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Geeks try to cook Gordon Ramsey's fancy recipe (19) share digg
by Cory Doctorow (81) on Boing Boing (155) 5 days, 7 hours ago permalink
Hugh sez, "We wanted to find out if three-star chef recipes were all they were cracked up to be, and if people like us (read - enormous geeks) could cook them. So we took one geek, one Gordon Ramsay recipe, a few hours, and a camera to film the results..." Normal Person vs ... Gordon Ramsay (Thanks, Hugh!)

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See Saw Bicycle: Crashing is Only One of the Ways It Can Kill You [Lolz] (14) share digg
by Sean Fallon (12) on Gizmodo (242) 1 week ago permalink
Once again, someone has taken absurd and dangerous bicycle design to another preposterous level. Thankfully, the See Saw bike is only in the prototype phase because if you didn't flat out crash and burn trying to ride it (with someone of equal weight), you would surely go brain dead repeatedly head-butting your partner. [My Atomic Mass via Likecool]

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Bike Hero On Expert Is Viral Marketing-Free [Clips] (8) share digg
by Michael McWhertor (2) on Kotaku (51) 1 week, 3 days ago permalink
Any clip that starts with "What's up, viral marketing douchebags?" has to go horribly wrong to lose my attention. Fortunately, this YouTube video response... wait where are you going?! This is actually pretty amusing. Anyway, this YouTube video response to the Activision viral marketing attempt doesn't go wrong at all. "Bike Hero On Expert" shows the brand managers at Droga 5 how it's done on the streets. Self described PRO GAMER Freddie Wong plays Dragon ...

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- Jeremiah said: Wow... Not really sure what to say about this one...
- Gavin said: This is the best possible response ever to that video. I love it and all the people involved in it. Thank you internet.
- GG said: FREDDIE WONG BITCHES! PERFECT
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Yugo, 1953-2008 (3) share digg
by swift (0) on MetaFilter (13) 1 week, 4 days ago permalink
Yugo (now Zastava), the icon of Soviet-era automaking, rolled out its last car on November 11th, 2008, a victim of the global financial crisis. The Kragujevac plant, having endured political crises and NATO bombs, has finally been sold to Fiat. Previously.

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The IT Crowd - Friday 21 November - Programme Details - Radio Times (1) share digg
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Free TV and radio listings and guide for over 400 national and local channels, plus film reviews, daily recommendations, downloads, exclusive video, interviews, photo galleries and more.

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Letter to a Young Engineer (from a purported Honda employee) (18) share digg
by Joel Johnson (1) on Boing Boing Gadgets (11) 1 week, 4 days ago permalink
After praising Honda a few days ago, we got a great email from a pleasingly enthusiastic engineer who asked to remain anonymous. He claims to be working at American Honda in Torrance and I'm inclined to believe him, but bear in mind also that this didn't come from a Honda email domain nor could I confirm that he's employed by American Honda. Even so, I loved his email and thought I'd share it with you. ...

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- Gary said: If you have time for one article today, consider this.
- Jinny Koh said: I really hope this is from a real Honda employee and this is the way things are done at Honda. It's an amazing corporate philosophy and culture.
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The Manuscript: a technothriller written by someone who understands technology (20) share digg
by Cory Doctorow (81) on Boing Boing (155) 2 weeks, 3 days ago permalink
Michael Stephan Fuchs's 2006 novel The Manuscript is just what a technothriller should be: taut, violent, smart, and very, very technical. There's plenty of "technothrillers" where the two key elements -- weapons and computers -- are treated as magic stage-props, able to do anything (or be confounded by anything) that moves the plot along. They're written by writers who confuse "programmers" with "network administrators" and think that 200 years from now, "mainframes" will be important ...

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- David Hall said: " it's as if The Da Vinci Code had been written by someone who wasn't an idiot"
- pr1000 said: "it's as if The Da Vinci Code had been written by someone who wasn't an idiot."Touché.
- darinr80 said: Here's one I want to read.
- nikan said: Got to add it to my wishlist
- Alex said: Wants it. Added to GoodReads.
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Note: Magic things you plug into 12V power ports don't give you extra MPG (4) share digg
by Rob Beschizza (9) on Boing Boing Gadgets (11) 2 weeks, 4 days ago permalink
The Magic Power System Power Bar plugs into your auto's 12V power port and is claimed to increase fuel efficiency up to 30 percent, increase torque and reduce emissions. Also said to improve car audio quality and "clean the entire car electrically," it costs just £35. It's a scam, of course, but hey—it says its magic right on the side! Contribute To The Environment Unconsciously With The Magic Power System! [Jalopnik via Dan's Data]

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Slashdot | The Gene Is Having an Identity Crisis (15) share digg
by kdawson (39) on Slashdot (96) 2 weeks, 6 days ago permalink
gollum123 writes "New large-scale studies of DNA are causing a rethinking of the very nature of genes. A typical gene is no longer conceived of as a single chunk of DNA encoding a single protein. It turns out, for example, that several different proteins may be produced from a single stretch of DNA. Most of the molecules produced from DNA may not even be proteins, but rather RNA. The familiar double helix of DNA no ...

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New battery technology lasts up to 7 times as longer than traditional batteries (8) share digg
by Nicholas Deleon (2) on CrunchGear (22) 2 weeks, 6 days ago permalink
Once upon a time, I was at some press conference somewhere dealing with laptops and someone in the audience asked why battery technology hasn’t improved. The exec on stage replied something to the effect of, “Batteries aren’t our industry, they’re a chemistry problem.” So your laptop’s awful battery life can be blamed on chemistry. Until now! Researchers in South Korea, led by one Prof. Cho Jae-phil at the Hanyang University, have developed a new type ...

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- BillDeys said: 2 please!
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Test your webpages with an online screen reader (3) share digg
by Foam Pants (0) on MetaFilter (13) 3 weeks ago permalink
Working on ADA compliance? Wondering how readers for the blind parse your webpages? Feed them into WebAnywhere, an online screen reader. Unlike other solutions, it is not a browser plugin and is free.

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Comprehensive Intel Health Guide seeks to provide in-home health monitoring (5) share digg
by Darren Murph (50) on Engadget (224) 3 weeks ago permalink
Filed under: Desktops, Misc. Gadgets In-home medical monitoring systems are far from new, but everyone takes notice when a firm like Intel formally announces that it's diving in headfirst. According to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, Intel is gearing up to launch a series of trials with health-care organizations in order to "show whether the new tools bring improved results in treating conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease." More specifically, ...

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Retromodo: Happy Birthday Saturn V, Still The Biggest Rocket (55) share digg
by Kit Eaton (15) on Gizmodo: Top (1) 3 weeks, 1 day ago permalink
November 9, 1967, T-minus 8.9 seconds: Thousands of gallons of kerosene and liquid oxygen begin coursing through the giant center F1 rocket engine: The Saturn V's ignition sequence has begun. Next, two outer engines are lit, followed 300 milliseconds later by the other two, ignited in pairs to avoid toppling the 364-foot rocket above. Nine seconds after all five engines go to full thrust, the first Saturn V rocket begins to lift from the launchpad, ...

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- Saket said: the Saturn V
- Adam said: Freaking awesome
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A City That's Built at the Bottom of a Lake [Architecture] (72) share digg
by Adam Frucci (4) on Gizmodo (242) 3 weeks, 3 days ago permalink
Here's something you don't see every day: a town built in the middle of a lake, not on an island, but actually below water level. It's the ancient city of Seuthopolis, in Bulgaria, and it's been...

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- macasek said: ... what could possible go wrong?
- Vorak said: Yeah... "Cool stuff" until the water rises and spills over the wall.
- Bill Blaney said: This worked great for New Orleans. What could possibly go wrong?
- Saket said: whoa
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Doom9 Researchers Break BD+ (26) share digg
by kdawson (39) on Slashdot (96) 1 month ago permalink
An anonymous reader writes "BD+, the Blu-ray copy protection system that was supposed to last 10 years, has now been solidly broken by a group of doom9 researchers. Earlier, BD+ had been broken by the commercial company SlySoft." Someone from SlySoft posts a hint early in the thread, but then backs off for fear of getting fired. The break is announced on page 15.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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- Jordan T-H said: WOOOHA!
- Clint said: doom9 is a great website to give yourself technical mastery over video formats.. no surprise this came out of there. they have some great tools for download.
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Dubai's Newest Insane Skyscraper to House a Restaurant in a Glass Pod at 2,150 Feet [Architecture] (44) share digg
by Adam Frucci (4) on Gizmodo (242) 1 month ago permalink
Oh look, another insane tower planned for Dubai! This one is dubbed the Anara Tower, and while it's not going to be the tallest in the world (it'll be about 500 feet shorter than the Burj Dubai at 2,150 feet), it's still incredible all on its own. The defining element of the Anara Tower has got to be the massive propeller-like structure at the very top, at the center of which will be a glass-ceiling ...

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- Jake Schaefer said: So much money absolutely nothing matters.
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Guy Who Insists E-Voting Machines Work Fine... Demonstrates They Don't (63) share digg
by Michael Masnick (8) on Techdirt (8) 1 month ago permalink
If someone pitched a movie based on e-voting machines that work as bad as the ones being used in the current election, the story would be dumped as being unrealistic. But truth is, indeed, often stranger than fiction. You may recall on Friday that we had a post about problems with e-voting machines in West Virginia selecting the wrong candidate when voters touched the screen. Various officials rushed to insist that there was absolutely nothing ...

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- ben.clinkinbeard said: I don't know whats scarier, the problems these machines obviously have or the fact that nobody seems to give a crap.
- Steiny said: ugh
- Ross said: WTF?!?! how hard can it be to correctly program this shit! jesus fucken christ!
- Erik said: I'm getting deja vu all over again.
- Stephen said: This is a freaking nightmare. Voting is a constitutional right, and this garbage is interfering with that right. Demand a paper ballot!
- Rex Pechler said: Uh oh
- Daniel DiPaolo said: This is what out-of-calibration looks like. *fails as it should* Let's calibrate it. Now it ... huh, fails. Must be out of calibration.
- Remi said: stem met een touchscreen
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Student trying to alert school to computer vulnerability instead charged with three felonies (4) share digg
by Nicholas Deleon (2) on CrunchGear (22) 1 month ago permalink
Dear school administrators, What’s the best way to ensure that your computer network remains riddled with security vulnerabilities that leave you, your personnel and [someone think of the] schoolchildren in danger? Why, to demonize the student who discovered the vulnerability and alerted you to it, of course. Have him charged with a felony while you’re at it. A student in a Saratoga County (New York) school alerted his principal to a computer security vulnerability that ...

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Pantone Rubik's Cube: Color Matching For Nerds [Rubiks] (18) share digg
by Sean Fallon (12) on Gizmodo (242) 1 month ago permalink
If pouring over color swatches at Home Depot leaves you overwhelmed, the Rubitone could make the process easier by helping to assess your options in a form that nerds can understand. Unlike a traditional Rubik's cube, the object here is not to solve it, but to match colors that might look good in a bedroom or living space. The problem is that Rubitone is only a concept, so my walls will just have to stay ...

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