Sexy Jihad

It took a while but it’s finally here. A rewrite of “If Operating Systems Were Airlines“, but this time with version control systems (duh): Git Airlines: The “there’s more than one way to do it” airline, Git flies the world’s largest and fastest airplanes. Git Airlines was founded by some priests who were flying for [...]

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Torrentfreak posts that dutch University INHOLLAND now uses bittorrent to distribute software updates to its desktop computers: According to an article in the weekly Dutch magazine Automatiserings Gids, the Dutch university INHOLLAND uses BitTorrent as a network management tool to distribute software to 6500 desktop computers in 16 different locations throughout the Netherlands. Instead of [...]

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While not as cool as the black on black version, this is still finger lickingly beautiful: The official name of the highly exclusive Bugatti Veyron “Fbg par Hermès” refers to the historic Hermès headquarters on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in the heart of Paris’s eighth arrondissement: the “Fbg” appellation evokes the house’s “faubourg” address. [...]

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The stuff that they’re building in Dubai never ceases to amaze me. Here’s the lowdown on two of the latest projects: The people behind this stunning looking structure are the Dutch firm Royal Haskoning , and they are not just in the business of developing a fantastic looking building they also have a use for [...]

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Yeah, this is a REAL good idea…. Boingboing writes about Rufus Terrill from Atlanta, who has apparently built his own robot to “battle drug dealers”: Late at night several times a week, Terrill powers up the 4-foot-tall, 300 pound device and reaches for a remote control packed with two joysticks and various knobs and switches. [...]

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Some people are just sick in the head when it comes to humor. There are certain things you just don’t do, certain limits you don’t traverse. Here some parents thought it would be a fun joke to give their kid an XBOX 360 for christmas. The only catch being that the box the kid is [...]

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Yet more controversy from Abu Ghraib. Photo’s hosted at Wired. There are truly no words for this. I hope flights of devils wing these worthless piles of excrement & organs to their slow, tormented & inevitable deaths.

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As programmers most of us have been there at one time or another (more often than not if your life really sucks). That once beautiful (or always but ugly) piece of software that becomes an ugly dilapidated bitch. The kind of code you don’t wish on your worst enemy. The code so ugly you want [...]

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Cracked has created a list of 9 weird (or wonderful if you will) theme parks that quite frankly just give me the heeby jeebies: China, determined to reinforce stereotypes of producing nothing but cheap knock offs, is the location for a completely bootleg theme park. Shijingshan Amusement Park has a lot of familiar faces, although [...]

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Sometimes one asks oneself, how stupid can social network sites get? Well behold, some dude has connected his plant to twitter so he can be warned when it needs watering. Although I might dislike networking sites, this is nontheless a pretty cool hack. Hey, at least it’s not as lame as certain other profiles on [...]

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