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(917): Well after we were arrested you just kept chanting "Like a good neighbor state farm is there".

This!! Insanely awesome new colour changing “paramagnetic paint” technology!

Thanks Ernie

Latest Snowden claims: Flawed encryption tech switched on by default in exchange for cash

The mystery of why RSA would use a flawed, NSA-championed algorithm as the default random number generator for several of its encryption products appears to be solved, and the answer is utterly banal, if true: the NSA paid it to.…

Daniel Ciamara of Blackburn, Lancashire, England, took a Blu-ray player and a supply of movies to a computer shop and offered them for sale. David Harrison was the clerk on duty and looked through the collection. He noticed that the movies looked very familiar, because he owned every one of them, including two that have never been opened.

Ciamara was told the shop would be interested in buying but said the Blu-ray player would have to be tested.

“Mr Harrison went home and discovered his back door had been kicked in and his house had been burgled,” said Mrs White.

“The police were informed and when the defendant came to collect his money they were waiting.”

The 24-year-old Ciamara later pled guilty to burglary and is awaiting sentencing. -via Arbroath

Many web veterans can share horror stories of friends and family who installed a few too many browser toolbars, some of them by accident. Google is clearly eager to avoid those disasters in Chrome -- it's instituting a new Chrome Web Store policy ...

(Chess Nerd t-shirt now on sale at the NeatoShop)

We’ve previously seen some clever variations on the game of chess--not simply different pieces, but different rules and boards.

MIT graduate David Sirlin designs games for a living. These variations are fun, but he thinks that he’s developed a variation that fundamentally improves the game. Modern chess, he argues, requires players to memorize an excessively large number of movement patterns and leads to too many draws. Chess 2, as Sirlin calls it, starts by permitting players to choose between 6 different armies:

The “Nemesis” army gives pawns more freedom of movement, while players using the “Reaper” army have a queen that can teleport and capture anywhere on the board except the opponent’s back row. There are upsides and downsides to each army, and playing against others using the “classic” army (that is, basic chess rules) is valid and balanced, Sirlin says.

To end stalemates or long, drawn-out games, Sirlin’s variation also gives a win to a player  who can get his or her king past the midline of the board.

-via Smart News

Today, my boyfriend and I were having sex. Just as he was about to finish, he pulled out and came in his hand. He then flicked his hand towards my face and yelled, "Sha-ZAM!" FML

(413): He said I was doing well, so I stopped mid blow job to compliment his grammar. You could say I like intellectuals.

Thanks Mike (from Spain)

 

And then amazing things happen to this dying young girl.

Thanks Aubrey

 

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Take a grim look at the result of pocket monster designs growing past carrying capacity.

Also, Weeniepuss actually looks like it could be a Pokemon. And would be considered a better design than many Pokemon that exist.

[Thanks, Parasmio!]

Imagine a world where, with 4 snaps and the flick of a switch, you could build a computer yourself. Well, that world is here. Introducing Kano, a new project that provides users with a complete computer system inside of a very small package – a LEGO-like computer, if you will. Just snap the controller circuit board into its case, slide in the wireless keyboard adapter, the power cord and the monitor, and you’re in business. What sort of business you get up to is completely up to you. Kano is billed as a “computer and coding kit for all ages,...

Read the full article: Introducing Kano – A Computer Anyone Can Make

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Remember a time when you thought drones only existed in sci-fi movies and could never imagine something like 3D printing? In 2013, that tech is commonplace — but it wasn't always

Way back when, even microwaves seemed they signaled the apocalypse.

In this comic, Manu Cornet of Bonkers World proves that your reaction to new inventions directly correlates to the year you were born

Comic illustration courtesy of Bonkers World. Published with permission; all rights reserved. Read more...

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Kay-Leigh and Gervan Diaz got married last Saturday. To mark the occasion, they had a driver perform burnout donuts around them in a BWM E46 while they kissed. It's romantic like the concluding kiss of an action movie as well as a demonstration of trust in the driver's skill.

-via Jalopnik

A moon landing goes horribly wrong in a fake video spot from visual-effects studio Cinesite.

The studio's cautionary tale provides a good reason why astronauts shouldn't eat beans. It's not clear if such a campaign would pass muster for a real company. ("Haynes," the brand in the fake ad is obviously modeled after Heinz.)

In the 10 days since it was posted online, the video has received nearly 3 million views. GIFs from the ad have also appeared on Reddit:

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Daniel_Stuckey writes that venture capitalist Tim Draper has mooted a plan "to split California into six separate states, he told Tech Crunch, with Silicon Valley emerging as the richest and most powerful of all. The mockery is already pouring in. Of course a rich tech guru wants Silicon Valley to get its own government, so it can be freed from the dusty laws and regulations of California 1.0. Of course a deep undercurrent of self-aggrandizing narcissism runs through the proposal — only one other state-to-be gets an actual name, (inexplicably, 'Jefferson') and the rest are lazily affixed with topographical descriptors: West, South, Central, and North California...Yes, in shaping his doctrine, Draper has conjured the perfect blend of Seasteading's offshore tech nirvana lawlessness, boilerplate Tea Party antiestablishmentarianism, and good ol' secessionist chutzpah."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Google has picked the best games of 2013 for the Google Play store. Here's the list:

• Heroes of Dragon Age 
• Juice Cubes
• DragonVale
• Plants vs. Zombies 2
• Rayman Fiesta Run
• Asphalt 8: Airborne
• 10000000
• Anomaly 2
• Dots: A Game About Connecting
• Fifa 14
• rymdkapsel
• Containment The Zombie Puzzler 
• The Blockheads
• Into the Dead
• Clash of Clans

I've played three of the listed games here which were Rayman, Anomaly 2, and Plants Vs Zombies 2. All fun games, and I'll be looking into Juice Cubes now thanks to this list. Rest I'm not sure about. What have you played from this list that's actually fun?