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 Engadget on 4/6/11 A 75-year old lady from Georgia (the country, not the state) has perpetrated an impressive feat of international sabotage in what seems to have been an accident of extremely bad luck. While foraging for copper wire near her home in the village of Ksani, the unnamed septuagenarian managed to come across [...]
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
via Bio Break on 4/5/11
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” [...]
via Gadling on 3/30/11 A 12-year old Swedish boy has quite a tale to share after he accidently skied into a bear den last Friday, much to the ire of the inhabitant, who was home at the time. Ollie Frisk and four of his friends were skiing in the backcountry at the Härjedalen ski resort, [...]
via size too small on 3/28/11 Genrally speaking I believe there are two types of people, beach vacation people, and mountain vacation people. I’m a beach vacation person, however this little mountain getaway looks pretty perfect. Ryan and Mariah designed and built the cabin themselves for only $10,000. How clever of them.
via Every Day I'm Tumblin' on 3/25/11 “An unexpected side-effect of the flooding in parts of Pakistan has been that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters. Because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water has taken so long to recede, many trees [...]
via RedState on 3/25/11 This is one of those days where it is worth remembering a truly amazing feat/miracle in human history. On this day in 1944, Nickolas Alkemade, an RAF Sergeant, was serving as a tail gunner on an RAF Lancaster bomber. The plane was at 18,000 feet when the Nazis hit it, setting [...]
via GOOD on 3/24/11 No doubt many stories of heroism in the face of Japan’s recent tsunami will emerge in the upcoming weeks—one is happening in the Fukushima Daiichi plant as I write this, in fact—but the latest is so beautiful and fantastical that it seems primed for a Hollywood movie. Meet Hideaki Akaiwa, 43. [...]