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Gigantic nuclear explosion video
The Discovery Channel ran footage of the largest nuclear explosion ever captured on film. This bang is so enormous, the plume reaches above the cloud cover, and the fallout radius is a quick 180km. It was detonated by the Russians as part of nuclear testing, and now the footage is online for you to reflect on. Video after the jump. [GT]
Worlds Largest Nuke Explosion (via Futurismic)
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Hong Kong blogger faces HK$400,000 fine, 12 months jail, for linking
To protest the overly broad province of the Obscene Articles Tribunal of the Hong Kong Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority (TELA), activist Oiwan Lam deliberately linked, in conjunction with writing on the tasteful photography to be found there, the keyword ‘nude’ on Flickr. Result: Lam’s page was classified as a Class II indecent article by the Obscene Articles Tribunal. He faces up to HK$400,000 in fines and 12 months in jail. [GT]
Interview with Oiwan Lam (via Boing Boing)
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The force may be with you with this Darth Vader backpack, but style sure ain't!
Words cannot express just how awful this $19.99 backpack is. Really. We’re all for Star Wars merchandise, and probably own far too much for our own good, but folks, please. Vinyl. In the shape of Darth Vader. On your back. If, err, Luke had bothered digging him one and not just burnt him on a pile of wood like unwanted love letters from Jabba the Hut.
GameTap gives Intel-based Mac owners some games to play
Finally! Something to do on your fancy Mac apart from mucking about with the face-warping photo software!
GameTap, the online game distribution service, has opened up its 500-game-wide catalogue of games to Mac owners – as long as you have a recent one with an Intel processor.
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 11-Jul-07: PS3 on Amazon, Google mash-ups, Time Magazine, top 100 media people
– The PS3 price drop sends console to number 1 on video games list at Amazon (Gizmodo)
– Google Inc. to unite mapping mashups (Yahoo)…
Visit glorious Dresden via Google Earth
If you’ve ever wanted to see how the rebuilding work is coming along in poor old blitzed Dresden, now you can – thanks to a free Google Earth representation of the city.
Is Pleo the robotic dinosaur the new Sony Aibo?
When I first heard about Pleo in January’s issue of Wired magazine, I got all excited thinking about the possibilities of owning a robotic dinosaur. We’ve seen many robotic animals such as the Furby, Robosapien and Sony’s Aibo, but this Pleo sounded like a whole different kettle of fish.
Dreams become reality, and only a few months after the interview with Chung was published in Wired, it’s now been placed on every geeks favourite boutique, ThinkGeek. Pleo the dinosaur doesn’t just look the part, he moves and react autonomously with both humans and his surroundings, in a ‘lifelike, organic movement’…
The Snowcrash Netsurfer combined PC desk and bed
For when those Warcraft sessions really start to hurt.
The Snowcrash Netsurfer is a semi-reclined chair and desk combo, with the monitor placed high up at eye level. Like most monitors on desks are already, really. It has little pillows do distribute your body weight, which, if you’re buying a custom PC desk, is likely to be massive.
Opinion: I want to watch NEW stuff on Joost, not just the same old TV shows
Stuart Dredge writes… Online TV firm Joost is doubtless proud of its deal with Viacom to stream new VH1 sitcom 'I Hate My 30s' ten days before it premieres on VH1's actual TV channel. And it's true that every deal…
Video game console wedding cake pleases the wife, loses appetite of groom
At the risk of Tech Digest resembling Kotaku’s very-unofficial spin-off blog, Game Cakes, I couldn’t not share this doozy with you. When Tech Digest writer, Al, got married a few months back I suggested he have a game-themed cake, and sadly he vetoed the idea, but I bet after his eyes fall on Game Daily writer, Carol Orsini’s wedding cake, he’ll regret not forcing his missus into that Monkey Island cake he always dreamt about. Girls dream about dresses when we’re young, the boys dream about wedding cakes in the shape of Alex Kidd…
