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“The public are the best weapon for fighting crime,” says United Kingdom’s Home Secretary Jacqui Smith after introducing a new approach to criminal statistical surveillance earlier this month. Once police in England and Wales started publishing their monthly crime statistics, giving the public more information on local crime information, they knew they had to take it one step further. The ...

Look, I know Kevin, Brenda and Dylan are coming over tonight with a bottle of vodka they got a college kid to buy, but seriously guys, if I get caught having one more party, I’m boogered! We’re going to need some tunes for this jammin’ event, so make sure you bring your favorite mixtape, Dylan. Me? Oh, I have this ...

See this patch that looks like it belongs on a messenger bag from 1994, right next to that goofy Nirvana logo? Good. First off, it’s not a patch like on your mommy’s quilt, it’s a P8tch. It features a special barcode that your cellphone (possibly) can scan. When scanned, the “patch” takes you to the URL of your choice. Have ...

Quick! There’s a Woot Off going on at woot.com and you’d better get over there FAST. Chances are that sweet Dyson vaccuum cleaner will be gone by the time you click the link at the bottom of this post. That pack of lanterns? Gone. You gotta be fast! Don’t forget the famous $5 shipping. Link

With all that FCC brouhaha out of the way, XM and Sirius were able to move forward with their plans for a merger. Announced today, the new name of the combined companies will be Sirius XM Radio Inc. Boring as hell, right? No matter. There’s some major firepower behind this new company. It’ll be “the second largest radio company based ...

Strive for originality in your gift-giving? Have glassblower Livio Serena from 5.5 Designers whip you up a pair of eyeballs. Eerily realistic with the ability to light up your room (they’re lamps), the Cloned Eyeball Lamps are bound to make an impression on whoever you decide to give them to. Just don’t go using them as anal beads, mkay? Link

Apparently, eco-friendly WiFi routers aren’t the only thing D-Link is in to. The FuChat, as it so appropriately named, is a cordless phone capable of making internet and land-line phone calls. That’s not all, this phone also has the function to detect changes of tone in a person�s voice and changes in body temperature, alerting the user of their current ...

Remember the Virgin Galactic Mothership Hunter posted about over the weekend? Well, Designer Burt Rhutan of Scaled Composites and Sir Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin, have unveiled the latest in aviation technology and the world?s largest all carbon composite aircraft, the White Knight 2. It’s capable of reaching heights as great as 50,000 feet and specifies in training pilots for ...

Hubba hubba! Take a look at this assortment of sexy and seductive animals that are worth drooling over. Warning, these pictures are not safe for work and will surely give you a hard on. That is, if the other artsy animals I’ve posted haven’t already done that. No idea who made them, but I know where they came from and ...

Looking for a sidekick in your life? This is the week, baby. In the meantime, have some links and eat up. You’re gonna need it. I’ve heard of birch beer but a birch lamp? Culi, a competitor to Google Search, launched and boy does it suck Everyone needs one of these Ryan thinks trucker hats are still in style. You ...