Well-designed systems NEVER store passwords. via France to require cleartext password storage – Boing Boing and Net giants challenge French data law

"But you would have figured that out whilst enjoying those cavity searches." VISIT LINK: Caution: Some of these may offense airport and immigration staff (tags: crazy design fun funny stickers suitcase product …)

Serious threat to the web in Italy In 2006, students at a school in Turin, Italy filmed and then uploaded a video to Google Video that showed them bullying an autistic schoolmate. Google took it down within hours of being notified by the Italian police, and also worked with the local police to help identify [...]

Terminator v0.1a The makers of the eerily lifelike robotic mule have a new creation: a machine that walks around like a real human being. Boston Dynamics is building the “Petman” prototype for the U.S. Army, to test out protective clothing. “Petman will balance itself and move freely; walking, crawling and doing a variety of suit-stressing [...]

2-year-old smoker in China [video] Is this real? China's official stats: 350 million smokers and over 10,000 dying from passive smoking each year. (tags: cigarette China child baby kid smoke smoking crazy sick scary humanity video …)

James Kuhn excellent facepainting [photos & videos] "Face paint is the most exciting thing that has happened to me in a long while! I believe it may have magical powers!" (tags: art cool images inspiration photos photography flickr painting awesome face crazy paint facepainting photo video fun funny …)