 The Wilderness Downtown is an interactive multimedia video coded in HTML5, to show off the capabilities of the new Google Chrome browser. Directed by music video director Chris Milk and involving the work of a number of Google employees as well as digital production company B-Reel, it features the 'We Used to Wait' song from the Arcade Fire album, The Suburbs. It was one of three Grand Prix winners at the 2011 Cannes advertising awards in the Cyber category.
Add Comment  JavaScript empowered elements can potentially have a very negative impact on the speed of a site and bottleneck the loading. Many websites implement third party empowered JavaScript external code for services such as: advertising, dynamic graphics, widgets, etc. There is an art to JavaScript writing and unless the code is short and masterfully written, it will make your browsing experience lethargic and less pleasant. In this study we will investigate one of the main variables related to JavaScript that if not implemented correctly, is one of the culprits in delayed surfing: Defer parsing of JavaScript The browser must parse the contents of all <script> tags, which adds additional time to the page load. So the less there is to “parse” in the JavaScript, the faster the site will load.
 A recent threat, purportedly from the hacker group Anonymous, stated boldly that its members would stop the internet on 31 March. The term "Operation Blackout" was coined and it caused much discussion in all the usual forums. Those issuing the threat even stated how they would do it. They claimed they could disable the Domain Name Service (known by engineers as the DNS) and that would stop the internet. How so?
 The Pirate Bay is one of the largest and most popular bittorrent trackers still around today, and it has no plans to retire anytime soon. Despite news of other large torrent trackers shutting down, The Pirate Bay has no intentions to follow suit. The tracker recently converted its links from torrents to magnet links, and now it wants to make its servers untouchable by the authorities: by sending them into space.
 A Higher Regional Court in Hamburg has ordered cloud-locker RapidShare to monitor all uploaded files, in an effort to curb the illegal sharing of copyrighted content. The Court upheld three different decisions by lower courts, each of which ruled that the website wasn't doing enough to beat copyright infringement.
Back in 2009, music rights conglomerate GEMA asked the court to ban RapidShare from making some 5,000 songs from its catalogue available online. The Regional Court in Hamburg sided with the record label holder. 
It’s hard to know exactly when the light bulb went off in Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s head, but on the campaign trail she targeted her most vitriolic scorn for the Obama administration’s efforts to develop more energy efficient light bulbs. "I think Thomas Edison did a pretty patriotic thing for this country by inventing the light bulb," she said during a campaign stop in New Hampshire. "And I think darn well, you New Hampshirites, if you want to buy Thomas Edison's wonderful invention, you should be able to!"
By Alex Wilde - I’ve engineered a fair number of inexpensive DIY camera hacks. This one is by far the cheapest: it’s free! Simply place a drop of water on the phone’s lens, carefully turn the device over, and the suspended droplet serves as a liquid lens. Behold:
 StumbleUpon, the ten-year-old social site, has managed something few Silicon Valley companies have: a comeback. It may not have the buzz -- or billions -- of Facebook, but StumbleUpon has managed to right itself after a brush with obscurity to become one the most powerful sources of traffic on the internet.
Co-founded in 2001 by Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith, the content discovery service started as a novel idea. "We were trying to be your remote control for the Web, the thing that helps you figure out what to look at next," Camp explains.  A Japanese materials scientist has created a set of violin strings from thousands of individual strands of spider silk spun together.
Shigeyoshi Osaki wanted to investigate the mechnical properties of the silk, and specifically the way that it can be packed together, leaving almost no space between the strands. The resulting strings apparently have a "soft and profound timbre".  There are now well over 250,000 apps available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, and, surprisingly, many of the best are free.
The following list showcases our pick of the 10 best free iPhone apps, and includes iPhone applications for social networking, travel, news, photography, productivity and more. | Main CategoriesArt Submit Your Links
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