Friday, March 27, 2009 - Page 2
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Young Modern Love is Dead: Teens Can Go To Jail For Sending Nude Mobile Phone Photos To Each Other

One in five teens send nude photos to others they date or want to date. The law says that makes them child pornographers…of themselves? Weird! And glad I’m not a parent! [NYT]


News

Spend Your Weekend Writing Haikus To Chill Zombie Blood

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What Do You Think She’s Listening To?

I think she’s going to get some sand stuck in that thing.


Pillow Blanket Is Super Comfy But Probably Will Still Freeze Your Nuts Off

Like the Princess and the Pea, everything bothers me while I’m snoozing. If you’re like me, perhaps we should rethink our blankets and sleep with something extra comfortable—like this blanket constructed entirely out of pillows.


Software

SUNA Traffic Channel On iPhone in the shape of Traffic Australia App

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The iPhone may not have a turn-by-turn navigation option yet, but that doesn’t mean you can’t stay up to date with the latest traffic information on your iPhone. The SUNA traffic channel – the same company behind the TMC traffic updates on all the high-end satnavs in Australia – has recently launched a version for the iPhone called Traffic Australia, which offers real-time updates on traffic for Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.


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Competition: Last Days To Win Nerdtastic Star Wars Vehicle

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Last chance to enter our Star Wars Vehicle comp. So if you fancy scoring one of the first five issues of the SWV magazine and featured die-cast model, head over to the original post. Good luck!

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DIY Wooden Mobile Phone Charger Juices Your Phone So You Can Escape the Grizzlies

Some of you were wondering how the homeless charge their mobile phones—maybe they do it Chechen-soldier style and created their own wooden, dynamo-powered mobile phone charger out in the untamed wilderness.


Who Says Radiators Have to Be Ugly?

Ugly radiator got you down? New Italian heating brand I-Radium may very well be the answer to your yucky-looking Radiator Blues.


Sun Storing The Entire Internet In a Shipping Container

How do you store three petabytes (that’s 3,145,728 GB) of web pages for the Internet Archive? You put them in a datacenter housed in a shipping container.


Software

Winning Pwn2Own Hacker: Macs Are Safer Than PCs

Charlie Miller, the security expert whose meticulously crafted exploit took over a MacBook through Safari in 10 seconds at the Pwn2Own hacking competition, says that Macs are in fact safer than Windows. Oh boy.