TipEx (a Commonwealth analogue for Wite-Out and other correction-tape products) has an ingenious and engaging YouTube marketing campaign: a video called “NSFW: A hunter shoots a bear,” branches off into a kind of video-text-adventure, where you are invited to type verbs into a box and see what the bear and the hunter do with one another (you can get funny results out of “f*ck,” of course, and also “gets high with” and “dances” — I’m sure there’s more). It’s a kind of next-generation Subservient Chicken, and the (no doubt blisteringly expensive) creative reworking of YouTube’s familiar user-interface makes it even more click-trancey than its forebears.

How astronauts see Hurricane Earl. This image acquired by NASA two days ago:

The relatively placid view from the International Space Station belied the potent forces at work in Hurricane Earl as it hovered over the tropical Atlantic Ocean on August 30. With maximum sustained winds of 135 miles (215 kilometers) per hour, the storm was classified as a category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale as it passed north of the Virgin Islands.

According to The New York Times, the acquisition – announced officially by Intel head Paul Otellini yesterday following weeks of rumours and speculation by industry watchers – will give Intel’s wireless technologies a boost, and mean that the company’s chips form part of Apple’s successful iPad – although not, to Intel’s chagrin, the CPU.

The move comes mere weeks after Intel spent a whopping $7.68 billion buying security specialist McAfee and a further – undisclosed – sum on Texas Instruments’ cable modem division, bringing the total value of Intel’s acquisitions to over $9 billion in August alone.

Speaking to Fox Business and transcribed over on VentureBeat, Otellini claimed that the decision to purchase Infineon came about due to “the technology they have today, the customer connections they have today, and where the technology in general is going,” and explained that Intel’s plan is to work towards “a period in the not so distant future where all of these [wireless] functions can be [built] on a single chip.”

While Otellini hasn’t announced an Atom processor with integrated wireless technology yet, the possibility is there – albeit “farther down the road.”

The deal is expected to complete early next year, pending regulatory approval, after which we’ll start seeing Infineon technologies – including LTE mobile broadband connectivity chips – appearing alongside Intel’s existing mobile chips.

Are you pleased to see Intel looking to expand its wireless know-how, or has Otellini gone spend-happy in an industry that’s still trying to claw its way out of the credit crunch? Share your thoughts over in the forums.

The official video is out for “F**k You” by Cee Lo Green, a follow-up to the original typographic themed video for the song that came out last month. It’s off his upcoming album The Lady Killer, which is now available for pre-order.

The Swedish music software developer Propellerhead built The World’s Biggest Drum Machine.

Create Digital Music has a behind the scenes look at how it was created.

via Gizmodo

The Gregson Street train trestle in Durham, NC, is 11-foot-8-inches high. Occasionally, a driver of a 12-foot-tall truck approaching the trestle doesn’t pay heed to the flashing warning lights and gets the top ripped off his trailer. It happens often enough that Jürgen Henn has a Web site called 11foot8.com with videos of the unfortunate incidents.

Low clearance can be a real challenge for a truck driver. Especially inexperienced drivers of rental boxtrucks seem to be quite oblivious to the warning signs and flashing “overheight” warning lights at this railroad trestle in Durham, NC. So frequently do trucks crash into the 11-foot-8 clearance trestle, that the railroad company installed a crash beam in front of it. This massive steel I-beam bears the brunt of the impact, protecting the structure that supports this fairly busy railroad track. Believe it or not – they already had to replace the beam once!The videos of these crashes document the severity of the impact, and they show how frequently these crashes produce a real hazard for pedestrians and other vehicles.

Clearly, the warning signs aren’t enough to stop all drivers. Maybe the city could lower the street under the trestle? Or add a stop sign? I’m sure they’ve thought of those things already. Right?

Yovo’s Bridgecam of trucks hitting a trestle (Via Cynical-C)

“Systems Supernova”, a dress made out of recycled computer wires created by Tina Sparkles for the Keep Austin Beautiful Recycled Fashion Show.

Made mostly of recycled computer wiring, the Systems Supernova dress addresses the growing problem of e-waste in American culture and explores the concept of systems thinking as it relates to our ecosystem. Each computer wire is situated in a closed loop system that interacts with all the other systems within the dress. Movement within one system influences other parts of the whole.

photo by Andrew Sterling

via Craft

Here are the winners of this year’s Danish Rabbit Hopping Championships.

via Nag on the Lake

Irrational Games has announced “BioShock Infinite”, the 3rd installment of the first person shooter series BioShock. Set in 1912, BioShock Infinite takes place in the sky city of Columbia (previously BioShock was in an underwater setting).

Former Pinkerton agent Booker DeWitt has been sent to rescue Elizabeth, a young woman imprisoned in Columbia since childhood. Booker develops a relationship with Elizabeth, augmenting his abilities with hers so the pair may escape from a city that is literally falling from the sky. DeWitt must learn to fight foes in high-speed Sky-Line battles, engage in combat both indoors and amongst the clouds, and harness the power of dozens of new weapons and abilities.