A few years ago, Jay Leno played a YouTube clip made by Brian Kamerer and his friends on his show. He didn’t credit the Kamerer, but whatever, he was on NBC! Awesome! Except that some time since then, he says in an open letter on Splitsider, YouTube took the down the video because it was violating NBC’s copyright. What the hell.   Source

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Mark Zuckerberg and leading Facebook investors cashed out millions of shares before the price dropped off a cliff, according to company filings. It was also revealed a company executive issued a warning days before the initial public offering that Facebook’s revenues were lower than expected, information that would have almost certainly reduced the opening price of the newly floated stock. The new reports are already raising questions about whether top investors profited from the IPO at the expense of smaller...

Neil Armstrong is a very difficult man to get hold of and interview so this is a rare interview recently given to the CPA Australia website.   Source

This US Woman is being sued for making up a name to avoid suspicion about the disappearance of her daughter falling on her (the woman). Turns out the made up name actually belonged to someone else – or close enough. Made-Up-Name-to-throw-investigators-off-your-tail – FAIL!   Source

He’s a talk-show host mascarading as a conservative blowhard. He has become a political activist and even attempted a run for the White House. And now, Stephen Colbert can count himself as one of the world’s sexiest women. Yes, women. Thanks to an aggressive write-in campaign by his loyal fans, Colbert was voted number 69 on Maxim’s 2012 Hot 100 list.   Source

Telstra has been hit by a “hacking attack” affecting 35,000 customers, just a week after one of its IT staff told a security conference the telco was reviewing how it secured and stored customer information. The hacking attack occurred on the servers of a third party company that runs Telstra BigPond’s GameArena and Games Shop websites, the telco said in a statement this morning. I wonder if it was...

Upon his arrival, the Royal Gendarmerie strongly discourages him to continue further, as the area beyond Tilemsem has been banned, following new developments in the conflict between years Morocco and Western Sahara. Emile must turn around obviously and the military asked him more for taking on board a licensee to bring it back to Tan-Tan. Analyzing the situation, and seeing his draft raid thwarted Emile evoke an insurance issue that does not allow it to carry passengers, arguing that his CV 2 is already very busy. He knows it is frowned upon in Africa not to take a traveler to board his car in these circumstances. He will play the naivety...

Investors are suing Facebook, including its founder Mark Zuckerberg, and Morgan Stanley, the lead underwriter in last week’s disastrous public float, claiming they were misled in the purchase of the social network firm’s stock. The investors said the members of a proposed class action have lost more than $2.5 billion since the initial public offering last week, in a complaint filed today in Manhattan federal court. They claimed Facebook and the banks didn’t disclose lower revenue estimates. Death to...

A stuntman has entered the history books to become the first skydiver to land safely without using a parachute. Gary Connery, 42, leapt 2,400ft from a helicopter while wearing a specially made “wing suit” and swooped towards a “runway” of 18,600 cardboard boxes in an Oxfordshire field. Five seconds before he hit the target he flared his suit to decrease his descent and glide angle before plunging into the boxes to break his fall. Source

So, this man with a zebra and parrot walks out of a bar… No, it’s not the set-up for a joke, but an intoxicatingly true story out of Dubuque, Iowa, according to news reports from the Hawkeye State. Jerald Reiter, 55, of Cascade, Iowa, was backing his truck out of the Dog House Lounge parking lot Sunday night when police stopped him. His passengers? A small zebra in the back seat and a macaw parrot on his shoulder.   Source

This is a trailer. A real one. None of that teaser shit. Also, this looks like it could be good (aside from the misplaced Kanye West music intro). Hands up who’s read the book? What did you think? Are you a hipster?

I have found a way to communicate with my arse. It’s through science and the technology has been in front of us all along. Use Siri or Google’s voice to text function and FART into your phone. Tell me what it says. So far I have got and “Ack Ack” and a “Yeah!”. Post your results in the comments.  

A wealthy 20-year-old Englishman has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for the murder of an aspiring New Zealand model. Elliot Turner was found guilty Monday of killing his 17-year-old girlfriend Emily Longley in a jealous rage, while his parents were convicted of perverting the course of justice over the death, The Bournemouth Echo reported. Justice Linda Dobbs, the judge who sentenced Turner, told him, “You have deprived a tight-knit family of a daughter, a sister, a granddaughter, a niece and cousin. Your arrogance during your relationship with Emily Longley, during your time on remand and even throughout this trial has been...

Chiptune musician Quinton Sung has gone ahead and given us the gift of song. Well, he regifted it, but he’s wrapped it in a new, NES-style bow…so it’s actually quite sweet. Sung used the bleeps and bloops from an 8-bit-era sound board to meticulously rerecord each composition from Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer albums. If you’re a fan of both the band from Oxfordshire and the tinny beats of an old cartridge-based gaming console, then this nostalgic trip will really vibrate your central-nervous system in a soothing manner...

Teaser trailer for the new Jason Bourne Film.

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If we’re kickin’ it with some US hip hop today, it’s hard to find a better example than these guys tag teaming it.

A quick glance online shows multiple reports of Diablo 3 accounts being hacked, suggesting it is a growing issue. Players have seen the loss of items stored in character inventory and stash, and gold removed as their accounts are stripped bare. Blizzard has been working to “roll back” affected characters to a point before accounts were compromised, but some progress is lost. The reports coincided with the EU Diablo 3 servers going offline on Sunday afternoon for around four hours, preventing players from logging in (error 33). It has been suggested that the EU servers were taken offline following a SQL injection attack, but this...

Tania Head’s 9/11 survival story was the stuff of Hollywood, shooting her to fame, a position of influence and capturing the hearts of many. Pity it was all a lie. It was nearly two years after the September 11 terrorist attacks that a woman with the most harrowing tale of survival emerged. Tania Head debuted in an online forum for World Trade Centre survivors in the spring of 2003. The traumatised men and women who were sharing their stories had been through so much, little could shock them. But her story did. Man this woman is a POS. Worse than some fuckwit saying that mini-nukes where used in bringing down the...