Woman force-feeds herself 5,000 calories a day in bid to be fattest possible fetish model
"At the end of the day I make a weight gain shake from heavy whip cream and a whole tub of ice cream, which Johan feeds me through a funnel.
Connected to the Cloud, Robots Get Smarter
So you want to open a lemonade stand on StreetBook...
Click ACCEPT to continue.
Badass of the week - AUSTRALIA!
Australia is a psychotic, cold-blooded murderer that would swallow you whole if you so much as left the front door of your house (and this is assuming that your Sydney Funnel Web barricades are in working order). Whoever thought up the concept of Australia was inflicted with the madness of Nietzsche and the megalomania of Qin Shi Huangdi.
This used to be the entire World Wide Web
...and this was it's first URL. Happy 20th birthday, WWW!
An insightful piece on privacy.
Bitcoin: Currency Revolution or Bubblicious Fad?
The truth about meepcoins.
The truth about meepcoins. (Hint: they're not shells or tulips)
Ancient Texts Drawings from Nordic Folks
Loki ? ... naaaaaaaw. You'd never admit to it.
Aaron Swartz, an Internet savant who at a young age shaped the online era by co-developing RSS and Reddit and later became a digital activist, has committed suicide.
It's the new planking.
Julian Assange's cryptographic call to arms
"The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia."
Over the top: the new war for TV is just beginning
There is a nation of potential cord cutters looking for an excuse to stop paying Comcast for 500 channels they don't really want
Power, Pollution and the Internet
Helping to process the staggering amount of Internet activity that occurs, data centers waste vast amounts of energy, belying the information industry's image of environmental friendliness.
Megaupload Farce Stirring Up Backlash Against Copyright Overreach
Following revelations that New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau illegally intercepted communications in the Megaupload case and provided those details to law enforcement authorities, the country's Prime Minister has been forced to apologize personally to Kim Dotcom
Proof x 9 that She is.
Internet rumor has it Master Card will endorse/adopt Bitcoin
..in 6 to 8 weeks time.
"If I discover intelligent life, it'll be the first I've ever seen. (I'm looking at you, Mohawk JPL nerd)"
A cute little chat site for cat lovers...
That also deals with encryption and could save your life or help overthrow the government.
Testing for COINTELPRO agents on Linkswarm.
Digg, one-time social media darling, sold for $500k
Oh how far the mighty have fallen
A mate of mine is currently amusing himself (and possibly obtaining free amateur porn pics) by playing with female Russian scam-tarts, the mail-order bride type. One of these girls has recently obtained a kitten (the feline variety) and asked him what to call it. My mate, being an avid cat-hater of the sort who has a "looking for your cat? Try under my tyres" bumper sticker on his car, offered what he said was a very popular name for cats in Australia.
Collection of magazine articles, variety of topics, genres etc.
How CISPA would affect you (FAQ yourself)
Go make some noise about this before you're screwed "notwithstanding any other provision of law."
Reality Check: Does CISPA Mean The End of internet Privacy?
The latest internet privacy bill working its way through Congress.
9-year-old's DIY cardboard arcade gets flashmobbed
The Mystery Man Behind the Most Disturbing Internet Meme in History
Pretty much the same reasons as the Gold Manmeep guy, when you boil it down.
Judge orders failed copyright troll to forfeit all copyrights
Judging copyright trolls like a Pro.
Homeless hotspots plan causes controversy for BBH ad agency
An 'experiment' which involved using homeless people as mobile wi-fi hotspots has attracted criticism, forcing the advertising agency behind it to defend itself.
Wikileaks Pairs with Anonymous to Publish Intelligence Firm's Dirty Laundry
Anons also told Wired that future collaborations with WikiLeaks could involve a series of hacks that will be announced, one after another, every Friday for the foreseeable future. If that happens, the Stratfor e-mail release could be the first sign of a new, powerful alliance between the two groups, each of which has vexed and angered the world's most powerful governments and corporations.
People is the stupid
You will be raped by your own data.
A new wave of outlaws perpetrating justice.
Physibles and post-scarcity economy
Physibles are 3D printer plans for duplicating physical objects. This is a fascinating insight and early glimpse into the post-scarcity economy. This is a landmark event marking the transition of post-scarcity from the online world leaking into the physical world.
Mega-man: The fast, fabulous, fraudulent life of Megaupload's Kim Dotcom
"A PR man's nightmare and a journalist's dream."
Kopimism: the world's newest religion explained
Isak Gerson is spiritual leader of the world's newest religion, Kopimism, devoted to file-sharing. On 5 January the Church of Kopimism was formally recognised as a religion by the Swedish government.
Double wham bam: AntiSec hacks, dumps CA & NY law enforcement emails
As part of Project Mayhem, AntiSec hackers destroyed and defaced the official site for the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA). Although it has been "wiped off the net," AntiSec dumped email and contact info for California and New York law enforcement groups.
Bitcoin Finishes 2011 Up 1,473%
The last trade for 2011 at the leading Bitcoin exchange was at the rate of $4.72 USD. For the year, Bitcoin's exchange rate rose from $0.30 - a 1,473% increase.
Because the last thing a judge should do is tell the defendant what is going on.
China's Parallel Online Universe
To the casual eye, China's social media landscape might look diverse and lively. But the social media clones are careful to follow Communist Party censorship.
SOPA/PIPA Explained; GoDaddy loses 21,000 domains and stops supporting SOPA
Late last week saw the domain registrar Go Daddy lose over 21,000 domains. Why did this happen to a service which was doing pretty well for itself for so long? In an acronym, SOPA.
Codepad is an online compiler/interpreter and simple collaboration tool.
Can be useful from time to time.
Files you downloaded are now listed and publicly searchable, indexed by your Internet address.
In many ways, the technology behind the site merely recreates in a publicly searchable way what the entertainment industry has been doing for years: It tracks and records information that users share when they download and upload files on public peer-to-peer file-trading networks.
Including a functioning DOS prompt, notepad, minesweeper, web browser, etc.
Lots of content.
What Does It Take To Eliminate the Kelihos Botnet?
If your email inbox or spam folder has ever received messages from shady Nigerian princes or ebullient Viagra salesmen, chances are it was sent there care of the Kelihos botnet, a massive network of infected computers that sends around 3.8 billion spam emails every day.
Carol Bartz exclusive: Yahoo 'f---ed me over'
'I said, 'Roy, I think that's a script,'' adding, ''Why don't you have the meep to tell me yourself?''
Another interesting article on bitcoins.



