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Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Faces of stone - naturally occurring stone structures that look like faces
If we had headlines like this more often, I think crime rates might go down:

“2 burglars shot overnight, 1 dead“
Apple has made some incredibly stupid (and atypically un-Apple) design decisions in their recently announced Remote Disc feature, requiring a reboot to enable (Windows can do this without a reboot), not offering white-lists of clients, requiring the host to approve sharing every time, and more
Drilling your skull for fun and for profit - an extended, illustrated history of trepanation

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

7 feet 7 inches tall and 360 pounds - that’s a BIG boy playing b-ball for UNC-Asheville

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Klik - a tool for managing and easing application installations on Linux systems
Woman resets gas pump prices briefly but repeatedly to let friends buy cheap gas. Should be a Sunday stupid, but I just found it
video - You’ve got your off-road vehicle, lots of velociraptors that need killing and capturing, and your cool physics to make the raptor hits look awesome - you need a dose of Raptor Safari
Huge cut in US interest rates, coming in between reserve meetings

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Who ya gonna call? Terrorism busters! And it looks like he’s having a party
Shoplifting? Stupid. Shoplifting knives? Potentially really stupid. Falling down while trying to escape security after attempting to shoplift many knives, nearly bleeding out as a result? You almost made the Darwin Awards list, and you did make the Sunday Stupids

The 26-year-old Comstock Park man hid $300 worth of hunting knives in his waistband at the Knapp’s Corner Meijer store, police said. He suffered puncture wounds to his abdomen about 5:40 p.m. Monday when he tried to flee and scuffled with security workers. During the struggle, the suspect fell on the knives, authorities said.
Man picked up on suspicion of 4 bank robberies:

“Four, I didn’t do four, I only robbed three banks. But it doesn’t matter because I’m not talking to you guys. I want a lawyer.”
Stupid Canadian sues drug dealer because she was stupid and drug dealer didn’t stop her from being stupid (via boingboing)

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

Help the Library of Congress tag and identify photos from the archives
I need to get me one of these flame guns. And they are less than $10
Best Buy is ready to help you out with a pre-installed trojan on a 10.4″ digital picture frame they sell. Not their fault directly, but perhaps a recall rather than a private internal memo would have been in order?
A tutorial for learning the open source Tokomak physics engine. Uses MSVC++ 6

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Is Ford trying to join the RIAA and MPAA in chasing away customers? That’s what I would call a company threatening to sue people taking pictures of their own cars and trying to share the pics with others
A link President Bush and Vice-President Cheney could benefit from - a reading of the entire U.S. Constitution, released as a creative commons mp3 audio file
Only known case of ‘Popcorn Lung’ in a consumer. The illness had only before been seen in workers at popcorn factories after prolonged exposure to the chemical additive diacetyl

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Freeware automated game patcher GameShadow looks like a tool every gamer should use
Another “Used games are killing the industry” piece. Check with Bill for smart commentary in response
Game streaming to share/broadcast your gaming session. Useful for providing gameplay demos, review video, or such
What asian game-pr0n voice-actresses really look like
I’m with this guy - I really want to play the version of Mass Effect the reviewer played. The copy I found in store didn’t include this feature:

And because of the digital chip age in which we live - “Mass Effect” can be customized to sodomize whatever, whoever, however, the game player wishes.With it’s “over the net” capabilities virtual orgasmic rape is just the push of a button away.
Best indie freeware games of 2007