Sexy Jihad

Looks like there’s a new encryption plugin for Gaim called Off-the-Record Messaging. What’s so special about this you may ask?
Check ou this excerpt from the homepage:
Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging by providing:

Encryption
No one else can read your instant messages.
Authentication
You are assured the correspondent is […]

Seems that the long awaited firefox ad in the New York Times has surfaced (Click here for full sized ad). Seems that they got so much money they could afford a 2 page ad. This also coincides with 11 million downloads. Well done firefox!

While this information is a bit old (article from January) I came across it again and thought it would be interesting to post it:
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U.S. Mulled Seizing Oil Fields In ‘73British Memo Cites Notion of Sending Airborne to Mideast
By Glenn FrankelWashington Post Foreign ServiceThursday, January 1, 2004; Page A01
LONDON, Dec. 31 — The United States gave […]

Yup, somebody has stuck a 750 pound Boeing jet engine on to an outhouse. The result is a 46 mph potty. Guess they should call this one a number three….

Wired writes:
Linux advocates have long insisted that open-source development results in better and more secure software. Now they have statistics to back up their claims.
According to a four-year analysis of the 5.7 million lines of Linux source code conducted by five Stanford University computer science researchers, the Linux kernel programming code is better and more […]

Engadget reports that HTC (the Taiwanese company behind lots of those Smartphones and Pocket PC Phones which end up with somebody else’s logo on them (like the Audiovox SMT 5600, the XDA III, etc) is reaching out to Skype about porting Skype’s VoIP software to the next generation of Smartphones they’re currently working on.
With this […]

Seems that some guy built a seven foot tall grandfather clock made from LEGO. The clock keeps accurate time, runs for 13+ hours before a weight reset is necessary, and all gears and such are 100% LEGO elements.
Impressive.

It seams that ikea have blocked off all the toilets in the dutch showrooms and have sealed the showroom toilets worldwide.
Apparantly the reason for this is that people with, lets say, a high need to leave a message have been using the showroom toilets. Seeing as they are not connected to plumbing (duh)…..Well, you do […]

The Band Aid Dilemma….You want this record to succeed, because you feel for the plight of the refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan and this project is funding aid projects on their behalf. However, you hate this recording and feel your musical ego looming and refusing to be bruised.
The answer?
* […]

The BBC writes:
In Japan, the internet has been blamed for a spate of group suicides which appear to have been arranged in online chat rooms.
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It had taken days of online research, emails and text messages to bring us here - face to face with a member of Japan’s “internet suicide” community.
It is a growing, and […]