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Microsoft Surface Pro Review: Too Much Future?

The Microsoft Surface was the biggest new tech of 2012. Its first iteration — Surface RT, a confusingly named and marketed tablet-with-a-keyboard — bombed. Pretty hard. So why believe in the full-powered Surface Pro? Simple. It’s a braver and more divergent take on the laptop-tablet convergence than anyone else has risked so far.

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We Are Legion: The Story Of The Hacktivists Trailer

Here’s the trailer for We Are Legion, a documentary featuring members and supporters of the Anonymous hacker collective and various commentators whose names and titles aren’t provided yet, so we don’t know who they are. But they seem knowledgeable enough!

Cars

Long-Jumper Leaps Over Three Mini Coopers

How many cars do you usually leap over at one time, when you do that? British long-jumper and Olympic hopeful J.J. Jegede can clear at least three, as he demonstrates in this video shot near the Tower Bridge in London. (A nifty time-lapse picture of Jegede’s 6m jump lives here.) Jegede’s personal best is 8.04 meters — still not enough to qualify for the Olympics, but there’s still time.

News

TSA Agents Now Making Elderly Women Remove Their Adult Diapers

Taking disabled people’s toys, exposing women’s breasts, making women remove their prosthetic breasts: seems TSA agents never stop figuring out new ways to be sadistic. Now comes word that some agents made a wheelchair-bound, 95-year-old woman with final-stage leukemia take off her adult diaper for pat-down purposes.

News

Incompetent Chainsaw Attacker Flees From Bat-Wielding Man

In a modern-day version of David vs Goliath, a Virginia homeowner armed with nothing but an aluminium baseball bat and moxie successfully defended himself against a chainsaw-carrying intruder late on Monday night. A factor that worked in his favour: The would-be attacker, one Douglas Edward Turner, is a strong contender for “least-talented crime-committing person ever”.

Online

‘Seriously McDonalds’ Hoax Pic Angers Internet, McDonald’s

Over the weekend, many people became acquainted with this photo for the first time. It’s a hoax: McDonald’s isn’t charging African-American McDonald’s customers an extra $US1.50 “as an insurance measure due in part to a recent string of robberies”. Nevertheless, the pic seems to have caused yet another PR problem for the dream McJob-generating giant of fast foods.

Geek Out

Why Do People Try To Open Aeroplane Doors During Flights?

A “tall, burly” and “unruly” passenger on a Houston-to-Chicago Continental flight scared the shit out of his fellow passengers after trying to open one of the aeroplane’s front doors. Maybe he just wanted to know what would happen if he did that.

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