Intel has just confirmed a design flaw in the latest generation of its Sandy Bridge chipsets. It’s stopped shipments of the new chips, and setting things straight is going to involve recalls and replacements and $700 million or so. Ouch.

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Intel recalls 8 million Sandy Bridge chipsets due to design flaw

Do you have a netbook kicking around? Do you ever use it? Yeah, didn’t think so. Why not give it some new life by turning it into a little arcade cabinet?

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Turn your unused netbook into a sweet arcade cabinet

For those of us who spend unhealthy amounts of time playing World of Warcraft , the land of Azeroth seems like an awfully big place. A level 85 human warlock named Daelyn (who also happens to be a physics and applied math major) decided to perform some in-game experiments and calculations to figure out just what sort of world WoW is.

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According to physics, World of Warcraft is a tiny Dyson sphere

Motorola’s taking direct aim at Apple in their big ad for the Super Bowl, which they’ve put online early for your perusal.

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Motorola takes on Apple’s classic 1984 ad for the Super Bowl

Netflix is doing good business with its unlimited streaming service, but Amazon is hoping to get in on that action itself. Rumor has it, they’re prepping a competing service for Prime members.

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Is Amazon prepping an unlimited video streaming service to take on Netflix?

Not to brag or anything but I’m cleverly packaged too if you know what I mean. I mean my wiener can solve word problems all by itself. Got me through middle-school , just sayin’! The “Miswak,” a teeth cleaning twig used throughout the Muslim world in lieu of modern toothbrush models, gets updated packaging for Western markets courtesy of School of Visual Arts student Leen Sadder. Traditionally, the Miswak’s bark is chewed off to expose the brush-like fibers underneath, but for commercial purposes, Sadder opted to include a lid that doubles as a tip-trimmer. I’d never actually heard of the Miswak before so I did some very brief research and found out it might actually be more effective than a toothbrush. WTF, ORAL B?! A 2003 scientific study comparing the use of miswak with ordinary toothbrushes concluded that the results clearly were in favor of the users who had been using the miswaak, provided they had been given proper instruction in how to brush using it. Granted that’s just one study and I usually pass out on the couch without brushing my teeth anyways, but I actually like mossy teeth. Back me up, Ents! “It’s true, he tries to climb in our mouths when we’re asleep and lick our molars — the kid’s a freak”. Wow, TMI Oak-face. Now shut your woodpecker-hole and and take me to Gondor. Toothbrush Redesign of the Day [thedailywh.at] Thanks to Sue, who flosses with barbed-wire because her dentist told her it’s good for the gums. Are, uh, are you sure that wasn’t just the nitrous talking?

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The Stick Toothbrush: Now Cleverly Packaged

Red Bull may not actually give you wings, but it does make a huge amount of money for the company who produces the stuff, and over the years the company’s blown a bunch of it buying some pretty sweet aircraft to play around with.

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This is what happens to all the money you spend on Red Bull

Seen here putting the hurt on a piece of dead tree (do your hand next!), 19-year old Eric Jacqmain demonstrates his homemade death-ray , which looks suspiciously like a satellite dish with a ton of little mirrors glued on. God, JUST THINK OF THE MOSAIC YOU COULD HAVE MADE! When aligned correctly it can generate a heat spot a couple of centimetres across, with an intensity of 5,000 shining suns, the 19-year-old claims. The ray generates enough power to melt steel, vaporize aluminum, boil concrete, turn dirt into lava, and obliterate any organic material in an instant. ‘I have vaporized before carbon, which occurs above 6,500 Fahrenheit.’ Unfortunately for Jacqmain, his ‘death ray’ dish met it’s own grisly end when it was destroyed in a shed fire. Jacqmain added: ‘Yeah. It “committed suicide”. It’s very likely that it was the cause of the fire. Nothing left of it but half melted wagon parts and the adjustable mount.’ HAHA! Well of course it set the shed on fire, IT’S A F***ING DEATH-RAY. A ray that can’t even burn its own house down isn’t exactly a death-ray, now is it? No, it’s not. It’s a sissy-ray and deserves to sleep in the yard with a tarp over it like the sissy-sandbox the cat still shits in. MAYBE IF YOU WERE QUICKSAND THAT WOULDN’T HAPPEN. Hit the jump for a video of the ray in action that may or may yes be set the the awesomest soundtrack I’ve ever heard.

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BURNINATE!: Kid Makes Backyard Death-Ray Out Of Satellite Dish And Ton Of Little Mirrors

Developers of the new Mortal Kombat have revealed the newest edition to the franchise will include difficult-to-execute ‘ x-ray ‘ moves, in which a character brutalizes another and the internal destruction is actually shown. *getting light-headed* What?! Like you’ve never seen a blogger write with a trashbag tied over his head! “It’s definitely the most brutal attack that we’ve ever had in a Mortal Kombat and it’s something that we’re very proud of,” lead designer John Edwards told IGN. “Not only from an artistic standpoint but from a gameplay standpoint.” “The first time we knew we were onto something big with X-ray Mode was at E3,” art director Steve Beran said. “I HAVE AN ORGASMIC REACTION EVERYTIME I SEE THE X-RAYS MOVES,” drowning69coil is happy to admit after watching the Mortal Kombat preview at YouTube. Whoa whoa whoa — orgasmic reaction?! I’m not saying this guy needs to be institutionalized for a unhealthy obsession with gore, but I am saying I bet he stays up at night beating off to CSI reruns. YOU’RE SICK AND YOU NEED TO GET BETTER, HOMEY. Hit the jump for a worthwhile video of the new moves and the develops talking about them.

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OMG — I Can See The Bone *Passes Out*: Mortal Kombat’s Brutal New ‘X-Ray Mode’

Obviously it’s not unsolvable , it just takes longer . Like aging a fine wine or making love to yourself after a long, lonely night of whiskey drankin’. Using 3D printing technology, puzzle-maker Oskar van Deventer managed to create this insanely complex version of the cube. Oskar assembled the cube from 1539 individually dyed pieces, resulting in this oversize 5.5? cube. And since the design has actually been turned into a digital format, you can print one for yourself - for the low, low price of $2006.54 (USD). As tempting as two grand sounds, Oskar (get out of that trashcan!), I’m going to have to decline. You see, I can’t even solve two dice . DAMN YOU, SNAKE-EYES, WHERE’S THE OTHER ‘1′?! Hit the jump for a close-up and Oskar holding the giant block like a proud father.

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UNSOLVABLE: The 17×17x17 Rubik’s Cube