[Weird thing of the day] Beware of horrific iPad hacks

[Aaron Solomon Adelman]

Greetings.

Jewish date:  27 Tishri 5771 (Parashath Noaḥ).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  Long Walk Day, World Teachers’ Day.

Today’s news and commentary:

• “Brooklyn Father, Son Launch 'Homemade Spacecraft'”:  I cannot make something like this up.  And what they did seems so ridiculously easy that I am amazed that more people are not doing something like this.
• “Planet Hunters Discover a World That Could Harbor Life”
• “Giant extinct penguin skipped tuxedo for more colorful feathers”
• “Horizontal Gene Transfer: Bacteria Transmit Genetic Code without Sex”
• “Can You Hear Me Now? The Truth about Cell Phones and Cancer”:  No, cell phones do not cause cancer.  And they cannot.

Today’s weird thing is “iPad runs Windows 95, universe stays intact”, a bizarre hacking stunt.  Included is this horrifying video:



Enjoy (or be afraid) and share the weirdness.

Aaron

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Posted By Aaron Solomon Adelman to Weird thing of the day at 10/05/2010 12:56:00 PM