A chicken is born
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Asus EEEPc: watch your back!
The subnotebook class is getting overcrowded: after the new EEEPc (the 900 model) and the announce of the new 910 (with an Intel Atom CPU), other manifacturers are trying to shrink the market share Asus gained in the last months.MSI already sells the MSI Wind, HP presented its MiniNote 2133 and Dell is about to present his Mini Inspiron: their prices is about 500/600 USD.
I forgot the VIA openbook, as pointed out in the comments by muzzle!
OMG! Cylon Baseship uses Windows XP!
AH!
OMG!
Folks at gizmodo found out that the Cylon Baseship uses Windows XP!
Steals a bike and been shot with a bazooka
In Sudan a man steals a bike and the owner takes his RPG gun and shot him.
This is more or less what he used to shoot.
The right balance... is not what we get
This is the not the first time I found "inspiration" from LastKnight.
[ 'UnderWHERE', CC picture by J.Star ]
This time he quotes Cory Doctorow (one of the guy behind boingboing) about "Security and the statistics of rare events":
This is the same calculus that allows the fear of terrorism to take away our liberty: the statistically super-rare terrorist attacks present, on average, a much lower risk to our health, safety and person than, say, depriving us of our liquid medications, or of requiring us to leave our bags unlocked in flight so that sticky-fingered handlers can make off with our laptops and financial data and valuables.
The everyday threat of having our goods stolen, our ability to travel and earn our livings curtailed, and our personal information harvested by every junior terrorist fighter who wants to see your ID before letting you do anything is overshadowed by the one-in-a-billion confluence of someone with terrorist goals, the means to accomplish them, and the intelligence to bring them off (hint: you can’t really blow up an airplane with hair-gel and iPods).
He's completely right: they (the policy makers) let the citizen face daily the fear of a very-rare attack and they manage to take your rights apart.
We can't board liquid on a plane because the british secret service blanketed a terrorist attack where the bad guys planned to use some mysterious liquid explosive (nitroglicerine anyone?). When you've to board a plane leaving for the US they control your shoes because some dumb-ass put explosives in his shoes and, during the flight, tried to blow the plane striking a match.
I just hope that no one will try to blow a plane with his underwear...
1440 RPM
For the speed-lovers, 1440 rpm will not mean "fast" in any case, but someone managed to build a V8 engine using LEGO bricks.
I said "working" and it runs at 1440 rpm.
Check this out.
DIY speakers using Munny figures
A very cool project for DIY speakers using Munny figures (Flickr photoset, Instructables howto)
And it doesnt seem to be difficult!
UFO
Well, in this case the flying object doesnt seem to be unknown... maybe uncommon.
Flying RC Penis Disrupts Garry Kasparov Speech!
A cool way to customize your room
A cool way to customize your room could be to DIY smiling wall plugs!
A martello!
:P
Frizione a secco Ducati... musica!
Molti motociclisti pensano che sia ferraglia, altri invece (i ducatisti :) quando la sentono, rimangono estasiati come davanti ad un concerto...e' la frizione a secco Ducati, per molti una delle caratteristiche piu' particolari dei motori di Borgo Panigale.
Questa e' una interessante interpretazione del tema... :)
How to satisfy your nerdiness
You can satisfy your nerdiness reading this 533 pages book about "The secret History of Star Wars".
["Join the dark side, get a cookie", CC licensed picture by teejayhanton]
The E-book "explores the writing and creation of the Star Wars saga" and "challenges many legends surrounding the series, placing the films in a new light".
Quoting Slashdot, "Download it or have your nerd credentials revoked ".
It's not about https
The always interesting LastKnight's blog (written - in italian - by Matteo G.P.Flora) raised the silly question you, as a nerd, heard so many times:
"I can't trust online-shopping: I don't want to use my credit card over the Net! What do you think 'bout that?" [normally the question is raised by elderly relatives or non-tech-savy friends]
This is the good answer by Bruce Schneier, quoted by LastKnight.
"What you’re really asking me is about the security. No one steals credit card numbers one-by-one, by eavesdropping on the Internet connection. They’re all stolen in blocks of a million by hacking the back-end database. It doesn’t matter if you bought something over the Internet, by phone, by mail, or in person — you’re equally vulnerable."
RTFM
Before trying to resolve a gnome-power-manager issue with custom-made BASH scripts, could be quite smart to read the /usr/share/doc/gnome-power-manager/README.Debian.
["RTFM", CC-licensed picture by cdozo]
PS If you're not able to suspend your laptop via gnome-power-manager (and pm-utils) but you can do it from the console, add your user to the 'powerdev' group.
PPS Debian developers: could be quite good to add the normal user in this group, automatically during the installation.
PPPS gnome-power-manager developers: Instead of just prints out a warning with "the system was not able to suspend", could be more verbose (better, clear) to use a "you don't have the permissions to suspend the system: Read the Fucking README.Debian"
On the Road to Tourist Trophy
I'd like to suggest you this video on Current TV Italia (the video is in italian audio with english subtitles).
In viaggio per il Tourist Trophy dell'Isola di Man (On the road to Isle of Man's Tourist Trophy)
The Tourist Trophy (aka TT, wikipedia in english and italian) is a street race competition that last year turned its 100th anniversary.
markedspam.com
Guerrilla in Florence for markedspam.com !
[more pics after the jump; the whole markedspam's gallery here]
Enjoy the effort!
Do we should to get used to?
Behind this horrible (and maybe english-wrong) title, I want to point out your attention to the performance of ASIMO, Honda's Robot, in front of the Detroit Simphony Orchestra.
Check out the Gizmodo news [video included]: ASIMO Robot 'Conducts' Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
Do you have any towel?
If you ask yourself why the heck I'm writing about towels, check out here or here.
Trough Instructables, I found this interesting project: Don't Panic! You can have Wikipedia in your pocket!
This is not the first time I write about carrying Wikipedia in your pocket: last time was with an ipod! check this out too!
Unforgettable
Michael Jordan... how can we forget him?
Secret life of a Stormtrooper
Amazing set on flickr (" Storm Troopin' " from Doctor Beef), featuring some Stormtroopers and their secret life.
[Pinin' for TH-119 from Doctor Beef]
More examples links after the jump [since they are copyrighted pictures it's just too annoying to circumvent the spaceball.gif flickr's protection (I wouldn't name it "protection"), as I did for the opening picture... I'll just post the links to other interesting pictures]
Finisce il campionato: le donne tornano importanti
Questa mattina sono rimasto esterefatto leggendo il subject di questa email di Ebay
Finisce il campionato, le donne tornano importanti
All'inizio pensavo che fosse phishing e invece no: la mail è ufficiale.
Mah.
Die Kaserne... 5 years later
One of the best experience I ever had in my life was my participation at the Erasmus Project in 2002.
I spent one year (two semesters) in Munich, Germany, since german is the only foreign language I learned at school.
Macbook Air is exactly what you need: AH! :)
Macbook Air could really be the super-laptop that satisfies your needs, but the guys at Lenovo do not agree with that.:)
Let me just say that the both have a whopping price; they're really insane expensive, especially for an unltra-portable that you're supposed to carry everywhere. Check out the Asus EEE instead, and save 2.000 USD.
The Laguna Seca Corkscrew: Il triangolo no
Do you know what is the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca Raceway?
Check out this video! Three riders run trough the corkscrew... at the same time! :)
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