Blind veterans in Scotland have a new place they can hang out and not hurt themselves. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Ju0tsAXQeAM/a-beautiful-building-for-the-scottish-war-blind Melissa Rycroft

Remember that cute Volkswagen commercial that ran during the Super Bowl showing Little Darth Vader attempting to use the Force all over his house? Ever wonder what would happen if the Jedi tried to convince the little guy to step away from the Dark Side? That’s the idea behind a parody ad created by Greenpeace in [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/06/death-star-volkswagen/ Melissa Joan Hart

Pastebin is a very popular website aimed at coders and other nerdy types, which allows them (or should I say, us) to paste and share snippets of code with lovely syntax highlighting. It has recently undergone a major overhaul which includes the release of a brand new Windows client. The new client lets you create new “pastes” and manage your existing ones. It joins a host of other tools from Pastebin, such as the Google [...]

Microsoft on Tuesday launched its newest cloud service, Office 365, in 40 markets. The service consists of online versions of Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft Lync. Microsoft’s building up an ecosystem around the service, and more than 20 service providers around the world have announced they’ll offer Office 365 to customers this year. Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/72764.html Molly Sims

Vampires, werewolves, maenads, shape-shifters, weird panther-type creatures and now witches — True Blood has them all. The show, which begins its fourth season Sunday on HBO, is quickly amassing every manner of nonhuman in its menagerie of otherworldly characters. Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/06/true-blood-ten-reasons/ Missy Peregrym

Apple today announced that Mac OS X Lion ? the eighth major release of the world?s most advanced desktop operating system ? will be available to customers in July as a download from the Mac App Store for $ 29.99. OS X Lion offers more than 250 new features, including Multi-Touch gestures; systemwide support for [...] Source: http://tabletbuzzblog.com/mac-os-x-lion-available-in-july-from-mac-app-store/ Natassia Malthe

Space-shooters are usually a fairly fiery affair, with many types of guns, weapon upgrades, power-ups and more. Dodge does away with all of that, while keeping the very essence of a space shooter: Dark background, fast action, and stuff blowing up all over the place. Your vector-looking spacecraft is the fastest thing on the screen, most of the time. And as the header implies, you have absolutely no weapons; you can’t get any, either. All [...]

ARCHOS announced two new Android tablets. They include two for factors; the 80 G9 (8″ 1024 by 768 display) and the 101 G9 (10.1″ 1280 by 800 display). They also ship with the fastest dual-core processor,  a CORTEX A9 OMAP4 1.5 GHz. In addition to putting the quickest processor in, they add a couple more features [...] Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/06/24/archos-g9-tablets-announced/ Poppy Montgomery

Over the last few days, a mass SQL injection attack has been quickly gathering speed. Just three days ago only 28,000 URLs were affected, but at the time of writing, there could be up to 3.8 million infected URLs. Websense has a complete write up the attack, dubbed ‘LizaMoon,’ but here’s the basic gist: it looks like someone is exploiting a vulnerabilty (or vulnerabilities) in hundreds of thousands of websites running on Microsoft SQL Server [...]

Dropbox offers a lovely client for Android, but it’s lacking true “sync” functionality. You can merely browse your Dropbox, pull files into the device, and manually upload specific files. DropSpace is a little Android app that makes Dropbox on Android work like Dropbox – that is, you get real folder synchronization in the background. When you run the app you’re prompted for your Dropbox credentials. After logging in to Dropbox, you get to select which [...]