One of the world’s most loved tech giants, Microsoft, has just patented a GPS design which will allegedly offer users high quality information for pedestrian routes. Among the high quality features are options to avoid open areas with harsh temperatures and an option to avoid unsafe neighborhoods — aka ghettos.

The GPS technology was created for Windows Phones and will use the latest crime statistics and weather data in its route calculations.

Now I’m just guessing here, but I’m assuming that if the option to avoid unsafe neighborhoods is selected, the GPS map for Detroit will just show a circling road around the whole city.

via cbslocal

During the Midnight Mass held at the St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Eve, Pope Benedict XVI said:

Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of God’s humility, which in turn calls us to humility and simplicity. Let us ask the Lord to help us see through the superficial glitter of this season, and to discover behind it the child in the stable in Bethlehem, so as to find true joy and true light.

via edition.cnn

PS: Regular posting will resume on the second week of 2012.

His name is Kim Jong Un, he’s 27 or 28 years old, and his hobbies include eating his cake and the cake of all the civilians. He’s also one of the most potentially dangerous men on the planet.

Cake and power, he’s got it all.

Have you ever wondered what kind of chemistry The Simpsons and Breaking Bad would have if they accidentally ended up in the same bed at a cheap motel? Me neither. But what I did always wonder is what Ned Flanders does in his spare time. You know, other than diddly doodlin’ his neighborino.

Now I know…

The MPAA and RIAA have recently tried to portray MegaUpload as one of the world’s leading “rogue” sites, saying that it steals American content, money, jobs and damages the economy. However, P Diddy, Will.i.am, Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, Chris Brown, The Game, Mary J Blige , Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather and Jamie Foxx disagree with that. And they’ve made a song to prove just how much they love MegaUpload!

Best “screw you!” message of the year.

PS: Of course all of these artists were paid to do the jingle, but it’s still cool that they’ve agreed to do it!