Now you too can make your corn look like a lightsaber, thanks to ideas man Shed Simove’s Cornoby! Check out Shed as he wields his Cornoby with deadly efficiency below:
Ok, I’m sorry Mr. Simove, but I fear we’ll have to throw you out of the Jedi Academy right now. After watching you in that last video, I’m afraid you wouldn’t last more than 1 or 2 seconds against a 5-year-old wielding a lightsaber.
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Remember last year when we told you guys that Isaiah Mustafa was really interested in playing the role of Luke Cage in a movie featuring the black superhero? Well geeks, a mysterious trailer has just appeared online, and even though it doesn’t look too official, it does show how Mr. Mustafa would look like in the role of Cage. So, What do you guys think? Mustafa as Cage: Yea or nay?
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An article claiming “Tupac still alive in New Zealand” appeared on PBS.org late last night, and for most readers was probably the first indication that strange things were afoot in the site’s security sector. Hacker group LulzSec (or “The Lulz Boat”) commandeered PBS’s website in retaliation for their recent Frontline broadcast, “Wikisecrets,” which criticized Wikileaks, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning.
As part of LulzSec’s attack, the group posted PBS and Frontline staffer login information, released SQL database files and the PBS network map through their Twitter account. A “Free Bradley Manning” page was added to the site with the nyan cat meme image at the top of this post. Even after PBS was aware of the hack and reportedly “in control” of the situation, LulzSec continued to post on the site well into the early morning hours.
Alas, Tupac is not alive and probably never hung out in New Zealand with Biggie Smalls, and it appears PBS is back in control of their website (at least for the time being). The Lulz Boat’s hackery has apparently been cleared away.
As a response to a single aired broadcast, the hack seems a little overzealous to me. To quote BoingBoing commenter sumi : “It’s only a television program, FFS.”
What say you, Geeks? Is The Lulz Boat perhaps a little heavy-handed, or was the move totally justified?
We’ve shown you plenty of time-lapse videos on [GAS] featuring stars as they move from one horizon to the other, but we’re pretty sure you’ve never seen what we’re about to show you, which highlights the “spinning” nature of our planet.
[Via Neatorama]
When the Summer Olympic Games come to your city, the chances are it will be a once in a lifetime chance to see the event. The inevitable excess demand creates a logistical quandry — and we’d like to know if you could solve it in a better way than the organizers of next year’s event.
For those who don’t know, the London 2012 tickets are not being distributed to domestic buyers in the way of most major sporting and entertainment events by which they go on sale at a set time on a first-come first-served basis. Officials believed it was likely using such a system would inevitably lead to what could only be dubbed servercide and, given than 1.8 million people made a total of 20 million ticket requests, they were probably correct.
The system they did use has been controversial, however. It involved ticket applications being taken online during a window of several weeks, with applicants required to hand over credit card details. Money is now being debited from accounts in line with the tickets people have been allocated, apparently on a purely random basis. (Spare tickets for events that didn’t have enough applications will be offered again in a second round of sales.)
That’s led to a range of problems. Some are purely administrative (the money is being debited before the notification of which tickets people have been allocated), but others are more fundamental. Applicants were left with no idea what proportion of tickets they applied for would be allocated to them, meaning a choice between picking a few key events and being left with nothing, or applying widely and praying they didn’t get everything they applied for: successful applicants must pay immediately and must wait next year before they have the option to sell any unwanted tickets (at face value only.)
The results have also demonstrated the way random distribution works. With 20 million applications for six million available tickets, the average applicant should get one-third of the total they applied for, which does appear to be the case. But it’s been reported that 250,000 people will get no tickets, while some are already reporting they’ve got everything they applied for (and are facing a lean period in their finances.)
So while the outcome appears to have been exactly as would be expected from such a system, there are plenty of complaints about the perceived fairness or efficiency of the set-up. Here’s where you come in: we’d like to hear your ideas for designing a better system, a choice that of course involves a subjective criteria for what counts as fair and/or efficient.
To get you going, here are a few rival systems we’ve thought up for debate:
The trailer for StarCraft II’s upcoming expansion pack, Heart of the Swarm, was recently “leaked” on youtube and is still available there for your viewing pleasure. Unfortunately, there’s no official word out yet from Blizzard on the pack’s final release date.
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