Tuesday, November 30, 2010

2-Year-Old Has Half Her Brain Removed to Control Seizures






Woman Jailed for Becoming Pregnant, Then Died From Lack of Medical Treatment

Passive smoking 'kills 600,000' worldwide

Should Robots Provide Hospital Spongebaths?

Half of Americans Could Be Diabetic by 2020

This picture is about to change dramatically

Stopping Antidepressants Cold Turkey May Be Dangerous

Most Shocking Health Stories of 2010

7 Lifestyle Changes That Can Have A Big Impact On Your Health! (via)

Pregnant woman survives 24 stab wounds

Open Safety Pin In Girl's Sinus Cavity For Years

Danish researchers finally solve the obesity riddle

Oregon 2-Year-Old Has Half Her Brain Removed to Control Seizures

Cancer survivor to become a father... with sperm he had frozen 16 YEARS ago

Study suggests that being too clean can make people sick

Harvard scientists reverse the ageing process in mice – now for humans

A History of Bond Cars






Dan Aykroyd Confirms Ghostbusters 3 Rumors

5 Reasons The Greatest Movie Villain Ever is a 'Good' Witch

Empire Strikes Back director Irvin Kershner dies in LA at 87

10 Star Wars References in Everyday Life

The 100 Best Movie Spaceships

7 Movie Badasses (Who Completely Fail To Deliver)

Harry Potter and the Box Office

Top 10 Biggest Assholes in Cinema

Free Humanity's Thought-Provoking Star Wars Street Art at DesignerCon

The lost scenes of Star Wars: A New Hope

20 Movie Cameos That Are Completely Unforgettable

Top 10 Otherwise Promising Movies Ruined by CGI

Top 10 Under Appreciated Silent Horror Films

Surely You Can’t Be Serious: Leslie Nielsen Dies at 84, 15 of His Greatest Moments

9 Hilarious Athlete Cameos (In Honor of Leslie Nielsen and ‘The Naked Gun’)

Leslie Nielsen: A Tribute

Driving 007: A History of Bond Cars [Infographic]

The Coen Brothers Movies Ranked from Best to Worst

Cattycake







Psychedelic '60s






A mixed bag of links...

Diagrams that changed the world (via)

The Funniest Wedding Photobombs Of All Time

Giant WWI Crowd Pictures Made With Thousands of People

What if Our Favorite Film & TV Characters Lived at Harry Potter’s Hogwarts?

200 students admit cheating after professor's online rant

Top 48 ads that would never be allowed today

IKEA Goes Geothermal

Number One With A Mullet: Fabulously Awful Haircuts from Sports History

How the universe evolved from a liquid

North Korea – The craziest country in the world

Minor Differences Part 2 - The Oatmeal

Chinese Six Year Old Is Social Outcast

Phoenix Woman Wins Lotto -- Right Before Being Fatally Hit by Car

Ghana bans second-hand knickers

Three teenagers survive 50 days adrift in Pacific

India 'witch doctor' held over child killings

German DIY enthusiast walls himself into cellar

Pensioner who didn't trust banks loses entire £80,000 life savings after leaving cash on roof of his car

Swimming pool bans child floats under health and safety laws

Psychedelic '60s: Home Page

Mental disorders illustrated by Winnie the Pooh and his friends

The Origin of Symbols: Fun Facts, Art & Photography

Monday, November 29, 2010

10 People who revolutionized the Internet






New, Undeletable, Web Cookie

Flickr Is Dying. Here’s the Graph.

The 10 Craziest Hacks Done By Anonymous

‘Facebook’ Malware Now Spreads Using BitTorrent, But Don’t Panic

Large ISPs Profit From BitTorrent Traffic, Study Finds

Why the Internet Should Die in a Fire

Facebook's spam program catches innocent users

PROTECT IP Act Could Cost Taxpayers, Private Sector Millions

Google, Zynga, Microsoft, and Amazon Compete in Charity Starcraft Tournament

Nobody Asked For A Refrigerator Fee

Top 10 Secret Agent Security Tips and Tricks

BitTorrent Users Outsmart Throttling ISPs With IPv6

Copyright Infringement and Theft – The Difference

6 Brazen Security Breaches, Courtesy of IT

Windows Servers & Workstations Vulnerable to Wicked Worm in the Wild

Scotland Yard Arrests LulzSec Hacker 'Kayla'

FBI / IFPI Teach How To Bust Private Torrent Sites

Anti-Piracy Lawyers Retreat, Drop Another Mass BitTorrent Lawsuit

Pirate Bay User Heavily Fined For Sharing Single Album

Hunt For Student File-Sharers Thwarted By Data Privacy Ruling

Europe’s Odd Anti-Piracy Stance: Send Money to the US!

BitTorrent Crushes iTunes in Apple Inspired Ads

8 Deadly Sins of Site Design [Infographic]

Cybercrime costs rival those of illegal drug trafficking

10 Common Twitter Terms and What They Mean

Facebook Flaw Lets You Hijack Page from Original Owner [REPORT]

Facebook Begins Testing Friend Filters in News Feed

"A massive collection scheme": Yet another judge slams file-sharing lawsuits

The Pirate Bay Goes 3D

Dad Sues Facebook for Daughter, 12, Posting Racy Photos

The Internet, 1996-2011: Oh, how times have changed

What Websites Looked Like in 2001

Canadian Police Issue File-Sharing Scam Letters Fraud Warning

MovieX BitTorrent Tracker Founders Escape Jail Time

Twitter Unlocks its Valuable Web Analytics Data with Free Dashboard

Hotfile Sues Warner Bros. For Copyright Fraud and Abuse

Pirate Party Enters Berlin Parliament After Historic Election Win

Cute old couple learning to use a webcam show technology has no age restrictions

The Economics of (Killing) Mass-BitTorrent Lawsuits

Facebook to Let Users Update Twitter Accounts from its Site

Email Viewing Habits: Where Do You Read Your Email? [Infographic]

Why Twitter doesn’t care what your real name is

How Social Media Affects Content Relevance in Search

Google, Microsoft Weather Cloud Computing Outages

Pirate Party Launches ‘Facebook’ For Movies

Two Key Features Of Facebook Music: Scrobbling And Track Unification

News Website Down After Publishing Mugshots of Anonymous Hackers

What’s Your Internet Dick Rating?

Girl Posts Picture of Credit Card on Facebook

How Delicious Can be Saved

StumbleUpon shutting down photo blogs, themes, groups Oct. 24

Facebook Changes Again: Everything You Need To Know

Movie Institute Feels Pain Of IP Address-Only Piracy ‘Evidence’

Further Anonymous and LulzSec Members Arrested

Facebook Is Tracking Your Every Move on the Web; Here’s How to Stop It

Major Usenet Provider Ordered to Remove All Infringing Content

Infographic: How to Land a Job at Apple, Facebook, or Google

Record-Breaking BitTorrent Lawsuit Decimated

Facebook Is Getting Too Damn Complicated [OPINION]

Timelines.com Claims Facebook Is Stealing Their Timelines’ Mojo

The Cost of Cybercrime

Website Blocking - Off The Table in the UK (For Now)

Anonymous antics spark hacker feud

And When Even The Death Penalty Doesn’t Deter Copying — What Then?

Web guru creates program that will let computer conduct ceremony

Canadian Politician Starts Movie Torrent Site

Guess the Web Browser

Fraudster used Facebook to hack bank accounts

Google Versus Apple: The Big Showdown

How the internet created an age of rage

ever wondered what the ad networks know about you?

Anonymous Strikes Back at Italian Cops with 8 Gigabyte Leak

How To Get More Comments

The History Of The @-Symbol

U.K. police say they've arrested LulzSec's 'Topiary'

Hotfile to Sue Warner Bros. For Abusing Its Anti-Piracy Tool

The Cost of Mobile Internet Around the World [Infographic]

10 Ways ISP’s are Cracking Down on Piracy

The Sun's website 'hacked by LulzSec' with fake story about Rupert Murdoch's death

“Appalling” $1.5m File-Sharing Verdict Slashed To $54,000

Why Ratings Will Ruin WikipediaHacker claims to reveal identity of LulzSec leader

50 Creatively Designed (Unusual and Entertaining) 404 Error Pages Worth Checking Out

LulzSec Shuts Down, Ends Hacking Campaign

Hotfile Battles MPAA Over Private User Data Disclosure

RIP Linkfilter

From Grueling Dial-Up to FIOS Heaven- Internet History

Watchdog hits out at Yahoo! for 'spying' on customer emails to sell targeted advertising

Want a Spotify US Invite? Here is how you get it.

Twitter Turns 5 Years Old

ICE Continues to Seize Counterfeit Domain Names

The Internet of Things [Infographic]

Comcast Shuts Down Customer That Exceeded Bandwidth Cap

ISP Refuses To Block The Pirate Bay

Reaching 200 Million Accounts: Twitter’s Explosive Growth [INFOGRAPHIC]

Speed Matters: How Ethernet Went From 3 Mbps to 100 Gbps … and Beyond

55 Percent Ditching Netflix Over Price Hikes, Poll Finds

Study Says Internet Use Affects Our Memory

Is Internet access a human right?

Ten Great Fake Twitter Accounts

70 Year-Old Grandma Threatened Over BitTorrent Download

7 Hackers Who Got Legit Jobs From Their Misdeeds

Copyright group Creative Commons targets web users

Anonymous Hits Universal Music And Viacom

Laughs Just Keep on Coming — LulzSec’s Final Release Contained Malware

Hacker group Anonymous declares war on city of Orlando after arrest of people handing out food to homeless

Doing the math on News Corp.'s disastrous MySpace years

Anonymous Launches A WikiLeaks For Hackers: HackerLeaks

China Wants to Buy Facebook

US anti-piracy body targets foreign website owners for extradition

MPAA, RIAA, Major ISPs Preparing ‘Graduated Response’ To Piracy

The secret girlfriend of Hacker Ryan Cleary: 'We can't be unfaithful because we literally don't know anyone else'

China's army develops 'online war game'

BitTorrent Turns 10: Happy Birthday!

The History of Creepy Online Dating

EBay-Zong is the first salvo in World War of Payments. Which side are you on?

10 Robust Services To Determine How Fast Your Web Page Loads

Hackers target Apple -- not!

Hackers Select a New Target: Other Hackers

MPAA: Stealing Movies Is A Risk to Internet Security

Exclusive first interview with key LulzSec hacker

The six ways you can appeal new copyright "mitigation measures"

Facebook Scam Pretends to Connect You With Video Calling [WARNING]

How Hackers Stole 24,000 Files From The Pentagon

12 Ways the Internet Can Get You Fired

10 Must-Follow Fictional Twitter Accounts [PICS]

Facebook’s Automated Photo Tagging Prompts EU Probe

How to Delete an Account from Any Website

5 Facebook privacy settings to check now

Spain arrests Anonymous suspects

Nerds, Trolls, Fanboys, and Other Internet Oddities

Pirate Bay, MegaUpload & Others Blocked By Government Order

Fine Print Blurs Who’s in Control of Online Photos

What your email address says about you

Facebook murder plot: Double-cross by exes?

France Bans The Words “Facebook” and “Twitter” from TV and Radio

The challenges of designing a search engine for children

The Biggest Web 2.0 Flops To Date

Is Facebook growth stalling in North America?

Why Cyber Attacks Are So Difficult to Trace Back to Hackers

Rockville Central drops website for Facebook, offers eight lessons on Facebook news publishing

Internet users now have more and closer friends than those offline

Sega attacked, hacker group offers to take revenge

How Bad Do We Really Have it? Bandwidth Caps Around the World

Dot com shake-up paves way for 'hundreds of new addresses'

Zombie Game Taken Offline Because Pirates Didn’t Use BitTorrent

The Oatmeal vs. FunnyJunk: webcomic copyright fight gets personal

BitComet Adds Support for “Anonymous” Downloads

Map of the World Drawn Entirely Using Facebook Connections

UN: Disconnecting File-Sharers Breaches Human Rights

Tech expert says Irish Internet is rapidly approaching meltdown

Sony investigating another hack

‘Torrent’ Becomes A Dirty Word As Site Admin Fined $29,000

Pac-Man Games Om-Noming on Facebook

How Facebook Can Put Google Out of Business

Don't Believe Facebook; You Only Have 150 Friends

Facebook Scams You Need To Know About: The 9 Most Common Hacks And Attacks

The Rise And Fall Of An Internet Meme

Five Best Services for Quick Image Sharing

SceneTorrents: The Untold Story of Raids and Arrests

Top 10 Simple Privacy Tricks Everyone Should Use

Why YouTube Adopting Creative Commons Is a Big Deal

StumbleUpon Hits 1 Billion Stumbles Per Month

Ten ridiculous wikis to cure your boredom with just one click

Facebook Flops: The Social Network's 10 Biggest Mistakes

The Rise of the “Second Internet” and What It Means

Hack Obtains 9 Bogus Certificates for Prominent Websites; Traced to Iran

No Privacy on Amazon’s Cloud Drive

A Memory of Webs Past The Web is a rollicking, revealing record of life in the 21st century. But preserving it for future historians is a monumental technical challenge

10 Recent Internet Start Up Flops

The 5 Most Ridiculous Causes to Ever Get a Website

Stephen Fry prison 'pledge' over 'Twitter joke' trial

iaza: Free Online Image Conversion - Simple & Easy Converter (Images, Graphics, Avatars, Anime ...)

Give Me My Data helps you reclaim and reuse your Facebook data

10 Tools To Surf the Web Anonymously

10 Odd Categories of Items on eBay

Amazon’s Trouble Raises Cloud Computing Doubts

Your Worst Passwords, Ever

IP address can now pin down your location to within a half mile

50 (More) Viral Images The Web Shared In 2011

Good News: Wasting Time on the Internet Makes You a Better Worker

Homeland Security Request to Take Down MafiaaFire Add-on

Google, Facebook: "do not track" bill a threat to California economy

Lawsuit Accuses Google, Apple, Lucasfilm & Others of Fixing Employee Wages

Facebook Buying Out Skype? $4 Billion Deal Being Talked About

The horrifying history of people who used the internet for murder

10 Historic Tweets That Captivated the World

Facebook Facial Recognition Could Get Creepy

MPAA Has Nothing On Us, isoHunt Tells Court

Top 10 Fixes for the Web’s Most Annoying Problems

Man’s Online Date Turns Out To Be His Real Life Girlfriend

A Short History on Hacking (Infographic)

Facebook Filled with Underage, Unsupervised Users: Consumer Reports

OpenID Warns Of Serious Bug

Social network users have twice as many friends online as in real life

Facebook Launches Deals to Compete With Groupon

Yay! The Internet Passport Is Coming

Wi-Fi security flaw for smartphones puts your credit cards at risk

How to Fix (0r Kill) Web Data About You

Clients from Hell: "Is e-mail internet?"

SPARKD: Anonymous BitTorrent Powered Video Streaming

HOW TO: Block Website On Windows PC Without Using Any Software Programs

Foxconn Employees Arrested, Charged with Leaking iPad 2 Details

Two 60-Year-Old Men Face Trial For Sharing 3000 Songs

Crazy Warnings and Hacking Webcams: Anti-Piracy, Indian Style

Julian Assange: Facebook Is a Spy Machine

10 Great Sites for Satellite Maps

Americans face piracy website blocking

comScore Releases April 2011 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

The Pirate Bay Ships New Servers to Mountain Complex

File-Sharing Call to Arms: Sci-Fi Writer Needs Pirate Books

Sony hacked again, but this time not the PlayStation Network

10 Interesting And Unusual Wikipedia Articles

Benchmark battle: Chrome vs. IE vs. Firefox

Pirate Bay User Database Compromised and Exploited, Again

Facebook policy chief admits site needs to improve deletion tools for a minority of users

6 Internet Memes That Will Lead to World Domination

Five Things Facebook Should Fix Immediately

Navigating the Minefield: Facebook Settings

5 years later, first P2P case to be tried still chugging along

12 Coolest Facebook Profiles

Docs Warn About Facebook Use And Teen Depression

Spotify ads hit by malware attack

How to Overcome Internet Distraction Disorder

Trollface Artist Carlos Ramirez Talks 4chan, Incredible Hulk and Viral Fame

3 Unique & Creative Uses For Dropbox Accounts

Why the US needs to blacklist, censor pirate websites

It could be worse: data caps around the world

An App For Stalkers: 'Creepy' Geo-Locates Based On Social Networking Activity

Facebook games are evil says award winning developer

Popular Facebook users 'feel more stress'

File-Sharer Can’t Believe His Luck With $7 Per Track Fine

Hotfile Goes To War Against Copyright Infringers

Chinese online gamer dies after three-day session

Hosting Company: Anti-Pirates Stole $138,000 In Kit & Hijacked Our Email

Cyber bullies to be 'poked' on Facebook by cyber police

Five Best Browser Security Extensions

Cheat Sheet: 10 Tips and Tricks for Dropbox

10 Most Insightful Infographics About Internet

Top 10 Email Pet Peeves

The Internet Wishlist

Filesoup fans cheer (and worry) as UK police drop charges against Torrent site

See your Facebook Friends on a Google Map

10 Internet Shows All About Technology

Leaked Docs Show Results of Fake ‘RIAA/MPAA’ BitTorrent Scam

Facebook saved my life: Boy, 4, diagnosed with leukaemia after his father posts picture of his rash on social networking site

Bandwidth Education: Slippery Slope or Valuable Lesson?

South Korea government websites targeted in cyber attack

Facebook valued at $65 billion in new investment

The 5 Craziest People On The Internet

8 Spectacularly Wrong Predictions About Computers & The Internet

13 wonderfully geeky 404 not-found pages

10 Early ISP’s and What Has Become of Them

You're Being Tracked and No Law Is Going to Change That

Eye tracking study reveals 12 website tactics

4chan’s Chaos Theory

EmbedPlus - A flash tool for real-time reactions, chopping, movable zoom, slow motion, annotations, chapter / scene skipping, and more with embeds on your video site, blog, vlog, etc.

Is The President of Turkey a Movie Pirate?

Facebook and Google 'in talks to buy' £7.5bn Twitter

Study Shows Bing Is More Accurate Than Google, And It's Gaining Share

172 doomed BBC websites saved by one geek, for $3.99

How to Automatically Backup your Files with Dropbox

Wikipedia – an unplanned miracle

Why the Web Is Useless in Developing Countries – And How to Fix It

How Twitter engineers outwitted Mubarak in one weekend

WiFi users guard their own networks, happy to use others

Facebook users more prone to developing eating disorders

Gaming The New Era Of Facebook

4Chan Turns in Teen For Planning School Massacre

Time It Takes a Hacker's Computer to Randomly Guess Your Password

MPAA sues Hotfile.com

This is the web right now - The Oatmeal

I know what you did online last summer ...

Best BitTorrent Clients 2011

State of the Internet: Summing up 2010

The end of the net as we know it

The Great Facebook Reply Dilemma

Why Facebook wants your phone number

P2P study finds around 100 users responsible for majority of BitTorrent content

The Facebook Setting You Should Change as Quickly as Possible

What new privacy features in Chrome, Firefox and IE9 really do

Web Running Out of Addresses

Mozy's move could bring storm to unlimited cloud storage

Flickr Accidentally Deletes a User's 4,000 Photos and Can't Get Them Back [UPDATE]

10 Fascinating Facts About E-mail

The 101 Most Useful Websites

Facebook’s “Instant Personalization” Goes into Effect

Clive Thompson on Secret Messages in the Digital Age

Should social networks release data?

Can You See Who's Viewing Your Facebook Profile?

How To Set Up A Home Network In 5 Simple Steps

The Internet Is Ridiculously Huge

Why I Don't Use Facebook

MegaUpload Accuses ISP of Restricting Access To Its Services

33 More Entertaining 404 Error Pages

5 Things We All Do That Make Hackers' Lives Incredibly Easy

Top 10 Tech Scares of the Decade

5 Web Services to Convert PDF and MS Word Documents

How Big Is The Internet? [Infographic]

Techcrunch goes to war against Engadget, accuses sister blog of corruption

Facebook Photos: Opt-Out or Tag You're It

Facebook Now Shares Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps

X-pire! software will add digital expiration dates to your photos, photo-related embarrassment

17 Things You Didn’t Know About Twitter

If the Internet Had Always Existed

MegaUpload Issues Response to RIAA Over Mastercard Cutoff

How to Research Domain Names on the Web

How to Export Your Delicious Bookmarks and Import Them Into Your Favorite Browser

Man quits job, makes living suing e-mail spammers

Flowchart: Understanding the Web, for Fans of Charles Dickens

Facebook overtakes Yahoo, is now the third most trafficked website in the world

Ten things Web users should fear in 2011

Nicolas Sarkozy's internet police warn 100,000 illegal downloaders

18 Fun Interesting Facts You Never Knew About The Internet

Court To AFP: Pics Aren’t Free Just Because They’re On Twitter

Lawsuit Claims Microsoft, McDonald’s, Mazda & CBS Used Ads as Cover for Data Mining

Goodbye Internet, We Hardly Knew Ye?

Notorious Soccer Prankster Nabbed After Facebook Update

Myspace Mulls Significant Layoffs, With Potential Sale Looming

Pew Shows 65% Of People Pay For Digital Content; Mostly Music, Software, And Mobile Apps

Facebook Replaces Google as Most Visited Website

Why some emails go unanswered - The Oatmeal

Facebook suing Lamebook for trademark infringement

4chan Censors Itself

20 Insensible AdSense Ads

7 Amazing, Yet Overlooked, Wikimedia Projects You Should Check Out

How the FBI nabbed a Russian spam king in Las Vegas

World Map of Social Networks

Planning Vs. The Internet

The Rise And (Hopeful) Fall Of Gawker

Author Slams eBook Piracy, Son Outs Her As a Music Pirate

Judge Dismisses Billionaire Paul Allen's Suit Against Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo

Amazon says outage in Europe due to hardware failure, not hacking attack

Download Speeds Through The Years

WikiLeaks – Insurance Policy Expired?

1 In 5 Divorces Now Involve Facebook

Some Data-Miners Ready to Reveal What They Know

If Web Browsers Were Celebrities

'History sniffing': How internet browsers can be hacked so firms know every website you have visited

The 25 Greatest Internet Memes of 2010

Top 10 Internet Memes

50 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For

Aviary Debuts HTML5 Photo Editor

Inventor of web criticizes Facebook and cable ISPs

Security warnings: whether or not you plan to drink and drive a keyboard this weekend

Who's Afraid of Apple, Google, Facebook?

47 Alternatives to Wikipedia (via)

The Top 5 Current Facebook Scams To Watch Out For

10 Awesome Free Documentaries That You Can Watch Online

Top 10 Safe Search Engines for Kids (via)

10 People who revolutionized the Internet – The Unappreciated Heroes!! (via)

WikiLeaks Urges Public to Download ‘Insurance’ File

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Snow Dudes







Last winter we(Mrs ILuvNFC and I) built a Snow Dalek but we had a bit more snow this time so we built a snow couple on a settee. Click for biggery over at Flickr.


Snow Settee