Can Exercise Actually Be Bad For You?: from Gizmodo by Jamie Condliffe Not many of us actively enjoy it, but at least we know exercise is good for us. Right? Well, perhaps not: a team of well-respected scientists say that, actually, exercise might not be good for everyone after all. More »

Whiny RIAA Demands Even More Google Censorship

Whiny RIAA Demands Even More Google Censorship: from Gizmodo by Mario Aguilar An RIAA bigwig just laid a blog post smackdown on Google, claiming the search giant doesn’t do enough to remove links to copyrighted material. Apparently, processing more than one million requests for removal per month isn’t enough. More »

Words to Avoid Online If You Don't Want to Join the Government's Watch List

Words to Avoid Online If You Don't Want to Join the Government's Watch List: from Lifehacker by Melanie Pinola via What’s Hot in Google Reader The US Department of Homeland Security has released a list of the keywords and phrases the agency monitors online to find potential threats. Obviously posting “Al Queda” and “dirty bomb” online will get the […]

The Hollywood Malediction

The Hollywood Malediction: from Unspeakable Vault (of Doom) by Francois Launet

RIAA Demands Unlimited DMCA Power From Google

RIAA Demands Unlimited DMCA Power From Google: from TorrentFreak by Ben Jones Poor Google can’t do anything right in the RIAA’s eyes. The Mountain View search engine is being lambasted by the Washington DC lobby group for not being proactive enough with the tools they have provided to deal with the alleged copyright infringements of completely unconnected th […]

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Intel Ivy Bridge Processor Hits 7GHz Overclock Record

Intel Ivy Bridge Processor Hits 7GHz Overclock Record: from Slashdot by timothy MojoKid writes “Renowned Overclocker HiCookie used a Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H motherboard to achieve a fully validated 7.03GHz clock speed on an Intel Core i7 3770K Ivy Bridge processor. As it stands, that’s the highest clockspeed for an Ivy Bridge CPU, and it required a steady dose of […]

The Best Animated Films of All Time, According to Terry Gilliam

The Best Animated Films of All Time, According to Terry Gilliam: from Open Culture by Dan Colman Terry Gilliam knows something about animation. For years, he produced wonderful animations for Monty Python (watch his cutout animation primer here) , creating the opening credits and distinctive buffers that linked together the offbeat comedy sketches. Given the […]

Fox News Ties 'Flame' Malware To Angry Birds

Fox News Ties 'Flame' Malware To Angry Birds: from Slashdot by Soulskill eldavojohn writes “The title of this hard-hitting piece of journalism reads ‘Powerful ‘Flame’ cyberweapon tied to popular Angry Birds game,’ and opens with, ‘The most sophisticated and powerful cyberweapon uncovered to date was written in the LUA computer language, cyber secur […]

Google Blockly Lets Kids Hack With No Keyboard

Google Blockly Lets Kids Hack With No Keyboard: from Wired Top Stories by Cade Metz Google has released a completely visual programming language that lets you build software without typing a single character. Now available on Google Code — the company’s site for hosting open source software — the new language is called Google Blockly, and it’s reminiscent of […]