Ants can farm

We've already made it extensively clear that the world will not end in fire or ice, but covered in ants.
But besides their colonies -- which oh by the way are ridiculously extensive underground labyrinths...

... what's so special about these insects?
Well, humans, with our big, fancy brains, have been around for 250,000 years or so but it took us until very recently (15,000 or so years ago) to "invent" the idea of growing our own food rather than just finding berries and nuts out in the wild. And while people like to say that art, or fire, or "love" is man's greatest invention, the Statue of David can suck it, because agriculture is the most important thing man has done. Farming allowed man to stay in one place, inadvertently giving rise to towns, cities, states -- shaping civilization as we know it.

Somewhere along the line, we replaced crude huts with 3D pornography and Bugles.

But if we'd been watching ants, we'd have figured it out a lot sooner. Long before we were even chasing wooly mammoths with spears or riding around in our crude, foot-powered cars, ants had mastered the art of sustainable agriculture.

And the art of buttsex.

Leaf cutter ants will take cut up bits of plant into their ant-hills. Then, instead of just eating them, they'll lay the bits down and shit on them so that a certain fungus will grow. They then cultivate the fungus, feeding it new plant material when necessary. They even have developed techniques to protect their fungus from other, non-edible molds -- so not only are they farming, they've made themselves a safe and effective pesticide.
And they did all of this 50 million years before we came along..

In another 50 million years, they could have Pong.

Creepy Ways Animal Societies Are Organizing

You'd think "Chimpanzee Researcher" would be the most hilarious job in the world, what with the subjects always putting on people clothes and pretending to smoke pipes. But during a 10-year study of a community of chimps in Uganda, scientists found something terrifying.

More terrifying than the Congo chimp's alliance with the Clown People.

Every once in a while groups of strong chimp males would form up and head north, toward the border between their territory and the land of the neighboring tribe. They'd move through the jungle silently and in a single-file line, with practically no eating, socializing, or masturbating allowed. They'd stealthily scavenge for signs of individuals from the other tribe, such as feces, abandoned termite-fishing tools, etc. When they found a member of the northern tribe off on his own, then they'd gang up on his ass and murder him, goddamn Sam Fisher-style.
Then they did it again. And again. It wasn't just random animal-on-animal savagery; when the scientists studied the pattern of the attacks, they found the chimps were at war.

You expect this kind of bullshit from apes.

During the decade they watched the area, scientists saw 18 of these attacks, mostly all along the northern border, wiping out more than 13 rival chimps from a tribe of 100 (you don't get kill ratios like than in most human wars). And each time, they moved the border north. They were fighting over land, and doing it in a very organized way.

Source

This isn't some freak occurrence, either. In Tanzania, researchers witnessed a chilling civil war when one tribe of chimps got angry and split off from a larger tribe. Over the next five years, the group of heretics destroyed the original tribe with a series of covert attacks.
Previously it was thought that invasive human behavior was behind chimpanzee tribal violence, but now scientists are relieved to find out that chimps are just naturally prone to lethal, Splinter Cell-like military operations.

Ooh-ooh-ah-ah!

Sony NEX-3 goes pink on November 19

We weren't shy about telling Sony that it ought to bring some of those NEX-3/5 color concepts from Photokina out on the market, and the Japanese manufacturer has clearly taken note. To be fair, our pining was more concerned with the white variant than this pink number, but whatever, a new hue is a new hue. Japanese lovers of small cameras with big sensors and rosé color schemes will be able to enjoy their slice of nirvana on November 19 for around ¥80,000 ($975), while the rest of the world sits and ponders the crazy price. It's no higher than the standard NEX-3 kit, mind you, which can currently be had in silver, black, or red. And if Sony Japan's scheme to conquer the female market with a lick of new paint pays off, we might see the pink camera -- along with the litany of matching accessories also introduced today -- sailing out to new shores as well. One can only hope.

Sony Japan

Wicked Aura Batucada @ Blujaz on 23/10

Wicked Aura Batucada

Swing by Blujaz come 23rd October from 9.30pm onwards and get your freak on with The Wickedboys once more before they play the Stompin Sabah Festival in East Malaysia. Expect a full tilt sonic attack as the boys bring the animal out for another frolic in the park.

Be social. Be animal. Get wicked.

Download Office for Mac 2011 (Final RTM Volume and Retail) with Product Key

The new version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS X platform has been finally released to manufacturing (RTM), which means the development for Office for Mac 2011 has been completed and the final code has been signed off, and been sent to production.


Office:Mac 2011 packs a lot of new or enhanced functionality and redesigned user interface, with features such as everywhere access, full co-authoring support and ability to connect to cloud-based Microsoft services such as the Office Web Apps, SharePoint and SkyDrive for team collaboration. Office 2011 for Mac also introduces Outlook for Mac, uses Ribbon interface, adds new tools to easily craft professional documents, such as new template gallery, Sparklines, in-document photo editing and more.

The final RTM release of the Office 2011 for Mac suite of programs has the build version number of 14.0.0.100825.3, and the build was assembled and RTMed on Friday, September 10, 2010.

And as expected and similar to most other new Microsoft products, the Office for Mac 2011 has been leaked way before its official launch to retail customers and businesses, normally right after Microsoft delivers the products to volume licensing customers in the name of SW_DVD5_Office_Mac_Standard_2011_English_MLF_X16-99088. The online retailer Amazon had previously accidentally publish the availability date of Office for Mac 2011 before it’s taken down, which is listed as October 26, 2010. Microsoft had announced that Office for Mac 2011 will shipped by end of October.

Those who interested in Office for Mac 2011 can wait no more, as the download links to the setup installer of Office for Mac 2011 have been leaked and available for free download.

Office for Mac 2011 Standard (VL – Volume Licensing)
File Name: office_Bus_enu_14.0.0_100825.3_ship_VL_build.dmg
Build: 14.0.0.BUILD.100825.3
Size: 955,088,986 byte
SHA1: 3834853A973B27781683CAB275E499C5353F7B69
MD5: 6B97DC2BD1D020BBAF41F1C244F6A044
CRC: 7AE845CB
BT Torrent (Magnet Link): MICROSOFT.OFFICE.FOR.MAC.2011.RTM.BUSINESS.VOLUME.ENGLISH-WZT
Office for Mac 2011 Standard (Retail)
File Name: office_std_enu_14.0.0_100825.3_ship_retail_build.dmg
Build: 14.0.0.BUILD.100825.3
Size: 932,901,946 byte
SHA1: 3A127A75473BAC07593E56239360B288539F788E
MD5: 2A7EC3816614094E3FF73CC801104B63
CRC: 9EC75633
BT Torrent (Magnet Link): MICROSOFT.OFFICE.FOR.MAC.2011.RTM.STANDARD.RETAIL.ENGLISH-WZT
Communicator for Office for Mac 2011 Standard
File Name: Communicator_std_enu_13.0.0_100825.3_ship_vl_build.dmg
Build: 13.0 .0.100825.3
SHA1: B3B0C1D5239E94BD8CEB5980E85DAEE9CC41E0A5
MD5: 6E74B7D42CCB500116A6A4325B7C9B48
CRC: C7240532
Download: Communicator_std_enu_13.0.0_100825.3_ship_vl_build.dmg
BT Torrent (Magnet Link): COMMUNICATOR FOR OFFICE.FOR.MAC.2011.RTM.STANDARD.ENGLISH

The package of Office for Mac 2011 Standard contains all popular Office apps for Mac OS X system, including Mac versions of Word 2011, Excel 2011, PowerPoint 2011, Outlook 2011 which replaces Entourage, Messenger for Mac 8, Remote Desktop Connection for Mac, Document Connection for Mac, and Communicator for Mac.

Similar to Office 2010 for Windows, no product key is required to install volume licensing edition of Office for Mac 2011, and a product key is required to install retail version Office 2011 for Mac. Use the following product keys to install Office for Mac 2011 retail edition products.
Word for Mac 2011: CRVGP-F9DFF-YCR4X-D9GMM-9GQYB
Excel for Mac 2011: MVGQR-X389M-DV7FQ-TVGVP-X7KBW
PowerPoint for Mac 2011: MMGC8-469V6-WMYXY-FCT9C-9GVYC
Outlook for Mac 2011: TRTWQ-4VGHQ-C72R6-GTVFR-W4TC6
The product keys unlikely will work for activation though.

Office:Mac 2011 is available as 32-bit (x86) software only, and is available in 13 launguages: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.
Microsoft has a free upgrade to Office for Mac 2011 program which entitles customers who purchase Office 2008 for Mac between August 1, 2010 and November 30, 2010 to receive free upgrade license of the new product. Check out the prices and editions available for Office 2011 for Mac.
Microsoft has prepared several video clips which showcase features of Office for Mac 2011 at OfficeForMac.com.

Block malicious sites with Adblock Plus !

by Wladimir Palant

I was reading about yet another wave of attacks exploiting a Flash vulnerability. It turned out that the Flash vulnerability used was already fixed but that doesn’t really matter — Adobe seems incapable of updating users to a secure Flash version in a timely fashion. So Firefox users were at risk here as well, and the continuing waves of SQLInjection attacks inserting malicious iframes into trusted websites didn’t exactly make the situation better.

Yet the domains participating in the attacks are known, so there must be a way to block them. Of course I checked the malware filter in Firefox 3 first, yet it didn’t recognize the sites as malicious. It might have been that the sites were too new, yet the information on Google for some of the older domains indicated that these have been scanned and nothing objectionable could be found. Not sure what Google’s scans look at, but I guess they simply have a different focus — the idea is to block sites the user might go to unintentionally rather than malicious Flash objects that could be easily served with ads for example.

I searched for other lists of malicious domains and quickly found one aggregating multiple sources of information including Dancho Danchev’s blog posts I linked to above. The list is mainly meant for DNS servers, but why not try to use it in Adblock Plus? The script to convert the list was easily written, discussing the matter with the author of the list and finding hosting for the Adblock Plus filter subscription took somewhat longer — but now it is all done.

So now Adblock Plus users can add a subscription with slightly over 40000 filters that will block access to the known malicious domains. It is the first time I tried Adblock Plus with so many filters, and the good news is: the slowdown during browsing is in the area of single-digit millisecond numbers, that’s not noticeable. The bad news: loading/saving the list still takes a while (noticeable as browser startup/shutdown delay). In Firefox 2 this took around 20 seconds which is why I recommend against using this subscription there. The big surprise was Firefox 3, there the delay is only 3-4 seconds. Congratulations to everybody who helped optimizing JavaScript, the results are really incredible!

Using this filter subscription will also require 20 MB more memory and up to 25 MB download bandwidth per month. I’ll continue working on performance optimizations, but if you can live with the performance cost and want to try it already: click here to subscribe to the list in Adblock Plus (listed on the usual list of filter subscriptions as well of course).

Office 2010 Individual Applications (inc. Project, Visio, Outlook, and Publisher) Official Direct Download Links

The Office 2010 suite is comprised of many individual software application programs combined into one package. Some of the applications include Word 2010, Excel 2010, PowerPoint 2010, which are the most popular programs from Office 2010 family.

Some people may prefer to install only application software that they want to use, instead of installing the whole suite of Office 2010 with tons of unused and unneeded programs. Microsoft does also sell most Office 2010 products individually, and allow individual apps to be downloaded and installed separately.
Here’s the direct download links to various Office 2010 apps that been hosted on authorized Microsoft resellers’ server. As it’s official downloads, thus the setup installers are untouched, unmodified, unchanged, untempered and legitimate source.
Microsoft Word 2010
English 32-bit (x86): X16-33159.exe
English 64-bit (x64): X16-33122.exe
Microsoft Excel 2010
English 32-bit (x86): X16-30356.exe
English 64-bit (x64): X16-30329.exe
Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
English 32-bit (x86): X16-32694.exe
English 64-bit (x64): X16-32657.exe
Microsoft Outlook 2010
English 32-bit (x86): X16-32583.exe
English 64-bit (x64): X16-32546.exe
Microsoft OneNote 2010
English 32-bit (x86): X16-32472.exe
English 64-bit (x64): X16-32435.exe
Microsoft Access 2010
English 32-bit (x86): X16-29933.exe
English 64-bit (x64): X16-30247.exe
Microsoft Publisher 2010
English 32-bit (x86): X16-32967.exe
English 64-bit (x64): X16-32930.exe
Microsoft InfoPath 2010
English 32-bit (x86): X16-30496.exe
English 64-bit (x64): X16-30459.exe
Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2010
English 32-bit (x86): X16-56886.exe
English 64-bit (x64): X16-56921.exe
Czech 32-bit (x86): X16-56883.exe
Czech 64-bit (x64): X16-56918.exe
Microsoft Visio 2010 (Standard, Professional, Premium)
English 32-bit (x86): X16-33056.exe
English 64-bit (x64): X16-33029.exe
Brazilian Portuguese 32-bit (x86): X16-33050.exe
Brazilian Portuguese 64-bit (x64): X16-33023.exe
Microsoft Project 2010 Standard
English 32-bit (x86): X16-32864.exe
English 64-bit (x64): X16-32837.exe
Microsoft Project 2010 Professional
English 32-bit (x86): X16-32783.exe
English 64-bit (x64): X16-32756.exe
Brazilian Portuguese 32-bit (x86): X16-32777.exe
Brazilian Portuguese 64-bit (x64): X16-32750.exe
All of the setup installers above are of retail version, and requires a product key during setup in order to successfully install the programs.
Check out all Office 2010 resources and downloads available.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard for MSI Wind U90/U100/U120

Mac OSX SnowLeopard 10.6.3 Retail for MSI WIND (U90 U100 U120) and RoverBook Neo U100 [HDD image] | 6.96 GB

Based on the original copy SnowLeopard for Macintosh, with the upgrade to 10.6.3, installed all the updates for other programs. Adaptation of a netbook is made using a hidden partition with the boot loader, which loads the necessary drivers. In general, this original system without kernel hacks, and the like crutches.

Distributing updated!
* Download time on MSI Wind U100X only 35-40 seconds.
* Time off for 2-3 seconds.
* Compatibility with future updates
* It is the full version.
This assembly is designed for those people who value their time, installation of Snow Leopard 10.6.3 in a single step for 30 minutes!
The image includes:
- GUID partition disk
- Section with Mac OSX (50GB)
- Rest of the space is not distributed there and you can add your own sections
Everything works. Restoring an image checked personally.

Administrator Password: qwe123

Audited netbooks:
In these models the assembly was tested:
- MSI Wind U100
- MSI Wind U90
- MSI Wind U120 (possible problems with the WiFi if it is not RTL8187)
- ACER AOD150
If your netbook processor N450 is guaranteed to you this way will NOT work
Please, if you run by this assembly, and your model netbook is not in this list - write to me about it so I could expand the list.

Upgrading to 10.6.4
Update through the official way to update software (click on the top toolbar icon "apple" -> "Software Update").
Problems with the update in this image is not revealed.

Dual Booting with Windows:
To install a parallel Windows 7 should:
1. Run Disk Utility (Disk Utility) from the Programs-> Utilities
2. Select the drive (not partition!), Click to partition, the bottom of the circuit volume, press [+]. Select the scheme a new section, enter details: name - Win7, format - "MS-DOS (FAT)". Click "Apply." Close the program.
3. Create a bootable USB stick with Windows7 (UltraISO -> bootable -> Save hard disk image, not to change the settings)
4. Booting from USB drive, the installation will write that there is no suitable partition - does not matter. Choose from a list of the section with the name of Win7, then click "customize", select "Format" do not change anything just to confirm. Now you can put.
5. After installation, Georgia will WINDOWS directory; to restore the boot loader needs fleshka poppy or poppy or very possibly fit another Linux. Loaded with this game, and if you boot poppy once in the installer select Utilities-> Terminal.
6. Drives the following lines at the end of each pressing Enter. If the program asks for confirmation then entering a "Y" and hit Enter.

fdisk-e / dev/rdisk0
flag 1
update
write
quit
reboot

7. This default will be loaded poppy to select windose to the screen with the apple, while underneath there is a signature "Press any button to change startup options" on your keyboard, press the button "Down" or "Right Arrow." A list of installed systems.

Platform: Intel only
System requirements: MSI Wind U90/U100/U120, RoverBook Neo U100
Language: English + Russian

Screenshot

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