Weekend Link Exchange: August 25, 2007
While we’ll post finds daily in a conventional post-as-we-see-fit fashion, weekend link exchanges are primarily comprised of a few choice kitschy (read: cool) links visited by the SCD staff (and we use the term staff very loosely). Of course future WLEs won’t have a lengthy sentence or two to explain what’s its all about, you’re smart enough to catch on… 
Gizmodo posted this interesting piece about a 16-year-old Austrailian teen who cracked a government sanctioned porn blocker worth 84 million!
More after the jump…
Interesting flash based web game…suffice it to say, the creator listens to way too much Radiohead, dig?
We have quite the crush on Morgan Webb, so it goes without saying that her daily 5 minute tech show, Webb Alert, has us hooked.
Hassled by Nigerian scam artists thuggin’ (yes, that was typed) your inbox for confidential information? Here’s a fake name generator that also generates a fake social security number as well as a credit card number. Outside of the US and Canada, only a few European countries are present…
A bit nerdy, but if you’re interested in a lecture a friend forwarded to me via youtube, peep Prof. Hans Roslin’s “debunking myths of the third world” which showcases a few animated (read: lackluster) diagrams that illustrate new global trends, etc. Again, if you’re interested.
Engadget’s gone gaga with the iPhone unlocking coverage so much so that they reportedly covered a new site that’s offering to sell the software necessary to unlock your expensive shiny thing that also makes phone calls, no word yet if Apple’s firmware updates have any affect on an unlocked iPhone. Also, this 17-year-old hacked it.
The Darwinian Awards profiled this idiot from 2006 who supposedly swallowed liquid nitrogen and lived to tell about it, props to a reddit user for posting this video clip about the severity of handling liquid nitrogen.
Not only is this supercomputer Europe’s largest , but is also the most beautiful because it’s housed in a rather kitschy Sicilian chapel. The MareNostrum in Barcelona Spain (get ready tech aficionados) sports: 2 dual-core IBM 64-bit PowerPC 970MP processor running at 2.3 GHz for 10240 computers in total. Let’s talk memory: 20 TB of RAM and 280 TB of external disk storage for more persistent storage.
This video made its rounds across the interweb and will no doubt cause more than a few to vomit almost on command. Have a look at the pus infested spider bite this poor bloke had and the gobs of eww to follow. Not for the squeamish.
Last but not least, take a look at this: a USB-powered air conditioner made from a coffee can, CD, computer fan, a bit of glue, and a USB Cable.
-Vaqas
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