Radiohead, Beeping, Comets, Last.FM, Tor and More from the WWW

The WWWeb Presents...

  • Mega-Explosion in Space - David Narkevik, an undergraduate at West Virginia University, was re-analysing data from the Parkes telescope in Australia when he came across a five-millisecond burst of energy so powerful that it "saturated" the equipment
  • New Radiohead Album Oct 10th - If you order the download only, you can pay HOWEVER MUCH MONEY YOU WANT for it. Like, there's no set price. 
  • GTA: San Andreas Anime Mod - I was just surfing the net and I found this video on youtube of an anime mod for the PC version of GTA: San Andreas.  
  • Computer Display Calibration 101 - If you've invested in a quality monitor for your computer, you owe it to yourself-- and your eyes-- to spend 15 minutes setting it up properly for your viewing environment
  • LMAO Razor + CarLMAO Razor + Car

  • Rules of beeping - Send callback beeps to people with more money, Send callback beeps to friends and family when you've run out of minutes, If you're asking for a favor don't send a callback beep, & Don't beep too much.
  • BitLet - BitLet, the web-based BitTorrent client has received a significant update. A new feature makes it possible to create .torrent files online - ready configured for popular open trackers - and then automatically upload them to Mininova and other sites for maximum exposure.
  • 12-y/o Girl Brings Gun to School - She wore a baseball cap with a bandanna around her face and carried a 9 mm Smith & Wesson semiautomatic pistol. The gun was fully loaded with 14 bullets, including one round in the chamber, Shiflet said.
  • New DDoS Malware Kit in the Wild - This specific DDoS malware kit currently offered for sale includes the standard firewall bypassing and rootkit capabilities, in between offering the possibility for zero day malware on demand once previous instances of the bot in question achieve a high detection rate.
  • The Sun Rips Off a Comet's Tail, Video - On April 20, 2007, the comet had just dipped inside the orbit of Mercury, perilously close to the sun, when a solar eruption struck and literally tore the comet's tail off.
  • Water BridgeWater Bridge

  • Last.fm community enables music research - Here are some research papers that were presented at the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval in Vienna last week and that used Last.fm tags
  • No More Nine Inch Nails - "The idea of five guys making music for two hours, while it's the culmination of fine-tuning over a lot of years, has got to change. I want to whittle things down."
  • Water forms floating 'bridge' - "The interaction of water with electric fields has been intensely explored over the last years. We report another unusual effect of liquid water exposed to a dc electric field: the floating water bridge."
  • Exploit for Tor "torrc" - Rewrites the torrc to log to a different location.  Also enables debug logging, and an erroneous ExitPolicy.
  • Solve a Rubik's Cube in 26 moves - Kunkle, a computer scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, has proved that 26 moves are enough to solve any Rubik's Cube, no matter how scrambled.
  • Installing MoBlock on Linux to Keep P2P "safer" - MoBlock is a Linux application for blocking connections to and from a specified range of hosts.

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