning for a home run. On the first pitch to him in the fifth, he homered. First pitch in the eighth, he did it again. Three pitches - by Burt Hooton, Elias Sosa and Charlie Hough - and three homers that helped solidify the [...]
GNOME 3.0 officially announced… and explained
The developers of the open-source GNOME desktop environment have announced their plans for version 3.0. This milestone will be reached through the current strategy of incremental development.read more | digg story
20 Examples of Hiliariously Geeky Art and Graffiti [PICS]
What makes art geeky? It can be anything from the subject matter to the method or both at the same time. From a Stephen Colbert portrait made up entirely of Rubik’s Cubes to a motorcycle created from recycled computer parts here are twenty awesome examples of extremely geeky art.read more | digg story