While it’s still not clear who the perpetrators were of the first Stratfor hack, that same group is now claiming responsibility for a system breach of Special Forces Gear, a somewhat, um, intense website, founded by a Special Forces veteran, that sells military and law enforcement gear as well as stupid T-shirts. The website describes the business this way: Ltc [...]
Three guys from Dallas, Brad Alesi, Stu Hill, and Wes Hendrix, want to build an app that publishes reviews of restaurants and bars in haiku form. They’re using Kickstarter to fund the project. Haiku Review uses actual traditional Haiku guidelines – reviews cannot be longer than 17 syllables. The developers say that Haiku Review sets itself apart from other similar [...]
It’s time to get rid of your Death Star wallpaper and go for something more sophisticated. Italian illustrator and graphic designer Alberto Seveso poured ink into water and photographed it at high speed. What resulted are images that look like puffs of silk unfurling in an ethereal undersea universe. Seveso’s design work is pretty amazing in general. Check out the [...]
A few tech sites have written about a woman who, 25 years ago, swallowed a felt-tip pen. This year she came in for stomach surgery and the pen was still in there, and not only that, it still writes. That’s one hell of a writing instrument for you. But for me, the most beautiful thing to come out of this [...]
Google decided to give an early Christmas present to … the world? The company is giving $40 million to organizations for causes such as fighting slavery, strengthening education and making technology more available. It’s a very impressive and admirable feat for Google to help others and have a positive impact outside of their company’s products. Normally I’d have some joke [...]
It’s an interesting strategy: Facebook has teamed up with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in a new initiative that makes the Lifeline counselors available 24/7 on Facebook chat. ZDnet’s Emil Protalinski explains how it’s meant to work: If a Facebook friend spots a suicidal thought on someone’s profile, that person can report it to Facebook by clicking a link next [...]
Today at 11 a.m. porn site triple-x domain names will go on sale so that your favorites will no longer be .info, .biz or .inof, but .xxx, ostensibly so there can be no mistaking what you’re looking at, or — more importantly — what kids are looking at. It also allows people to use the term “MILFHunter.com” in an interview [...]
How did this happen? If you ask Siri to direct you to an abortion provider, she says she doesn’t have any. But isn’t she supposed to be omniscient? She knows about everything else. The American Civil Liberties Union is not pleased with what seems to be Siri’s political bias, and has said so on its blog. But Apple says it’s [...]
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