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In a world gone mad, we will not spank the monkey, but the monkey will spank us.

A Tumblelog by Kevin Wood

Jun
20th
Fri
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Sen. Bill Forces eBay, Amazon, Google to Report Transactions This is a provision with huge reach, and was slipped into the bill this week. Not only does it affect nearly every credit card transaction, such as Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express,…
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Hacker Conference Posts Eclectic List of Talks on HOPE.NET With a record number of 97 scheduled talks to be presented in three different areas, The Last HOPE has posted a list of talks with time and room assignments forthcoming.There are plans for an…
May
22nd
Thu
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The Snake game using the lights of an entire building How did they pull it off?
Apr
30th
Wed
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Awesome Baseball Save By Pitcher Whether you like baseball or not, you can’t deny the coolness of that play.
Apr
10th
Thu
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"Black Hat" is the new "Jarhead" for cyber warfare From the head of the Department of Homeland Security to the Air Force and Army, the folks in charge of keeping us safe have a message for the hackers, phreaks, and geeks of the world: “Uncle Sam…
Apr
2nd
Wed
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Watch Diggnation LIVE from Amsterdam! Watch Kevin and Alex film a live Diggnation from the Next Web Conference in Amsterdam. View the countdown and watch the show live at: http://revision3.com/watch/ on Thursday, April 3rd at 6pm…
Mar
7th
Fri
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Google, Microsoft Bidding For Digg User-generated news site Digg has been working with influential investment bank Allen & Co. (the ones that recently got Slide a half billion dollar valuation) for a few months now, and pitching big…
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Sony "in talks" with Microsoft about a 360 Blu-ray drive According to Stan Glasgow, Sony Electronics US president, “Sony is in talks with console rival Microsoft about offering a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360.”
Jan
22nd
Tue
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The REAL Camera Behind Cloverfield For those who’ve seen the unique monster movie Cloverfield, you know that the story is supposed to be shot by the aptly-named character “Hud” from a cheapo handheld consumer camera. Convincing the audience of that point was one of the movie’s most successful angles.
Jan
15th
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Turn Your $60 Router into a Super-Router with Tomato Since last year there’s been a lot of development of open source firmwares, and today we’re taking a look at my new favorite, a firmware called Tomato. It does almost everything you expect, from Wi-Fi signal boosting to Quality of Service bandwidth allocation, in addition to offering a simplified interface chock full of fancy charts and graphs