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Protesting The Internet Filter Makes Hitler Angry

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No idea from which back corner of the web this internet meme has come from, but it worked for Watchmen, so it will almost definitely work for the proposed ISP internet filtering scheme that the Rudd government keeps pushing.


Breakfast Wrap: Best Of The Weekend

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Robotic Carp Unleashed Into the Sea to Sniff Out Pollution Well, there go the oceans…

Palm CEO Confirms That, Yes, There Will Be More WebOS Phones Well, we all saw that coming.

Is iPhone 3.0′s Mysterious iProd a Bitchy Personal Trainer? I’m firmly in the iProd=New product camp. How about you?

Microsoft Basically Admits that IE8 Is for Porn They’re all such dirty, dirty bastards up there in Redmond. Although Safari has the same privacy mode, so Cupertino is just as bad…

Logitech Adaptor Lets You Use Any Harmony Remote with PS3 I would but this tomorrow if it was available…

Ballmer Bites Apple, Saying Pro-Mac Trend Is Waning I swear I saw Ballmer on a soap box in Hyde Park about 10 years ago…

23.6Kg Lego Mon Calamari Star Cruiser Can Kill Darth Vader on Impact Wow. Just wow.

Dell’s Smartphone Prototype Deemed Too ‘Dell-Like’ For Release Zing!


Entertainment

What’s in the Box? Is Mysterious Mishmash of Gadgets, Video Games, Apocalypse

This POV viral campaign advertisement demo film(?!) is an amalgamation of mobile phones, VR headsets, Lost music, Half-Life references and hat tips to movies like 28 Days Later. But what, exactly, does it mean?


Mobile Visor Confirms That You Are, In Fact, Looking At Porn

So you say you’re a somewhat shady person, but you really want to confirm that trait for anyone who’s still on the fence about you. Enter the Mobile Visor. It’ll do the trick. Easy.


Gaming

Xtensor Improves Gamer Skills, Creates Lush Head of Hair for Mary Palm

The Xtensor is marketed as a tool to better your gamer skillz, but come on. Let’s get serious. Mary Palm and her five friends just got a little hotter, didn’t they?


Entertainment

Rumour: Amazon Preparing to Offer $US3 HD Video On Demand

Is Amazon ready to unleash HD VOD shows on the masses? Possibly, as the search engine bots roaming the interweb today discovered a few indexed Amazon pages listing HD content for $US3 an episode.


Science

NASA Astronaut Currently Testing Magic Odour-Eating Underpants

Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata is a lucky man. He’s one of the few humans who’s been launched into space. He’s on the ISS. And, perhaps most importantly, he’s helping test a pair of magic underpants.


Strange, Archaic Audio Storage Device Used to Create Impressive Musician Artwork

Called “Ghost in the Machine,” this artwork from iri5 uses some kind of “cassette” to recreate the likenesses of popular musicians. Apparently, cassettes were used for music and seduction, by way of a “mix tape.”


Soft Robotics Offer the Automatons Yet Another Way to Take Over the Earth

Between this post about “soft robots,” those nanotube muscles we talked about earlier this week, and the last scene of Battlestar Galactica, I have no doubt that our future is very robotic indeed.


Entertainment

Tough Economic Times Hit the Set of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Even sci-fi television dramas are not immune the ill effects of the current economic climate. Take Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, for example. Eye spy an Xbox 360 wireless headset painted black. [Thanks, Alex]