via Daring Fireball by John Gruber on 4/5/12 Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica: Variations of the Flashback trojan have reportedly infected more than half a million Macs around the globe, according to Russian antivirus company Dr. Web. The company made an announcement on Wednesday — first in Russian and later in English — about the growing [...]
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via GalleyCat on 4/25/11 To cheer up exhausted parents with an over-energetic child or collicky baby, Akashic Books will publish “Go the F*** To Sleep in October. What do you think? Author A.J. Jacobs called it “the most honest children’s book ever written.” Adam Mansbach (The End of the Jews) wrote the book and Ricardo [...]
via Jacket Copy on 4/22/11 A Long Island mansion said to have inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald in writing his classic American novel “The Great Gatsby” has poured its last drink, rolled up the dance floor and kicked out the guests for good. No more parties, no more gazing out of windows. Heck, no more [...]
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via x planes on 4/21/11 then and now
via Lunduke.com on 4/18/11 The House of Lunduke BBS launched October 19th, 2010 (just a few short months ago)… and we have just passed the 4 thousand call mark. Which rules. (You can connect to the house of Lunduke via telnet at bbs.lunduke.com or via the Flash terminal.) To celebrate, I’m doing a few new [...]
via The Guardian World News on 4/14/11 In a blind taste test, volunteers were unable to distinguish between expensive and cheap wine An expensive wine may well have a full body, a delicate nose and good legs, but the odds are your brain will never know. A survey of hundreds of drinkers found that on [...]
via F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog on 4/11/11 We recently came across a ransom trojan that prompts the following: “Windows license locked!“ The trojan claims that “you should complete activation” and provides several phones numbers. The numbers: • 002392216368 • 002392216469 • 004525970180 • 00261221000181 • 00261221000183 • 00881935211841 While these numbers may look like generic service numbers, they aren’t. They go to various countries (“00″ is [...]
via Gadgets on 4/6/11 The valiant rescue of Princess Leia takes a turn for the worse when our heroes evade onrushing Stormtroopers by jumping down a garbage shoot. The situation turns grim when the dianoga garbage squid shows up and the garbage compactor’s walls begin to close in! EntertainmentEarth.com
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via Boing Boing on 4/2/11 Pete says: I know my wife has this “AP Mobile” news app on her phone and receives text message alerts whenever something big is happening around the world, I decided to play a little prank on her. This morning I changed my name in her contact list to “AP Mobile” [...]