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vintagephoto: CLOCKWORK ORANGE (mostly behind the scenes)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:59:41 -0400

vintagephoto: CLOCKWORK ORANGE (mostly behind the scenes)

"If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will."

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:56:18 -0400

“If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.””

- Abraham Lincoln’s Top 10 Fundamentals for Creating a Great Life

www.amade.ch: Forum

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:15:03 -0400

www.amade.ch: Forum

Michael Bay’s Rejected “The Dark Knight”...

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:28:09 -0400

Michael Bay’s Rejected “The Dark Knight” Script - The Spill.com Movie Community

"Apple Inc.’s operating system market share has increased by nearly 32% in the last year,..."

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:25:02 -0400

“Apple Inc.’s operating system market share has increased by nearly 32% in the last year, according to data collected by an Internet metrics company.”

- Mac OS X market share surges 32% in one year

According to Britain’s Car magazine, VW has approved a...

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:11:27 -0400

According to Britain’s Car magazine, VW has approved a plan to build a limited number of One-Liters in 2010. They’ll probably be built in the company’s prototype shop, which has the capacity to build as many as 1,000 per year. (via Laugh at High Gas Prices With a 282-MPG VW | Autopia from Wired.com

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Tara Busch (1) - Over The Rainbow backwards (see Pt 2) (via...

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:57:33 -0400

Tara Busch (1) - Over The Rainbow backwards (see Pt 2) (via tarabusch)

Dulce Pinzon

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:54:57 -0400

Dulce Pinzon

"An Islamic scholar with a global network of millions of followers, Gülen is both revered and reviled..."

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:54:41 -0400

“An Islamic scholar with a global network of millions of followers, Gülen is both revered and reviled in his native Turkey. To members of the Gülen movement, he is an inspirational leader who encourages a life guided by moderate Islamic principles. To his detractors, he represents a threat to Turkey’s secular order. He has kept a relatively low profile since settling in the United States in 1999, having fled Turkey after being accused of undermining secularism.”

- Foreign Policy: The World’s Top 20 Public Intellectuals

Laser Tattoo - Instructables - DIY, How To, art, life - BBQ PDQ...

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:52:26 -0400

Laser Tattoo - Instructables - DIY, How To, art, life - BBQ PDQ Contest Entry

"The smell is bad. It does not travel far, but when you catch a whiff of the burnt flesh stench, it..."

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:51:49 -0400

“The smell is bad. It does not travel far, but when you catch a whiff of the burnt flesh stench, it is quite nauseating. The thought that you have just inhaled some of those vaporized skin flakes, and they have settled on the bottom of your lungs, is the worst.”

- Laser Tattoo - Instructables - DIY, How To, art, life - BBQ PDQ Contest Entry

"See that robot there? It’s burned by a laser-etch machine. On genyoowine human skin. Ohoho..."

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:49:54 -0400

“See that robot there? It’s burned by a laser-etch machine. On genyoowine human skin. Ohoho yes: that sent an icky feeling up your spine didn’t it? If it didn’t, then it should have. Try looking through the gallery, and then watch the video of a skin-etch in action, and that should do the trick…”

- Guy Uses Laser-Etch Machine to Tattoo Himself (Verdict: Flaming Nutcase)

"But instead of getting the letters tattooed on his body with ink, Chase wanted to have his resolve..."

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:48:13 -0400

“But instead of getting the letters tattooed on his body with ink, Chase wanted to have his resolve memorialized in a far more striking fashion: carved into his body with a scalpel.”

- Scarification: the new trend in body art — JSCMS

Mini Movie Channel - Putin On The Ritz

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:46:04 -0400

Mini Movie Channel - Putin On The Ritz

"A federal judge in New York has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom a database linking users of..."

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:08:49 -0400

“A federal judge in New York has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom a database linking users of YouTube, the Web’s largest video site by far, with every clip they have watched there.”

- Judge Orders Google to Turn Over YouTube Records - NYTimes.com

Swisscom: We'll unlock your iPhone after 24 months

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:49:00 -0400

I asked Swisscom whether the iPhone would be unlockable. Here’s the important part of Swisscom Mobile Customer Care’s response:

The iPhone 3G press release says “When bought with a Swisscom pre- or postpaid contract, the use of iPhone 3G is limited to Swisscom SIM-cards.” Does this mean that Swisscom will not sell unlocked iPhones?
Swisscom will sell the iPhone SIM-locked for 24months in both, pre- and postpaid, versions.
Does that mean that I can unlock the iPhone after 24 months?
yes

So you won’t be able to use your Swisscom iPhone with a foreign SIM card, but after two years, you will at least be able to give it to somebody who doesn’t use Swisscom.

"It takes more than a big time PS3 exclusive like Metal Gear Solid 4 to beat Nintendo. Way more...."

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:29:14 -0400

“It takes more than a big time PS3 exclusive like Metal Gear Solid 4 to beat Nintendo. Way more. While MGS4 did give Sony a bump in sales, it wasn’t enough, and the Wii outsold the PS3 in June. This is the seventh consecutive month that the Wii has come out on top in The Land of the Rising Sun.”

- Japan: Even With MGS4, PS3 Sales Flattened By The Wii

"This loss of process is likely very widespread throughout all technologies, it often results in the..."

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:37:01 -0400

“This loss of process is likely very widespread throughout all technologies, it often results in the final evolved technology surviving, but we often forget how we got there. Evidence of this is in the anecdotes of how a modern designer or engineer tries to improve an ancient system, only to find out that the ancient system is vastly superior (W. McDonough often cites the black Bedouin tent as an example, and S. Lansing has a similar story from Balinese water and agricultural systems). Until a technology is mature and standardized, which our digital tech is only beginning to be, we will continue to lose a lot of information stored on these obsolescing systems like Indecks.”

- The Long Now Blog » Blog Archive » Why technology extinction is rare

"Humans have been attempting to send messages to the stars since … I’m going to say the..."

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:31:22 -0400

“Humans have been attempting to send messages to the stars since … I’m going to say the early ’70s. I mean, theoretically some caveman could have yelled, “Hey! Stars! You suck!” a hundred thousand years ago, but he was an idiot.”

- Lore Sjöberg’s Alt Text: Earth to Aliens — We’re a Bunch of Dorks

Many people considered this nothing more than interstellar porn....

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:30:58 -0400

Many people considered this nothing more than interstellar porn. Others objected to the fact that the man is the one waving his hand, presumably to give the woman time to bake the aliens a nice batch of muffins. (via The Long Now Blog » Blog Archive » Earth to aliens… were a bunch of dorks.

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