The Smidgen

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TweetThe story goes like this: a professor in Sweden, who wishes to remain anonymous, places his bag containing laptop, keys, credit cards, calendar and various important documents under the stairwell in his apartment complex while he goes to the laundry room.  When he comes back, the bag is gone, naturally.  The most upsetting for him [...]

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TweetApparently, Snoop Dogg hates him some Cyber Crime.  Understandable, who doesn’t really (except dirty cyber criminals) but given this knowledge I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have speculated that he’d team up with Symantec’s Norton antivirus products and declare “Hack is Wack”. (I’m serious) That’s right my nizzle, Hack is Wack and you, yeah you, can [...]

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TweetJapan, you make me smile =).  I’m not sure why I have an affinity for unusual Japanese products that I would never buy, but I do, and so I present to you the Kaoiro.  It’s literal translation is ‘face expression’ meaning that it’s a kaomoji (emoticon) stamp.  This bad boy is capable of stamping out [...]

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TweetMartin De Ronde, not a name that you might be immediately familiar with, was co-founder of the games studio Guerrilla Games before it was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2005 and now best known for their Killzone titles.  He’s also the man behind the OneBigGame mini-publishing platform that aims to be the Band Aid [...]

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TweetDespite the fact that I have yet to really find a good reason to use Twitter (yes I use TweetMeme, no I don’t think it’s cool) the cover letter on their latest TPS report (that’s tweets per second, didn’t you get the memo?) is showing around 600 microblog babbles per second.  That comes in at [...]

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TweetStraight out of the land of “Someone Got Paid to Do This” comes the mathematical apocalypse known as When Zombies Attack! A team of mathematicians from the University of Ottawa have taken the time (and money) to calculate how fast the spread of undead will occur should the popular doomsday scenario outbreak begin (finally!).  It’s [...]

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TweetPaul Teutul Sr. and the gang at OCC have created an electric chopper for the Siemens company.  While it’s not the first electric bike by far (both the Zero and the Brammo are publicly available if you want one) it might be the first ever electric chopper style bike and it’s also probably the coolest [...]

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TweetStar Trek, and science fiction in general, is very accustomed to strange license tie-in’s and merchandising but the latest in Genki Wear’s spring collection,  known for its licensed science fiction jewelry and perfumes,  is just awesomely hilarious. Genki Wear Star Trek Perfume  – A trio of scents from the final frontier There are three fragrances [...]

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