Topic: LEGO - on June 3, 2010 at 12:14:00 PM CEST
The genius of the Lego Printer
Let’s be clear on one thing: Lego is brilliant. The block-based toy started life in Denmark and, since its current design was patented in January 1958, over 400 billion of the little plastic bricks have been produced.
We assumed that this simple toy would never go hand-in-hand with computers, but we’ve been proved wrong by a particularly inventive member of the B3ta forums. While the site is normally full of offensive pictures and jokes that Frankie Boyle wouldn’t tell, this show of ingenuity is guaranteed to put a smile on your face: by combining the diminutive plastic bricks with a Mac and a felt-tip pen, he’s built a fully-functioning Lego printer:
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Topic: STRANGE - on June 3, 2010 at 12:11:00 PM CEST
Dead elephant turned into fuel
An elephant given as a gift to the people of the former Yugoslavia has been turned into fuel.
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Topic: FUN - on June 2, 2010 at 1:31:00 PM CEST
Terminator Toilet Paper
Grater Paper - A Real Mans Toilet Roll! For the man who is tough as nails, takes no crap from anyone and is a true hard ass!
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Topic: EU - on June 2, 2010 at 1:30:00 PM CEST
Krise in Euro-Land - Verein der Versager
Nicht nur Steuerbetrüger in Griechenland und Hedgefonds haben Europa in die Existenzkrise gestürzt - kräftig mitgeholfen hat die politische Führung in Euro-Land. Sie ist nicht willens ihren Job zu machen. Oder nicht fähig.
Als im Herbst 2008 die Geldhäuser der westlich-kapitalistischen Welt wankten, manche einstürzten und weitere mitrissen, strömte Angst durch die Korridore der Macht: Was tun, um die ökonomische Kernschmelze abzuwenden? Finanzminister und Regierungschefs versammelten sich in hektischen Krisensitzungen, legten der schwer verwundeten Finanzbranche Heilpflaster aus Milliarden von Dollar und Euro aus den Steuerkassen auf und versprachen, das fragile System für alle Zukunft zu stabilisieren.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 2, 2010 at 11:21:00 AM CEST
Cops in Kazakhstan Arrest Drunken Man Found Driving BMW in Ice Skates
Kazakh traffic police inspectors had the surprise of their lives when a driver they stopped for a paper check turned out to be wearing ice skates.
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Topic: FUN - on June 2, 2010 at 11:09:00 AM CEST
Rubik's Cube is 30!
It’s an exciting year! 30 years of Rubik’s Cube will be celebrated with special events around the world.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 2, 2010 at 11:04:00 AM CEST
Wikileaks Was Launched With Intercepts From Tor
WikiLeaks, the controversial whistleblowing site that exposes secrets of governments and corporations, bootstrapped itself with a cache of documents obtained through an internet eavesdropping operation by one of its activists, according to a new profile of the organization’s founder.
The activist siphoned more than a million documents as they traveled across the internet through Tor, also known as “The Onion Router,” a sophisticated privacy tool that lets users navigate and send documents through the internet anonymously.
wired.com newyorker.com Plaintext over Tor is still plaintext via
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 2, 2010 at 11:01:00 AM CEST
90 Prozent der Videoüberwachungen nicht genehmigt
90 Prozent der Videoüberwachungen in Österreich sind laut der österreichischen Gesellschaft für Datenschutz, Arge Daten, nicht genehmigt. Nach deren Schätzungen sind bis zu einer Million Videokameras im Einsatz. Seit Beginn dieses Jahres muss jeder Standort einer Videoüberwachung bei der Datenschutzkommission registriert werden, berichtete der ORF.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 1, 2010 at 12:04:00 PM CEST
French jewel heist nets £5.5m haul
A daring heist by armed bandits who made off with 200kg (440lb) of gold jewellery worth £5.5m has left French detectives baffled and quietly impressed.
Officers described the raid, in which a jewellery wholesaler and his family were held at gunpoint overnight, as a professional job carried out with military precision. In terms of forward planning, audacity and meticulous attention to detail, the
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Topic: Photoshop - on May 31, 2010 at 11:07:00 AM CEST
Photoshop mistakes
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Topic: BP - on May 31, 2010 at 10:57:00 AM CEST
BP Knew of Deepwater Horizon Problems 11 Months Ago
The problems involved the well casing and the blowout preventer, which are considered critical pieces in the chain of events that led to the disaster on the rig.
The documents show that in March, after several weeks of problems on the rig, BP was struggling with a loss of “well control.” And as far back as 11 months ago, it was concerned about the well casing and the blowout preventer.
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Topic: STRANGE - on May 30, 2010 at 12:41:00 PM CEST
Own An Original Von Hagens
Gunther von Hagens, the man behind the controversial anatomical Body Worlds exhibitions, on Friday reopened his Brandenburg plastination plant. The facility comes compete with a shop selling human and animal cross sections.
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