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Here's the winning entry in a $10,000 art content, but the identity of its creator may surprise you. Why not rate its artistic merit and then click on our story to discover who painted it? http://bbc.in/188SuoN Photo taken by Meredith Lee / For the HSUS

Today in Geek History: Skynet becomes self-aware. Come with me if you want to live!

"... with lots of bakers!" http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6905817/every-tech-commercial

English humour

Charlie Adams also this one.

Sharing to Charlie Adams only. You can reshare or download and upload to Youtube.

If you don't know Fags, Mags & Bags (Radio 4 Sitcom) you should! Here's a top exclusive slice of live action. #Itisthehumour #amazing&great Charlie Adams alison adams  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgaZLOwXd6c&feature=share

Under the law of the "Streisand effect" this should be re-shared by everyone. Sinisister regressive moves in Russia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect H/T tom finnerty (on that nasty FB) http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/putin-says-pants-to-painting-portrait-of-the-russian-president-in-womens-underwear-confiscated-from-art-gallery-8787130.html

Question on purchasing a Chromebox in the UK. *Apologies if I've missed something obvious! Here in the UK if you follow the link via Google for a Chromebox [ http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebox.html ] You are presented with 3 x online stores to purchase them from: Amazon.co.uk ; Currys PC World ; Very Yet only Amazon has them listed/searchable - and sold by a 3rd party (with only one in stock!). So... what's the deal with these Chromeboxes? Are they something one needs to purchase as a business rather than a consumer? notes: I have seen the rumours from earlier in the Summer about Samsung getting out of desktops - but I believe that was refuted. I have an SARMsung Chromebook and am looking at buying a Chromebox to try out for business purposes. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00A778HLK/ref=s9_simh_gw_p147_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=02WPAYFKQSXES516W3TV&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=418445227&pf_rd_i=468294

A Pharoah for a King!   #MLK ! #FT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream I also caught a bit of Radio4's MLK coverage. "To mark the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech, BBC Radio 4 asked notable figures to record a recital of the celebrated text." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23853578 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV5ObaaQCV0

via /r/funny

Charlie Adams & I visited the coast yesterday. He braved the sea... I was a wuss! #FT  #verycoldnorthsea #photos  

Once a #sysadmin always a   #sysadmin Um... er.... OK these are pretty much true (for me too). http://www.infoworld.com/print/151276

Only sharing to Charlie Adams  You can take a copy or reshare it (or something) Charlie, OK?

THE PHANTOM MINION

With Charlie Adams in Redcar #bigdayout #FT

Happy birthday, Philip Blakemore! How's it going old fella?

Farewell, Philip French: After 50 years as the Observer's film critic is retiring. Here he talks about his life and career and answers questions from readers and film-makers including Mike Leigh and Ken Loach http://t.gu.com/ocyzJ Plus Martin Scorsese pays tribute http://t.gu.com/ocz0c Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer

Even as the web scintillates in a rainbow of colours, digital fonts persist in a monochromatic past resembling the long-gone era of wood and metal type. This may at last be about to change. A new standard, backed by Microsoft and incorporated into its Windows 8.1 release, will allow true, infinitely resizeable multicoloured type on the internet http://econ.st/1av9ytR

If only adult to-do lists could look like this too. #kids   #todolist   #lifelessons   http://mashable.com/2013/08/22/cute-kids-to-do-lists/?utm_cid=mash-com-G+-pete-link

Nerd Vandalism. :)

Just a cat, dressed as a shark, riding a robotic vacuum cleaner

With Charlie Adams & CharlieC @ PE after swimming.

#c4newspopup   http://www.channel4.com/news/middlesbrough-five-things-we-learned-c4newspopup

LG is going completely retro with its newly-launched 32-inch LCD TV that resembles a 70s-style CRT:  http://on.mash.to/1asfqnC #lg   #lcdtv   #retro

It's nearly time for GCSE results - UK students will be waiting with bated breath. But how would you do if you sat a #science exam meant for 16-year-olds? Take our GCSE quiz to find out: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23765435 #UKNews

Is Wally adopting Ashton Kutcher's Jobs walk in today's Dilbert Leo Laporte ? http://www.dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/100000/90000/3000/500/193511/193511.strip.gif

A (semi-sarcy yet wittily sharp observation) comment I made just got +1'd by Robert Scoble (digital nobility). I can stop now today. My work has been blessed :) I like the original poster's work btw way - no disrespect to Steven Vaughan-Nichols  https://plus.google.com/113169713749496726739/posts/Z8mmr9mkFQ3

I shared this a long time ago, but it's worth re-posting for all you struggling parents. You're quite welcome.

Seizing personal data without reasonable suspicion "Tim Hardy looks at the recent news that UKBA are using anti-terrorism laws to seize personal data of individuals travelling via air." [via Philippe Parker on the Twitters] http://zine.openrightsgroup.org/features/2013/seizing-personal-data

The detention of a journalist’s partner and seizure of his electronics, combined with the British government’s threats towards the Guardian for its reporting, make the case that we need something like WikiLeaks more than ever http://gigaom.com/2013/08/19/still-wondering-why-we-need-a-stateless-media-entity-like-wikileaks-this-is-why/

Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger's (@arusbridger) scary commentary on clampdown on free press in the UK #FT. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/19/david-miranda-schedule7-danger-reporters

Slo-mo lightning Just awesome

Seems like a deliberate & shameful attempt at bullying and intimidation. As we lose our civil liberties the terrorists win. https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/ukhomeoffice-theresa-may-review-the-use-of-schedule-7-of-terrorism-act

Crazy bikes up at Scotch Corner.

Really enjoyed "The Art of the Brick" exhibit at Discovery Times Square. All of these works were created by one man with #LEGOs Some of the sculptures were larger than me and I tried to get a person next to them for scale. We could snap pics but no flash was allowed; all pics are from the #MotoX  in pretty bad lighting conditions. http://www.discoverytsx.com/exhibitions/art-of-the-brick

Microsoft's Bizarre Anti-Google "Scroogled" Campaign Jumps the Shark -- Again! http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001068.html I know some great people up at Microsoft, including top-notch software engineers.  And these days -- more and more -- I find myself feeling sorry for them. I don't believe it's my place to ask them how embarrassed and humiliated they've become working for a once great firm that increasingly is sinking to tactics that one would ordinarily associate with Tea Party wacko campaigns. Yet, Microsoft's increasingly bizarre, anti-Google "Scroogled" campaign is doing exactly that, and while we thought Microsoft had "jumped the shark" in the past, their new chapter is even more strange and inexplicable.  In fact, when I mentioned this to a few people this morning, I got responses back suggesting that perhaps the new campaign hadn't really been approved, or that the site had been hacked.  One person told me they did a WHO...

Tuned in to the final 30 mins of Airplane. Still very funny. Most gags per min of any film ever? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlDXQdgx_QU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

alison adams served all home made fish, chips & mushy peas (& bread) this evening. Top stuff! #FT

O Freunde, nicht diese TooooooOOOOWWEEEEEOOOOOOne Like I need to say anything else beside "Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy' played on 167 theremins hidden inside Russian matryoshka dolls". http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/08/17/beethoven_s_ode_to_joy_9th_symphony_played_on_theremins.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/08/17/beethoven_s_ode_to_joy_9th_symphony_played_on_theremins.html

Great TWIG episode this week. Brilliant opening discussion with Bruce Schneier And then featuring THIS simply amazing video near the end:  The Kids' Guide to the Internet The Kids' Guide to the Internet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icQtM64ah3g

Why you shouldn't ask for suggestions on Twitter if you're a terrorist group.   Al-Qadea asked for suggestions on Twitter about the "development of jihadist media" triggered a highly predictable avalanche of snark.  One helpful user tweeted a suggestion for "Al-Qaeda, the movie: Dude, where's my car bomb" Another suggested: "More cats in online video releases." Anyway, the Twitter trolling of Al Qaeda continues. Here's the hashtag, currently trending on Twitter: http://goo.gl/IQhKHP #alqaeda

Classic Dilbert from Oct 1997: Kenny The Sales Weasel Still makes me laugh to this day. Still call "those kind" of sales guys "sales weasels". :) Link to main site (preview images don't show on G+):  http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Kenny%20The%20Sales%20Weasel http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/10000/2000/400/12415/12415.strip.gif

Error on Youtube for this week's episode ( Chad Johnson ) Appears ok, but fails to play - appears to be 0 minutes long. Watching fine on twit.tv . :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icQtM64ah3g

Though this is not specific to Chrome OS, I thought it was important to share. There is a significant amount of misinformation circulating with regards to Google's June class-action lawsuit filing, and its implications concerning GMail privacy. The Verge has done an excellent job of clearing up the situation.  http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/14/4621474/yes-gmail-users-have-an-expectation-of-privacy

Google+ for Android: 5 updates you’ve been asking for Google+ gets better when we build it together, so today's new Android app (v4.1) includes a number of highly-requested improvements. In particular: 1. Account and page switching is a lot easier Just like Gmail for Android, you can now switch between multiple Google+ accounts with a couple of taps (vs. signing out and signing in again). And the Google+ pages you manage are likewise in the app menu at all times. 2. Google Apps for Business features are now fully supported If your Apps administrator has enabled Google+, you can now share content publicly, with your circles, and/or with just the people in your organization. In addition: you’ll know at a glance whether someone’s profile is part of your Apps domain. 3. Google Drive photos & videos are now accessible from Google+ If you're storing photos or videos in Google Drive, you now have the option to view and share them from Google+ (on Android, and the web). Drive photo...