Hitler responds to the iPad

 

– and he’s not impressed.

That’s Just Not Cool

 

First thing yesterday morning, before I’d even finished my first cup of coffee, I came across this – “Breaking News Story: CRU has apparently been hacked – hundreds of files released”

An unknown person put postings on some climate skeptic websites that advertised an FTP file on a Russian FTP server, here is the message that was placed on the Air Vent today:

 

We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps.

 

We hereby release a random selection of correspondence, code, and documents

A World Without The Internet?

 

I remember the pre-Internet world and quite frankly, at this point I shudder to imagine a modern world without it — the imaginations of the folks who submitted images to cracked.com on a world without the Internet are obviously fertile and give us a glimpse of what things might be like.

If You’ve Nothing To Hide –

– you’ve nothing to fear?

 

Millions of Britons who use social networking sites such as Facebook could soon have their every move monitored by the Government and saved on a “Big Brother” database.

No Doubt About It

 

– the Obama administration is tech savvy.

Gaza: The Less Sanitized Version

What with Obamamania hitting the TV screens of apparently every nation on the planet (something that I am sure has not escaped the notice of more than a few different governments) coverage of Gaza is taking a back seat…. unless of course you’ve got Livestation.

Really, We Did Not Know That

John McCain invented the Blackberry.

 

UPDATE via Canadian Cynic: And WiFi… lets not forget WiFi !!

Boom?

The Big Bang machine is winding up and at 3:30EDT this afternoon they throw the switch on the other cycle – then we get……..

IRC Chat

If you look up on the menu bar you’ll see a link that says IRC-Web-Chat, it opens a page with a chat widget connected to #canada on an oftc.net server where you’ll generally find me (and a bunch of others) hanging out and talking about everything from the weather to politics… come on, give it a click, you know you want to.

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The “Insurgent Robots Edition”

Ground-crawling US war robots armed with machine guns, deployed to fight in Iraq last year, reportedly turned on their fleshy masters almost at once. The rebellious machine warriors have been retired from combat pending upgrades.

Is There A Point To This?

CTV news is currently running a web poll with the question “There are protests this weekend demanding an end to the military mission in Afghanistan. What do you think should happen next?” – my question is, why?

That’s Gonna Make Some Thumbs Twitch

“CrackBerry” addicts were looking for thumbthing to do late Monday as BlackBerry smartphones throughout North America went on the blink.

Engage Cloaking!!

In secret trials last week, the Army said it had made a vehicle completely disappear and predicted that an invisible tank would be ready for service by 2012.

Open Trackback & Comments Sunday (The DOS 5.0 Edition)

Send a trackback, leave a comment, and remember the day when DOS was king – they never should have rapped about it though, that was just wrong…… the cheesy dancers didn’t help either.

Open Trackback & Comments Sunday

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