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Sunday, 18-March-2012 15:43:12 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Julian Assange will apparently be entering politics. Wikileaks announced its intentions today, saying the organisation also planned to field a candidate to run against Prime Minister Julia Gillard in her seat of Lalor at the next election. "We have discovered that it is possible for Julian Assange to run for the Australian Senate while detained. Julian has decided to run," the Wikileaks website tweeted.
Sniper spotted this list of the best 15 free PC games on APCmag. It doesn't matter whether you like sims, first-person shooters, racers or strategy, our list of the best free PC games has you covered.
Here's an article about Facebook's servers, and some more info on the company that builds them. And if you’re allowed to walk inside — past the receptionist and the cubicles, through another door, around the security guard, and into the warehouse — you’ll find some technicians assembling and testing server hardware for some of the biggest names on the internet. This includes Facebook and Rackspace and at least one or two other names that even your grandmother knows about it.
Meanwhile a an ex-Google employee has posted an angry rant about Google+ destroying the company. Whittaker, who joined Google in 2009 and left last month, described a corporate culture clearly divided into two eras: "Before Google+," and "After." "After" is pretty terrible, in his view.
Speaking of Google, Timbot sent in this online game design thing from them, called input/output. You can make little machines like this one. Brush up on your geometry, dust off your protractor, and architect a machine only you could have dreamt of. Join developers tackling our latest Chrome Experiment for a chance to have your machine featured at Google I/O.
Also on the game front, NASA have jumped on the Angry Birds bandwagon. In cooperation with NASA, Finland-based Rovio Entertainment, creator of the Angry Birds franchise, announced its newest game, "Angry Birds Space," on Thursday, March 8. NASA and Rovio are working together to teach people about physics and space exploration through the internationally successful puzzle game. It'll be available in a few days here.
You might remember the light field camera we mentioned a while ago, which lets you focus an image AFTER you've captured it. BlueRaven spotted a new review of it on Engadget. Seeking to save us from unfocused mishaps, the technological tour de force also unlocks some considerable creative potential. So, is the $399 shooter going to revolutionize photography as we know it? Or does the Lytro's first foray into consumer electronics fall prey to the shortcomings of 1.0 product?
Today's timewaster is Torvi Cube from biatch.
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