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New RSS Bar

Posted in Uncategorized on June 22nd, 2010 by mydnight

To the right side of the blog, there is now an RSS feed widget. The feed for this is generated programatically every day by using a modified spam filter written in Python to gauge my interest in any particular article from about a dozen different sources, and grabbing the 20 “most interesting” articles. Enjoy!

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Eddie who?

Comic Eddie Kadi can command vast crowds at his live shows. Why has he attracted so little mainstream attention? […]

Sony Has Lost the PS3 Hacking War

YokimaSun writes "Sony may have dealt a major blow to the PSjailbreak sellers, but the release last week of PSGroove, an open source version of the hack, has now opened the floodgates of ports to mobile phones such as the Nokia N900 and Palm Pre. The final kick in the teeth is that a port of the exploit has been released by Waninkoko of Wii custom firmw […]

Red Planet 'may not be lifeless'

Carbon-rich organic molecules, which serve as the building blocks of life, may be present on Mars after all, say scientists. […]

Frustrated Nexus One owner sues Google over "sporadic" 3G speed

Imagine that your name is Nathan Nabors and that you live in the sunny climes of Orlando, Florida. Imagine further that, back when Google announced its own Android phone and called it the Nexus One, you realized that your Orlando-based life would only be complete with the purchase of this shiny new gadget. So you bought one, paying the full unlocked price of […]

Week in Microsoft: here mousey mousey, best fake malware ever

Microsoft unveils shape-shifting Arc Touch Mouse: Microsoft has officially announced the $70 the Arc Touch Mouse. The device is available for presale now, starts shipping in December, and officially goes on sale in January. New malware detects browser, shows fake malware warning page: There's a clever new piece of malware that goes to extreme lengths to […]

The 60s, but not as we know it

US drama Mad Men has won praise for its recreation of the 1960s, but it's not a classic depiction of the decade. […]

Cutting it

Why is sunburn remedy being sold as cocaine? […]

Music for dinner parties?

What the Mercury Prize tells us about British music […]

Transition Metal Catalysts Could Be Key To Origin of Life

An anonymous reader writes "One of the big, unsolved problems in explaining how life arose on Earth is a chicken-and-egg paradox: How could the basic biochemicals — such as amino acids and nucleotides — have arisen before the biological catalysts (proteins or ribozymes) existed to carry out their formation? In a paper appearing in the current issue of T […]

QuickBooks 2011 to deliver multi-user functionality to Macs (Macworld.com)

Macworld.com - Mac users whove demanded the ability to have different people working on the same QuickBooks files at once will soon get their wish fulfilled when the next version of QuickBooks arrives for the Mac. Software maker Intuit says that the 2011 version of the accounting and small business management application will add multi-user functionality. […]

Rock anthems vanishing from chart

Sales rock singles drops 18% in the UK this year, according to figures from the Official Charts Company. […]

Carey heads up Booker shortlist

Australian author Peter Carey, who has already won the Man Booker prize twice, has made the shortlist for this year's prize. […]

Parrot iPod-Controlled Quadricopter Launches This Week

MojoKid writes "Remote-controlled helicopters are not new, but Parrot's AR.Drone Quadricopter is set to make a splash when it goes on sale on Sept. 9th. It will use an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad as a controller, and give a live video feed from two different cameras to the pilot. Each model comes with two hulls, one of them for indoor use, with pro […]

Burma leader begins China visit

Burma's military leader, General Than Shwe, is starting a five-day visit to China to seek support for planned national elections later this year. […]

Police plea to dead baby's mother

Detectives investigating the death of a newborn baby girl found dumped in a garden are still trying to trace the mother. […]

Fine-Structure Constant Maybe Not So Constant

Kilrah_il writes "The fine-structure constant, a coupling constant characterizing the strength of the electromagnetic interaction, has been measured lately by scientists from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and has been found to change slightly in light sent from quasars in galaxies as far back as 12 billion years ago. Although th […]

Ryanair's CEO Suggests Eliminating Co-Pilots

postbigbang writes "Ryanair's miser-in-chief Michael O'Leary now suggests eliminating co-pilots as a way to save money. Will airliners be powered by drones, or is it actually viable to have just a single pilot on passenger planes?" Read more of this story at Slashdot. […]

World's biggest mobile show woos Apple community (Reuters)

Reuters - The world's biggest mobile fair will host its first event for Apple developers next year in a sign of Apple's huge influence over the industry, even though the company itself has never participated in the show. […]

Pirate gamers face more sanctions

The developers behind the hotly anticipated Halo: Reach have taken another step aimed at cracking down on pirates. […]

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