Creepy test footage from Alien (1979) in which Bolaji Badejo practises his moves with a mock-up head http://t.co/BgghZRA5

You can’t just morph a federalscientist into a giant invertebrate that catches fire. That’s not an acceptable protocol. And the feds aren’t going to fund you anymore. Not when your boss is a self-flattening radioactive pancake.” In “Loco,” an original science fiction story by Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling, desperate times call for desperate inventions.

Loco: a new story by Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling http://t.co/MCZ0fwBF #fb

... but, every once in a great while, the devil still opens hell's source repository and looses upon my screen a horror so foul that even one as jaded as myself weeps in bitter despair...

Today Amazon agreed to a no-bid, $16.5 million contract with the U.S. State Department to provide 2,500 Kindle Touches for the government’s overseas language-education programs.

The document released today identifies the State Department’s need for a program that provides “a secure, centrally managed content distribution and management platform to centrally manage an unlimited number of e-reader/tablet devices.” and unfortunately Apple’s iPad falls short of this requirement, according to the State Department.

Die Kurzgeschichte "Printcrime" von @doctorow gibt es jetzt auch auf Deutsch: http://t.co/3VzzysOs #fb

Puttin’ on the Ritz – Moskau "Flashmob" http://t.co/krY7p487 #MitGenugGeld #Hochzeitsüberraschung #fb

Chronophone – Das Crossfader-Grammophon http://t.co/QVpF7UOp #steampunk #fb

/cc @lenadoppel RT @Linuzifer: Hat die #Gema diese Sprecherin eigentlich schon gefeuert? ... http://t.co/sC6wHRUA

Termine der Woche: http://t.co/c9xmQhXB #Datenschutz #Netzpolitik #Überwachung #OpenData #npbx #DigitaleAgenda #RFID #VDS

Well I’m gonna be as faithful as that puppy / No I’ll never let you down http://t.co/rOuYpIJP

Ruft mal http://t.co/6xBfaRYI ohne JavaScript auf. APA - Die Besten der Besten! #fb

Alan #Turing hat womöglich nicht Suizid begangen… http://t.co/VKQiaPoA via @sciencebase<@RogerHighfield #Turing100

IT spending in Europe will virtually grind to a halt this year and next due to economic uncertainty over the euro currency, according to a Forrester Research report.

“The most likely result is either near-zero growth or economic recession in 2012, depending on the country,” Forrester analyst and lead report author Andrew Bartels wrote. “The worse case is a possible collapse of the euro and a resulting depression.”

Forrester: European IT Spending to Grind to a Halt http://t.co/o2VSYhju

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