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Need a course in safecracking? Google it
Rule #1 of committing a crime: do your research first — or have Google handy. Two burglars broke into an indoor amusement center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where, first, they tried to disable a security camera by spraying it with WD-40 (which is apparently a great glass cleaner). They then spent 70 minutes trying to get into three safes, despite the fact that they appeared to have the combinations. Finally, they had a brilliant idea and used an office computer to Google for “how to open a safe” and “how to crack a safe”. They were then able to easily open the safes — and abscond with $12,000. “They’re not professional safe people,” said Colorado Springs police detective Chuck Ackerman. Indeed! [GT]
Colorado crooks use Google search to help crack safe
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Sprint customers being dumped — actually scammers?
According to a Consumerist interview with a Sprint employee, the customers being dumped by Sprint weren’t so much customers, as bad boyfriends. Calling up “90 times in a 6 month period was the standard”, the customers were extorting free service credit from Sprint in order to not just walk to other mobile providers. “We’re talking customers that haven’t made a payment since 2005 and still have active service.” The Sprint-er says, “We absolutely will not terminate a customer who had a reasonable claim for calling in. But the ones with the $5k credit balances… they’re going to hear us say no. It’s a harsh decision but it really makes sense to almost anyone who knows both sides of the situation.” Corporate spin, or is poor l’il ol’ Sprint being smacked around by its sugar babies? Developing. [GT]
Sprint Customers Terminated For Complaining Too Much Were Scamming Sprint For Free Service
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Show off your clocksmanship with Furni
We’ve posted a lot of odd clocks here over the years, but here’s your chance to not only design your own, but to have it be part of the Furni catalog. To enter, download a cut-fold-and-paste PDF of their LED digital clock kit, place it in the peculiar clock formation of your choosing, and email a graphic back to Furni. Submissions so far are heavy on clocks embedded in showers, but I really like the one that appears to be a tape degausser or maybe a primitive Geiger counter. You can never have too many ambiguous clocks. [GT]
Furni’s online shop: “Show us your Skills” (via Moco Loco)
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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]
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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’…
