Author Archives: drworm

Ouch! It really stings to see the curvaceous spectacles that car designers can come up with, only to then find out the resulting electric speedsters are either far too expensive or nowhere near becoming a reality. Latest in this group … Continue reading →

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No, this incredible image is not a Photoshop montage, and that’s not Batman’s plane. It’s a Qantas Dash 8 Q 400, a twin-propeller passenger aeroplane passing in front of the Moon in Australia. This is how it was taken: Today, … Continue reading →

Starting this morning, Facebook have begun rolling out their Places services across Australia, following the US, UK, Canadian and Japanese launches. If you want to access the service, you can get to it through the Facebook iPhone app or via … Continue reading →

Echoing the opinions of Francis Ford Coppola and Roger Ebert, Simon Pegg took to Twitter today to voice his opinions on 3D movies. Even 3D porn was under fire: “Could you seriously masturbate knowing you look like the nutty professor?” … Continue reading →

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Fighting international cyber-terrorism isn’t easy, but it’s a mission on which we can all agree, right? Not so fast. Russia has been pushing a proposal in The United Nations agency for information technology, which describes the greatest cyber-threat not as … Continue reading →

A 17-year old Australian is taking responsibility for unwittingly causing yesterday’s Twitter bug. While the teen didn’t directly bring the flood of spam and porn retweets, he burst open the dam. I guess that passes for precociousness these days? The … Continue reading →