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http://www.blissbox.com/store/detail.asp?productid=1515

Finally, someone is catering to girls who want to have sex with their computers. (Tasteful adult store, no explicit pictures, probably NSFW).

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Girl, 5, makes bong in class :shock:
"The little girl showing how to make a bong was the most in-your-face example of drug culture among primary school students I've heard of," one teacher said.

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Old Gamespy article I chanced upon: The Physics of the Jiggle
Fargo: You lost me, Doctor. Are you saying you just animate ... breasts?

Moore: We like to use the term "gazongas." But that would be an oversimplification. We also do up butts real good. It's the next great frontier in fighting game technology.
Has pictures from DOA3, so that should determine SFW or NSFW.

Didn't think it'd be that technical... but it is! (article is mostly humor, but there definitely are some interesting physics involved).

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http://www.thisislondon.com/til/jsp/mod ... Id=6902175

A mildly interesting story about catapault-attacking magician David Blaine. What's really striking is the use of "smartly dressed" in this context, and the apparent hand-wringing the author and quotee are doing over this "smartly dressed" man's transgression.

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In that entire article they only mention that there's some sort of stunt going on. Since I don't read the news very often at all, I have no idea what stunt he's performing. Mind posting a link about it?
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http://www.davidblaine.com/

Living in a clear box in London for 6 weeks without food. Of course.

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http://www1.zkm.de/~wvdc/ascii/java/

Amazing accomplishments of our time. The proper way to experience this is to click the link and simply let dawning realization gradually wash over you. Shortly after you figure it out, you may even be able to name it! (requires Java and SFW, but watch it alone. Takes five minutes or more.)

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http://craphound.com/place/download.php

Free new science fiction.

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Dwindlehop wrote:http://www1.zkm.de/~wvdc/ascii/java/

Amazing accomplishments of our time. The proper way to experience this is to click the link and simply let dawning realization gradually wash over you. Shortly after you figure it out, you may even be able to name it! (requires Java and SFW, but watch it alone. Takes five minutes or more.)
I hope you didn't mean Safe For Work because it certainly isn't if someone happened to see it. Did you mean ShockWave Flash? With all my movies, I am unable to name it :?
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quantus wrote:
Dwindlehop wrote:http://www1.zkm.de/~wvdc/ascii/java/

Amazing accomplishments of our time. The proper way to experience this is to click the link and simply let dawning realization gradually wash over you. Shortly after you figure it out, you may even be able to name it! (requires Java and SFW, but watch it alone. Takes five minutes or more.)
I hope you didn't mean Safe For Work because it certainly isn't if someone happened to see it. Did you mean ShockWave Flash? With all my movies, I am unable to name it :?
I certainly did mean Safe For Work. There's nothing offensive in the URL, there's no sound, and someone glancing over your shoulder wouldn't see anything. I did warn you to watch it alone.

It's quite famous. I've never actually seen it, because it's pretty old. But I have read a description of the first scene, and that matches perfectly.

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For those that don't read slashdot I foudn this article to be amusing.

Now Hear This, Quickly
Perhaps even more significant, the technology may have benefits beyond saving time and money. "People who are listening at accelerated speeds learn just as much, and there's some evidence they may learn even a bit more," said Kevin Harrigan, an associate professor at the Center for Learning and Teaching Through Technology of the University of Waterloo in Canada. The consensus is that the extra brainpower needed to follow speedy speech enhances comprehension. "If you're listening at accelerated speeds," said Joel Galbraith, a researcher in Penn State's instructional systems program, "it forces you to not do anything else, so you're more focused on it."

Ray Juang, a University of California undergraduate who would often fall asleep in Berkeley's vast lecture halls, agrees. "On average, I understand the material better during playback than in the actual lecture room," Mr. Juang said. "The speed-up does force me to pay more attention."
Associated slashdot article and rating 5 comments.

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http://www.eff.org/Infra/trusted_comput ... 001_tc.php

Quality article about trusted computing. Separates the evil from the not-so-evil in a completely non-evil manner. Correctly identifies "remote attestation" as the risk to consumer choice. Stands in direct opposition to such senseless FUD as this:
A major factor in SCDC’s championing of Linux is the advent of the Microsoft’s new “Trusted Computing” technology, also known as the Palladium chip. This technology, already present in some new IBM ThinkPads and set to be released in the upcoming version of Windows, would require Microsoft to verify if a user has permission to open a file on his or her computer.
How many errors can you spot in these two sentences?

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A two-parter, both courtesy of the Ig Nobel awards.

http://www.rentastate.com/en/09/liechte ... detail.pdf

Rent Liechtenstein!

http://www.nmr.nl/deins815.htm

Homosexual duck necrophilia! (SFW)

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Yet another slashdot article, this time about gaming:
Restart, Restore, or Continue Creating Democracy? (Slashdot Post)

Amusing read that combines the desire for progress and accountability in MMORPGs.

Some (randomly?) selected quotes for those that don't want to read the entire article.
The Holy Trinity: Quit, Restart, or Restore?...

Which is a roundabout way of saying that the bad things that can happen to you in a multiplayer game aren't all that bad, because if they happen too often to too many players, no one will play...

So games can't hurt you so bad. Isn't that one of their virtues?...

Well, consider this: one of the main underpinnings of criminal law is deterrence. The idea is that potential criminals will turn to crime when the expected gain from an illegal act is greater than the punishment associated with it, multiplied by the probability of being caught. As that probability decreases, the punishment needs to become correspondingly more and more severe, or a rational criminal will simply treat the occasional sanction as a cost of doing illegal business...

But when players have more "invested" in a game, everything changes...

Cynically, it's the Keyser Soze principle: anything you love becomes a weapon that can be used against you...

Yes, your emotional connection to other players becomes something that can be used against you. But remember the first point of this essay: if you didn't value the connection more than you feared the dangers, you wouldn't take part. We're seeing a fascinating development in multiplayer gaming unfolding before our eyes as games pull players into richer and more complicated interactions with each other...

Sure, the designers can boot you for griefing, but if your buddies didn't object to the language you were using, you can sign up a new account and join up with them again. If you deeply offend your buddies, on the other hand -- poof! -- all those relationships you've built up and treasure, that's what's gone. A great fraction of the "capital" players have built up in games is social, and it's the social groups that are becoming more and more important to games.

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Live Action Sailor Moon
(search for "Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon - Jisshaban")

Be afraid... be very afraid (got the transformation sequence from somewhere, but I can't find the link right now. It's hilarious)

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http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthr ... adid=10692

HL2 source code leak, explained. Answer: never ever use Outlook.

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http://www.ebaynham.com/Merchant2/merch ... ct_Count=2

Don't know about the rest of these T-shirts, but this one earns my recommendation. (vaguely NSFW: lewd reference)

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http://money.cnn.com/2003/10/07/technol ... tm?cnn=yes

Half Life 2 delayed until April 2004.

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