16 Creative Alcohol Bottle Designs

We can’t say for sure that what’s in all these bottles is going to be particularly smooth, but we can tell you this: the bottle designs certainly are! We show you 16 creative alcohol packaging designs, so you can write off a night of lonely drinking as industry research. 1. Monteith’s Single Source Lager Beer This New Zealand lager has a classy, minimalist look, and the back label features a QR code....

3 min · 630 words · Trevor Perez

16-year-old builds TaskRabbit competitor Viatask

TaskRabbit– the site that outsources your errands- has been praised as a model that is encouraging Americans’ out of unemployment and back into jobs. Who better to build a TaskRabbit clone, than an inspirational teenager from Chicago? Meet 16-year-old Shahed Khan who is the CEO and founder ofViatask– a site that outsources your odd jobs just like TaskRabbit. Shahed says Viatask won’t charge either runner or client for the transaction like TaskRabbit....

1 min · 194 words · Karen Simmons

16-year-old leading member of LulzSec reportedly in custody after sting

Followingthis morning’s FBI raidsin New York on the homes of suspected Anonymous members, London’s Metropolitan Police E-Crime Unit says it has arrested one of the suspected leading members of hacking group LulzSec,according to Fox News. The arrests were part of an internationally coordinated sting on the two allied hacker groups which resulted in 16 arrests. The hacker in custody is a 16-year-old boy from South London who goes by Tflow online, and has links to both groups....

1 min · 207 words · Catherine May

172 doomed BBC websites saved by one geek, for $3.99

Update at foot of post. As we recentlyreported, the BBC is set to close down 200 of its websites in the near future as part of cost-cutting measures. Hearing that 172 of these sites would be deleted from the Web entirely, an anonymous (and possibly even “Anonymous”, judging by the picture on the website) individual hastaken matters into his or her own hands. The result is a BitTorrent file that anyone can download to store a backup of these “lost” websites forever....

2 min · 399 words · Spencer Long

18DaysInEgypt: Crowd sourcing a revolution

It seems that the Middle East can’t get enough ofcrowd sourcing, and rightfully so. The Egyptian website,18DaysInEgyptis aiming to put together a collaborative and interactive documentary about the 18 day uprising in Egypt. 18DaysInEgypt is an attempt to “showcase the power of crowd sourced documentary filmmaking.” The people behind the project The team behind the project consists of software developer Yasmin Elayat, documentary filmmakers, Jigar Mehta and Alaa Dajani, Technology Transfer Office Director at the American University in Cairo, Ahmed Ellaithy and producer, Hugo Soskin, along with the team at Emerge Technology....

5 min · 1023 words · Anthony Lane
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