Random Linkage 2008-Apr-29 PM
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008- Breast milk does not increase babies’ intelligence
- RetroMags - scans of old gaming magazines
Archive for April, 2008
Random Linkage 2008-Apr-27 Sunday Stupids
Sunday, April 27th, 2008- Stolen military equipment showing up on eBay
- Not paying taxes? Bad enough. Not paying taxes for 3 years as an actor who gets paid millions per movie? Well, that’s 3 years of jail time stupid
- Trying to sue another company on a seemingly baseless patent contention, filed with incomplete and incorrect documentation, over similarities that do not even exist, only to find that company is run by a lawyer with 19 years of litigation experience who is actively seeking litigation so he can disprove all claims
- Political messages from the church? Need to strip that tax-free status from fucktards that do stuff like this (via Kantor’s blog)
Random Linkage 2008-Apr-26 AM
Saturday, April 26th, 2008- Global warming/climate change happening on Mars, too - so Martians are as bad as humans as maintaining their ecosystem???
- Removal instructions for anti-spyware/anti-virus counterfeit tool SpySnipe. No, I didn’t get it and decide to pass the information along, but I did receive an email for it and thought it sounded like a fake, so decided to investigate
- Good news, geeks (NSFW) - Support net neutrality, get your cherry popped (up to 60 times within the time limit, I’m guessing)
Notorious sexylady Tanya Devereaux says that she is turning virgin surgeon in order to divest any nerd of his cherry—provided that they support a free web. One of the terms and conditions states that the act must not last for more than 30 minutes.
- T-Rex and birds genetically closely related
Random Linkage 2008-Apr-25 AM
Friday, April 25th, 2008- Fund-raising stunt goes awry - priest missing off coast of Brazil after attempting to break a balloon flight world’s record as a fund-raising stunt
- Rice shortage shocks market? Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club limiting rice sales
- Easy video sharing online hurting adult-film (aka Pr0n) studios’ profits
Random Linkage 2008-Apr-24 PM
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Hacker
claims he was hired by News Corporation to develop pirate software, break in to rival networks
Mr Tarnovsky was testifying in a Santa Ana court in a corporate-spying lawsuit brought against News Corp’s NDS Group by DISH Network Corporation.
- Psuedo-sciences we’re most likely to see in the next 50 years
- China web-using population reaches US levels
- Maxim magazine’s 10 hottest vegetarians
Random Linkage 2008-Apr-24 AM
Thursday, April 24th, 2008- Penis theft panic!!!
Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.
- 14-year old makes science-based collectible card game
- Digital photo retouching Photoshop tutorials and services
- Complete Nintendo Entertainment System (the original NES console) built into a modded NES game cartridge
- Danica Patrick wins - so she’s hot and can actually win a race
- Forgotten your Windows administrator password? Easily solved with the Trinity password reset kit - looks like a modernized version of Offline NT password and registry editor bootdisk
Random Linkage 2008-Apr-23 AM
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008- Cigarette lighter power GPS blocker - protect yourself from men-in-black tracking your every move with s00per sekrit GPS trackers squirreled away on your car
- Questioning the authenticity of the
Super Mario Bros. theme played on beer bottles
video going around the intarw3bs - Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer - portable gaming via Nintendo DS gets hard, rogue-alike style
- Now why the hell would the British government decide to allow the United States government to access traffic camera images? (via boingboing)
Random Linkage 2008-Apr-22 AM
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008- Pirate Bay starts free-speech focused blogging service Baywords
- The 10 most underrated consoles
Despite trailing the DS in total games, mindshare, and sales, the PSP is the most successful handheld not manufactured by Nintendo thanks to its ginormous screen, multimedia extendibility (read: MP3s, videos, and photos), and improving game library which consists of quirky originals, hardcore favorites, and PS2-like ports.
- Scary, sad news - girl dies after suffering injury at cheerleading competition
- Americans still wasteful where recyclable electronics and gadgets are concerned
…she died of complications from a condition known as bilateral pneumothoraces — in which the lining of both lungs swells, decreasing the ability of the lungs to take in air. It’s the kind of injury that is normally sustained in a car accident, or a fall from a great height.
- UK psychics concerned over new law which would require them to prove actual psychic abilities or advertise with “for entertainment only” type disclaimers
