del.icio.us links for August 26, 2007

Archive of del.icio.us links

1. Venture Vehicles gets $6 Million to produce 100mpg 3-wheel car – EgmCarTech.Com

   The company’s VentureOne is a 3-wheel, tilting, plug-in Hybrid vehicle. The two-passenger flex-fuel Hybrid will achieve 100mpg. Accelerate from 0-60 in 6 seconds with a top speed of over 100 mph. Retail price of under $20,000.

2. YouTube Makes Video Ads Optional for Content Owners – Mashable.Com

   Only videos from content owners that have registered for InVideo, the new advertising program on YouTube, will display ads. This will leave the majority of YouTube clips ad-free, which should make a lot of users happy again.

3. Balloon In Space: Ordinary Guys Send Picture-Taking Balloon 22.27 Miles High – Gizmodo.Com

   The view from 117,597 feet, taken on August 11, 2007 by a camera hanging from a helium balloon launched by a group of guys in Alberta, Canada. Called the SABLE-3 (Southern Alberta Balloon Launch Experiment #3)

4. 50 terabyte flash drive made of bug protein » USB Powered Gadgets and more.. – GetUSB.Info

   Renugopalakrishnan says the new protein-based DVD will have advantages over current optical storage devices. It will be able to store at least 20 times more than the Blue-ray and eventually even up to 50,000 gigabytes (about 50 terabytes).

9 more articles after the Jump

1. Teenager cracks government porn filter – TheAge.Com.AU

   A 16-year-old schoolboy has cracked the federal government’s $84-million internet porn filter. Tom Wood, a Year 10 student, told News Ltd newspapers it took him about 30 minutes to break through the government’s new filter, released on Tuesday.

2. Yahoo to shutter one of its photo-sharing sites – ComputerWorld.Com

   Yahoo photo will close on Sept. 20. Until then, users can move their photos to other photo-sharing services. If users don’t tell Yahoo what to do with the photos before the site closes, their photos will be deleted and will no longer be accessible.

3. Manga Bible on the Way – ForeverGeek.Com

   From Anime News Network. Tyndale House Publishers will be releasing a manga series aptly titled “Manga Bible” which will have popular Japanese manga artists retelling famous Bible stories.

4. Cars like computers? – Leo.Org

   Helpline: “General Motors Helpline, how can I help you?” Customer: “I got in my car and closed the door, and nothing happened!” Helpline: “Did you put the key in the ignition and turn it?” Customer: “What’s an ignition?”

5. Click to Give @ The Child Health Site – TheHungerSite.Com

   With a simple, daily click of the blue “Click Here to Give – it’s FREE” button at The Child Health Site, visitors help children. Visitors pay nothing.

6. Do You Think Like A Psychopath? – Agosto – 2007 – Schlicken.Blogsome.Com

   Are you a Nature Born Killer? – Read this question, come up with an answer. This is not a trick question. It is as it reads. No one I know so far has got it right.

7. Humans vs. Zombies – UMassWiki.Com

   Humans vs Zombies (also called Zombies vs Humans) is a live-action role playing game of tag which involves a large number of players (often hundreds of people) and long game time (sometimes taking weeks).

8. Internet ramraiders rear-end domain parking service – TheRegister.Co.UK

   The attack started Thursday at around 15.00 GMT and remains ongoing, a later post explains. “In addition to the 600K domains we have parked on our system, our servers were being hit by XX,XXX false connections per second for over 24 hours.

9. Unlocked iPhone traded for a Nissan 350Z – iPhoneWorld.CA

   According to 17 year old George Hotz, he received a Nissan 350Z and three 8GB iPhones in return for the first-ever unlocked iPhone from the founder of Certicell.