Paola en la red

Abusive parenting brought on by bad coffee: vintage Sanka ad [text]

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:40:08 PDT

Sanka: because your old man beats you when he's got the jitters. Has his old man been hitting the coffee again?

Source:
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/04/abusive-parenting-br.html

Mary Roach: Death In Space [text]

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:10:09 PDT

For some uplifting weekend reading, I suggest Mary Roach's excellent special Boing Boing feature "Death In Space." The U.S. has plans for a manned visit to Mars by the mid-2030s.

The ESA and Russia have sketched out a similar joint mission, and it is claimed that China's space program has the same objective. Apart from their destination, all these plans share something in common: extraordinary danger for the explorers. What happens if som

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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/mary-roach-death-in.html

Whiskey from diabetics' urine [text]

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:52:05 PDT

Gilpin Family whisky is a new single malt whisky made from the urine of diabetics.

Creator James Gilpin doesn't sell the stuff, but rather gives away bottles as a public health statement. From the product page: Sugar heavy urine excreted by diabetic patients is now being utilized for the fermentation of high-end single malt whisky for export. The Whisky market is growing faster then any other alcoholic beverage worldwide. With a prevalent

Source:
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/04/whiskey-from-diabeti.html

Chilean miners reenactment - o_O [text]

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:54:04 PDT

http://www.nma.tv/33 Chilean miners are trapped deep underground and it may take NASA up to four months to rescue them.

Spirits were raised this week when th...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILsOEFayuj4

Morbid Curiosity [text]

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:06:06 PDT

The best sparrow is the little one in the front, who looks down first, when all the others watching the fight and when the 2 sparrows fall down he provacantly smoothly turns around and looks away.

He's absolutely not impressed, the others gawk.

Source:
http://www.failgif.com/2010/08/morbid-curiosity.html

The physics of breaking stuff with your fists [text]

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:34:06 PDT

iO9 recently ran a story on how martial artists are able to break boards and cement blocks, using their hands rather than mystical powers.

I thought it was pretty neat, but then I read an interesting counter-analysis by science journalist (and, significantly, martial arts practitioner) John Rennie. iO9 is right about the lack of magic powers, he says. But they got the physics wrong. Key slip-up: Assuming martial artists strike like a cobra&mda

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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/the-physics-of-break.html

How Inception Should Have Ended [text]

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:22:05 PDT

How Inception Should Have Ended

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBAuMpOpSnA

Palm puts webOS 2.0 SDK into limited release starting today [text]

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:58:08 PDT

Palm fans, get your party hats on.

Today the company is announcing the beta release of its SDK for webOS 2.0, which means we're getting dangerously close to a proper 2.0 release for devices. And who knows... maybe the phone-maker will decide to throw a new device our way to go along with the OS. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Starting tomorrow, a select (though rather wide, says Palm) group of developers will be able to start toying around

Source:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/31/palm-puts-webos-2-0-sdk-into-limited-release-starting-today/

Pogoplug adds printing support, wireless adapter and Biz start shipping [text]

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:22:05 PDT

Neat little update for Pogoplug owners today: the latest firmware update adds printing support, allowing iPhones, Android devices, and anything else that can hit the diminutive home server's web interface to print files.

Any HP or Epson printer from 2005 or later is supported over USB -- network printers just need to be on the same network -- and the firmware is rolling out now. Pogoplug is also shipping that 802.1

Source:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/31/pogoplug-adds-wireless-printing-wireless-adapter-and-biz-start/

Immature [text]

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:20:05 PDT

submitted by solomonar to funny [link] [24 comments]

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http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/d7nnn/immature/

Price change for Xbox LIVE Gold subscription [text]

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:28:05 PDT

I wanted to let you know that as of November 1, 2010 we are increasing the price of an Xbox LIVE for some members.

This price increase only affects Xbox LIVE Members in Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom or the United States. US Current 1M Gold: $7.99 3M Gold: $19.99 12M Gold: $49.99 Starting Nov 1, 2010 1

Source:
http://majornelson.com/archive/2010/08/30/price-change-for-xbox-live-gold-subscription.aspx

Philips GoGear Connect is an Android-based iPod touch competitor [text]

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:16:20 PDT

For all its success, the iPod touch has few dedicated media player competitors capable of matching its big-touchscreen, WiFi, and voluminous app store.

Until today. Philips just went official with its GoGear Connect featuring the full suite of Google Mobile applications pre-installed and access to the Android Market. Spec-wize we're looking at a 3.2-inch display, WiFi, sound isolating earphones, built-in camera, and microSD slot. Sorry, not menti

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http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/31/philips-gogear-connect-is-an-android-based-ipod-touch-competitor/

Hannspree pairs Android 2.2 with Tegra 2 for a 10.1-inch multitouch tablet [text]

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:02:09 PDT

Yearning for a bit of dual-core action on the move? Who isn't.

Hannspree will soon try to quell that 1080p-sized hunger in all of us with its freshly announced 399 ($507) Froyo tablet. There's no lack of spec sheet ambition here: a 1GHz Tegra 2 SOC is surrounded by 16GB of internal storage (expandable via MicroSD), an accelerometer, WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity, a 1,024 x 600-pixel capacitive touchscreen, and mini versions of HDMI and USB

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http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/31/hannspree-pairs-android-2-2-with-tegra-2-for-a-10-1-inch-multito/

TweetDeck Warns Of Fake Update, Trojan [text]

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:30:07 PDT

As we mentioned earlier today, some third-party Twitter applications may stop working because Twitter has made some big changes this morning regarding how other applications and websites gain access to your Twitter account.

Unfortunately, some unfriendly types out there have tried to take advantage of the situation with a fake Tweetdeck update that is actually a trojan horse virus. Tweetdeck posted a warning on its blog yesterday about the fake

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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tweetdeck_warns_of_fake_update_trojan.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: readwriteweb (ReadWriteWeb)

As a black man, it bothers me when white people avert their gaze too quickly or give some other indication that they're nervous, [text]

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:28:03 PDT

submitted by ruledindexcards to AskReddit [link] [153 comments]

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http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/d7kvj/as_a_black_man_it_bothers_me_when_white_people/

Pirate Bay Documentary in the Works [text]

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:58:04 PDT

Notorious file sharing website The Pirate Bay is a long-standing enemy of the movie industry, but one Swedish filmmaker has plans to create a documentary called TPB AFK about the three founders of the site, and their reactions to being found guilty of being accessory to crime against copyright law and fined about $3.6 million.

Source:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/08/tpb-afk/

Microsoft shows off new controller, with transforming D-pad [text]

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:48:03 PDT

The D-pad on the existing 360 controllers is, to put it mildly, utter garbage.

If you want to play any games relying on precise movements, such as fighting games, buying a third-party controller is a requirement. Microsoft hopes it has this problem licked, however, and is releasing a controller with a new, updated D-pad on November 9. The catch? You won't be able to buy the controller alone; you'll need to grab the Play and Charge Kit to get

Source:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/08/microsoft-shows-off-new-controller-with-transforming-d-pad.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

BREAKING The bloodiest fist of one of the biggest drug cartels in Mexico just fell. [text]

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:44:18 PDT

submitted by memop3 to worldnews [link] [35 comments]

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http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/d7jwi/breaking_the_bloodiest_fist_of_one_of_the_biggest/

Tech News Today 64: Side Effects May Include Death [text]

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:20:05 PDT

We get jet packs, Digg gets punked, and your house is in a movie.

Download or subscribe to this show at http://twit.tv/tnt. We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes at wiki.twit.tv. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Darren Kitchen, and Erik Lanigan Run