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The history of RickRolling

Posted on Jun 2, 2010 in Infographics | 0 comments

Rickrolling is an Internet meme typically involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song “Never Gonna Give You Up”. The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a web link that they claim is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The link can be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the...

Sinkhole in Guatemala

Posted on Jun 1, 2010 in Uncategorized | 3 comments

Looks a lot like from the movies… I thought this was just one of those “End of the World” themed movies, but heck it is true, this happen in Guatemala after Tropical Storm Agatha, end of May 2010; CNN states below: At least 115 people have died after a tropical storm battered Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador over the weekend, officials in those countries reported. Guatemala...

Wind Powered Walking Sculptures

Posted on May 31, 2010 in New Technology, websites | 3 comments

Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist and kinetic sculptor. He builds large works which resemble skeletons of animals and are able to walk using the wind on the beaches of the Netherlands. His animated works are a fusion of art and engineering. [via Toxel and...

History of Hacking

Posted on May 29, 2010 in Infographics | 1 comment

Hacking has been around as long as computers as a way to reconfigure or reprogram a system to give access to someone who otherwise shouldn’t have access. In the media, any electronics manipulation is often referred to as hacking, though “cracking” may often be more appropriate. Thanks to hacking, computer geeks can be cool and dangerous. [Via: Online...