In Britain local councils are recruiting unpaid environmental volunteers. These volunteers main tasks are to report anyone who drops litter, fails to recycle their rubbish properly, or who allows their dog to foul the streets. They are encouraged to “snoop” on their friends and neighbors.
The Public Profiler site plots eight million last names using data from electoral rolls and phone directories as well as covering 300 million people in 26 countries, showing the origins of names and where families have moved to. It also contains five million forenames most closely associated with different surnames and lists the top regions and cities for each surname.
Two kittens entertaining each other when they discover that it’s actually quite fun to play under the door’s crack. There will never be peace again…
ZDNet’s Dancho Danchev wrote a good investigative article on cheap Indian CAPTCHA breakers that promise to solve 250k CAPTCHAs per day for only $2 for every 1000 solved CAPTCHAs.
Godlike Adam Savage from cult series Mythbusters telling the hackers at the HOPE hackercon about how the Discovery Channel was bullied by credit-card companies out of airing a program about how crappy the security in RFID tags is.
I don’t know who came up with an idea of turning a coffin into an automobile. It is crazy, but this one creepy ride I would do without. The designer, could at least picked a better looking for his ride though.
Artist Kenn Munk designed a papercraft CCTV camera for Nude Magazine, which you can download and make your own.
[via Nude magazine]
If you’re interested in dumb animals watch you do your thing in the bathroom, than you’ll be interested in this $300 toilet aquarium. It is said to fit most standard toilet sizes.
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