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Re: The "WTF? Check this link out!" thread!
« Reply #2490 on: November 17, 2011, 07:48:28 am »
Save the Internet before it's too late!
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/11/tomorrow-the-internet-starts-to-die/

Voice your concerns at Avaaz here: http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet_d/?ciSZkcb

Just a trivia: "Avaaz" is actually Hindi for "Voice" or "Sound".
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Re: The "WTF? Check this link out!" thread!
« Reply #2491 on: November 17, 2011, 01:30:25 pm »
Eh. Every time one of these comes up the Internet gets hysterical for a few days and then nothing comes of it. So I'll cut out the middle man this time and just not worry.

Let's face it: The government is not gonna shut down Youtube, or Google, or Facebook. It's not gonna shut down any of the major torrenting sites or file hosting sites either. It's not gonna shut down 4chan(not that it could if given the legal power to do so.) and it's not gonna shut down Firefox or any of the browsers; all of these things can aid in "pirating" things. So if it's not gonna do any of that, what power does it have to begin with?

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Re: The "WTF? Check this link out!" thread!
« Reply #2494 on: November 21, 2011, 02:40:45 am »

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Re: The "WTF? Check this link out!" thread!
« Reply #2495 on: November 21, 2011, 09:52:34 am »
Did Obama want pizza off the menu? What happened?

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Re: The "WTF? Check this link out!" thread!
« Reply #2496 on: November 23, 2011, 09:08:57 am »
You've all seen virtual reality. It's lame. Nobody wants to live in a computer (unless you're the Puppet Master). So why not bring the digital world to reality instead?

Scientists testing HUD contact lenses on rabbits, hope to bring augmented reality to your eyeballs.

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Re: The "WTF? Check this link out!" thread!
« Reply #2497 on: December 09, 2011, 02:39:27 am »
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2071533/Madam-ran-gang-forced-hundreds-women-work-prostitutes-China-metropolis-executed-lethal-injection.html

Death is a terrible thing. Shocking to me, and unsettling even to try and empathize being in the position of the woman executed. Of course, life in prison is probably much worse in several cases.

But her crimes? Several orders of magnitude worse than both. Pure fucking evil.

(Obligatory: fuck the Daily Mail. What a trash paper.)

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Re: The "WTF? Check this link out!" thread!
« Reply #2498 on: December 12, 2011, 11:55:38 pm »
For all the Dr. Who fans...

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/12/lost-doctor-who-episodes/

Over 100 episodes missing? Really?

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« Reply #2499 on: December 13, 2011, 09:27:42 am »
Yes, really: the BBC had a policy of destroying their old tape masters up through the late 70s, at least. A lot of series fared much worse than Doctor Who, which was being widely sold to other countries—there's at least one show from that era of which no episodes remain at all.

Similar stuff has happened in other countries: most of the output of one of the pioneering US television networks was lost when Paramount, who bought them out, disposed of the remaining tapes (again in the 70s)—out of what must have been 10000+ hours of programming, we have maybe two or three hundred. Other shows, like game shows or news programs, were often considered disposable in the pre-VHS era, and junked even by networks that normally kept their tapes. Cinema hasn't fared any better, especially black-and-white silent films—the silver nitrate film stock they used in those days is highly flammable and was often destroyed to reclaim the silver content (and that's aside from normal deterioration). It's really sad—not so much due to the quality of the shows (although some of them must have been excellent), but because of the loss of history.

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Re: The "WTF? Check this link out!" thread!
« Reply #2500 on: December 18, 2011, 08:32:25 am »
I wish I had some of your numbers. Hah!
http://www.sendacallfromsanta.com/

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Re: The "WTF? Check this link out!" thread!
« Reply #2501 on: January 21, 2012, 02:44:37 am »
http://paradoxoff.com/buggy-skies.html

This is kinda old, but funny. :lol:
Doesn't it make you think you are living in a game or such? :lol:

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Re: The "WTF? Check this link out!" thread!
« Reply #2503 on: January 29, 2012, 11:21:40 am »
I like listening to music while I paint. But noticed something weird. Is it just me or does...

http://youtu.be/1HtCquBppTc

...sound like...

http://youtu.be/AXw5hlJQbWA

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Re: The "WTF? Check this link out!" thread!
« Reply #2504 on: January 29, 2012, 09:47:33 pm »
http://www.bogleech.com/arcade-chimerabeast.html

Heh, just saw an unreleased arcaded game which features an alien creature who eats DNA to evolve.
At a later stage your character(or monster) will reach some human city, funny.






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