Posted by Zonk on Tuesday January 31, 2006 @01:47PM from the wah-wah-wah-all-the-way-home dept. mfh writes "StarForce has issued threats to Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow in retaliation to Cory's post about the anti-copy malware that installs itself along with many popular (and unpopular) video games." From the BoingBoing post: "Yesterday, I posted about StarForce, a harmful technology used by game c

Snip from NYT story: China is already the world's second-biggest producer of greenhouse gas emissions and is expected to surpass the United States as the biggest. Roughly a third of China is exposed to acid rain. A recent study by a Chinese research institute found that 400,000 people die prematurely every year in China from diseases linked to air pollution. Nor does China's air pollution respect

HOWTO convert an Oral B flosser into a vibrating lockpick Here's a simple recipe for converting a low-cost Oral B "Hummingbird" vibrating flosser into a vibrating lock-pick that can "pop most popular padlocks open in seconds with very little effort." Link (via Make Blog)

Soy-sauce-dispensing chopsticks, a condiment pipette These $18 chopsticks are hollow, with holes in their tips and soy-sauce reservoirs in their hind-ends; like a laboratory pipette, they drip soy-sauce over your food in carefully measured doses as you eat. Link (via Popgadget)