Some people in Romania who want to fight against AIDS are trying to do the longest chain of condoms in the world. It will be over 3 Kilometers long, and will contain 30.000 condoms! This event will take place downtown Bucharestread more | digg story
Did you know that one in every ten people in the world lives on an island? There is even a word for a craze or a strong attraction to islands - islomania. Here are 40 incredible images and videos from seven of the most amazing islands in the world, from the remotest and least populated […]
Chief UN atomic watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei said Sunday he had no evidence that Iran is building nuclear weapons and accused US leaders of adding “fuel to the fire” with recent bellicose rhetoric. He said it is time “to stop spinning and hyping the Iranian issue,” warning that military force could spark a global “conflagration.”read more […]
Uni-Form is an attempt to standardize form markup (xhtml) and css, “modularize” it, so even people with only basic knowledge of these technologies can get nice looking, well structured, highly customizable, accessible and usable forms.read more | digg story
Apple plans to open up protected music and movies content bought from the iTunes Store , Tech.co.uk has learned.
The iPod maker is expected to make two announcements this week - the first will be to allow streaming of protected AAC content via USB; the second will be to licence its Fairplay DRM to the company’s […]
Some rather shocking statistics in Thomas Crampton
s blog entry Chinas Internet rarely links to foreign websites: Out of 40 million external links on 5 million pages of 15,000 sites in China investigated, only 6% leave for websites geographically situated outside mainland China!.read more | digg story
[Jalopnik’s desert stringer Curtis Walker is following the DARPA Grand Challenge, an annual race of autonomous ground vehicles, with a serious case of the techies. We’ll have his reports today on the National Qualifying Event semifinals, like this one, as soon as he can type them into his digital audio-visual receipt and transmission unit. - […]
A Russian hacking team who go by the name of Memento have released a beta of their BIOS which gives the standard 32MB PS2 memory card Memor 32 for PS2 the functions of a mod chip including import, homebrew and backup support.read more | digg story
Better known as the founder of Drupal, Dries is also a photographer of phenominal skill. I’ll link to some of my favorites in the comments below, but the main link will take you to the index of his photography section. Further proof that when the talent got distributed, some people took more than their share […]
There is an unexpected audio file hidden in the Mac OS X system files.
Quite funny and completely random.read more | digg story
