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This is most probably the world’s largest marionette, as it puts the “holy shit” back to “in your pants.”

If all you know about how the modern desktop computer came to be is dominated by names like Apple, IBM, and Microsoft, this nifty “PC evolution” timeline will give you some delicious geeky nostalgia.

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This goes to the “How to catch your laptop’s thief” section: Prey, a freeware, helps you find your stolen laptop by sending timed reports to your email with a bunch of information of its whereabouts. This includes the general status of the computer, a list of running programs and active connections, fully-detailed network and wifi [...]

Tadano has launched what it is calling the first of the “cranes of the future”; a new automated mobile crane called Robotops.
Tadano says Robotops is the first four-legged, two-armed crane available. Information from Tadano says Robotops has 29 joints on the hands, arms, legs, shoulders and hips, and is equipped with three CCD video cameras [...]

Livermore Data Systems “Model A” Acoustic Coupler Modem, made in 1964, was demonstrated to have been able to connect to the internet.

This modem was given to me ~1989 by the widow of a retired (IBM?) engineer. Computerhistory.org has a Model B dated 1965, and I’ve seen a ~1967 Model C written up in a magazine. [...]

This cat is currently getting so much attention in China because of that extra pair of “wing-like appendages”. Humans, of course, decide they’re now so fucked.

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Richard Mosse went to Iraq and took photos of Saddam Hussein’s old palaces, and what happened to them. The collection is called “Breach“, which shows how the old “splendor” has been transformed to accommodate American soldiers.

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Developed by Koreans for the Japanese, Boong-Ga Boong-Ga is the first arcade game that combines of assaulting assholes and fortune-telling. You select from eight characters like “Mother-in-Law,” “Con artist,” and “Child Molester” and then, steel yourself for this, you ram a giant plastic finger into an ass that protrudes out from the arcade unit next [...]

“A client server database is where you rim another mans arsehole with your tongue and then force the full width of your girth in his ass.”
Just about the same as we’d explain it.

Boeing has so much “nondirectional bacon,” it actually has a symbol for it. But what the hell is that?

Robert Kahre, who owns numerous construction businesses in Las Vegas, is standing trial on 57 counts of income tax evasion, tax fraud and criminal conspiracy. If convicted on most counts, he could live out his life in prison.
But attorney William Cohan paints Kahre as an American “hero” who believes his payroll system helped keep the [...]

The Rosenhan experiment was a famous experiment into the validity of psychiatric diagnosis conducted by David Rosenhan in 1972. It was published in the journal Science under the title “On being sane in insane places.”
Rosenhan’s study consisted of two parts. The first involved the use of healthy associates or “pseudopatients,” who briefly simulated auditory hallucinations [...]

Designer Leonardo Manavella has come up with an Earth-bound pee-drinking project he calls the “Agua H2O” — two words that, uhh, means the same, but just focus on the design. A device like this — supposedly works by peeing into the device, then said pee comes out of the other end as a fresh, drinkable [...]

Sick and tired of being the butt of jokes, residents of Butt Hole Road has banded together to have the road’s name changed into something a lot less fun. Now called Archer’s Way, it promises to be utterly boring from now on.

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More than 200 dancers, who had seemed ordinary passersby, performed their version of “Do Re Mi“, in the Central Station of Antwerp. It is a promotion stunt for a Belgian television program, where they are looking for someone to play the leading role, in the musical “The Sound of Music”.

The people and cast of the latest in the Terminator franchise, Terminator Salvation, explain why they’ve decided to use actual working robots “that singed their eyebrows” instead of CGI.
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This should’ve been the shite we’re using.