A hacker by the alias Stryde (Mike Walker) is reported to have found information that Chinese gymnast and Olympic gold medalist He Kexin is only 14 years old, while the rules say that you have to be 16 to compete in gymnastics. Googling for information about He Kexin he found that her name was not found in official [...]
Browsing Posts published in August, 2008
Sony is releasing a new model of Playstation 3 with 160Gb harddisk and with Dual Shock controllers as standard. Just released is the 80Gb model, also with Dual Shocks, but with the 160Gb you will also get 80 euro worth of downloadable content from Playstation Store coming soon, and also bundled with the game “Unsharted: Drake’s [...]
Ara Abrahamian and the Swedish Olympic Committee (SOK) are now reporting FILA to the court of arbitration of sports (CAS) for misconduct during the semi final match that got a lot of attention after Ara threw away his bronze medal in protest of the referee gave the win to Italys Andrea Minguzzi after some debatable [...]
Today I found a link in a forum to something called the Wayback Machine. It’s basically a search engine just like Google, but the they have saved data from way back, and not overwriting it with the latest version. I could actually look up my old sites and see how they looked back in 1999 and even download some [...]
Ever been delt the same two cards several times in a row? Or just seen too many straights and flushes to be random? Well, it happens to me surprisingly often. Is it just my me or is the dealer on free poker games such as the one on Facebook, not shuffling the deck good enough? [...]
The International Olympic Committee has sent a letter to the Swedish justice department requesting that action is taken against The Pirate Bay for having links to the video of the opening ceremony. The Pirate Bay responded by changing their logo on the website to “The Beijing Bay” and also as a protest against the corruption [...]
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