Tag Archive | entertainment
Why Hackers are Targeting Hollywood
How Digital Insurgents Are Disrupting Film Aaron Swartz‘s ‘fundamental opponents were the perverse influences behind today’s copyright laws.’ ‘…Hollywood, the principal patron behind SOPA/PIPA, was first formed more than a century ago because a few rogue artists wanted to get as far away as possible from the constraining influence of Edison’s patents. Dearest Hollywood, the […]
An Ancient Murder Mystery?
Here’s another one for regular James Bondses The history of the well is interesting enough Stone Age Bodies Discovered in Well ‘More than 8,000 years ago, a 19-year-old woman and a slightly older man fell — or were they pushed? — into a well. Archaeologists have now uncovered the remains, revealing a Stone Age mystery. […]
Mind-Blowing Scientific Breakthroughs
‘Although one or two talks at the Chicago Ideas Week’s “Scientific Breakthroughs” forum went just a tad over our heads—quantum DNA, anyone?—the session was jam-packed with cool, innovative concepts that could soon become part of our everyday lives. Here are three of our favorites…’ three-scientific-breakthroughs The 50 Best Films of the ’90s The early ’90s […]
You Have the Right to Die in NY
A state appeals court ruled Friday that Grace Sung Eun Lee, 28, the terminally ill Manhattan banker who has been locked in a legal battle with her parents over her decision to be taken off life support, will get her way. James Bond is 50-years-old ‘The premiere of the first Bond film, “Dr. No“, was […]
Amazing Things Putty Can Do
Some of those: Clean your keyboard Copy a newspaper article Block Low-frequency Sounds How Silly Putty Works Monitor Your PC Easily Would you believe I only use Windows Task Manager? When you use 3 different browsers like I do, I discovered that you have to end a browser process first before switching to another — […]
Terms of Service Traps
When was the last time you fully read a website’s Terms of service (ToS)? I also don’t and so far I’m still lucky I haven’t got into big trouble for doing so considering I have to read and agree to one almost daily. “I have read and agree to the Terms” is the biggest lie […]
Look-alike Guess
This is Mira Sorvino. Take a good look. She deeply resembles an idol in a painting. Think and guess who Give up? …………. Think Mona Lisa
There’s One in Every Crowd
The First Colour Moving Pictures Discovery ‘On discovering the film, Michael Harvey, Curator of Cinematography at the National Media Museum, worked with film archive experts Brian Pritchard and David Cleveland to reconstruct the moving footage in colour following the precise method laid out in Lee and Turner’s 1899 patent. They turned to experts at the […]
Yangtze River Turns Red [PICTURES]
‘The Yangtze River, the third longest river in the world traditionally known as the “golden watercourse,” mysteriously blushed for the first time on Sept. 6. Residents in the surrounding area near the city of Chongqing, where the Yangtze connects to the Jialin River, literally stopped in their tracks when they noticed their once golden river […]
