After money went missing at the home of terminally ill grandmother, the 21 year old daughter set up a DIY homemade Teddy Bear cam to catch the caregiver stealing money.

We say the care-giver is a heartless and worthless soul who needs to really clean her soul.

Robert Sampson, 46, and Emma, 21, fixed the tiny camera in the Liverpool home of his mother Thelma Sampson, 75.

Last week, care assistant Yvonne Allen, 28, of Halewood, Liverpool, was sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of theft.

Mr Sampson said his mother, who has cancer, was pleased about the sentence.

Mr Sampson and his daughter, who has just graduated from the University of Central Lancashire, set up the camera when Mrs Sampson noticed money going missing from her purse at her home in Walton.

via bbgadgets, BBC

Lol, this is cool, I guess Cuttlefish is the only living organism that can learn inside the egg…

Before they have even hatched, cuttlefish embryos can peer out of their eggs and spot potential prey. It is the first time any animal has been shown to learn visual images before they are born.

Ludovic Dickel and his colleagues at the University of Caen Basse-Normandy, France, made the discovery by placing crabs alongside cuttlefish eggs in a series of laboratory tanks. Those embryos exposed to crabs preferred them as prey later in life, the scientists report in the journal Animal Behaviour.

The young embryos must be able to see through their translucent egg case, the scientists believe, and learn which animals are worth hunting even before they have hatched. “This is the first time there is evidence of visual learning by embryos,” said Dr Dickel.

via neatorama - bbc

OLPC has just announced that they will be using Microsoft XP operating system on their $100 laptops. This is ridiculous and does go completely against their original core values.

Continue reading ‘OLPC has joined Microsoft XP!’

Over at UK, a passenger of the car “moons” speeding camera.  Although this incident didn’t occur in any driving suspension as the car driver did not break any laws, it’s a good sign that people in general don’t like speeding cameras.

I propose to remove them for good as they really serve no purpose but make more money for the government.

I’ve actually gone through so many times when I tried to do emergency brakes while trying to avoid being catched on speeding camera. (when I could have leisurely gone through a yellow light)

In all, it is far more dangerous for drivers as they now have to keep track of the signal AND the speeding camera.

Sadly, in San Francisco, there are cameras everywhere but the good news is that, some of them are “fake” or “broken” ones.  Do you see any “fake” cameras in your city?

The “mooning” man was snapped by the mobile camera as the black BMW X5 drove past on the A1171 Dudley Lane in Cramlington last month.

His behaviour has been labelled as “dangerous and offensive” by road safety campaigners.

Police may take action against the man for public order offences and not wearing a seat belt.

Officers have the registration of the car, which was not breaking the speed limit, and intend to contact its owner.

It is understood the driver will not face prosecution as no driving offence was being committed.

[via] bbc

Well, online videos ARE eating up TV time. At least, I’ve stopped watching TV personally about 2 months ago.
Personally, TV is so whacked with commercials and I don’t want to end up
as another biased TV couch-potato. Well, I didn’t understand this concept
that TV is bad for you when my high school English teacher told me over 10
years ago, but now I do.

Anyways, it is great that now you can simply type
some words and get the show you want on youtube, google, revver, spikedhumor,
revver, metacafe, msn, yahoo, and so many other sites that are popping up everyday.

You can check out javimoya, which allows you to save movies from youtube, google, and alike
to your PC or ipod.

A new survey conducted for the BBC suggests that the phenomenal rise in popularity of online video is eroding the amount of time people spend watching tradition TV. Of 2,070 people surveyed by ICM, 43% of those who watch online video on a PC or mobile device at least once a week say they watch less TV as a result. However, only 9% of the population currently watch online video regularly.

via techdigest