The BBC has a meaty write-up on the subject if you’re into reading lots of words. If you don’t want to read too many words but are curious as to how Anonymous managed to gain access to the conference call, well, it was thanks to an email intercept containing the login information. Pretty nifty on Anon’s part, pretty dumb on FBI’s part. Although, considering how boring this call was, I think they could just make all their conference calls public because nobody would want to listen in.

At least 40 73 (!) Egyptians lost their lives on a soccer stadium today after the wrong team won the game. Apparently the organizers forgot to announce that the stadium doubled as a place of mass execution in-between matches.

A security official and a medic said fans of the home team, Al-Masry, swarmed the field after a rare 3-1 win against Al-Ahly, Egypt’s top team. They threw stones, fireworks, and bottles at the fans and injured some players.

 

Soon after the violence, a soccer game in the Cairo Stadium between the Al-Ismailiya and Zamalek teams was called off in mourning for the violence in Port Said.

 

State TV showed video of sections of the Cairo stadium on fire. The announcer said angry fans of the Zamalek protested the cancellation and set some sections of the stadium on fire.

On a serious note though, what the hell is wrong with soccer fans? They’re some of the most savage people on the planet, and it’s all over a ball. 40 73 dead is similar to what happened last year when Mubarak’s police charged into the crowds of protesters. In fact, I think one full day of violence during the revolution had fewer dead than this soccer match…

This is just mind boggling insanity.

via google.com/hostednews/ap/

Over 23% of all the goods and services made since 1AD were produced from 2001 to 2010, according to an updated version of Angus Maddison’s figures.

If this trend will continue for the 2010-2020 period, half of all the goods and services made since 1AD will have been produced in just 20 years. That’s 50% of all the stuff ever made on this planet.

Completely healthy and sustainable.

via economist

Source: frugaldad.com

Just kidding. The money came from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

“By supporting the Global Fund, we can help to change the fortunes of the poorest countries in the world,” Gates said in a statement. “I can’t think of more important work.”

If there was ever a Steve Jobs Foundation, its aim would have been to undermine the efforts of the Gates Foundation. Sort of a counter-philanthropy thing.

“What’s that, Bill? You want to reduce poverty and expand access to information technology? You leave me no choice but to outsource ten thousand jobs to this Chinese company where workers are treated like slaves.”

via edition.cnn.com

To prevent the remaining file-sharing sites from distributing illegal MP3s and to help artists reach new levels of wealth, record label executives have decided to send e-mails filled with disapproving emoticons (ಠ_ಠ) to all known offenders.

And just like that, they’ve shut down the file-sharing site Megaupload and arrested its owners. They’ve also indicted all of the website’s staff.

This is how I reacted when I heard the news.

A source from North Korea’s North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK:

The authorities are handing down at least six months in a labor-training camp to anybody who didn’t participate in the organized gatherings during the mourning period, or who did participate but didn’t cry and didn’t seem genuine.

I’m surprised they’re not awarding some kind of prize to those who cried the hardest.

Now, I’ve done my own research into this matter and came to the conclusion that this is nothing but a scheme by the Russians. I mean, if you rearrange the letters in “retards” (which these people obviously are) you’ll get “Red Tsar.” Who was the Red Tsar? Joseph Stalin! These are his people in a mission to vilify America and its celebrities! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!11!1one1one

Orange juice prices have climbed to $2.12 a pound over the past few days, marking an increase of about 25% since the beginning of the year. The reasons behind this dramatic price surge are safety concerns about juice from Brazil, and cold weather in Florida.

Trying to speak on the matter after having an OJ-less breakfast, president Obama had this face to show:

via bbc

Stephen Hawking has recently sent a letter to Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in which he said: “My speech input is very, very slow these days. Is there any way Intel could help?” Intel tasked a few groups to see what can be done to help Stephen, and they’ve built him a custom system based around the Lenovo X220 tablet.

The computer features an Intel Core i7 processor along with a forward-facing webcam, which Stephen uses to place phone calls using Skype.

 

Underneath the wheelchair is the black box, which contains an audio amplifier, voltage regulators and a USB hardware key that receives the input from the IR sensor on Stephen’s eyeglasses. The hardware voice synthesizer sits in another black box on the back of the chair and receives commands from the computer via a USB-based serial port.

Naturally, the PC runs Windows 7, because that’s what brilliant people require.

via freepress.intel