Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] Revealed: The Internet’s Biggest Security Hole (old but effing relevant nonetheless!!!)
• [IT] Why is almost half of Google in beta? & Google Patent Could Kill Off Cellphone Contracts
• [Nano] Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing Breakthrough Could Mean Bye-Bye Steel
• [Health] TED Talks - James Nachtwey: Use my photographs to stop the worldwide XDR-TB epidemic (this year’s TED prize winner)
• [Astronomy] Where Do Satellites Go When They Die? (crazy stuff!)
• [Psychology] Musicians use both sides of their brains more frequently than average people

ENTERTAINMENT

• Show Me Your Genitals 2: E=MC Vagina (the sequel to that retarded yet somehow much needed song about female genitals:P)
• Man Uses Remote Desktop to Catch Laptop Thief, Watch Porn Remotely
• The Coolest Fruit On Earth (gollum wants the precious!)
• Stressed Plants Produce Aspirin-Like Substance
• Riding the Caspian Sea Monster (great stuff about ekranoplans…Exactly!)
• An Engineer’s Guide to Cats

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to recession.Thank FSM it’s only hitting the U.S. Oh wait…
Personally lovin’ it, cos:

• people thought they knew what was going wrong, but luckily nobody gave a fuck because they knew better. And boy were they right!
• everybody (except idiots) knows that 700,000,000,000 is a nice, strong, round number (…doh!) and the U.S. government knows why they had to pass the bill to get the cash. (from 6:40 on)
• 7 is also the number of years the U.S. has been out of the spotlight since their last great global contribution started, so it was about time they got back into the news. This time they really outdid themselves, put their heads together and brought something even more positive to the table. God bless America.
• recession is the easiest and cheapest dieting regime there is…by far!!!
• women are clueless when it comes to economics, so nobody ever cares what they have to say
• we finally get to have our very own modern up-to-date economic bedtime story of the 21st century. Nighty night, sleep tight, don’t let the recession bugs bite.

TO BE CONTINUED…? Naaah, this’ll be over before McCain becomes prez and Palin proves dinosaurs were put on Earth to test our faith to FSM. Santa’s gonna bring mighty nice gifts this Christmas, so I’d start spending bigtime if I were you!

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(via: all the usual and unusual blogs and sites that I’ve got in Google Reader)

Chris Anderson talks about his yet-to-be-published book “Free”

Chris Anderson, writer of The long tail and the editor-in-chief of Wired magazine gives an interesting lecture talking about his not-yet-released-book entitled “Free”. He gives food for thought with new business concepts that just might change a thing or two.