Image credit: Sami Grover Protesters Attack Luxury Green Apartments Recently fly posters have been appearing around my town - "Greenbridge: Classism Applied Liberally"; "Greenbridge is Racist", and my personal favorite "Greenbridge Only Cares About One Thing" (Illustrated with a pile of dollar bills). The target of all this an […]
A new Turkish game-show asks clerics to convert atheists and awards prizes for the most conversions; I think the atheists should get points for resisting the pitch, too -- it's only fair (and the atheists should win supreme if the cleric loses faith altogether!). A new game show on Turkish television will pit a Greek Orthodox priest, a rabbi, an imam an […]
Marilyn sez, "Pretty cool photos from July National Geographic. These manta rays in the Maldives have a 12-ft-wingspan, and the photographer Thomas Peschak was right in among them during feeding frenzies to get these shots. I especially like the last one in this gallery, which shows them lining up one behind the other in chain feeding behavior before sw […]
Participants in the Istanbul bag-making workshop. Photos courtesy of Buğday. Paper bags aren't too commonly used in Turkey, but shopkeepers just love giving out plastic ones -- for a tiny item that you could easily tuck into your purse or a pocket, for a single soda you'll probably just drink on the way home anyway, for a few nectarines that are […]
photo via Flickr As a native of South Carolina, sharing the road with golf carts is nothing new. With the highest number of golf courses per capita in the United States, we’ve taken our golf carts off-course for ages. Now the rest of the country is finally catching on....
Vidéo(s) du jour : Démo(s) du jour : Aucune nouvelle vidéo ce jour ;) Aucune nouvelle démo ce jour ;) Captures d'écran inédites : Fallen Earth (Icarus Studios), 8 nouvelles captures Retrouvez [...]
À l'occasion d'un événement organisé conjointement par Valve et Electronic Arts à Londres, nous avons eu l'occasion, d'abord de jouer encore un peu plus à Left 4 Dead 2 et ensuite de discuter rapidement [...]
Comme chaque semaine, retrouvez-ici la chronique de Karyn Poupée, dont on saluera une nouvelle fois l'excellente connaissance de l'univers nippon. Notre émérite correspondante vient en effet de se voir [...]
Bruce Schneier points out that keypad wear is a form of "information leakage": "There are 10,000 possible four-digit codes, but you only have to try 24 on these keypads. The first is most likely 1986 or 1968. The second is almost certainly 1234." Information Leakage from Keypads...
Video. Adolf Hitler is pretty pissed off to learn that Michael Jackson has died and won't be able to perform at his birthday party. Evidences the true marks of a great internet meme: infinite expandability, extremely bad taste in multiple respects, and an unfairly long lifespan. (via @andrewbaron) Previously:EFF chairman makes a Downfall remixThe Downfa […]