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Sony's Hyperdragging desktop lets you drag things off your monitor and onto a table. I can't really see where you'd use it, but it's a nice gimmick.

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A British motorist who blew up a road safety camera which had caught him speeding was jailed for four months Wednesday, Greater Manchester Police said. Craig Moore, 28, took his revenge on the camera, which had flashed him in the Hyde area of Manchester, in August 2005.

Although the camera itself was badly damaged, images of him speeding and returning to destroy the evidence were stored in recording equipment in its unscathed base. While Moore's attack on a camera was not Britain's first, it may rate as the most extreme. Other aggrieved drivers have previously used axes or paint.

“Speed camera vandalism is reaching epidemic proportions, and the only solution is to scrap cameras,” said Paul Smith, founder of Safe Speed campaign group which lobbies against the distinctive bright yellow devices. “Apart from their total failure to deliver improved road safety, they push good people outside of the law every day of the week.”

Cameras are waste of time, they don't help to reduce accidents because once you get a ticket, you go out and buy a camera detector so they never catch you twice.

Via: [The Sun]

Matt Lucas and David Walliams have announced they plan to release a Little Britain. “We've had some sort of interest from America,” Walliams told ITV1 chat show host Michael Parkinson.

The comedy duo have signed a deal with Pop Idol producer Simon Fuller to develop a US version of Little Britain for the American cable network HBO. They'll probably do away with Emily and Florence, since transvestism is normally unique to the British sense of humour. Hopefully, the film will improve on series three instead of just copying it.

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Starwars.com hat eine Sammlung von Bildern, die die unterschiede zwischen The Empire Strikes Back (1980) und The Empire Strikes Back (2004) zeigt. Die meisten der Szenen sind kaum verbessert, aber es gibt manche, die ganz anders sind.

StarWars.com

Starwars.com has a gallery of the differences between the 1980s version of The Empire Strikes Back and thr 2004 version. Most are just subtle touchups, but there's the occasional total remake.

StarWars.com

The idea isn't particularly original, but the site, although still in beta, already has loads of video guides on how to make/do things. Some of them seem pretty boring (how to fit a mortice lock for example), but there are also guides on how to make cocktails.

VideoJug

Apple have announced the latest versions of the iPod, Nano and Shuffle. The news shuffle looks great, but they still haven't learnt their lesson with the Shuffle.

5G iPod:

• 60% brighter screen.
• Gapless playback.
• New earphones.
• New quick scrolling feature using letters.
• Games added - Bejewled, Cubis 2, Mahjong, Mini golf, Pac Man, Tetris, Texas Hold Em, Vortex and Zuma.v (Available from iTMS for $4.99
• 30GB - £189
• 80GB - £259

Second-generation iPod nano (Advert below):

• Aluminum, thinner - looks like thin iPod mini.
• Green, silver, black, blue, pink available.
• 24 hour battery life.
• New charger, armband, lanyard headphones.
• 2GB - £99
• 4GB - £129
• 8GB - £169

Apple also gave us a peak into their secret laboratory, to showcase a future media device. Apple will releasing a wireless box for the TV, tenatively called iTV.

• Box is like 1/2 the size of Mac mini.
• USB, ethernet, 802.11 wireless, component video, optical audio, HDMI ports.
• Works with Apple Remote.
• Interface is like next-generation Front Row software.
• Hi-res artwork, movie text.
• Video access is instantaneous.
• Looks like watching a DVD.
• Same videos play on iTunes, iPod and TV now.
• iTV works with iTunes on PC or Mac - available Q1 2007
• $299

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A life-size replica of a Guantanamo Bay detainee has been placed in Disneyland by “guerrilla artist” Banksy.

The hooded figure was placed inside the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride at the California theme park last weekend. It is understood to have remained in place for 90 minutes before the ride was closed down and the figure removed.

A spokeswoman for Banksy said the stunt was intended to highlight the plight of terror suspects at the controversial detention centre in Cuba.

Source: BBC News

A small PHP script that scrambles a URL. Useful for bypassing surfcontrol and other censoring proxies that censor by URL. Eg. Google.com can also be accesed by any of the following:
http://0×40E9A763/
http://1089054563/
http://1089054597/
http://0×40.0xe9.0xa7.0×63/
http://0100.0351.0247.0143/
http://%67%6f%6f%67%6c%65%2e%63%6f%6d/

URL Obfuscator
23/02/2007: Seems the script's gone missing. Dead link removed.

Steve Irwin, der australische “crocodile man” ist von einem Stachelrochen getötet worden. Er starb an den Folgen einer Stichverletzung ins Herz durch das Stachel eines Stachelrochens.

Wikipedia: Steve Irwin

Steve Irwin, the australian “crocodile man” has been killed in a freak accident by a stingray. Sources say Mr Irwin was killed instantly by the stingray's barb, which pierced his chest.

Wikipedia: Steve Irwin

Wer dieses gerät hergestellt hat, hat viel zu viel zeit zu verschwinden, und muss aufhören mit Lego zu spielen und eine Freundin suchen.

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Whoever made this has way too much time on their hands and needs to stop playing with lego and get a girlfriend.

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To think that in the 1940s, the Russians could keep a dog's head alive without a body by using tubes and a pump makes me wonder what they can do today. You should probably not click the link if you find this sort of thing disturbing.

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