So, you’re driving along, and you get a text from your significant other.  CLEARLY, they want you to drop everything you’re doing, take one hand off the sensitive control of that 1 ton vehicle traveling at say, 50mph, and answer their concern immediately.  “Hey babe, whut up? Whut r u wearing?” is just more important than paying attention to the ~230 kJ kinetic projectile you’re currently at the helm of.

Sounds pretty good, right? WRONG.

Now, you can attach a full iPad to your steering wheel! No more dicking with your iPhone while dicking with your dick with your other hand!  Now you can safely, and EASILY do stupid shit like read the news while driving!  Here are some quotes from satisfied customers who don’t sound made-up at all!

“I don’t think that I am exaggerating when I say that the iPad Steering Wheel Mount probably has saved my life. Before I bought the mount, I was always trying to text and read E-Mail on my Blackberry while driving on my daily commute in Seattle.” – Steve Holland

“Often people fall asleep in the middle of a clear and dry day with no traffic and crash while driving on I-57 because it is so boring and because the speed limit is only 65 miles per hour. I have found that using cruise control and playing BeJeweled on my iPad mounted on the steering wheel keeps me awake and alert without distracting too much from driving.” – Sam Dinsdale

Go out and buy one today, so you do this to a mother and her two children!  And when your airbag deploys, you can KEEP READING because it’ll shove the iPad into your FACE. Ain’t safety GREAT?

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So, there’s this Argentinian politician who just proposed an anti-plagiarism law, which he apparently thinks is an anti-copyright infringement law.  We know this because he suggests that plagiarism is hurting the recording industry.   Okay, so clearly he’s involved with the Argentinian RIAA equivalent, and neither he nor they know what the difference is.  Great, that’s pretty stupid already, even without getting into the whole RIAA/copyright debate.

To increase the stupid, he used Wikipedia to help write his proposed law.  That’s pretty scary.  A federal-level law, well, a law period, being based on Wikipedia.  Most high schools don’t let you use Wikipedia as a serious source, much less colleges and governmental institutions.

But here’s the real kicker.  Not only did he use Wikipedia as his source, he apparently stole 3 paragraphs straight up from Wikipedia.  Verbatim.  In other words, he plagiarized the Wikipedia article on plagiarism for his anti-plagiarism bill.  Sweet.

…and a Guy’s Reason for Suicide.

RF Moeller is a diamond dealer.  Some fellow made an ad for them.  Probably not the best idea ever…   but it is an interesting study on how most things are done on Facebook these days.  Most of the story has unfolded there, apparently, with apologies and so forth from both Moeller, and the admaker.

Here it is below. Enjoy.

From Failblog.  This was too good not to share.  It looks ’shopped, but if it isn’t, then some sign maker somewhere needs to be fired, then given a medal or something.

It turns out that finding rare things in a sea of normal things is hard.  Incidentally, that’s what we rely upon when we go through TSA screening and they look for weapons on our person or in our carry-on baggage.

From the NPR Article:

“If you stick those 20 bags into a stack of 40 bags, so on average there’s a gun and knife in 50 percent of the bags,” Wolfe says, “people missed about 7 percent of the bags.”

But when he took the exact same 20 bags and stuck them in a stack of 2,000 bags so that the targets showed up only 2 percent of the time, people got significantly worse. “All of a sudden, people were missing about 30 percent of the bags,” Wolfe says.

Huh.  Well, now TSA screeners are going to be looking at baggage and nekkid pictures, so I bet they get super better at this.  Right? Right?

GameCrush is a site where you pay $0.66/minute to play videogames with women.

The women are compensated $30/hour to put up with the men that would frequent such a site.

For more info: GameCrush press page

As Penny Arcade put it in this comic and news post, you’re essentially renting women (buying a hooker) from a digital storefront (brothel).  I mean… paying women to…play games…with..you.

Well,  Larry Hyrd, aka Major Nelson of Xbox Live had his account hacked recently.  The code monkeys at M$ have fixed it all, supposedly.

The script kiddies that did it thoughtfully gave a YouTube presentation of their doings, complete with a their website address, Skype Names, and AIM name.  Furthermore, they showed (in HD glory) their entire buddy list.

It’s awesome.  The internets already has their home address and facebook via WHOIS.

Full story and YouTube Video on Kotaku here.  WARNING: You’ll want headphones for the video if you’re at work.  Lots of wannabe thug swearing.

Kotaku comment thread has his address and facebook page, if you are so inclined. Oh! And surprise, surprise, he’s from Florida.