Day: December 17, 2012

Government

Pentagon Sets Out to Create the Ultimate Wireless Network

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As reported on Mashable. by Pete Pachal 3G? Pathetically slow. WiMax? Not good enough. LTE? Still lacking. The U.S. military has looked at all current wireless standards as well as the ones on the drawing board (such as LTE-Advanced) and apparently concluded that they’re all not up to the challenge of supporting troops in the years to come. So it’s taking the matter into its own hands.DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is setting out to create an…

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Government Politics

GOP Lawmaker: ‘I Wish To God’ The Sandy Hook Principal Had An Assault Rifle

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Brett LoGiurato Fox News Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Republican from Texas, said Sunday that he wished Dawn Hochsprung, the principal of the Sandy Hook Elementary School, had been armed on Friday with an M-4 assault rifle to counter Adam Lanza, the alleged shooter who killed 20 children and seven other adults. “I wish to God she had an M-4 in her office locked up — so when she heard gunfire, she pulls…

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11 Amazing Facts About The McDonald’s McRib

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Dina Spector and Kim Bhasin Rich Kaszeta/Flickr The McDonald’s McRib is back, hitting restaurants nationwide today.  The legendary boneless pork sandwich, famously molded to resemble a rack of ribs, is both a feat of modern engineering and shrewd marketing. It garners almost as much attention for its pseudo-meat shape as its impermanence on restaurant menus. The barbecue-sauce-smothered sandwich was supposed to return at the end of the October, but was pushed back due to…

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Entertainment

Danny Amendola Spikes Football Into Poor Geezer’s Face: Your Sunday NFL GIF Roundup [Updated]

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As reported on DeadSpin. By NFLGifs NFL GIFS We’ll be putting all our GIFs for the day here, from Danny Amendola injuring a hapless fellow to Knowshon Moreno hurdling Ed Reed. We’ll update the post as the later games conclude, so stay tuned. Minnesota 36, St. Louis 22: Danny Amendola, as you can see above, is a heartless bastard. After scoring a touchdown early in the fourth quarter he spiked the football directly into an…

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Use the DASH Method to Become a Better Writer, Developer, Or Tackle Any Other Creative Task

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Alan Henry The DASH Method (short for Direction, Acceleration, Strength, and Health) was designed to help people who write—whether it’s technical writing, novelists, or bloggers—get things done faster and better, but the principles can be applied to almost any type of creative work. The end result is that you work smarter, and come away feeling better about what you do. The four principles are fairly straight-forward. Direction implies that you always…

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Funny

Do Awesome Damage With an RPG-7 PET Bottle Launcher

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As reported on Wired. BY AARON ROWE Photo: Mathew Scott The PET Bottle Launcher, a $370 bazooka-like toy from Marudai in Japan, lets you do a shoulder-mounted take on a classic middle school physics demo. Just put some water in a 1-liter bottle, screw it onto the end of the tube, use a bike pump to pressurize the contents, aim, and fire. Whoosh! The plastic projectile sails over cubicle walls. Just don’t do it too often. Our ad…

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So About That ‘Glowing’ Cigarette…

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As reported on Wired. BY DEBORAH BLUM By the end of the 1920s, scientists already knew that tobacco smoke contained a small encyclopedia’s worth of risky chemical compounds: carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen sulfide and formaldehyde, ammonia and pyridine (a component in industrial solvents). I discovered that list when I was researching my book about early 20th century toxicology, The Poisoner’s Handbook. And I remember being surprised because I had believed that it wasn’t until the…

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Application Games

Medal of Honor: Warfighter’s Zero Dark Thirty map pack set for Dec. 18 release

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As reported on Polygon. By DAVE TACH Medal of Honor: Warfighter‘s upcoming Zero Dark Thirty Map Pack is set for release Dec. 18, introducing two new multiplayer maps based on the Pakistani region in which Osama Bin Laden was hunted, according to a poston the PlayStation Blog by Marc Janas, a level designer at Electronic Arts. Both maps are based on areas from the single-player campaign. “Darra Gun Market” contains a scenic river crossing, docks and an…

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Entertainment

Watch this: captivating compilation stitches over 300 movies to showcase the cinema of 2012

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris Editor Genevieve Ip has produced a stunning clip titled Filmography of 2012. Like her previous filmographies for 2010 and 2011, Ip has pulled in footage from an insane number of films — over 300 this time — weaving them together and exposing the common themes prevalent in cinema this year. The result is a beautifully cut montage that accurately depicts film’s position as a reflection of our cultural attitudes. Ip has also…

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Dell Has A New Platform As A Service That Actually Makes Sense

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS Dell has a new platform as a service (PaaS) and it actually makes sense. The service is called Project Fast PaaS, part of the new Dell Cloud Labs, which also includes Project Sputnik, the Linux laptop for developers and Crowbar, the open-source cloud deployment framework. Crowbar was originally created to support its “OpenStack– and Hadoop-powered offerings.” FastPaaS and the new Dell Cloud Labs reflects a paradox that I felt all week at Dell…

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