Mitt Romney complains because airplane windows won’t roll down when you need like, oxygen and stuff

After his wife experienced an in-flight emergency last week, Mitt Romney complained at a Beverley Hills fundraiser on Saturday, about how airplanes don’t allow you to roll down the windows. Mrs. Romney’s plane was forced to make an emergency landing en route to Santa Monica after a fire broke out on the airplane. According to…

Last week the Dutch gave us the world’s largest Facebook party and this week they give us the world’s largest, portable pavilion 3D printer. Those Dutch do indeed go big. The Dutch architecture firm DUS unveiled the KamerMaker, a printer they say is “the world’s first movable 3-D print pavilion”, in an open source project…

It’s that distinctive earthy, musky scent that occurs after a good rain, and it has a name unbefitting its pleasant smell – “petrichor”. The petrichor odor is distinctive (and difficult to duplicate) because there are several sources/causes for the smell, including the force of the rain striking the soil and storm winds stirring everything up.…

The Sound Taxi toured London last week collecting music samples from random street noise in a project named Make the City Sound Better. The samples are then mixed into a groove – real time. Production software on board the taxi gathers street noise via microphones mounted on top of the car, mixes it real time,…

Security researchers have identified a new botnet that is controlled by attackers from an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server running as a hidden service inside the Tor anonymity network. Unable to determine its real location or sniff its encrypted traffic, law enforcement are going to have a tough time shutting it down.

Geeky Jokes – Part III

We present a collection of Geeky jokes – Part III.

Burns are categorized in terms of the degree of the burn. Each degree of burn relates to the increased severity of the burn. You’ve surely heard of horrible third degree burns but did you know that there were really six degrees of burns?

Ah, the power of Facebook. As the BBC reports, a 15-year-old Dutch girl posted an invitation to her 16th birthday party on Facebook but wasn’t real clear on the use of Facebook privacy controls. She forgot to set the Facebook event to “private”. After 20,000 replies, the girls realized she (and the town of Haren)…

Computer programmer humor

Here’s a collection of funny computer programmer jokes. Warning: they are fairly technical so don’t expect to understand the punch line unless you are a computer programmer.

The banks of JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America are being increasingly targeted this week, in a systematic denial-of-service (DoS) attack against their websites. National security officials told NBC News that the cyber attacks are originating from the government of Iran and as a result, the cyber threat level was raised from “elevated” to…