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How deaf quadriplegic David Rose duped twitter, Kim Kardashian and the press
REMEMBER Twitter’s David “Dave on Wheels” Rose, the 24-year-old, deaf quadriplegic with cerebral palsy? He composed tweets with his eyes..? Sure you do.
The Daily Mail wrote about Dave:
In a tragic turn of events a deaf quadriplegic who found internet fame with his touching, witty Facebook and Twitter posts has died. 24-year-old David Rose captured the hearts of thousands as he took to the web with his seemingly unfaltering positive attitude and love for life despite the odds. But on Thursday he lost his life-long battle against the severe cerebral palsy he was born with that had committed him to existence in a wheelchair. He succumbed to pneumonia after being admitted to hospital with a cold late last week.
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Posted: 16th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Technology | Comment
The Gary McKinnon extradition story: in photos
THE story of Gary McKinnon’s extradition to the USA is one of a man with a passion falling foul of the law. He hacked into scores of US State department computers. The man who has Asperger’s Syndrome was looking for evidence of alien life. The Americans wanted to interrogate the computer expert on their soil. The British dithered and then saved him. Others might want to admire his skills:
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Posted: 16th, October 2012 | In: Reviews, Technology | Comment
Gary McKinnon gives a boost to compassionate Conservatives
GARY McKinnon, from Wood Green, north London, will not be heading to a concrete box in the United States. Home Secretary Teresa May has blocked his extradition. Gary McKinnon hacked into US military computers.
Mrs May told MPs:
”After careful consideration of all the relevant material I have concluded the Mr McKinnon extradition would give rise to such a risk of him ending his life that a decision to extradite would be incompatible with his human rights”.
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Posted: 16th, October 2012 | In: Reviews, Technology | Comments (10)
Get your official Goatse gear – do not buy gimmick merchandise
BEFORE twitter and Facebook, there was Goatse. If you do not want to be mentally upset, do not look him up. If you know who he is and why he is famous, you may care to buy some hooky merchandise. But DON’T. As his website says:
IMPORTANT NOTE: There are many merchandising attempts for goatse.cx around the web– none of them are real, none of them are official. Do not buy this gimmick merchandise. The official goatse.cx merchandise is coming soon!
Got that. Stick to the real stuff, fans of the extreme battered anus:
Spotter: CaitlinMoran
Posted: 15th, October 2012 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comment
Drawing Dicks on the Herald Sun: the best ones
NEWSPAPERS will not die out. Thanks to Facebook page Drawing Dicks on the Herald Sun, newspapers serve a purpose. All newspapers need do is give every reader a free biro:
Posted: 15th, October 2012 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comments (2)
Felix Baumgartner and the Red Bull Stratos epic c*nt typo
FELIX Baumgartner has jumped to Earth from the edge of space. The Red Bull Stratos team – his sponsors – take to Facebook to salute the “c*nt”:
“Congratulations to Felix in a successful landing. We knew we could cunt on you! You are a hero.”\
Only – yep – that’s a fake account. But it’s still amusing…
Posted: 14th, October 2012 | In: Technology | Comments (3)
Felix Baumgartner jumps from the edge of space – incredible photos
FELIX Baumgartner is high above Red Bull Mission Control Roswell New Mexico. Felix Baumgartner will rise 120,000 feet. He will then jump. He will break the speed of sound in freefall (an estimated 690 miles per hour):
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Felix Baumgartner, left, of Austria, celebrates with Art Thompson, Technical Project Director, after successfully jumping from a space capsule lifted by a helium balloon at a height of just over 128,000 feet above the Earth's surface, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012, in Roswell, N.M. Baumgartner landed in the eastern New Mexico desert minutes after jumping from his capsule 28,000 feet (8,534 meters), or 24 miles (38.6-kilometer), above Earth (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Posted: 14th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comments (5)
Felix Baumgartner falls 23 miles to Earth: the epic live feed
AT 9.31am local time, Austrian dare devil Feliz Baumgartner began his rise to 23 miles above planet Earth. He will then jump. In 1960, Joe Kittinger fell 19.5miles to Earth. That’s been the record ever since. The live feed:
Posted: 14th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment
Amanda Todd: Suicide becomes a whodunnit?
AMANDA Todd has died. The 15-year-old is thought to have killed herself. You might have seen the Candian’s video. In it, she holds up handwritten notes to tell her story of bullying. She says a stranger seduced her to show her breasts on camera online. The stranger took a picture and posted it online. The stranger created a Facebook page and added Todd’s friends to it. That happened when Amanda Todd was 12.
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Posted: 14th, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, Technology | Comments (2)
Space Shuttle Endeavour – the first and final photos
THE 75-tonne Space Shuttle Endeavour used to travel at 17,500mph. It took eight and a half minutes to reach that speed from zero on its 25 missions into space. It went a tad slower as it passed through Los Angeles on its way to the California Science Centre. Endeavour clocked up 123m miles in space. It never had to deal with LA’s roads:
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The U.S. and orbiter flags wave in the breeze as the space shuttle Endeavour sits on Launch Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, May 15, 2011. Endeavour, and her crew of six astronauts, is scheduled to lift off Monday morning on a 16-day mission to the international space station. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
Posted: 13th, October 2012 | In: Technology | Comment
Car park barrier attacks car (video)
WHEN car park barriers attack:
Posted: 12th, October 2012 | In: Technology | Comment (1)
Ched Evans: Nine charged for naming footballer’s rape victim on Facebook and Twitter
BACK in April, the ex-Sheffield United striker Ched Evans was jailed for five years for raping a 19-year-old woman in a Rhyl hotel. A group of people thought it an idea to name the victim on Facebook and Twitter. There is no sign that the victim wanted this. She was not making a stand. The five – Hollie Price, 25, from Prestatyn, Gemma Thomas, 18, from Rhyl, and Paul Devine, 26, Daniel Cardwell, 25, and Shaun Littler, 22, all from Sheffield – did it for Ched.
In all nine people have been arrested for revealing information about he rape victim on social networks. The other four are:
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Posted: 11th, October 2012 | In: Sports, Technology | Comment
02 tweets in slang to its ‘hood customers’ – the Tunde tweets
O2 is down with its customers. When Tunde @Tunde24_7 complained via Twitter:
@O2 bastard big man ting I swear direct me to your owner what happened to my internet connection fam mans having to use wifi and dat
@O2 OI I SAID DIRECT ME TO YOUR OWNERS INSTANTLY you guys are the devils spwan when I call you don’t direct me to sanjay from india
@O2 so u guy still aren’t responding to me is my name GBENGA is my name BOBBY is my name ROBORT is my name EMILY don’t MUG me arghhhhhh
@O2 I will report you to the police this instant if you do not increace my internet capabilities right now selfish bastard
@o2 jheeze so u man speak slang and dat r u a girl what ends u from. And naa ii didn’t what router
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Posted: 11th, October 2012 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comment
The machines are going to steal all our jobs!
LUDDISM is alive and well in the modern world. The idea that as the machines do more and more of the work then there just won’t be enough jobs to go around. Here is The Economist worrying about that very thing:
It is possible that Ms Parmeshwari and other “manual scavengers” will be able to find healthier lines of work, especially if the Indian economy regains its vigour. As Mr Gordon noted in his paper, women in the West were not deprived of gainful employment after having been liberated from the task of fetching clean water. Still, one has to wonder what will happen to all the people destined to be replaced by pipes.
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Posted: 10th, October 2012 | In: Money, Technology | Comment
The machine that can make anything (video)
THIS machine can make anything:
Posted: 9th, October 2012 | In: Technology | Comment
Yeah, Facebook and Twitter are good, but better than sex?
THE Mail seems to be saying that checking Facebook and Twitter are better than having sex. Sure, the two little technology products are pretty good but seriously, better than sex?
Checking social networking sites is more tempting than sex and cigarettes, a study has revealed.
Researchers at Chicago University’s Booth Business School used BlackBerrys to log reports about participants’ willpower and desires over seven days.
The online poll of 250 participants in Germany revealed the yearning to interact through tweets, photos, and comments was stronger than sex and cigarettes.
Even better than fags? That is when sex and they aren’t intemiately involved?
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Posted: 9th, October 2012 | In: Money, Technology | Comment
The Facebook Like-A-Hug jackets cuddles you with each new Like
GET yourself a Like-A-Hug jacket and whenever someone Likes you the thing inflates. Designer Melissa Chow says her jackets “allows us to feel the warmth, encouragement, support, or love that we feel when we receive hugs”.
It will also reverse decades of top-down campaigning to make the fat figures of hate. Now a well-padded jacket means popular. A slim outline indicates an un-liked person.
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Posted: 8th, October 2012 | In: Technology | Comment
Stupid Matthew Wood sentenced by stupid court for stupid April Jones joke
MATTHEW Wood has appeared at Chorley Magistrates’ Court. He wrote something on Facebook about April Jones and Madeleine McCann that social media narks and police didn’t like. A “vigilante mob” of censorious troll-hunters arrived at Mr Wood’s home. Wood was arrested.
Matthew Wood is a dickhead. But to make him a criminal is wrong. In court, he admitted making wrongheaded comments that caused offence. (What couldn’t offend someone?). He says he was inspired to say something horrible by Sickipedia – a website that “trades in sick jokes”.
Martina Jay, prosecuting, told the court:
“When interviewed by police he fully admitted he posted messages about the two missing children. He started this idea when he was at a friend’s house when drinking, saw a joke on Sickipedia and changed it slightly. He said he did it in a bid to make people think his account had been hacked. He said it got out of hand and he was drunk while doing it.”
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Posted: 8th, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, Technology | Comments (69)
This new app lets you have sex with your iPhone
iPHONE fans can now have sex with their phones. It’s Lovepalz. It’s aluminium-insulated sex:
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Posted: 4th, October 2012 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comments (2)
Woman runs over herself (video)
IN this video a woman runs herself down with her own car. Got to like the quick thinking of the man who appears at the video’s end. Were it not for his quick thinking in applying the handbreak, the car could really hurt someone…
Posted: 3rd, October 2012 | In: Technology | Comment
1961: Ham the chimpanzee is shot into space
IN 1961, Ham the chimpanzee was removed from his home in at the Holloman Aerospace Medical Center, located at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. Ham had the Right Stuff. The four-year-old chimpanzee had been rescued from meat markets in Cameroon. Well, so they say. On January 3rd, 1961 the hairy crash-test dummy was strapped inside a Mercury rocket and shot 155 miles space ata speed of 5,000mph. Onboard, he pulled levers in response to lights. Thanks to Ham, the craft as modified. Four months later, Alan Shepard became the first American in space.
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Posted: 2nd, October 2012 | In: Flashback, Technology | Comment
The Reddit frontpage circa 3012
THE Reddit frontpage circa 3012:
Spotter: @SciencePunk
Posted: 2nd, October 2012 | In: Technology | Comment
Twitter censors tagets faggots, fags and d***s
INTOLERANCE will not be tolerated is the Twitter mantra. Chis Paine looks at how homophobia is ok on twitter:
THIS is a shocking fact: the word ‘f—-t’ has been used more than 2.5 million times on Twitter since July.
Faggot is the word expunged from Paine’s article by the censors on Australia’s news.com site.
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Posted: 1st, October 2012 | In: Technology | Comment
German government bans laptops – gets typewriters
THE state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, is looking to ban lap-tops from meetings.
So. Pirate Party workers Patrick Breyer and Torge Schmidt took a typewriter along. Breyer notes:
The other groups want to buy at the expense of the highly indebted country tablet computers for all Members, as existing laptops should be banned and a “uniform appearance” is to be created.
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Posted: 28th, September 2012 | In: Technology | Comment
Luton Town fans seen through the iPhone Image Blender
FACE of the day: Football fans at Luton Town football club, an image processed with Image Blender (part of a series of experimental images taken and processed on the iPhone):
Posted: 27th, September 2012 | In: Technology | Comment
