Julian Assange Raps, history of the package Twinkle Light

Julian Assange Raps hours here are a couple of other notable things we saw today on our never ending journey through the wild, Wild web. High-Tech Electronics Dressed Up to Look

Old so what’s the attraction of the latest electronics, packaged in a retro design, such as full-size jukeboxes that really $ 4000 iPod docks and manual typewriters reconfigured to work as u.s.b. keyboards? Has anyone ever said, “it’s a nice Ferrari, but it would be cooler if it saw as a covered wagon look like?”

Silicon Alley Insider dug up an old Newsweek holiday gadget shopping guide of 1997, filled with gems such as the original Sony PlayStation ($ 149), the PalmPilot Professional ($ 369) and the ‘Austin Powers ‘ on DVD ($ 25). [From: Silicon Alley Insider]Wired traces the evolution of the holiday twinkle light. [From: Wired]
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Kobe Bryant to star in “Revolutionary” New Facebook game

kobe bryant 22 December 2010, it seems that Kobe Bryant is taking his talents to Facebook. According to a press release from social gaming Publisher 6waves, the spiky Lakers star set to star in a “revolutionary” new game of Endemol USA–but it is not yet clear whether these game basketball will involve.

6waves says Bryant will serve as “inspiration and focus” behind the new game, and that he’ll have a hand in the development process. The company also says that the game is integrations with Kobe Endemol-produced online video series, ‘ dream Makers, and players will have the chance to win real prizes, including memorabilia, and tickets to the Lakers games autographed.


It is hard to imagine Kobe Bryant being featured in a game that does not go hand in hand with basketball, but it can not be from the realm of possibility. Like all Facebook says, not basketball-themed games really caught on with Facebook users in the way that social games like ‘FarmVille ‘ and ‘Mafia Wars ‘. Endemol can easily see this gap as an untapped market, or as a blatant sign that social gamers are just not in the NBA. Either way, Kobe that promises the new game “unprecedented entertainment programming” to Facebook will bring. Luckily for us all he not mentioned something about rapping.

Linguists Employ ultrasound to unravel mysteries of ancient tongues

ultrasound lot 31 linguists believe the old “African click languages” hold the key to understanding the origin and evolution of human language. About 30 cultural groups speak still active languages, who take dozens of “click consonants.” These clicks remained largely a phonetic mystery, as linguists usually find it difficult to determine the specific vocal actions required, including the direction of the air flow, the narrowing of the mouth and the actual articulation techniques.

Ohio State University scientist Amanda Miller during the last ten years dedicated to unravel the mysteries, and she believes that a piece of modern technology has the key. According to Popular Science is Miller with a select group of translators who use of ultrasound technology to watch “the tongue as it moves in real time.” Other forms of medical technology, such as MRI’s, apparently not fast enough to effectively capture the incredibly fast movements involved click shop. Through its ultrasound examination, however, Miller has been able to organize and classify “more than 40 different types of click consonants” for the international phonetic alphabet language database.


Prior to the ultrasound studies, scientists in the first place “trusted x-rays and glue-on electronic probes” study then speakers, but these methods were not exactly welcomed by local villagers. Professor of the University of Arizona Diana Archangeli context that dilemma by saying, “you can imagine if you walk into a village and say:” look, people, all I want to do is blow drying your tongue and glue things, “people might be a bit nervous.” Well, Yes. It is not a scientist must deduce that probably.

North Korea has a fax machine, and it is not afraid to use

fax machine 22 december 2010 forget nuclear warheads and long-range missiles. The most powerful weapon in North of Korea arsenal might be the fax machine.

On 8 december, Pyongyang began distributing propaganda faxes to South Korean companies, blaming the South of the 23 november attack on Yeonpyeong Island. “The responsibility for the attack is located to the South,” reads the fax. “Groups in the South have to rise against the South Korean Government.” South Korean Unification Ministry Deputy spokeswoman Lee Young-joo says 15 companies reported after receipt of the fax, including two religious organizations, seven trade groups, five groups in society and a media company. An estimated 50 to 80 companies probably receive the same fax, but have not yet reported to the Government.


Of the North fax attack appears to be the latest salvo in a constant “propaganda war” between the two Koreas. After South Korea’s Cheonan warship sunk in March, started Seoul airing anti-Pyongyang broadcasts focused on North Korea. Non-profit organisations, meanwhile, began dropping informative leaflets, DVDs, and AM/FM radios on North Korea, in an attempt to circumvent Kim Jong-Il of hermetic media control.


And now, with North Korea lashes from the flotilla of fax machines, shows that the region again on the edge of the abyss of the total office space. It’s only a matter of time before one side pulls out a stapler, and this thing really messy.

Norwegian newspaper say it has all of WikiLeaks diplomatic cables

julian assange posts bail 35 A Norwegian newspaper claims she has achieved approximately 250,000 of WikiLeak of classified diplomatic cables, although it’s not exactly clear how it gained access to the documents. OLE confirmed Erik Almlid, managing editor of the Oslo-based daily Aftenposten, to CNN that its publication does indeed hold of the whole file had gotten, but not how it had done so, or, more importantly, would say whether or not WikiLeaks had even the leak sanctioned.

“We were initially surprised when we all documents, but now we have a lot of resources in going through all of these documents and though we have several articles published” Almlid said. “We can publish this material when and how we want. But we have no intention of publishing all the documents to simply publish them. We will only publish the actual documents for the articles we publish. “


So far, WikiLeaks are “dumping” the cables to be gradually, fragmented, and only to a handful of major newspapers, including the New York Times, the Guardian and Germany’s Der Spiegel. In fact, If the organization chooses to them all to Aftenposten, it may signal a change in the approach of the media. In October, Julian Assange lambasted the New York Times for her captious, front page profile of him. And just this week, the 39-year-old Australian expressed his displeasure with the Guardian in an interview with the London Times.


In the light of these recent barbs, then, would it not at all surprising to see the Organization reach out to relatively smaller papers, like Aftenposten. But if WikiLeaks not willingly the cables the Norwegian daily send, the leak WikiLeak of possibilities for documents use as leverage against the national Governments could very well.