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NASA finds “Death Star” galaxy—complete with energy weapons

Posted: 18 Dec 2007 03:40 PM CST

Ulti­mate Time-Lapse Pho­tog­ra­phy How-To [Digg]

Posted: 18 Dec 2007 11:44 AM CST

Guide that cov­ers the gear you’ll need, the soft­ware to use, and how to do it.

BREAKING: All PS1 Games (discs included) Now Playable on PSP [Digg]

Posted: 18 Dec 2007 09:35 AM CST

With today’s PS3 firmware 2.10 update and PSP firmware 3.80 update, Sony has secretly updated the Remote Play func­tion­al­ity to allow play­ing of all PSone down­load­able games AS WELL AS PS1 ORIGINAL DISCS! Straight to the source on the Playsta­tion Forums. This is really inter­est­ing tech news!

Ice­landic woman shack­led at JFK for over­stay­ing visa [Digg]

Posted: 18 Dec 2007 02:14 AM CST

Lil­len­dahl was arrested at JFK and inter­ro­gated for two days. Dur­ing that time, she was held in a cell, had her hands and feet chained, was not per­mit­ted to call rel­a­tives and was even denied food and drink for a period of time. Now the Gov­ern­ment of Ice­land has asked US Ambas­sadors to explain the incident.

Pownce Mobile Now Live! [Digg]

Posted: 17 Dec 2007 09:29 PM CST

Pownce now has a full fea­tured Mobile site for use with mobile devices. Looks great on the iPhone!

Open Let­ter on Being a Video Game Fan­boy [Digg]

Posted: 17 Dec 2007 08:46 PM CST

Very good write-up about fan­boy­ism and video games. Should read if you’re a fan or gamer in general!

BioShock Rated Game of the Year [Digg]

Posted: 17 Dec 2007 05:59 PM CST

Halo 3 got rated as the most over­rated game. Check it out.

Police Arrest CBC Jour­nal­ist, Take Cam­era for Film­ing Them [Digg]

Posted: 17 Dec 2007 03:44 PM CST

Errm… is Black­wa­ter train­ing the cops in Win­nipeg? “CBC reporters were in the area fol­low­ing a dif­fer­ent story. When police began arriv­ing, the cam­era­man began rolling. Police instructed him to turn off the cam­era, then moved in, said CBC reporter Gosia Saw­icka… the cam­era­man was for­mally charged with obstruct­ing a peace officer.”

Gam­ing Mag Grave­yard! Ten Mag­a­zines that didn’t last a year [Digg]

Posted: 17 Dec 2007 02:16 PM CST

They couldn’t find read­ers. They couldn’t find adver­tis­ing. Or maybe they just couldn’t find a clue. Games.net counts down game media’s biggest print flops.

BBC Launches iPLayer for MAC and Linux [Digg]

Posted: 17 Dec 2007 01:25 PM CST

A stream­ing ver­sion of the BBC’s iPlayer online TV on-demand ser­vice has been launched for Win­dows, MAC and Linux.

Paper: dis­re­gard for cus­tomers, DMCA led to Sony CD rootkit [Digg]

Posted: 17 Dec 2007 12:50 PM CST

A new paper revis­its the Sony rootkit deba­cle, try­ing to under­stand how Sony BMG decided to pack its CDs with two prob­lem­atic forms of copy pro­tec­tion. Did Sony make an hon­est mis­take or take a cal­cu­lated risk?

Sur­vey says … Linux desk­top is ever more pop­u­lar [Digg]

Posted: 17 Dec 2007 09:05 AM CST

More peo­ple are using the Linux desk­top than ever, and many of them, accord­ing to the Linux Foun­da­tion sur­vey, are using it in small businesses.

The Great Switch: Vista to Ubuntu (100%) [Digg]

Posted: 17 Dec 2007 12:53 AM CST

…now it looks like a hybrid between Leop­ard and Vista. So what else I can ask for?
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