Most Used MySpace Passwords
13 - cookie123
12 - iloveyou
12 - password
11 - abc123
11 - fuckyou
11 - miss4you
9 - password19
9 - clumsy
8 - sassy
8 - summer06
8 - pablobob
8 - boobie
8 - fuckyou1
8 - iloveyou1
8 - tink69
8 - password1
7 - gospel
7 - terrete
7 - monster7
7 - marlboro1
7 - bitch1
7 - flower
7 - space
From a fascinating collection of myspace password stats here
Flowing Water on Mars?
UPDATE: Confirmed!
NASA is expected to make a major announcement Wednesday regarding a “significant find” on Mars.
NASA said the finding was a result of the Mars Global Surveyor mission.
According to Aviation Week and Space Technology, the space agency will talk about the discovery of “flowing water” on the surface of the Red Planet.
A NASA news conference is scheduled for 10 am US/Pacific.
http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_340020925.html
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/dec/HQ_M06186_Mars_Briefing.html
Google Acquires YouTube
WEB search leader Google has agreed to acquire top video entertainment site YouTube for $US1.65 billion ($2.22 billion) in stock, putting a lofty new value on consumer-generated media sites.
The deal, the first to value one of the new crop of user-participation websites at more than $US1 billion, combines two of the most popular Internet brands: Google, synonymous with web search and rapid innovation, and YouTube, a Silicon Valley upstart that has spearheaded the video-sharing craze.
Google said this morning that YouTube would continue to operate independently to preserve its successful brand and passionate community.
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Would Liquids on a Plane Really Work?
Once the plane is over the ocean, very discreetly bring all of your gear into the toilet. You might need to make several trips to avoid drawing attention. Once your kit is in place, put a beaker containing the peroxide / acetone mixture into the ice water bath (Champagne bucket), and start adding the acid, drop by drop, while stirring constantly. Watch the reaction temperature carefully. The mixture will heat, and if it gets too hot, you’ll end up with a weak explosive. In fact, if it gets really hot, you’ll get a premature explosion possibly sufficient to kill you, but probably no one else.
After a few hours - assuming, by some miracle, that the fumes haven’t overcome you or alerted passengers or the flight crew to your activities - you’ll have a quantity of TATP with which to carry out your mission. Now all you need to do is dry it for an hour or two.
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Web Based MSN Roundup
Web based instant messaging is becoming more and more popular as people want to use MSN or AIM at uni or work, where the application isn’t installed.
I’ve notice a large amount of people on my contact list tend to use the services, so I’m going to do a bit of a roundup of web based MSN services.
MEEBO: This is my personal favourite for many reasons. Firstly, it’s AJAX powered. So basically… no popups. It’s all done in one page. It also allows you to sign into other services like AIM, Jabber, gTalk and Yahoo messenger. It’s a Silicon Valley based project and has a pretty decent budget.
(9/10)
MSN Web Messenger: This is Microsoft’s own version of web based MSN. It uses popups for everything which can be very annoying, and is also very image heavy. These two features (problems?) leave it to be quite clunky and annoying to use. However, if you want something that very closely reassembles the normal MSN client, this is the choice for you.
(6.5/10)
eBUDDY (aka eMESSENGER): This seems to be the big favorite of people on my MSN. I was surprised when I logged in, it seems to have changed a lot since I gave it a try about 12 months ago. To its advantage it keeps all conversations in one popup window, providing tabs within. The interface however is really cluttered. My main beef with it is that it a) Displays a display picture advertising eBuddy b) Sends an automatic message to anyone you talk to advertising the service. This second one in particular annoys me. I hate stupid auto messages. eBuddy in my experience seems to be the most popular client out there at the moment.
(4/10)
I LOVE IM: I’d never heard of this site until it was suggested to me by Doc. To be honest it surprised me. Despite using popups it is surprisingly fast and easy to use. It’s quick in loading, but does refresh the windows to load good content. It also uses the native MSN emoticons, which some of the other clients lack.
(7/10)
MESSENGERFX: I’d also never heard of this one, and so it was a huge surprise when it was probably one of the best I had seen. It’s AJAX based like Meebo, and includes all your conversation windows as virtual windows inside a single page. Unlike Meebo, it is aimed solely at MSN users, and lacks several features like history. Being MSN based though, it does use the native MSN emoticons, which is one of my biggest bugs about Meebo. It unfortunately does display an ad for the client as your display pic.
(9/10)
I also tried MSN2GO, but couldn’t get it to successfully log in.
In conclusion, I expected meebo to be a clear winner, but I was hit with the surprise contender of messengerfx. Both have their strengths and weaknesses, but are both easily ahead of all the other clients out there. If you want to log your conversations, and use more than just MSN, meebo is the client for you. However, if your looking for something that acts similarly to MSN and is easy to dive right into at uni or work, messengerfx is probably the way to go.
Bet You Can’t Do This *hic*
A man who cut off his own penis in a drunken bet had it stitched back on by Latvian doctors, the first such operation in the country’s history.
While heavily under the influence of alcohol, the 30-year-old made a bet with his friend for 1000 lats ($2360) that he would cut off his penis, according to a Latvian public television report.
He was brought to hospital bleeding severely yesterday.
“We have had a few cases with penis traumas, when it was half-cut or damaged, but this is the first time that it was totally cut off - and brought to hospital in a plastic bag,” said microsurgeon Aivars Tihonovs from Gailezers hospital in the Latvian capital, Riga.
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Women to soon have Sperm?
A new scientific breakthrough may lead to women in future being able to produce sperm.
Scientists in England have turned stem cells from am embryo into sperm which are capable of producing offspring.
The breakthrough is likely to lead to new advances in treating male infertility and even the possibility that women could manufacture sperm.
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Trying Windows Vista
I had a package turn up from Singapore the other day. 3 copies of Windows Vista Beta 2. After playing around with it for a few hours, I wonder if they will return my money if I send them back.
Firstly, this software is so far from a Beta release it isn’t funny. Microsoft has obviously caught the Beta bug from google and the rest of the Web 2.0 world. There is one small difference between Google Beta and Microsoft Beta, Google Beta has some bugs ironed out. Lets talk about the installation process:
On my laptop: Booting from the DVD gave me white error boxes with white text which I couldn’t read. Clicking ‘Ok’ brought up more error boxes of different sizes. It was kind of cool to hold down enter and watch the boxes dance around the screen, even if I couldn’t get past the very first install screen. I decided to install XP and do an upgrade, and so 5 hours later I had vista on my laptop. My laptop is about 18 months old, and it couldn’t run Vista at a speed that would allow me to use my computer.
On my desktop: Booting from DVD and upgrade from within XP both gave error messages saying Vista couldn’t identify my disks. That’s the only info it gave me… no error code… no URL for more info. Being the smart guy I am I unplugged two PATA drives and it installed.
So here I am typing on my desktop. XP’s great for IT admins, because people are going to fall asleep before they install that screensaver packed with adware. Installing anything is about a 10 click process as windows checks over and over again that you are sure you know what you are doing:
“IE needs to install an addon”
ok
“IE is trying to install some software! Do you want it to do this?”
ok
“Windows is trying to run ieinstall.exe”
Did I mention the interface is cluttered, buggy and fucking annoying. I don’t know what dtb(CommandModule, 5 ,1) is, but it’s on every explorer screen on both my Desktop and Laptop.
In conclusion, Vista’s great. I wasn’t sure if I should get a Macbook before, but now I’m sure. Thank’s for making it an easy desicion Bill.
Awesome Macro Photography
This Russian site has an incredible gallery of macro photography of insects.
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