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Stingray's Links of the Day for Friday, 02 December 2011
- Next Xbox codenamed "Loop", runs on modified Windows 9
- This Modern Warfare 3 building looks awfully familiar
- Interview with the man who designed the V for Vendetta mask
- This is how your camera's lens affects the photos you take
- Man orders size 14.5 monster paw-shaped slippers, gets size 1,450 instead
- Lord of the Rings hobbits reunite for the trilogy's 10-year anniversary
- Now this is how copy protection should be done
- World War II timeline using original photos
- Art of the Day: Taxidermied Pikachus
- Video of the Day #1: BAMF South African rescues drowning calf
- Video of the Day #2: Modern Warfare 3 - The Vet & The n00b
- Video of the Day #3: David Blaine's Finger
- Video of the Day #4: Live lipdub is the best recovery ever
- Video of the Day #5: Makeup advertising done right
- Video of the Day #6: What has been seen cannot be unseen: Michael Jackson's neck
- Chuk's Extreme Video of the Day: The Art of Flight, now with more metal
- Zero Punctuation: Kinect
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Stingray's Links of the Day for Monday, 07 November 2011
- Steam forums get hacked
- EA promises it's not spying on you, scout's honour
- Watch trailer, receive BF3 dog tags
- The Battlefield 3 server status page
- Kinect for Windows is coming soon
- Assassin's Creed movie deal will give Ubisoft complete control
- Emo about your 384k ADSL? 3.5 million people are still using AOL dialup
- Art of the Day #1: DotA 2's character art
- Art of the Day #2: Movie poster trends
- Art of the Day #3: Video game portrait made entirely out of salt
- The most famous image of Earth is fake
- Amazing Rubik's Cube-inspired Lego clock
- This bridge is what you get when architects decide to troll
- Activision used mail out physical achievment badges
- Photography of the Day: In the path of the lightning storm
- Angry Birds, the board game. Humanity, I am disappoint
- Sega offers prizes for running Sonic Generations' Green Hill Zone in under 1:50
- Video of the Day #1: Tazed, shot, and pepper sprayed
- Video of the Day #2: If Quake was done today
- Video of the Day #3: Japanese invent spherical flying machine
- Video of the Day #4: Hydroelectric dam gets blown up to free the White Salmon River
- Video of the Day #5: Stop motion video made with 250,000 jelly beans
- Video of the Day #6: The craziest Battlefield 3 strategies so far
- Video of the Day #7: Battlefield 3 Mythbusters: Episode 1
- Zero Punctuation: Rage
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Stingray's Links of the Day for Wednesday, 02 November 2011
- Complete survey, (maybe) receive Valve DotA 2 Beta invites
- Diablo III will be free for WoW addicts
- The heroes and classes of Blizzard DOTA
- Sony buys Sony-Ericsson
- Samsung's new SSD will come with a free copy of Batman: Arkham City
- Skyrim's hardware requirements are a little lighter than BF3's
- The new MechWarrior is a PC exclusive
- Sony Pictures probably bringing Assassin's Creed to the big screen
- PlayStation 4 game development is underway
- Battlefield 3 tanks invade London, give free rides
- Meet the cover star of Battlefield 3
- Modern Warfare 3 copies stolen from shipping company, already pirated
- Art of the Day #1: Giant spinning head water fountain is surreal
- Art of the Day #2: Video game screenshots vs. real photographs
- The world's most amazing (and painful) video game setup
- A 1:1 replica Halo sniper rifle, made out of Lego
- Awesome fruit label invention turns into soap when wet
- And now, a steampunk Xbox 360 controller
- Video of the Day #1: Death by Battlefield 3 blowtorch
- Video of the Day #2: StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm trailer
- Video of the Day #3: Diablo III: The Black Soulstone
- Video of the Day #4: Meanwhile, in Russia... just taking my leopard for a drive
- Video of the Day #5: Blizzard DOTA's trailer
- Video of the Day #6: Modern Warfare 3 trailer
- Video of the Day #7: The human slingshot
- Video of the Day #8: Battlefield 4 much?
- Chuk's Extreme Video of the Day #1: Extreme sports compilation
- Chuk's Extreme Video of the Day #2: Base jumping bomb squad in Norway
- Chuk's Extreme Video of the Day #3: Drift D1 to the max
- Zero Punctuation: Hard Reset
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Stingray's Links of the Day for Thursday, 27 October 2011
- Nintendo wins €4.8 million videogame piracy battle
- Western Digital hard drive factory "submerged" by flooding in Thailand
- Nimec, supplier of hard drive components, also hit by Thailand floods, will result in hard drive shortages
- EA caught pressuring publications over Battlefield 3 reviews
- Minecraft maker offered to give up "Scrolls" trademark, Bethesda sued anyway
- Researchers discover how to increase hard drive capacity six-fold - using salt
- OCZ unveils world's first 1TB SSD
- Microsoft is working on a holodeck, sort of
- Google+ to allow pseudonyms and nicknames soon
- Massive HTC Android vulnerability leaves security expert "speechless"
- Scientists working on a "stay-sober pill"
- Timelines.com lawsuit is holding up Facebook's new Timelines feature
- Qaddafi died packing a golden gun, no word on what perk was unlocked
- Students break electric car land speed record
- Students break electric car land speed record
- Photography of the Day #1: Dubai looks like Star Wars
- Photography of the Day #2: Dubai looks like Blade Runner
- Art of the Day #1: Entire works of art drawn without lifting the pen from the paper even once
- Art of the Day #2: Real photos of fake landscapes using a cloudtank
- Art of the Day #3: A dog made from Nikes
- Art of the Day #4: Cereal boxes, now with 100% more truth
- Om Nom of the Day: Rainbow burger
- Free Games of the Day: 300 tiny indie games in 1 free pirate kart bundle
- Reebok's toning shoes found to be false advertising, must refund customers $25 million
- Asterix co-creator Uderzo announces his retirement at 84, successor already picked
- DIY external graphics card for your laptop
- Ford builds full-size Lego replica of its new Explorer SUV
- Video of the Day #1: Timelapse shows you just how much work goes into digital posters
- Video of the Day #2: In case you missed it, here's Battlefield 3's flying tank bug
- Video of the Day #3: Why you should never invert your controls
- Video of the Day #4: Hardcore wingsuit flight through a hole in a mountain
- Video of the Day #5: Accidental Like A Boss of the Day
- Video of the Day #6: This is Battlefield 3's launch trailer
- Chuk's Extreme Video of the Day: Extreme proximity wingsuit flyers
- Zero Punctuation: Gears of War 3
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Stingray's Links of the Day for Thursday, 20 October 2011
- Battlefield 3's Open Beta saw 47 billion bullets fired, 1.5 billion people killed, and other cute stats
- Thinking of getting Battlefield 3 second-hand? Surprise, it requires an online pass
- Here's some of Battlefield 3's vast multiplayer maps
- This is what three generations of Sonic look like on PC
- Here's some pros playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- How to get into the Tribes: Ascend Closed Beta (Hint: Preorder)
- Sony's PlayStation Network sees 93,000 accounts compromised... again
- Apple gets Samsung tablets banned in Australia, Germany
- Art of the Day #1: Girl's dreams displayed on her bed
- Art of the Day #2: Blu strikes again
- Art of the Day #3: The latest salvo in the Post-It War reaches new artistic heights
- This dinosaur skeleton exhibit isn't what you would expect
- An all-electric DeLorean is on the way for 2013
- You can own a DeLorean used in Back to the Future III... if you win the $600,000 auction
- Video of the Day #1: Insane mountain bike video is stomach-turning
- Video of the Day #2: LMFAO performed by a marching band is pretty impressive
- Video of the Day #3: How to make those exploding popsicle stick bombs
- Video of the Day #4: Magnets + superconductors = awesome
- Video of the Day #5: Everything is a remix: even The Matrix
- Video of the Day #6: And now, a first-person BASE jump into a crowded city street
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Stingray's Links of the Day for Wednesday, 12 October 2011
- Germany uses malware to spy on visitors and citizens alike
- Anonymous takes down the New York Stock Exchange website... for 2 minutes
- UK's biggest ISPs implementing government-backed censorship
- US government demands that Google hand over email data from Wikileaks volunteer
- How to pimp your ride, Japan-style
- Skyrim brought to life in fan-made trailer
- The Avengers trailer is full of explosions and awesome
- Art of the Day: Those Dexter posters? The guy also made an alternate Dexter title sequence
- Today's the last day you can pay whatever you want for The Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle
- Video of the Day #1: Amazing dance moves, with a little dubstep for good measure
- Video of the Day #2: Madman snowboards down sheer mountains, manages not to die
- Video of the Day #3: An awkward moment
- Video of the Day #4: Haters gonna hate this jump-roping car
- Video of the Day #5: Surfing bioluminescent waves
- Video of the Day #6: Carlsberg gets advertising right
- Video of the Day #7: Meanwhile, in Russia: Missing wheel? No problem!
- Video of the Day #8: Beautiful HDR timelapse
- Video of the Day #9: The best Battlefield 3 dogfight ever
- Chuk's Extreme Video of the Day: Wingsuit love to the extreme
- Zero Punctuation: Resistance 3
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Stingray's Links of the Day for Tuesday, 11 October 2011
- TV streaming rumoured to be coming to the Xbox 360
- The next generation of the Xbox is already in the works
- Unreal Engine 3 now works in Flash
- See how much Counter-Strike's maps have changed
- Skyrim's map leaked, looks massive
- Art of the Day #1: Gossip magazines get parodied on newsstands
- Art of the Day #2: Recycled utensils become awesome lighting
- Lego Battlestar Galactica model is nearly 2m long, over 20kgs
- Lego Trump Tower is over 3m high, looks awesome
- 5-year-old girl digs up 160 million year old fossil
- Video of the Day #1: Popsicle wave is like dominoes, only magic. Just watch it
- Video of the Day #2: The new Tintin trailer
- Video of the Day #3: The Star Wars Imperial March... played by floppy drives
- Video of the Day #4: Cat vs. Balloon. Fatality!
- Video of the Day #5: Copper pipe + magnet = slow gravity
- Video of the Day #6: Playing dubstep on real instruments
- Video of the Day #7: Forget that guy climbing the Russian skyscraper, try out this radio tower
- Chuk's Extreme Video of the Day #1: Extreme Sports Compilation
- Chuk's Extreme Video of the Day #2: Avalanche cliff jump
- Zero Punctuation: Dead Island
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Stingray's Links of the Day for Thursday, 06 October 2011
- Steve Jobs has passed away
- Valve wants to release DotA 2's Beta "as fast as we can"
- New Counter-Strike is incorporating Gun Game
- That massive Hurt Locker lawsuit? 90% of the alleged pirates get dismissed
- Remember, Electronic Arts won't let you sue them
- Facebook's Photo Library dwarfs everything else on the planet
- An interactive map of cables that make up the Internet
- The world's average download speed? 580KBps. :|
- FBI uses "The StingRay" (no relation) to track you through your phone
- Art of the Day: 30 hours of painting without a brush in 2 minutes
- Scientists reconstruct what the brain sees into digital video
- How the US planned to destroy Britain only years before World War II
- Free Download of the Day: Team Fortress Arcade, the TF2 8-bit 2D demake
- Video of the Day #1: When you drop a slinky, it actually floats in mid-air like magic
- Video of the Day #2: 1,500 Post-It notes created this Tetris game
- Video of the Day #3: An SU-35 aborts aircraft carrier landing just in time
- Chuk's ??? Video of the Day: How do you get a yatch under a bridge?
- Chuk's Extreme Video of the Day #1: OMFFFF that was close
- Chuk's Extreme Video of the Day #2: Surfing to the next level
- Zero Punctuation: Driver: San Francisco
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Stingray's Links of the Day for Monday, 03 October 2011
- A quick guide to the Battlefield 3 Beta
- The Diablo III Beta is a go!
- Samsung tries to ban iPhone 5 in patent battle against Apple
- Apple handed huge patent lawsuit by VIA
- Samsung joins HTC in paying Microsoft for each Android phone they sell
- Cops arrest LulzSec and Anon hackers, including one that was apparently homeless
- Arrested LulzSec suspect was even a Student of the Month earlier this year
- Scientists discover virus that apparently kills cancer
- Scientists can now extract, interpret and return information to the brain
- Google Earth reveals strange Nazca-like ruins in Saudi Arabia
- That mysterious, possibly mafia-connected safe? Oprah will reveal all... on a TV special :|
- Drunk Russian fishermen crash into nuclear submarine
- Spontaneous Human Combustion? It's a real thing, sort of
- 4,800 messages in a bottle later, guy receives 3,100 responses from all over the world
- Greatest treasure ever now found after being sunk by the Nazis
- Art of the Day: Making art with molotov cocktails
- Is a man not entitled to a Bioshock casemod?
- Download of the Day: The third volume of Portal 2's soundtrack, free!
- Video of the Day: Guy climbing a Russian skyscraper without safety gear makes me feel ill
- Zero Punctuation: Deus Ex: Human Revolution
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Stingray's Links of the Day for Tuesday, 13 September 2011
- Facebook copies Google+, introduces Circles-like smart lists
- Facebook and Yahoo test "six degrees of separation" idea
- Anonymous strikes back with 3GB leak of Texas police chief emails
- Apple wins round two against Samsung in German courts
- System requirements for id's Rage are surprisingly low
- Get ready for Valve's "Meet the DOTA Heroes"
- BioShock Infinite's actors berated each other to the point of tears
- Chinese theme park rips off Angry Birds with real-life version
- Scientists use radar to discover roman gladiator school ruins
- New photos of the moon landing sites are so sharp, you can see the rover tire marks
- Johannesburg comes 5th for worst traffic in the world
- Art of the Day: The Art of Clean Up
- 21 images you won't believe aren't photoshopped
- Flash Game of the Day: The Man Who Sold The World
- Video of the Day #1: Skillful street riding
- Video of the Day #2: The world's largest water balloon fight
- Video of the Day #3: The 372kW, 1695Nm electric Datsun bakkie
- Video of the Day #4: Battlefield 3 - Operation Guillotine teaser
- Video of the Day #5: Infrared invisibility technology
- Video of the Day #6: Cat vs. Toaster
- Video of the Day #7: Doc Brown and the DeLorean make an appearance... for an advert
- Video of the Day #8: im in ur drive-thru... in a tank
- Chuk's Extreme Video of the Day #1: X Games 17 Highlights
- Chuk's Extreme Video of the Day #2: Russia does snow
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Stingray's Links of the Day for Friday, 02 September 2011
- First ever Dota 2 championship winner revealed
- Blizzard launches Diablo III community site, beta lurking somewhere nearby
- Facebook to introduce photo filters
- Facebook Music coming September 22nd?
- Super Monday Night Combat, a free-to-play shooter
- Can Valve really make a sequel for a game they didn't create?
- Why Valve doesn't fear piracy
- Go ahead and shoot your companion Elizabeth in BioShock Infinite
- Up close and personal with Razer's new laptop, the Blade
- Art of the Day: Why settle for mediocre game covers when you can print one of these
- Video of the Day #1: Jet skiing through a Hurricane-flooded neighbourhood
- Video of the Day #2: Jeremy Clarkson talks about...a Halo Warthog
- Video of the Day #3: The world's best HL2 movie now has a sequel
- Video of the Day #4: The human slingshot slip'n'slide
- Video of the Day #5: 25 greatest unscripted scenes in films
- Chuk's Extreme Video of the Day: X Games highlights
- Zero Punctuation: Deus Ex
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Stingray's Links of the Day for Tuesday, 30 August 2011
- Gamescom news roundup #1: Battlefield 3, Gears of War 3, Mass Effect 3 and more
- Gamescom news roundup #2: Dialo III, World of Warcraft, Devil May Cry, and more
- Gamescom news roundup #3: Borderlands 2, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Sonic Generations, and more
- Battlefield 3 will require EA's Origin
- Google+ adds games, minus the social annoyances
- League of Legends Season Two flaunts $5 million in prize money
- If you squint, these four DotA variations all look the same
- Swiss police call for ban on The Darkness II over cop killing that isn't even in the game
- End of Nations will be free-to-play
- Why Tribes: Ascend is close to being the Tribes we've been waiting for
- UK rock star blames UK riots on video games
- Get access to the undergound in Rage, but not if you buy it second-hand
- Art of the Day #1: History portrayed as adventure games
- Art of the Day #2: Shadow art
- Minecraft maker challenges Bethesda to Quake 3 to settle trademark dispute
- PayPal billionaire continues working on making Bioshock's Rapture a reality
- 10 utterly insane human records
- Video of the Day #1: Troll orchestra is successful
- Video of the Day #2: Ken Block's Gymkhana 4: The Hollywood Megamercial
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Stingray's Links of the Day for Friday, 26 August 2011
- Wikileaks releases thousands more cables covering China, Taiwan and Libya
- Samsung cites 2001: A Space Odyssey in legal defense against Apple
- Facebook kills off Facebook Places
- Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO
- Watch the rise and fall of CD sales, animated as a short GIF
- Cornell researchers come up with algorithm to detect fake reviews
- Art? of the Day: $5 million of piracy in one 1TB harddrive
- Renovators find mysterious, possibly Mafia-connected safe inside a casino wall, plan to open it live on the Internet
- Swiss lunatic climbs a mountain by tightrope walking up its cable car wire
- Video of the Day #1: More tightrope madness
- Video of the Day #2: A 3D milling machine... made from Lego
- Video of the Day #3: Free running a cut above the rest
- Video of the Day #4: Car explodes in firefighter's face, is not very effective
- Video of the Day #5: The best non-apology of all time
- Video of the Day #6: Life in epic slow motion
- Video of the Day #7: Rollerblading down a Polish salt mine
- Chuk's Extreme Video of the Day: Skiing never looked so good
- Zero Punctuation: Red Faction Armageddon
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Stingray's Links of the Day for Wednesday, 24 August 2011
- Apple files misleading evidence against Samsung... again
- Anonymous hacks BART website, leaks user info and passwords
- BART hacked again by French girl, leaks employee data
- Judge rules that students can legally post "slutty" photos without school interference
- Facebook teams up with Universal, Miramax to launch movie rentals
- Songwriters can soon reclaim their rights from record labels, stop getting screwed
- UK police arrest man for planning a water fight on Facebook and BlackBerry Messenger
- Back to the Future Trivia: How Marty McFly and Doc Brown became friends
- Art of the Day #1: From day to night in one picture
- Art of the Day #2: Tilt-shift done right
- Art of the Day #3: Solitaire sculpture that literally jumps out at you
- Art of the Day #4: Awesome nanorigami
- Video of the Day #1: Morphing hexapod is the stuff of nightmares
- Video of the Day #2: The shade illusion, in real life
- Video of the Day #3: TF2-inspired Mac 'n' Cheese
- Chuk's Extreme Video of the Day: Red Bull Ride and Seek
- Zero Punctuation: Catherine
Categories: Other
Stingray's Links of the Day for Tuesday, 16 August 2011
- New software can identify you on the street just from your Facebook photos
- Researcher can predict who your Facebook friends are
- Facebook's Terms of Service deciphered into bro-speak
- Google buys Motorola's cellphone division for $12.5 billion
- New drug can cure almost any viral infection
- Projected images of the world's newest tallest building are simply insane
- Art of the Day: The floating island that went missing
- So you’re mad about something on the Internet…
- The 6 most epic one-man-armies in the history of war
- Video of the Day #1: The slingshot madman takes aim on raw flesh
- Video of the Day #2: When bear cubs attack
- Video of the Day #3: Taylor Swift covers... Eminem?
- Video of the Day #5: The DotA 2 trailer
- Video of the Day #4: World record parallel parking. Like a boss
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Stingray's Links of the Day for Friday, 12 August 2011
- Anonymous hacks the brutal Syrian military
- Syria strikes back at Anonymous, hacks social networking site AnonPlus
- AntiSec hackers leak 10GB of police data
- Facebook’s new messenger app aims to kill SMS, BBM and everything else
- Twenty minutes of Tribes: Ascend footage from QuakeCon 2011
- Bethesda sics lawyers on Minecraft maker over Scrolls name :(
- 40 minutes of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim footage from QuakeCon 2011
- Watch one of John Carmack's fabled QuakeCon talks
- Google's self-driving car hits its first crash
- The CAPTCHAs people should solve before being allowed to use the internet
- Video of the Day #1: Couch surfing... literally
- Video of the Day #2: Guy grows hair out of thin air
- Video of the Day #3: What traveling around the world looks like in 1 minute (Hint: Awesome!)
- Video of the Day #4: Mindblowing dance routine by Team iLuminate
- Zero Punctuation: Bastion and From Dust
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