Two videos made me laugh today. Some idiot playing Counter Strike spends five minutes shouting insults at a guy blocking a corridor. Maybe he thinks if he keeps shouting and insulting the guy, he'll realise the errors of his ways.

CS: Source Idiots

In this one, a PETA (RSPCA in the US) activist goes to an animal testing lab on a fear-factor type show. I can't make out whether the rat man's a real guy in a costume or some kind of animatronic puppet. Either way, I want one!

PETA activist meets Rat man

“Data mining” of all that information and communication is at the heart of the furor over the recent disclosure of government snooping
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Using a simple 6-line shell script and the popular wget command line tool, I configured two computers on two different DSL connections to begin downloading all 260,000 wishlists in increments of 25,000. Each group of 25,000 wishlists took about four hours to download, for a total download time of less than one day.
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Using a pair of 5-year-old computers, two home DSL connections, 42 hours of computer time, and 5 man hours, I now had documents describing the reading preferences of 260,000 U.S. citizens.

Impressive, but I don't see how the Amazon reading habits of every geek in America would be of much use to anyone. Unless they're buying copies of 'Communism for Dummies'…

Source [AppleFritter]

Stupid video of the day goes to the Chronic-what?-cles of Narnia, another stupid video made by Americans with too much time on their hands.

The names planned for the next generation, post Pentium processors from Intel have been published on Wikipedia and Reuters. The Pentium name was first used in 1993 as a sucessor for the 486. Intel didn't want to use 80586, so they instead used Penta (Greek: 5). It seems they're planning on eventually releasing an eight core desktop CPU.

Wikipedia
Reuters

The last 1000 pixels on MillionDollarHomepage.com are being auctioned on eBay. For anyone that hasn't already heard, the site sell pixels at $1 each, and there are only 1000 left.

eBay Auction

Sharon Tendler, a millionaire from England, married the love of her life this week: Cindy the dolphin.

Cindy squeaked his vows at an Israeli resort Wednesday and Tendler, a rock concert promoter from London, fed him some mackerel in return.

After giving her groom a big, wet kiss, Tendler was thrown into the water to swim with her slippery spouse.

Tendler said the wedding was one of the happiest moments of her life and she was looking forward to having a moment alone with her beau.

"It was everything and more", said Tendler after the ceremony. "I am just waiting for everyone to leave so we can have a private moment.”

Tendler said that is was love at first sight when she met Cindy 15 years ago.

I could understand an American woman doing this, but a Brit!..

Source: NBC

eMagin, which makes video display products for military and industrial uses, has unveiled the EyeBud headset, a new wearable display for video iPods.The headset gives the feeling of watching a 105-inch display from 12 feet away, and will cost $600.

I could see how this would be good for long motorway journeys, all I need now is a cigarette lighter adaptor for my mini fridge…

A modified pic from my window, taken while listening to Nichts in der Welt by Die Ärzte. I love the view at sunset

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At fullmoon.nu, Harry Stottle has described an experience he had where he met God. It's a bit philosophical, and from the article I don't know whether he's describing actually meeting God or just remembering an acid trip.

See for yourself [Fullmoon.nu]

Lightbox is a Javascript image handler which overlays a full size image onto the current page, while keeping the content underneath visible and semi-transparent. It even works in IE. Sounds pretty boring, but the effect it creates looks pretty cool. If only I had more photos…

Lightbox

The cover of Shakira's new 'Oral Fixation Vol. 2' album has been censored for sale in the Middle East. The Arab's believe it's an insult to the dignity of their women.

Source

Someone placed an ad on Craig's List saying that he was selling an Xbox 360 for $100. The guy says he's sick of his ratbag son and needs to teach him a lesson. So he's going to sell the console, controllers and headset but keep the box to fill with charcoal. The full article's available at Kotaku.

Source: Kotaku

This All in One SIM Card enables you to put all your mobile numbers on one sim card. Eliminating the need for those unreliable dual sim card holders and meaning you'll never have to remove your battery again. It lets you have 12 providers and phone numbers on one card, and also lets you change number without turning the phone off.

Total cost is $42 for the reader/writer and $27 for a blank sim card, which is about £40. tI have no idea how this works, but they're available from http://mobile.brando.com.hk/

Marks & Spencers are selling a USB dart launcher that can be controlled remotely using a mouse. The USB launcher is available for
£19.50, and they’re already working on a way to control a set over
VNC…

M&S Online Shop

Dynasig is a dynamic PHP script which lets you set a mood using the control panel, and adds a picture for it, aswell as a random quote to an image which you can use as a sig on forums. Version 1 is just a preview really, and I'm hoping to add support for winamp, mirc and loads more features in the future. You can make sigs like the one below with version 1.0.

Download Dynasig 1.0
Control Panel Screenshot