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Feeling secure today? A new report from AVG warns users against social networking sites and the potential for pages that compromise security. Through their research of social networking sites, AVG found 20,000 compromised pages in all, 11,701 of which are on Facebook. YouTube tallied 7,163 compromised pages. “The fact that we found almost 20,000 compromised web pages should make social ...

More closely resembling an armored briefcase than a case for your smartphone, the Machined iPhone 4 Case by Karas Kustoms are anodized and prepared to take a fall, while leaving your phone intact. These cases also prevent the dreaded antennae issues, without even covering up the entire side of the phone. Karas Kustoms offers the cases for $39 a piece, ...

The meanest damn lunch in the planet, meet Quiche the Bounty Hunter. This Boba Fett-inspired dish is hellbent on collecting the crust of every scum-bag quiche in the universe, no matter how noble their cause may be. Hey, he’s got little mini-quiches to feed. Stuffed with spinach, Kalamata olive tapenade, feta cheese and chopped red peppers, Alicia “Policia” Traveria’s (also ...

Some people do it for a thrill and others do it because it’s their job. This guy must climb a 1,768 ft. tall guided transmission tower, more than 200 feet taller than the Empire State Building, just to get to work in the morning. Watching the video above, keep in mind that most of the ascent is a free-climb, with ...

Remember those Magic Slate drawing pads from when you were a kid? You know the ones. You’d draw a little picture, or if you were like me, draw an indistinguishable blob of squiggle, lift up the page to erase and start all over. ThinkGeek has employed this technology into the Scratch & Scroll, part Magic Slate, part mousepad. A true ...

Taking a page from the book of KISS, Marky Ramone, former drummer of the primordial punk band The Ramones, has moved into uncharted ground for the punk movement with his newest product launch, Marky Ramone’s Brooklyn’s Own Pasta Sauce. Here’s Marky’s explanation: �You see, I made it with my grandpa; he was a chef at 21 Club. I watched him ...

“Letters are organisms and typefaces are the species, all classified similar to biological taxonomy.” Thus is the concept behind Andreas Scheiger’s Evolution of Type, an anatomical study of the alphabet. For the first time in medical and typographical history, fonts go under the knife for a full biological analysis. I’m very concerned whether these letters were volunteers or part of ...

Audi has taken over London’s Trafalgar Square for the next week, transforming it into “an interactive message center” called Outrace. Eight giant, industrial robots from Audi’s production line will have LED lights attached to their arms. The robots will use the LEDs to scrawl messages in the air, much to the pleasure of the onlookers. But there is so much ...

Depending on where you are, who’s watching you and how drunk you are, your options of urine excretion can change vastly. But which option do you choose? As usual, there’s a helpful flowchart made to direct you towards your peeing destination. The “Where Should I Pee?” Flowchart is the essential guide to deciding the best place to relieve your bladder, ...

Today’s The Big Picture subject is our Solar System. They’ve chronicled a beautiful collection of photos from outer space taken within the last month or so. Above is a 30-frame sequence of Cassini’s approach towards the icy plumes of Enceladus, the sixth-largest moon of Saturn. After the jump you’ll see an actual Aurora Australis as seen from space, a few ...