Apple’s Response to Microsoft’s Laptop Hunters Ads
PCs with no viruses, crashes, or headaches? According to Apple, this doesn’t seem to exist. But we all know that’s mostly lying propaganda, don’t we?
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Blogs & the Life of Journalism: Welcome to the Jungle
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] Query: What separates man from ape? Perhaps the same thing that separates journalist from blogger. In his 2007 book The Cult of the Amateur, Andrew Keen analogized T.H. Huxley’s “infinite monkey theorem” to the rise of Web 2.0. If you provide infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters, one of them [...]
Modded Roomba Lays Down Graffiti for its Brother to Clean Up
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] If you are familier with iRobot, the people who make the everybody’s favorite robotic vacuum cleaner, you know they are famous for their hacker spirit. There’s even a hackable version of the Roomba to support the community of tinkerers who have gathered around it. Well iRobot has been doing [...]
The ‘cost’ of piracy
A claim that the annual costs of piracy to the software industry has topped $50 billion for the first time highlights a major flaw in the way such ‘costs’ are estimated. According to the Business Software Alliance, 41 per cent of software worldwide is pirated. It argues that this represents losses to the industry of [...]
Really Strange Mercedes-Benz Ad
To promote its new E-class series of cars, Mercedes-Benz has released this really weird commercial titled Dreams Will Have To Wait. It takes a while for anything to happen, but when it does, it’ll make you shake your head in puzzlement.
Steampunk Sex Toy
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] An unemployed engineering student used some of her excess of free time to create this steampunk vibrator, made out of “stainless steel, brass, and awesome.” For the moment it runs off of compressed air while she looks for a more powerful boiler than her pressure cooker and a way [...]
I Am a Geek! – A Message from the Society for Geek Advancement
From the Society for Geek Advancement, which is not only a sort of club, it’s a movement to put the power of geekiness to work to improve the world. Buy a t-shirt and help fund Room to Read, a charity that builds schools, libraries, and computer labs for children in Third World countries. People featured [...]
The Internet as Imagined in 1969
This video dates back to 1969 and presents what could be described as an early idea of the Internet. I just love the reaction of the guy at 0:46 right after the narrator says: “What the wife selects on her console will be paid for by her husband at his counterpart console.” Society has certainly [...]
Terminator Salvation 4-Minute Extended Trailer
Terminator Salvation opens in only two weeks folks, and if the movie looks as badass as the 4-minute trailer you’re about to see, boy are we in for a treat.
Porn at Work? Hacking!
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] According to an Ohio Court of Appeals, uploading nude photographs of yourself using your work computer is indeed felony hacking – because it may constitute “unauthorized access” to that computer, or rather, with respect to an amendment to the law, “exceeding the scope of authorization to access a computer.” [...]
Mario now a historical number two
Wii Sports might – repeat might – be the new best-selling game ever, topping Super Mario Bros. Nintendo has just published a list of all its games which sold more than a million copies last year, along with their respective lifetime sales; Wii Sports is listed at 45.7 million sales. That’s just above the 40.23 [...]
Hot Wheels: A deal that’s too good to be true
In the following segment of the Real Hustle, the hustlers attempt to sell a rental car to multiple customers, taking a deposit from each of them before running away at the end of the day with the vehicle… and the money.
