The Linkielist

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AVG Floods the Internet

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Robin

No idea what the why of it is, but AVG antivirus is faking Internet Explorer User Agents and is flooding the internet with it.

Ah, El Reg reports that it’s because AVG 8 vets websites / search engine results before you click on them, making nuts traffic over all our pipes!

Apparently some people are rerouting the traffic to the AVG site, which has gone down.

YouTube privacy gone to Viacom

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Robin

the judge granted a Viacom motion that records of every video watched by YouTube users, including their login names and IP addresses, be turned over to the entertainment giant

Holy fuck!

YouTube privacy at risk in Google-Viacom ruling | Tech news blog – CNET News.com

Watermelon Viagra

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Robin

That’s one to remember! Eating watermelons has around the same effect as popping the little blue pills does!

Engineer Gets 110 MPG Out Of ’87 Mustang

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Robin

By tinkering with a petrol engine he’s managed to increase the efficiency of the engine to 38% (usual is around 9 / 10%) without sacrificing performance. Unusually he doesn’t want to sell his technique, he wants to win an X-prize with it and have it available for the world as an aftermarket product. He’s afraid if he sells the technique, it’ll never see the light of day.

Environmental Working Group – Sunscreen

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Robin

The EWG tested close to 1000 sunscreens, and it turns out that they can only reccomend 143 of them. 314 they urge caution and 495 (!), which include common, well known brands are basically downright dangerous to assume they’re sunscreen.

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