* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Astronomers find biggest black hole, 17 BILLION times the size of Sun

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It's great to see some hard science from Texas

It's refreshing after all the religious who-harr produced by Texans during the election.

Until next time...

Scoop! The inside story of the news website that saved the BBC

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Need to check a story?

Head over to BBC news online.

Samsung printers have secret admin account

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Happy

Hi

No comment.

Just taking my SILVER badge out for a spin!

WooT

Japan firm offers mums-to-be 3D printed unborn infants

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Hmmm, maybe I should...

...get my cancerous right kidney printed before it gets whipped out.

Now that would make a talking point on the mantle piece.

Belgian finds missus was born a MAN after 19 YEARS of marriage

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Not happy Jan!

All those years, should have been buying her/him Old Spice for chrissy.

Antarctic discovery: ALIEN LIFE may be FOUND ON MOON of Jupiter

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Jumping Jupiter moon microbes

When are we going?

‘Anonymous’ takes down Texan RFID-tracking school

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Religious? Mark of the beast? RFIDs?

What's the problem, doesn't the great sky elf know exactly where you are all the time?

WWII HERO PIGEON crypto message STUMPS GCHQ boffins

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It tells of the secret whereabouts of:

The Fallen Madonna with the big boobies!

Pirate cops bust LITTLE GIRL, take her Winnie-the-Pooh laptop

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Childcatcher

9 years old

9!

Pooh to the thugs from the Copyright Stazi.

South Korean convicted for tweeting Pyongyang propaganda

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Simple rule:

If you're a twat, don't twit.

Google avoids tax with ‘Double Irish Dutch Sandwich’

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Do no evil *....

Pay less tax.

* remember that?

Epic e-tail fail down under

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No jousting sticks

I got nothing for the pool room at all.

NASA admits hiding 'really good' news from Martian soil

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It's life Jim

But not as we know it.

(fingers crossed)

Oprah Winfrey too late to save Microsoft's Windows 8

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Oprah Winfrey to endorse Windows 8

Fuck me drunk!

Oprah Winfrey will happily endorse any kind of magic-woo-fairypowder.

Credibility; neither she nor Win 8 has it.

Design guru: Windows 8 is 'a monster' and 'a tortured soul'

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The marketing message...

....has NEVER been about the users.

Restaurateur jailed for customer sex profile revenge plan

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Waiter, there's a troll in my soup!

Revenge, a dish best served in gaol.

Sarcastic tweeter jailed for mocking Communist Party

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A bit harsh

Obviously the men in power are very sensitive about their dictatorial* approach.

* For Chinese readers; insert the expression "loving".

'Mount Doom' rumbling ominously

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Dangerous or not

That part of the world is spectacularly beautiful.

Do yourself a favour, go and visit.

<-- Mine's the hiking jacket with the luxury B&B guidebook in it.

Galapagos islands bombed with 22 tonnes of Blue Death Cornflakes

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NEXT: Blue rice bubbles

They make you go; Snap, Crackle and Aaaaaaarrrgg!

Anonymous attacks Israeli websites over Gaza bombings

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Stop

Just stop it already

Stop.

Nazi Enigma encoding machine sells in London for over £80k

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Did the germans also invent poker machines?

Einfügen Sie 1 Mark

Aktivieren!

Fart-buster underpants selling well among Japanese salarymen

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Re: Somebody step on a duck?

You've obviously never wrapped your nostrils around my vegetarian burrito and beer 'special'.

I doubt these uber pants would be up to scratch.

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Somebody step on a duck?

Now they would be fun to test out.

Automatic Facebook couple pages: Nauseating sign of desperation

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That's no lady, that's my wife..

Oh dear, Facebook has jumped the shark.

ROGUE PLANET WITHOUT A SUN spotted in interstellar space

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A roving planet, by golly

I'll bet the planning permission forms are hell to fill in.

4GEE data marketing campaign accidentally gets Irishmen salivating

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Gee is pronounced as in...

Gee W Bush.

Windows boss Steve Sinofsky exits Microsoft

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Did he leave via the Window?

Window # 8

Supersymmetry takes an arrow to the knee

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Yay!

....I think.

Quarter of Brits don't believe that cell towers improve phone reception

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A quarter of Brits fail to understand some science, that's probably excusable.

What worries me more is that:

"68 percent of registered (US) Republican voters stated that they believe demonic possession is real." - Public Policy Polling, by NPR.

Hacker sentenced to six years – WITH NO INTERNET

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I never had access to the Internet when I were a lad

What's the big deal?

Disclosure: I did get to play with some old IBM punch-cards Dad brought home from work though.

Conroy says filter demise a win for community consultation

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Hey, Australian Christian Lobby, et alii !

Why must religious fundies insist on imposing bronze-age morals(?) on 21st century mankind?

If you think the Internet is un-godly, blasphemous or just plain icky; JUST DON'T USE IT.

Stob on Quatermass: Was this British TV's finest sci-fi hour?

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Quatermass and the pit

Scary shit

Habitable HEAVY GRAVITY WORLD found just 42 light-years away

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It doesn't matter not how far away it is

The Germans will have already put their towels on all the best deck chairs.

Scientist plans to catch Bigfoot with remote-control blimp

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"The challenge with any animal that is rare, solitary, nocturnal, and far-ranging..."

He missed: "Or is not there, has never been there nor has ever existed."

$300,000 for pure bunkum, no thanks.

Welsh council's unused mountain of 2,400 laptops

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Councils eh?

They'll not only empty your bins for you, but your wallets too.

Pristine WWII German Enigma machine could be yours

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Despite it's actual use

It's a thing of beauty.

Lab mice drown in their THOUSANDS as Hurricane Sandy fills NYU basement

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Don't put all your mice

In the same basement.

<-- lab coat

Forstall ousted from Apple after refusing to apologise for Maps

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Leatherette trim with stitching....

Never a good look.

Apple exec behind Maps and Siri to exit One Infinite Loop

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"and will serve as an advisor to CEO Tim Cook in the interim”

Code for: Special Projects, which is code for: Waiting in the departure lounge, which is code for: getting the boot.

Steve Jobs' Apple-powered yacht makes belated first trip

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The boy stood on the burning deck...

My goodness that's one ugly floating palace.

Plenty of money, short on style.

Granny upstages Microsoft, storms stage at Surface launch

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These Apple groupies are starting to age

Granny Smith?

LARGEST BELCH EVER SEEN devastates gassy GIANT Saturn

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Maybe it's a signal

"Send more poppadums, beer and pick us up a kebab along the way..."

(It would explain all the gas)

Paintballs proposed as defense against ASTEROID ATTACK

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Interstellar tennis anyone?

We paint it white, send it on its way.

Eons later...

Another race paints it black, to send it on its way (away)

Eons later...

America mounts attempt to top the Register's world record spaceflight

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Let the race begin

Science is fun for all

Consumer group urges Aussies to spoof IP addresses

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Warm up the VPN

It's time for Red Dwarf X on my Oz PC.

- Dave

TSA fails again with adjustable boarding passes

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TSA, more like the STA

Security

Theatre

America

NSW public servant's email hacked, used to criticise leader

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The email might be a fake

But the funding cuts don't seem to be.

Which is worse?