A series of "embarrassing and damaging" IMs from Mark Zuckerberg have been confirmed as real by The New Yorker, and by the Facebook founder himself. Among them, an exchange once leaked to Silicon Alley Insider in which Zuckerberg explains to a friend that his control of Facebook affords him access to any personal information he might care to acces […]
Rebecca Dudeiros had her pastry chef friend Teresa Ulrich whip up this fantastic AT-AT wedding cake and matching Ewok cupcakes -- a sweetly nerdy way to begin a long and happy marriage, I'm sure. Awesome Star Wars Wedding Cake (via Craft) Previously:Secret lives of AT-ATs Star Wars: Evolution of the AT-AT t-shirt AT-AT jungle gym from a lost and g […]
A brace from Carlos Roca and one from on-loan striker Michael Norton saw FC United clinch an entertaining 3-3 draw with a St Pauli All Stars side in Hamburg on Saturday evening. Croatian international Ivan Klasnic, who is currently on loan at Bolton Wanderers from Nantes, scored a superb hat-trick for the hosts to make sure honours were even on the German […]
En este video toco dos temas, uno el de los españoles y su obsesión por decir todo como si hubiese sido pensado en castellano cuando la triste verdad es que muy poco se inventa en castellano. El otro es el del iPad mismo y como se saca de la cárcel y las cosas que se pueden hacer con el una vez escapado. El primer tema es para todos los que nos apena ver al […]
As if you needed proof Sir Ian McKellen is a damn fine actor: The 70-year-old actor is rehearsing Waiting For Godot in Melbourne, Australia, and was sitting in his tramp costume having a break when a passer-by gave him an Australian dollar. He said: "During the dress rehearsal of Godot, I crouched by the stage door of the Comedy Theatre, getting some […]
Crunching the numbers on the pay-what-you-like Humble Indie Bundle package, the Wolfire people noticed a curious thing: Linux users contribute twice as much as Windows users. "So far, the average Mac user is donating 40% more, and the average Linux user is donating 100% more!" I've got a half-formed theory in my head that living in a world whe […]
E-voting security researcher J Alex Halderman writes, India, the world's largest democracy, votes entirely on paperless electronic voting machines. There are an incredible 1.4 million machines in use. Authorities claim they are "tamperproof", "infallible", and "perfect," but they've prevented anyone from doing an […]
Ryan sez, "My band is about to release a new record, and we decided to use a friend's painting for the cover. One day before our label was set to send away for CD & LP pressing we received an email from Shelley Lee, the Manager of Intellectual Property for the Estate of Roy Lichtenstein saying that the painting was an adapted Roy Lichtenstein […]
To control population growth, the Uzbek government has reportedly been sterilizing women without their consent. Not cool. From the Times Online: Uzbek sources say the measure was ordered by Islam Karimov, the president, who has ruled with an iron fist for 20 years. The policy is aimed at keeping down the country's poor population -- with 28m people, it […]