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The Hunt For Gollum, £3,000 Fan-Made 40 Minute Tolkien Epic To Be Released Online On 2009-05-03

Watch the trailer.

BBC posted an interview with director Chris Bouchard, who’s been involved with indie filmmaking before.

Microsoft To Disable Autorun (on writable removable media, network shares)

Too little, too late.

[via:Slashdot]

Suomen Kuvalehti vihaa sananvapautta

“Yhtyneet kuvalehdet vaatii, että Suomen Kuvalehteä parodioivan [Lehden] julkaisun irtonumeromyynti olisi pitänyt lopettaa maanantaihin mennessä.
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“Tämä on aivan sama asia kuin joku kopioisi vaikka jonkun juoman tai patukan bisnesmielessä”, sanoo [Suomen Kuvalehden päätoimittaja Tapani Ruokanen]“

Vanhan ajan mediat ovat ilmiselvästi paskansyöjäporukkaa.

[via:Mummila]

How 4chan’s moot won the annual TIME 100 Poll

Also: Marble Cake

[via:Reddit]

Syntax Highlighting i GNU Nano

Ännu en typisk vett & sanssparande, Captain Obvious grej som jag av någon anledning aldrig orkat googla fram på ett par sekunder. Kod för hilighting av fler språk, inklusive PHP, finns på Linuxhelps Wiki.

[via:Charris]

My First Dictionary

Creepy word-of-the-day themed webcomic disguised as a children’s dictionary. The word for April 2 2009 was “write“.

[via:Nelg]

Samples of Iranian pre-Islamic Revolution 70′s culture

[via:Charris]

Bohemian Rhapsody played by vintage computer hardware

[via:Waxy]

A.P. Doesn’t Know It Has A YouTube Channel: Threatens Affiliate For Embedding Videos

[via:humble.fool]

Barack Obama Nude On A Unicorn

[via:humble.fool]

Colonia Dignidad: The Torture Colony

“In a remote part of Chile, an evil German [pedophile] evangelist built a utopia whose members helped the Pinochet regime perform its foulest deeds”

Won’t please the tl;dr crowd.

[via:Metafilter]

How to Rapidly Improve Speaking Skills (may cause a British accent)

[via:Give Me Something To Read]

30% of US military women are raped while serving

“…71% are sexually assaulted, and 90% are sexually harassed”

We Didn’t Start the Flame War

Brutally honest depiction of user participation on Digg and Youtube.

[via:Sinus]

Campus Police: Using two operating systems & command lines sign of suspicious activity

The suspect is known for using…

“…two different operating systems for hiding his illegal activity. One is the regular B.C. operating system and the other is a black screen with white font which he uses prompt commands on.”

More bizarre details in EFF’s press release.

[via:Slashdot]