Here is an interesting story about a 14 year old boy in Germany that got hit by a pea sized meteorite. Interestingly enough, they cropped out his hands in the pictures . . . Gerrit Blank, 14, was on his way to school when he saw “ball of light” heading straight towards him from the [...]
Here is sadly a not so good pilot trying to takeoff. What I really want to comment on is the guy making the video. Talk about having same balls! I mean here is this plane coming at you, with a large blender on the front of it. Any closer and he would have been fish [...]
Getting a non tech person to download a product that they already have is a challenge. My mom probably can’t tell the difference between OS X and Vista, yet you want her to download o new version of IE? Oh and from a special website? Yeeeaahhhh, it COULD happen, but only if it comes at [...]
Here is a great write up by the guys over at Offensive Security. They managed to work the iTunes OS X exploit around and got it to work in Windows too. And for all of those wanting to use it, they did post the exploit at the bottom. Here is a little about how they [...]
Not that I need more reasons to be proud to be Taiwanese, but here’s a story that does just that. TAIPEI — A 96-year-old Taiwanese man who will receive his master’s degree in philosophy this weekend said he was able to compete with younger students by pulling all-nighters before exams. Chao Mu-he, better known to [...]
I fly a lot, and of all the things that concern me, a meteor hitting the plane was the least of them. Now that has changed, thanks to Discovery Magazine. First I figured the chances were so minute that no one would care. Now looking at this article they are saying it might be a [...]
Tube. I love the latest trend of making online video more accessible to tv. My tv capture card is pretty much obsolete now thanks to Hulu. Not that I’m complaining or anything. There are certainly worse things in life, like a 4 book series about some dumb high school girl, some vampires and werewolves. The [...]
I wonder what ever happened to when they used to take the shuttle up on the 747 and drop it and let the astronauts land it? I mean I am sure it cost a fortune to do, and probably was a big risk, but it was really neat. Anyway, here is a pretty neat video [...]