Dieters should look away now.
Classified in the same category as the Krispy Kreme and Fatty Melt burgers; here comes the unhealthy bacon-cheese-pizza-burger.
Want to make one? Just take a giant beef patty, eggs, bacon, colby, pepper jack cheese, and throw everything in between 2 large meat pizzas. Yum.
Please note that we will not be held responsible about your upcoming heart attack if you decide to eat one of these monstrosities.
We’re usually not in the “cute business” here at [GAS], but since this is cool and funny in so many ways, we just had to post it. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
By Sterling “Chip” Camden
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
Justin James alerted me to the beta release of Lunascape5 Genesis, the three-headed browser from Japan whose alpha version I reviewed back in November.
One of the concerns I had at that time was if you intend to use Lunascape for cross-browser testing, you should be aware that it doesn’t always render pages identically to Chrome or Safari when using WebKit, and there are small differences between IE7 and Lunascape when using Trident (check my previous article for details). Those differences do not seem to have been addressed in the beta. The release notes mention an update to the Gecko engine, but not to WebKit or Trident. Search as I might, I couldn’t find anywhere what versions of WebKit or Trident Lunascape uses.
Lunascape is still claiming the fastest JavaScript engine, based on the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark. As I said back in November, though, it depends on what you test. The results from Mozilla’s Dromaeo benchmark again show that Chrome beats Lunascape in most categories hands down, with a few exceptions. Here are the new results for Lunascape (Gecko, WebKit) and Chrome. The Dromaeo benchmark has been changed to report runs per second now instead of elapsed time, so larger numbers are better.
Still no English language plugins at the Plugin Center, either. Only Japanese.
So what exactly have they been up to since November? Perusing the release notes, we find a lot of fixes for situations that caused the browser to crash, along with a lot of minor fixes and a few new features. They also claim to have improved performance and lowered CPU usage. It does seem a bit snappier than the Alpha version, and appears to release resources consistently. The first time you load a new engine, memory usage increases significantly — but that’s to be expected. Loading subsequent pages with the same engine doesn’t incur the same overhead.
Lunascape’s home page states that Lunascape passes the Acid3 test with a 100% score. That’s true, but only when using the WebKit engine. Gecko scores 93, and Trident gets a miserable 5 (same as Internet Explorer 7 stand-alone). For comparison, Google Chrome version 1.0.154.48 scores 79, Safari 3.2.1 gets a 74, Firefox 3.0.6 ranks 71, and Opera 9.2.5 crashes and burns (at least on Windows Vista)! So for compatibility with standards for DOM and JavaScript, Lunascape turns out to be your best bet among these options — especially when using WebKit.
UPDATE 2009-02-21: Just installed Opera 9.51, which fixed the crash on the Acid3 test. Opera scores 84, which is second-best to Lunascape in WebKit mode.
Even as banks topple, Juan Enriquez says the big reboot is yet to come. But don’t look for it on your ballot — or in the stock exchange. It’ll come from science labs, and it promises keener bodies and minds. In just a generation or two, kids are going to be very different from what they are right now.
What you see above is a 103-inch Panasonic plasma display transformed into a multi-touch air hockey table, thanks to Uicentric’s U-Touch overlay technology. The table was featured a few weeks ago at ISE 2009 in Amsterdam
By Casey Lynn
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
After spending so much time yesterday listening to the Super Mario theme, I was inspired to dig up some more Mario for this week’s geeky pics post. So here’s some creative representations of the plumber himself in all shapes and sizes.
Sexy Mario (and friends)
By Johnny Daniels
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
While President Obama is going around thinking that his sparkling, very expensive new smart phone is secure and hacker-proof, convicted hacker Kevin Mitnick has some bad news for him – it’s not secure at all.
Mitnick, who spent nearly 5 years in prison for hacking offences, told Fox News that the way into Obama’s device would be to target the people he is emailing – because their computers will be much less guarded than Obama’s will be.
If a hacker can get into the computer of one of Obama’s email correspondents, the next step would be to discover the closely guarded email address of the president. They could then use the friend’s email address to impersonate that person and send Obama an email trying to entice him to open a virus-infected attachment or lure him to a virus-infected website.
The theory is sound enough, but to be honest, I don’t see it happening. I’d like to credit the president with some intelligence that a) he has a virus scanner installed on his Blackberry (there’s almost no viruses made for mobile devices anyways) and b) he can spot when someone else is impersonating his friends. For example, I know how my friends write. I know their “style” and I know their “voice”. If someone else tried to pretend they were them, my sixth sense would kick in and I would know right away that they were imposters.
Plus as President of the United States, I would like to think that even if his best friend sent him an attachment, he would err on the side of caution and would think twice before opening anything.
But I accept the gist of what Mitnick is saying and I hope that Obama’s email friends get some help from the NSA with their computer security. It’s in everyone’s best interests after all.
By Johnny Daniels
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
When Heath Ledger died his untimely death, it was a tragedy to be sure. But his fans think that his performance as the Joker was so good that no actor can do it better. So they want Hollywood to “retire” the Joker character to ensure that no-one plays the role ever again. In order to attain their goal, they have started a web campaign to garner support.
You can sign the petition (for all the good it will do – I am very cynical about online petitions), download a Joker card, join the Flickr page, visit their YouTube or Facebook page or subscribe to their RSS feed.
But the site is attracting some rather negative and nasty comments such as the one below :
“The group says once they get 50,000 signatures they’re going to march on Warner Bros. or something like that. In the time that it takes them to get 50,000 signatures for a petition that stupid, I’m guessing that I could build a device to electroshock Heath Ledger back to life so he can continue the role himself.”
As the Joker himself would say “why so serious?“
By Brian Boyko
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
You’ve probably seen something like this before, but never this well. ArcAttack uses two eight foot Tesla coils and a robotic percussion band in order to play music.
In addition to the interview with one of the ArcAttack members, John DiPrima, that we’ve conducted for our series on crazy inventors and inventions, we’ve also made sure that you’ll be able to enjoy renditions of “Popcorn” and the “Doctor Who” theme via audio-modulated freakin’ thunder.
For those who want to skip the interview, “Popcorn” starts at 3:50 and “Doctor Who” starts at 6:45
You’ll have to excuse the fact that we set up the camera about 100 feet from the actual Tesla coils. Any closer to that and we were getting serious interference which was throwing off our cameras’ focus – and doing god knows what else to them. You can see some of the effects from seeing the coils light up fluorescent lights from 15 feet away.
Check out ArcAttack‘s Web site if you’re interested in finding out more information.
Oh, one last thing: As always, don’t try this at home.
By Johnny Daniels
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
The woman in the following video missed her flight to San Francisco from Hong Kong airport. Rather than calmly accepting her situation and booking herself onto the next available flight, she decided to go all Kamikaze on everyone. In the process, she became a YouTube sensation.
She was later allowed onto another flight, no doubt after a thorough cavity search and being maced a few times.