Saturday, December 18, 2010 - Page 2
Entertainment

Oh My God—It’s Full Of Extra 2001: A Space Odyssey Lost Scenes

According to Douglas Trumbull—special effects director for 2001: A Space Odyssey —Warner Bros has found seventeen minutes of edited footage from Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi opus. The film—which was dropped from the final cut—was found in their Kansas salt-mine vault.


Gadgets

The Most Efficient Pocket LED Flashlight

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.viddler.com/player/dd51c786/","customParams":{"flashVars":"fake=1"},"width":500,"height":301.25,"ratio":0.5625,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"viddler","wrap":true,"agegate":false} ); Sinclair’s Eon Extreme claims to have the highest power-to-weight ratio of any flashlight in the world. Based on its tiny size and shining it in my face, I can say that this is most probably true.


Online

Stop Firefox From Automatically Entering "Work Offline" Mode

The “Work Offline” mode in Firefox can be useful if you don’t have an internet connection, but Firefox annoyingly enables it automatically whenever you lose connection, even for a second. Here’s how to disable that behaviour.


Everyone’s Favourite Windows Error Is Now Artwork

500 prints of the Windows XP wallpaper “Green Hill” have been turned into a piece of art, called “My Favourite Landscape.” Yes, the world’s most infuriating computer error can now be cooed at in an art gallery. Ugh.


Science

PSA: Your Christmas Tree Is A Fiery Death Trap

O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum, you really are quite frightening! At least, you are after I’ve seen you burn down a living room in less than 60 seconds. Remember last year’s video? It gets worse.


Shining Styrofoam Sculptures

Jason Rogenes uses styrofoam and light to make these futuristic-looking art installations, proving that one person’s trash might still be that person’s trash, but can look cool with enough light inside it.


Geek Out

Holiday Fat Hack: How To Eat Like A Santa And Not Turn Into One

You know you’re going to swallow whole ham, 12 gingerbread cookies and six glasses of egg nog over the holidays. It’s just going to happen. You could run 40km after the damage is done. But there’s a better way.


Google Fires An Average Of Two People Per Month For Leaking Company Secrets?

We’ve heard that Apple’s so secretive that it fires people just for mentioning product codenames, but Google might not be much more lenient either. Supposedly the search engine giant fires “an average of two people” per month for leaking secrets.


Geek Out

Cops Use A Bouncy Castle To Help Prevent A Suicide

When negotiations with a potential jumper went downhill last night in Swansea, police did the only logical thing: call in an inflatable castle from Bop And Bounce to break his fall. Seriously.


Geek Out

Laser Dancer Can Pew Pew Me In Any Way She Wants

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.youtube.com/v/SGv_S03Uw4c&hl=en&fs=1&hd=1","customParams":[] ,"width":500,"height":332.5,"ratio":0.615,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"youtube","wrap":true,"agegate":false} ); Watch Milena dance, stretch her legs, and use her seventeen red lasers on the disco floor. She uses them to destroy bad dancers in Miami raves. Or that’s what I want to believe, anyway. [Gizmag]