Turns out we were all FOOLED. That funny video of an office worker going nuts on YouTube was actually fake. After circulating through the internet like crazy it came out that Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov created the video to market his movie. In his blog post he told that he used the video to prove how gullible and foolish Westerners are (he’s from Kazakhstan). Lame.

Nicholas Carr of The Atlantic certainly seems to think so:

Their easy assumption that we’d all “be better off” if our brains were supplemented, or even replaced, by an artificial intelligence is unsettling. It suggests a belief that intelligence is the output of a mechanical process, a series of discrete steps that can be isolated, measured, and optimized. In Google’s world, the world we enter when we go online, there’s little place for the fuzziness of contemplation. Ambiguity is not an opening for insight but a bug to be fixed. The human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and a bigger hard drive.

The idea that our minds should operate as high-speed data-processing machines is not only built into the workings of the Internet, it is the network’s reigning business model as well. The faster we surf across the Web—the more links we click and pages we view—the more opportunities Google and other companies gain to collect information about us and to feed us advertisements. Most of the proprietors of the commercial Internet have a financial stake in collecting the crumbs of data we leave behind as we flit from link to link—the more crumbs, the better. The last thing these companies want is to encourage leisurely reading or slow, concentrated thought. It’s in their economic interest to drive us to distraction.

I’d agree but I didn’t actually read the article, I just skimmed the first paragraph and clicked on something else….OMG J/K!!1111

You liek moar fun internetz time activities? Shoop this bird. LOOK I’LL GO FIRST

And I remember when I got a phone that could take pictures I was pumped.

Since 2004, a team of professors and students from the University of California, Berkeley has searched for ways to let a single human supervise a team of robot planes. Now, this Center for Collaborative Control of Unmanned Vehicles has a new device for ordering around its drones: an iPhone.

In a video taken from this month’s Teaching & Technology conference, the Berkeley crew uses an iPhone to pick tasks for its drone squadron, input a set of coordinates for a local reconnaissance mission, and send the planes new orders while the aircraft are in the sky.

But don’t tell Steve Jobs how the Berkeley folks are using his gadget. According to the terms of the Apple Software Developer Kit agreement, “applications may not be designed or marketed for real-time route guidance; automatic or autonomous control of vehicles, aircraft, or other mechanical devices; dispatch or fleet management; or emergency or life-saving purposes.”

Synthesis <3s Jeremy Fish. It seems like that guy never sleeps! When he’s not throwing up some awesome art in Aesop Rock music vids, he’s cumming coming up with cute, vibrating Beavers??? WORD!

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Pictures supposedly showing Mythbusters co-host Adam Savage enjoying some rather unorthodox forms of sexual self-exploration are currently making the rounds after being hacked off an image server. No word yet if they’re part of an episode exploring the the myth behind the original Goatse.cx meme, but either way, they’re pretty badass. Check out the winnar here but WARNING: DEFINITELY NSFW. For the full rundown of the lulz, as always, look no further than our friends at Encyclopedia Dramatica.