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We'll Do It Live! F*ck It!
via MetaFilter by farishta on May 15, 2008
This recently-surfaced tape of Bill O'Reilly flipping out on the set of Inside Edition has inspired a dance remix, meltdown compilation, and parody by Steven Colbert (first three links NSFW).
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Houston being overrun by electronics-killing ants
via Engadget by Nilay Patel on May 15, 2008
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsWe'll let you read the hed again -- nope, it's not a joke. Apparently millions of tiny swarming ants called "crazy raspberry ants" are causing quite a ruckus down in Houston after they accidentally arrived on board a cargo ship and started busily invading homes and offices, where they are attracted to electrical equipment. So far they've messed up sewage...
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What To Expect From Apple At WWDC
via Wired: Gadget Lab by Charlie Sorrel on May 15, 2008
WWDC is drawing near, and its time for our almost traditional heap of speculation and wishful thinking, hammered into the constraints of a numbered list. Of course, ninety percent of what is written below will turn out to be far from the mark or just plain wrong, but hey, if we don't make a guess, we won't get anything right.1. 3G iPhoneWe expect this one at least to come true. The stock...
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Early Review Calls New Indiana Jones Film Dreadful
via Slashdot by timothy on May 15, 2008
bowman9991 writes "Hope this one isn't true! An early negative review calls the upcoming "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" movie predictable, lacking in tension, and a fan's worst nightmare. SFFMedia believes this new Indiana Jones movie could create a similar reaction a lot of people experienced after watching the first of the last three Star Wars movies, 'The...
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Platinum Games: MadWorld eyes-on, first screens
via Joystiq by Christopher Grant on May 15, 2008
Filed under: Nintendo Wiiclick to enlargeMadWorld currently has the distinction of being the only Platinum Games game that we've actually seen -- first-time director Shigenori Nishikawa (adorned with an incredible MadWorld shirt) demoed the game for us live at last night's Platinum Games event. First, he prefaced the gameplay with the following sentiment: "We didn't want to create a...
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Steven Spielberg Is Anime Cute, Apparently [Night Note]
via Kotaku by Brian Ashcraft on May 15, 2008
To: CrecenteFrom: AshcraftSo, Indiana Jones fever has hit the Bashcraft household! We've been watching all the DVDs recently, and Mini-Bash seems really, really into the movies. He asked me the other day why the guy from Star Wars was Indiana Jones. That was a very proud moment. I told him that I'd get him some of the Hasbro Indy toys for his birthday. When I was a kid, I had several of...
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Native Soulseek P2P app comes to the iPhone
via iPhone Atlas by benwilson on May 15, 2008
Representing perhaps the first genuinely useful native peer-to-peer application for the iPhone, iSlsk, which is capable of accessing the Soulseek music sharing network, has debuted.SoulSeek was created by Nir Arbel, a former Napster programmer, and offers access to a vast peer-shared library of files, composed primarily of music. THe network boasts hundreds of thousands of active users.The iSlsk...
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The Savage Colors of Naked, Toxic Sea Snails [Mega Sea Creatures]
via io9 by Annalee Newitz on May 15, 2008
There is a kind of soft, toxic snail that lives in the sea called a Nudibranch. The many kinds of Nudibranch all have intense coloration and weird shapes — so weird, in fact, that National Geographic just devoted an entire gallery to the strange creatures. See below for more multicolored, deep-sea weirdness worthy of Cthulhu's spawn. According to National Geographic:Nudibranchs crawl...
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Read England's Secret UFO Documents [Ufos]
via io9 by Meredith Woerner on May 15, 2008
Britain's Ministry of Defence (MOD) has released the first batch in a series of the government's UFO files. Now available on the internet, the papers include a number of claimed sightings, detailed descriptions and the MOD's assessment of each report, stretching from 1978 to 2002. Some witnesses even took the initiative to draw out what they saw in the sky. Which means, bad UFO...
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Air Force Aims for Control of 'Any and All' Computers
via Slashdot by Jeremiah Cornelius (posted by timothy) on May 15, 2008
... enable user and/or root level access,' a request for proposals notes, 'to both fixed (PC) or mobile computing platforms ... any and all operating systems, patch levels, applications and hardware.' This isn't just some computer science study, mind you; 'research efforts under this program are expected to result in complete functional capabilities.' The Air Force has a...
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