MOOOOOOM, WE'RE BOOOORED
Didn't I buy you that Mario Kart game for your Wii, like, two years ago? Five?
YEAH, BUT WE'RE BOOOOOORED
But kids, didn't it include something like thirty tracks?
YEAH, BUT WE'RE TIIIIIRED OF THOOOOOSE
Well, I didn't want to do this so early in the year, but I've got a Christmas present for you that I've been holding on to. You know how you've been saying how you wanted 184 new tracks for Mario Kart Wii?
YEAH! WE WERE REALLY SPECIFIC ABOUT THAT NUMBER
Well, bust out that Mario Kart Wii disc and an SD card, because
Merry Christmas, kids!
posted by DoctorFedora
on May 14, 2013 -
30 comments
Nothing to see here, but could you _all_ change your passwords? Yup, if you're using Evernote you should really reset your password. Says who? Why, Evernote
itself. It looks like they've had a
tiny security issue...They say that there is "no evidence that any of the content you store in Evernote was accessed, changed or lost and [...] no evidence that any payment information [..] was accessed". But just to be on the safe side...50 millions users should reset their passwords.
posted by MessageInABottle
on Mar 3, 2013 -
120 comments
"When I visited China in 1998, Mbantu, the cabbie who drove me from the airport, couldn't stop telling me about how he had to take a fourth job because of the high cost of transportation. I caught up with Mbantu in Shanghai last year. Thanks to China's reformed approach toward transportation, Mbantu has enough money in his pocket to finally be able to afford a playground for his kids."--
Thomas Friedman column generator
posted by bardic
on Dec 29, 2012 -
31 comments
"During his civil lawsuit against the People's Republic of China,
Brian Milburn says he never once saw one of the country's lawyers. He read no court documents from China's attorneys because they filed none. The voluminous case record at the U.S. District courthouse in Santa Ana contains a single communication from China: a curt letter to the U.S. State Department, urging that the suit be dismissed. That
doesn't mean Milburn's adversary had no contact with him." [
China Mafia-Style Hack Attack Drives California Firm to Brink]
posted by vidur
on Nov 28, 2012 -
12 comments
Single-serving website to see if your credentials were compromised in
the recent posting online of "usernames and passwords for what appeared to be 453,492 accounts belonging to Yahoo, but also Gmail, AOL, Hotmail, Comcast, MSN, SBC Global, Verizon, BellSouth and Live.com users." [via
mefi projects]
posted by davidjmcgee
on Jul 12, 2012 -
83 comments
Guerrilla art group hacks dozens of Astral info pillars. The city's new, redesigned info pillars that have been rapidly popping up around Toronto have made plenty of enemies: road users claim the large, flat sides block sight lines, pedestrians say their positioning blocks sidewalks, and many others are concerned about the large amount of space given over to advertisers. A team of artists,
cARTographyTO, hacked into roughly 35 of the signs' ad spaces over the weekend and installed maps, artwork and other visual displays.
posted by netbros
on Jul 10, 2012 -
50 comments
Gijs Gieskes is an astonishing inventor/hacker/bender/maker of electro/mechanical/audio/artistic devices.
posted by mhjb
on Oct 7, 2010 -
4 comments
Can you write a hack in 140 characters?
Someone figured out how, and now Twitter is infested with them. They say they'll have a fix today. In the mean time, the twitter page belonging to the wife of the British PM
has been hacked, making it redirect to a Japanese porn site.
posted by Chocolate Pickle
on Sep 21, 2010 -
53 comments
Jan Chipchase is employeed by Nokia in the "corporate anthropology" field, but he considers it "design research," as he's not an anthropologist by training. His work covers researching
how people modify their phones in China, India, Ghana, and elsewhere, adding features or extending battery life. He also tracks how
cellphones are associated with personal identity and how they are playing roles far from urban and suburban centers. In some locations, cell phone numbers are written above doorways for identification, when there is no official map or organization for streets. He also blogs about his experiences, and his most recent post, he covers the rise of "
Super Fakes."
[more inside]
posted by filthy light thief
on Sep 3, 2009 -
16 comments
The Happy Hacker offers you the secrets and tools to become an
Überhacker and
Cyberwarrior, and even
how to build a railgun. But who is this Happy Hacker? Though
other folks are now involved with the website, Carolyn P. Meinel is the primary face of The Happy Hacker. She is a long-time computer hacker, going back to
getting unapproved access to the PLATO system (
previously). She started Happy Hacker because "
all sorts of guys were begging me, 'teach me how to hack'." Her webpage gained attention, getting mentioned in
The Happy Mutant Handbook, and being invited to speak at
Defcon. But there are people
who doubt her credentials, and others who are
a lot more harsh. Regardless of the backlash, and the
appearance that the peak of The Happy Hacker has passed,
her articles are still being published.
posted by filthy light thief
on Apr 29, 2009 -
23 comments
What happens when we leave behind cosmetics and societal norms to modify our bodies and minds to enhance who we are and what we can do?
In this talk, journalist
Quinn Norton explores how technology and flesh are coming together.
posted by Hypocrites
on Aug 23, 2008 -
10 comments
Serious as a heart attack: A collaboration of various medical researchers in the academic field has led to proof that pacemakers can be
remotely hacked with simple and accessible equipment. This is a proof of concept, but the real question is: How many other pacemakers and medical devices are similarly vulnerable? (Writers may note a new twist available for the assassination of characters in their novels and screenplays.)
posted by spock
on Aug 13, 2008 -
41 comments
