March 2012
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Check out these gorgeous images leaked from Sim...
There hasn’t been a whole lot of news about a new Sim City game until today, when a user on NeoGAF posted what he says are a bunch of screenshots of Sim City V in progress. If these are from Sim City V, they’re pretty amazing looking. It’s sort of how I’ve always wanted Sim City to look. Apparently, the game is still a year out or more, but it’s looking good so...
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Anonymous asked: I'm trying to find some old 80s, 90s action movies because cmon, they're still good to watch on a day off every now and then and I'm trying to remember the name of one. There's a plane hijacked and I think Steven Seagal and/or Harrison Ford were in it, at some point they infiltrate the plane via a stealth jet and at some point that jet goes kapoot. Ringing a bell with anyone?...
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North Korea finally realizes that having food is...
“Can we have more of this?”
North Korea agreed today to place a moratorium on its nuclear weapons testing, uranium enriching and long-range missile tests in exchange for food aid. Because even if your state is fucking crazy, it’s hard to operate all those fancy weapons if everyone’s starving to death.
The agreement will also come with IAEA inspections to make sure the...
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Bacteria attack each other with poisonous,...
Bacteria certainly aren’t harmless by any means, but looking at them, they don’t look at big and mean and scary like a lion or a T-rex. But these microscopic creatures use more than just chemical warfare— it turns out that some bacteria go all Assassin’s Creed on other bacteria, using poisonous spring-loaded daggers to shank a bitch in the back.
The firing mechanism for...
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Windows 8 consumer preview is out and boy is it...
Microsoft launched a downloadable consumer preview version of Windows 8 today and by all accounts, it’s possibly more magical than anything Apple has ever put out. With Windows 8, Microsoft really re-thought the entire operating system and user experience and delivers with an OS that’s perfectly intuitive and made for the mobile market of the future.
Windows 8 is undoubtedly made...
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February 2012
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Wednesday peoples of the world are a little dirty,...
Above: Afghanistan
2. Albania
3. Bermuda
4. Bolivia
5. Brazil
6. Cambodia
7. Canada
8. Congo
9. Ghana
10. Haiti
11. India
12. Japan
13. Kenya
14. America
15. Pakistan
16. Russia
17. Malaysia
18. Singapore
19. South Korea
20. Spain
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The Monkees' Davy Jones dead at 65. It's just like...
While the were constantly criticized and never got the respect they deserved, The Monkees were a great pop band and have a lot more memorable hits that many “legitimate” bands of the 60’s.
Now Monkee Davy Jones is playing tambourine in heaven.
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Apple's Siri will be fully integrated into the new...
Siri, the digital personal assistant has worked out pretty well in the iPhone 4S and now Daimler has announced that Siri will also be fully integrated into the new Mercedes A-Class cars, letting drivers send text messages, talk to the GPS and ask where one can hide the body of a dead hooker.
Mercedes announced the plans today. A-Class owners will first load the Drive Kit Plus app onto their...
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New study finds that wealth can make people behave...
A study out of UC Berkley and the University of Toronto seems to point to evidence that having more wealth can make people act more unethically. It makes perfect sense— someone who has more money, more means, perhaps a bit more free time can afford to behave in ways that seem unethical. It does seem true then that money and power corrupts.
The first two studies looked at whether SES...
geeabby12 asked: To give a brief overview, about a month ago I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and I'm still trying to accept that I am bipolar (even though it makes sense that I am). My question is, how do I cope with the fact that a loved one does not accept me for who I really am and believes I just try to make him feel sorry for me, when in reality I do have severe mood swings I can't control at...
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Baldur's Gate website comes to life, possible new...
It’s been 11 years since the Baldur’s Gate series seemed to come to a satisfying conclusion, but it appears that BioWare might not be done yet. But with a new Baldur’s Gate website springing up, it looks like there will be something new for the franchise, but no one’s quite sure just what yet.
With the recent news that a Baldur’s Gate II Complete Edition is on its...
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Stuffed animals are all kinds of creepy when...
Just for the hell of it I guess, Swiss design firm Atelier Volvox took a bunch of used stuffed animals, turned them inside out and sewed them back up again. The result is sort of creepy, but it would be worse if one were to use say, a real bear.
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forestleupus asked: Where can I get this theme? :)
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So the good news is that the extinction of...
For decades, it was thought that the arrival of Homo sapiens into Europe was directly responsible for the downfall of Neanderthals. Just look at a map of Homo sapien expansion vs Neanderthal population contraction and the two fit very neatly. But as it turns out, environmental factors had already caused the Neanderthal population to go into a drastic decline.
Our ancestors reached Europe, the...
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Bill Murray is definitely out of Ghostbusters 3,...
After several years of Bill Murray subtly trying to make his point that he’s not interested in being in Ghostbusters 3, it looks like it’s absolutely official that he won’t be in the film if it ever happens. As if sending a shredded copy of the script back to Dan Aykroyd didn’t get the point across…
Aykroyd announced the sad news in an interview with the Telegraph...
Anonymous asked: Do your comments just disappear randomly or am I just hallucinating them in the first place?
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Wyoming state legislators kill off the Wyoming...
Yesterday, state lawmakers in Wyoming voted down the so-called “Wyoming Doomsday Bill” that would have had the state look into preparing for a worst case scenario in case of worldwide apocalypse or total collapse of the US. The bill would have looked into, among other things, the idea of an emergency state currency, an emergency army and… an aircraft carrier? What the hell does...
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So yeah... March 7, Apple is announcing a new iPad...
Yesterday, Apple sent out press releases and invitations to its product unveiling event on March 7th, and as you can clearly see, it’s going to be iPad related. Release of a new iPad with Retina Display and a faster processor is certain, but also a smaller iPad or an iProstateMassager? What else might there be?
There weren’t any other details offered, but people are still going to...
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Daily Discussion: What do you wish you had more...
Today is February 29th, a freakish appendage to the normal 365 day calendar that usually occurs every four years to keep the calendar year synchronized with the seasonal year. It’s an extra day, but it’s not like it’s a free day— you still have to go to work, pay the bills, mind the red lights etc.
But what if you could have more of anything else, what would you want...
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With budget cutbacks, NASA revamps its plan for a...
With Obama’s budget plan in place, NASA will be getting cuts from its general budget, even though it will get extra money for an eventual manned mission to the red planet. But for everything else, including the 2018 journey to Mars, NASA had had to get a bit creative.
One of those concepts would be a possible US$700-million mission, launching in 2018 — a particularly auspicious year from...
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Mitt wipes Santorum, takes both Arizona and...
Even though Mitt Romney still had a hefty delegate lead thanks to winner-take-all Florida, Rick Santorum has been on a roll lately, and in the latest polls, he was either neck and neck or ahead of Romney. Many Republicans worried that if Romney lost his birth state of Michigan, it would show he wasn’t viable in a general election. But today, Romney won both Michigan and Florida, keeping...
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Anonymous asked: i have a bunch of .m4p files with DRM protection from iTunes' former protected format a few years ago, so now i can't upload them to google music due to the protection. how can i convert them (a couple thousand songs) to a good format?
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Linux computer the size of a thumb drive now...
No, not the Raspberry Pi, the other teeny tiny Linux computer. This is the FXI Cotton Candy, a miniature Linux box about the size of a USB thumbdrive. The device, which can run either Ubuntu or Android 4.0, has a dual-core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPU, 1GB of RAM, and a Mali 400MP GPU that allows it to decode high-definition video.
It has a USB plug on one side, which is used to power the system,...
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PBS Frontline takes an inside look at the heroes...
Tonight on Frontline (10:00pm EST for many places on the east coast, check your listings), PBS will be taking an inside look at what really went down during the Fukushima meltdown last year and the incredibly ballsy people that prevented it from becoming a far worse disaster than it was.
There’s lots more information, videos and upcoming programs on the Fukushima meltdown here at...
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TED Talk from the year 2023: "I Will Change the...
In a seriously cool cross-promotional move, here’s a clip from Ridley Scott’s Prometheus in which the character of Peter Weyland does a TED talk from the year 2023 about how the world is on the verge of creating robotic humans that will be completely indistinguishable from real people.
Watch the video here
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