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Here are some pictures of Beyonce and Rihanna at the 2007 American Music Awards. Unfortunately, I hate awards shows so I didn’t watch it, but I should have! It looks like their boobs were competing for my heart.

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It’s always nice to kick the week off with a little bikini funbag action. And today’s are supplied by none other than British babe Gemma Atkinson. Not only is Gemma providing us with her impressive rack, she’s also supplying us with a map to her flower pot full of gold. Girl needs to wax that treasure trail and make it a little more challenging for us boys.

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Here’s Marisa Miller at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show after-party. In case you guys didn’t know, Marisa Miller is my favorite model and she’s without a doubt the greatest living specimen ever. Now I hope Marisa is reading this, because I don’t make bold statements like this very often, and a compliment like that should at the very least be thanked with a full-bodied tonguing. Seriously ladies, isn’t that the sweetest thing a guy could say?

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Ashley Tisdale

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Kellie Pickler

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South Korea’s Jump Up Internet Rescue School is the first of its kind, providing rehabilitation to those who cannot escape from the confines of the great interweb. Fittingly, South Korea is the world’s foremost internet connected nation, with over 90% of homes having access to cheap, high speed broadband. Worryingly, this has been the reason for the establishment of a rehabilitation center for those who are addicted; the ready availability of the internet means users have grown seriously dependent on the world wide web’s offerings.

As nations extend the reach of the internet throughout their own countries, South Korea’s situation may serve as a warning beacon in light of further expansion. Some may deduce that preventative measures need to be implemented, prior to expansion, to avoid internet addiction becoming a global issue. The notion of a rehabilitation center of this kind certainly seems comical initially, but beyond its novelty value, concern surrounding addiction continues to grow. Indeed, the U.S. (and other countries) have stipulated compulsive internet use as a tangible mental health issue.

With people literally dying from playing online games, this kind of treatment for the increasingly obsessed may eventually become the norm, but whatever the outcome, we cannot help but think this is an inevitable side effect of a medium that has so much to offer in a positive light. Responsible parenting and general lifestyle choices could ensure this problem is quashed right where it begins, but we doubt it. We would hate to think internet addiction becomes a real world problem, but with initiatives such as OLPC, might the internet eventually become the premier form of escapism? [New York Times]

Our buddies at IGN have just run a comprehensive review of AG’s RiffMaster Guitar Hero controller. The controller is the best looking we have seen, and does a lot to push our rock star credibility that little bit further. Hit the video to check out the full review:

The device has real guitar tuning screws and pickups, whilst simultaneously incorporating all the necessary Guitar Hero controls. The body is made of real wood, and this fact really does give us wood. It’s almost a proper guitar…we are almost proper musicians.

With a retail price of $400, and an overall good-to-ok performance, this is indeed one for the fanatics. Hey, you guys will always be rock stars to us, regardless of your plastic controllers. [IGN]

A concise and elegant description of the tech that makes Pioneer’s Kuro blacker, from Pop Sci this month:

“Each tiny cell in the [plasma] screen must be primed with an electric charge so it’s ready to fire up quickly, and that charge turns blacks slightly gray. Pioneer designed cells that require far less charge…Then it added a screen filter that further dampens excess light and reflects less room light.” The 1080p models fresh out of the oven and according to a few who’ve played with them, the best sets out there now. [PopSci]

Today only, when you purchase, “A Lifetime of Secrets” using the Fundraiser Link below, I will donate $10.00 to HopeLine. Please consider purchasing PostSecret books as gifts or making a direct contribution to HopeLine.

Sunday Secrets will be posted later this week. Thank you for your understanding and help.

Be well,
-Frank
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First introduced in 2005, the Rip Saw is about to hit the market with a $200,000 price tag. The custom-built UGV can hit 0-60 in 3.5 seconds, go 80 mph, and can maneuver over any surface or terrain a tank can. And the video is pretty good; watch as it drives through a barn as if it were the cardboard boxen your handset came in.

The privately-funded Rip Saw was first built by the Howe brothers for the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. Though the Rip Saw didn’t win, its video certainly turned some heads, enough to find funding to build more than one. I normally don’t get too excited about military shit like this, but any machine that can obliterate an wood shack with ease and turn donuts on snow wins my heart. Check out the 2005 teaser vid to see what i mean. [Howe and Howe via Red Ferret via Geekologie]

The Microsoft-employee only Zune Citron has turned up in Flickr, and it’s got a really nice engraving on back “Welcome to the Social”. Oh, and a 16GB tag. I like the black Squircle on citron color scheme a lot more than the pink or green. [YakPimp’s Flicker via Osaka Steve]

Consumer Reports writes about the pros and cons of LED Christmas tree lighting. In summary:

• Not surprisingly, LEDs womp all over incandescents for power saving, using ~3-33% less power, saving you up to $10 bucks every 300 hours.
• Not surprisingly, LEDs won the durability test, failing to burn out over 4,000 hours, with standards burning one or two out per strand before half that time.
• LEDs were not brighter, but ran cooler—Did you know 14 people a year are killed as a result of Christmas tree fires?
• Surprisingly, LEDs and incandescents tied for initial price, at about an average of 7 bulbs per buck.
No word on the pros and cons of candles vs LEDs in manorahs. [Consumer Reports and christmaslights.com]

Girls and boys, Christmas-is-a-coming and you need gift ideas pronto. Socks, hand knitted jumpers and CDs just don’t cut it, but how about a gift voucher? May we suggest, a gift voucher that entitles the recipient to private jet travel, which costs only $5 million!

If daddy is feeling in a particularly giving mood this festive season, you may be unwrapping a pass to Halcyon’s on-demand private charter service, but daddy is going to have to be richer and more stupid than your average rich and stupid person (Paris Hilton.) The gift card, titled the Holiday Dream Card, may be used for one-way trips, e.g. for escaping to Rio with all the drug money; round trips, e.g. flying yourself back once you are busted, (beats taking con air); or alternatively, it can be used to show off, which would prove the recipient is the big dawg, but is probably trying to compensate for a tiny twinkle in the willy department—hey, we have to make ourselves feel better somehow. Oh wait, that is a tiny twinkle in my willy department. If only I had Halcyon’s Holiday Dream card to compensate. Santa, please? [Bornrich]

If you are into building your own computers, you know how expensive it is to keep up with the latest hardware requirements. That having been said, if you are planning on building a quad-core rig sometime in the near future, you can now step up to 1500W of power (1600W peak) thanks to the latest model in the ThermalTake Toughpower series. No pricing details have been made available, but it is safe to assume that this one will set you back a few bucks — and that’s not even considering the smoking crater left in your wallet after the monthly power bill arrives. [ThermalTake via Ubergizmo]

iRadio, by Conceited Software, just received an update which brings it much closer to being a valuable iPhone app. The app is basically a SHOUTcast player for the iPhone that allows playing and browsing of thousands of online stations. The app works best under WiFi, but is not limited to it, and does work while using EDGE. There are still many quarks to be worked out, but for the most part, we are impressed with this early application.

If you are a Leopard owner that felt stack icons were a tad un-sexy or unclear, help is on the way in the form of overlays that place your stacks into clean looking “bins.” A simple terminal command will allow you implement the 18 custom icons in the original downloadable pack. However, if you want to make your own custom stack icons, it can be achieved fairly easily using a image editing program like Preview. Hit the links for a full tutorial on making your own icons and a link to the original download pack with instructions. [Download via TUAW and Tutorial]

Victoria Beckham was one of the performers at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show, where she was accompanied by the Spice Girls. I believe it was their first reunion performance, and hopefully their last. I mean, we all know that Posh and her funbags are the stars of the show, and honestly, they don’t need backups. They hold their own!

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Maybe it’s the eyes. Don’t be too alarmed, but this video shows the iPhone being accessed by terminal using a program installed by a webpage. Since the program, like all unofficial apps, runs as root, they’ve got access to data stores for mail, call lists, contacts, and voicemail, which are served up via terminal. And no, that guy isn’t hacking your ghost with those piercing eyes. I think.

This is why a managed SDK with sandboxed apps like the one Jobs proposes for February is going to be a lot better than opening up the device outright, like it or not. Since this is a hack done via a website, it’s likely the 1.1.1 TIFF exploit that can be patched by a) installing Apple’s 1.1.2 patch or hacking your 1.1.1 iPhone using the Jailbreakme.com installer website. The guy runs all this on a LAN, knowing IPs, but it wouldn’t be hard to have malware ping home, either. Nothing to scoff at, but also not surprising given the unofficial nature of the apps developed so far, and maybe nothing to freak out over. [FC via CrunchHickey]

The Ripsaw is an unmanned ground vehicle that tears shit up and doesn’t even bother taking names later. It goes from 0 to 50 MPH in 3.5 seconds, is very maneuverable, and can knock over barns. It’s been around for about two years since it hit the scene as a privately funded DARPA challenger and military prototype, but now they’re available to the masses. And for only $200,000. Of course I would want to be able to get in mine and drive it, otherwise it’s just a really sick RC car. I’m going to do donuts in the yard of that a-hole down the street that throws his newspaper at me whenever I drive by. If he comes out of his house I’ll tell him exactly where I’m gonna ram this thing if I ever catch him with another paper.

Another picture and a video after the jump, which is definitely worth watching all of.

Everybody loves Heidi Klum! Project Runway is so entertaining! She’s so pretty! She seems really happy with Seal! She’s a savvy business woman! She’s got great hair! And so I can’t ding her for wearing something shiny and sparkly and…

This week at Uncrate: We intimidate our opponents with some Custom Beer Pong Balls, reach a million on Guitar Hero thanks to the React Guitar Hero Controllers, and have Thanksgiving Madden-style by serving up a Turducken.

We also build our own system with the JVC DIY Speaker Kit, get down to business on the Go-Cart Desk, and wish for a ride as cool-looking as the Confederate Renovatio Concept Motorcycle. Finally, we upgrade our morning routine with the Starbucks Sirena Espresso Machine, stay in tune with the Gibson Robot Guitar, and stay amused in the wilderness with the Eton FR300 Emergency Crank Radio.

If you are a fan of Rube Goldberg-style contraptions, you will love Think Geek’s Cological Marble Run Construction Set. It contains everything you need to create your own marble mayhem—including 23 different types of marble-moving mechanisms like rolling cars and whacking mallets. More info and a video after the jump.

The instruction manual teaches you how to use the parts, but leaves the course design up to you. The whole thing is in Japanese anyway, so don’t expect to do a whole lot of reading unless you can speak the language. Real geeks don’t need any stinking instructions anyway. Available for $69.99.[Think Geek]

This is probably the first time the word “sexy” has ever been used to describe a washing machine—but this concept piece from designer Simona Luculano is definitely worthy of such an adjective. Unlike traditional washing machine eyesores that must be hidden in a garage or behind sliding doors, the Flexible Distance washing machine could actually be used as a decorative piece.

Plus, it is as functional as it is attractive, with touch controls on the outer ring of the wash well and an LCD screen on the lid to monitor the progress of your crusty underwear. It even conforms to low power and water consumption standards—or at least it would if it ever made it into production. [Yanko Design]

When it comes to product placement, I can’t think of a more high-profile scoop than the International Space Station. DirecTV is wisely offering NASA a chance to install a 42″ HDTV, DirecTV Satellite DVR/receiver and a remote covered in Velcro to avoid losing the remote to spacewalk in the orbital lab. Guess you’d get tired of viewing the entire friggin’ planet from space after a few days. [Forbes]