Most of us would be lucky if our own future children we’re nice enough to install a 40GB/s fibre optic internet connection in our snowy cottage in the Alps, hell, most of us will count our lucky stars if our wrinkly asses don’t get thrown into some rat infested home to live out our miserable days. The world’s greatest son, Peter Löthberg, went on to say this:

“I want to show that there are other methods than the old fashioned ways such as copper wires and radio, which lack the possibilities that fibre has.”

You wanted to show? Dude come on over to my place and you can show the whole god damn world how fast the internet can be, believe me it’s pretty much going to waste on your mom’s browsing eBay and uploading baby pictures.

[Via The Register]

**UPDATE: EFFECTIVE NOW**
AT&T customers will be lucky enough to have free use of Wi-Fi hotspots in 10,000 locations across the country. Anyone who subscribes to the Pro, Elite, and FastAccess plans can access the hotspots that are located in hundreds of airports, coffee shops, restaurants, Barnes and Noble stores, and McDonald’s.

For those lower plan people who are still members of AT&T’s phone service, an extra $1.99 per month will allow them to take part in the convenience. Other customers who wish to use the Wi-Fi but do not use AT&T can still purchase a plan that costs a whopping daily fee of $7.99.

According to statistics, nearly 13 million customers have broadband services through AT&T, which means that encouraging customers to upgrade or add the Wi-Fi plan will bring in huge piles of cash for AT&T.
[Via Yahoo]

Okay, so there is MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, Reddit, Digg, blah buh blah buh blah… All of these type of sites have certain things in common, and the most notable one is simple: People spends hours on these sites talking to people, sending messages, changing their profiles, adding photos, looking for hotties, and everything else in between. The other thing that these users have in common is the fact that they sit on their ass while they do all of this “work”, therefore making their life a waste.

Instead of putting on about 10 lbs of worthlessness, instead of spending thirty minutes taking pictures of yourself with stupid expressions or revealing clothes on, instead of stalking that cute girl that sits behind you in class, instead of blogging about how lonely you are…(and it goes on like this), go to MEETin.org and find people that want to socialize outside.

This is a free, clever site dedicated to helping the bulk of America (pun intended) get outdoors and see people in real life. Although they do not have a section for Los Angeles, which is entirely confusing to me, they do have hundreds of major cities and locations to meet real people to go to bars, go hiking, bike riding, surfing, or whatever else people that leave their house may possibly do with other people. They even have groups in Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, and will probably expand as the site becomes more popular.

If your lucky enough to live in one of the areas that this site caters to, go ahead and try it out. There are plenty of events that people have gone too, and most are fairly safe and comfortable settings. As you can see here, thousands of people have already participated, and it looks like all the events are pretty fun.

Enough said. I’m looking at L.T. and Adam to tell me different. Anyways, the Safari download is on my computer now, but I have yet to install it. We’ll see how long before my curiosity takes over, which may be never, since I am very content with Firefox.

Get the newest version of Safari, now for Windows

Also, enjoy this photo of Safari’s features, which don’t really stand out too much to me. Do Mac users know that Firefox has an optimized version for Mac OSX that supposedly runs better than Safari? And do they know that Firefox has better plugin, theme, and add-on support and communities than all other browsers combined?

These questions of mine may never get answered, lest you be angry at my sayings.

Jorge Romero, a Chicago man that just happens to be 24 years old, has been charged with uploading copyrighted episodes of hit FOX show 24. Whether or not he knew it or did it, the episodes that he posted were in fact unaired as well as aimed at commercial distribution.

Since this offense was brought forth by the FBI and backed by FOX studios, Romero could do time for up to three years at a federal prison. He is in a terrible position, as he was “wise” enough to upload the first four episodes of the newest season of 24 a week before they aired on television, breaking all sorts of trade, copyright, and internet laws and regulations.

While it is hard to say anything about Romero’s innocence (Guilty!), I can say that the only person that could get him out of this mess would be Jack Bauer. Too bad that Jack is too busy saving the world.

[Via Yahoo]

Porn. Pron. Bewbs. Art. Thursday night.

Whatever you call it, you look at it. It consumes your soul, and beckons your eyes and your body to find more. Or not.

The internet is flooded with pornography sites, but one writer has created a new theory: illegal music downloading sites are more of a security risk than internet porn sites, giving rise to spam, bots, worms, trojans, viruses, and exploits. As programmable viruses can be inserted into mp3s and other media files, illegal music is considerably dangerous when compared to a few dozen pictures of a Hot Carl or Spraydini.

Read here for the full opinion.

The title is pretty self explanatory. From one place Sputtr lets you search every major bookmarking, photo sharring and social site.

There are at least three things every self respecting citizen should do before their inevitable dirt nap:

1. Punch a clown in the throat
2. Go skinny dipping
3. Punch a clown in the throat while skinny dipping

But if you can’t find the time to do either, at least check out the site http://www.1-click.jp/ for the internet’s coolest and most foreign cursor.

My mom emailed me this today, and I think that it is really well done.

If your anything like me, you hate seeing poorly done MySpace pages. How can you get the most friends on your profile list without trying? Simple! All you need to do is make your profile page look spectacularly scandalacious. With the new software Webfetti, awesome web sites just got awesomer. Check inside for full details!
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