Holy fu**ing sh*t! I can't believe this is the country I live in.

Adam Kokesh, Edward Dickey, and others were just arrested for dancing at the Jefferson Memorial.

They are being held at Anacostia Station (District Five)

- 1901 Anacostia Drive S. E., Washington, D.C. 20019

Please call (202) 610-8703 and demand their release.

Call the US Park Police as well, at (202) 610-7500.

(202) 425-4286 information officer of the US Park Police

Home of The Feature

check out Corning the company working on this becoming a reality.

A Look Inside The iPad2

Genki Sudo

     Genki Sudo is a recently retired mixed martial artist and a kickboxer from Japan. He's fought on K-1 HERO'S, UFC, and Pancrase. But I'm not going to talk about his Fighting career. To me the sport is boring. You may not know who's going to win but you pretty much know the outcome the whole time, and it's not even visually pleasing. Genki Sudo is a musician and a dancer. This music video of his is incredible. Not just Genki Sudo, but his whole group of dancers move like some kind of alien force, and in unison. It's a pretty good song too.

Cool new flip phone

     This phone has to be one of the coolest phones I've ever seen. This concept is getting allot of attention which means it's only a matter of time before it's made for production. Kristian Ulrich created this brilliant phone with a custom Android interface and the most unique functionality ever. It's only draw back from the market is the battery for running three displays simultaneously for an extended period of time, does not yet exist. Rather then explain the phone and how it works, heres an inspiring video.

What is being creative? from Kristian Ulrich Larsen.

AT&T Contract Killer

    AT&T is implementing a new contract termination for those who are abusive to there customers service. I guess they see their customers whom are angry enough to complain about there services in an ill mannered way, would be punished by not being able to live out their contract. They just gave everyone that is fed up with AT&T's crap, a way out of their contract. I wonder how many people will call up AT&T just to curse at the poor operator just to get out of the contract free and clear. It's funny to see a business as big as AT&T start to drown because they'd rather loose customers then fix the problems they complain about.

    AT&T spokesman Seth Boom says this “is about ensuring that our employees are treated with respect and not subjected to verbal abuse…and ensuring they’re able to help all of our customers. It’s also designed to be used in extreme cases and would only happen after multiple incidents and warnings." “We’re not saying customers can’t get upset. This is about truly extreme and abusive situations.”

    What constitutes an "extreme and abusive situation" is too objective for those who actually want to stay with their provider. This is all actually a precaution for the changes they will be making to people's service plans in May. According to their spokes person, in an interview on Broadband Reports,“the company will be implementing a new 150GB monthly usage cap for all DSL customers and a new 250 GB cap on all U-Verse users starting on May 2.” They know this will piss people off so they are making sure they don't have to deal with the storm coming their way. Sprint and Verison are looking better and better, especially if you're an online gamer.

New Dirty Word According to Florida

     Rep. Scott Randolph (D-FL) is in trouble with Florida House Republicans for saying a new dirty word on the House floor:
     "At one point Randolph suggested that his wife "incorporate her uterus" to stop Republicans from pushing measures that would restrict abortions. Republicans, after all, wouldn't want to further regulate a Florida business.
Apparently the GOP leadership of the House didn't like the one-liner.
They told Democrats that Randolph is not to discuss body parts on the House floor.
"The point was that Republicans are always talking about deregulation and big government," Randolph said Thursday. "And I always say their philosophy is small government for the big guy and big government for the little guy. And so, if my wife's uterus was incorporated or my friend's bedroom was incorporated, maybe they (Republicans) would be talking about deregulating.
"It's not like I used slang," said Randolph, who actually got the line from his wife. He said Republicans voiced concern about young pages hearing the word uterus."
     Talking about lady parts? EEEW COOTIES!!

Why Would Anyone Buy a Samsung Computer?

     I recently found out something about Samsung laptops, or "notebooks," that kind of surprised me. Newer select Samsung computers have what most would consider malicious software preinstalled on them. Spyware, malware, and keyloggers are preexisting on new Samsung computers. Samsung admits to the keyloggers, but is looking into the other software, possibly installed on a chip or other hardware they don't make.

     Samsung says they utilize the keylogger "Starlogger" to insure performance quality by monitoring "the performance of the machine and to find out how it is being used." Starlogger is a commercial-grade keylogger that not only loggs every key stoke including password-protected ones,  but sends full screen shots as well. The programe automatically runs as soon as the computer starts up, and randomly emails the data back to Samsung.

     The keylogger is likely illegal, but I'm sure it's not to much for their handsomely paid lawyers to fix. Even if they do have to get rid of the software, by the time that happens they would have been prying into people's privet use of their computers for years and probably argue that there are to many on the market to remove them all, or whisper a recall that would only be heard by tech news followers and avid users that would have probably not have bought a Samsung in the first place. Imagen if a clever hacker found a way to redirect those emails to himself, or better yet hacked Samsung's data base… not good. The data existing at all is a security risk that doesn't need to be. So if you're in the market for a new computer, stay away from Samsung.

Make your own Web Server

     Hey guys, I found an easy to fallow instruction guide on how to make a web server. It's pretty simple, well as simple as 300 pages can be. Even though it may not be to appealing fo casual use of the internet, it could make a more practical use of your old computers and electronics laying around. It could also be a cheeper alternative to buying one for your LAN needs. I was personally surprised that it could be so easily done. Remember to use something with a good amount of RAM for smoother results.

Here's the how to and the Ubuntu Download  / PDF download.

Play Everybody Edits

     I'm newly addicted to this game I just found out about. It's super fun and super frustrating. If you don't get mad at the game and/or your self while playing it you are a god!

     My favorite part about this game is that everyone that is playing at the moment is on your screen. Sometimes the crowed blocks your view and you can't see your self, so it's could be hard to judge your own movements at times. It's highly sensitive and quite tinny. I'm currently stuck on the last part of the first level :-P

come play!

Elizabeth Taylor: ‘James Dean Was Molested By a Minister’

     As you may know Elizabeth Taylor died three days ago. several years ago during an interview she had this to say.

     “I loved Jimmy. I’m going to tell you something, but it’s off the record until I die. OK? When Jimmy was 11 and his mother passed away, he began to be molested by his minister. I think that haunted him the rest of his life. In fact, I know it did. We talked about it a lot. During Giant we’d stay up nights and talk and talk, and that was one of the things he confessed to me.”

     Was there ever a time men of the cloth were actually good people?

Exoskeletons!

I want super human abilities; who wouldn't want them?

Canv.as

Is now public. Go Check it out.
lol babies 

Steve Jobs Turns Down Useful App

     Tawkon is a startup that has been working on an app that measures the radiation your phone is admitting. It is available on the droid market but not Apple's app store. The CEO of the company emailed Steve Jobs n hopes of an app store admission, but the response was not one they were expecting to get. Here's the thread.

     Damn Steve, that's cold.

The World is Going to End… Again

     In the year 2038 some computer software might fail. The Problem affects all software and systems that can store time as a signed 32-bit integer, and interpret this number of seconds since 00:00:00 UTC on thursday, 1 January, 1970.(It's Y2K for Unix) The further time that can be represented this way is 03:14:07 UTC on Tuesday, 19 January 2038. Times beyond this moment will "wrap around" and be stored internally as a negative number, which these systems will interpret as a date in 1901 rather than 2038. This will likely cause problems for users of these systems due to erroneous calculations.

     While most programs will only be affected in or around 2038, programes that work with future dates will begin to run into problems sooner. Because most 32-bit Unix-like systems store and manipulate time in this format, it is usually called Unix time, and so the year 2038 problem is often referred to as the Unix Millennium Bug. However, non-Unix operating systems aren't safe either. Any OS that stores and manipulates time this way will be just as vulnerable.

Happy Birthday Twitter

     Better late then never, but hey at least it's only one day off. Yesterday was Twitter's five year anniversary of the first tweet sent on March 21, 2006 by co-founder Jack Dorsey. This was back when Twitter was known as just "Twttr."

    Twitter's small team of the time had been busy brainstorming and programming for eight days before the platform was ready for its first non-automated message, which read "Inviting coworkers," according to Dorsey.

    Twitter now handles an average of 140 million tweets a day, and the Twitter staff is over 400 people, according to the Twitter Blog. I'm sure you can still take part in the celebration by tweeting #TwitterMemory.

STELLAService

     STELLAService is a startup that measures rates and highlights, the quality of customer care of online businesses. They have raised $2M in beginning stage funding.

     STELLAService was founded in 2009 to help online shoppers make better purchasing decisions at the same time help businesses grow with their collected customer service data and marketing services. The company claims to know thousands of e-retailers in its customer profile. Companies like GNC.com, Zappos.com and JR.com to name a few.

     STELLAService pays for all products it purchases and relies on it's trained customer experience analyst staff to test the companies it evaluates. They say it will use the additional funds to step up development of it's customer service evaluation system. The company will also be working on making it's website more user friendly for online shoppers with new tools and features.

     STELLAService seems to be a really helpful and reliable way to research the places you are thinking about spending your money. Definitely worth looking into.

Wyclef Got Shot

     Wyclef Jean's publicist, Cindy Tanenbaum, reports that he was shot in the hand last night in Haiti. The shooting happened in the capital Port-au-Prince, of the Delmas section. Tanenbaum says the wound was "minor" and that "He was immediately taken to the hospital, treated for a minor graze to his hand and released. He is fine."

     In August he was forced into hiding because of death threats, when Jean was considering to run for the President of Haiti. But the musician, who went to high school in Newark and whose family lives in Saddle River New Jersey, has since been back in the spotlight campaigning for his friend Michel Martelly, also known as "Sweet Mickey."

     "Wyclef’s commitment to his native country and to his people is unparalleled," Tanenbaum said. "He is therefore undeterred by this incident." Local authorities seem to be avoiding the media.

Shogun 2: Total War

     Found this trailer of Shogun 2. If you're a fan of the original Total War series this is defiantly something you've been waiting for. I on the other hand just found out about it and am thinking about picking it up. It looks great. What do you think?

Les Twins

     Hello, I hope you all had a wonderful St.Patty's day, I know I did. As I refer to my hangover remedy I wanted to put something on that doesn't make me think to much, yet is still entertaining. I scrummaged through youtube's mess of a front page to find something I'm subscribed to that actually might be watchable. I finally landed on Yak Films, and watched a dance battle (Les Twins - France vs Lil'O & Tyger B - USA). I made my smoothie while the video loaded. After being amazed by the fluid motions these guys performed with such ease, I decided to look for some more Les Twins stuff. I found a video so awesome I had to share it. As I watch it I start to think the film was edited to make them move the way they do. Enjoy.