This tiny thing is the LaCie MosKeyto, a seriously wee USB flash drive designed to be left plugged into your computer. You won’t even notice it’s there!

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MosKeyto: a USB drive so small, you’ll forget its plugged in

Hamadoun Tour?, the Secretary General of the UN’s International Telecommunications Union since 1999, says that it’s crucial that we start thinking in new terms about cyberspace. If not, he warns, we could face a destructive potential “worse than a tsunami.”

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UN warns that a cybewar would be catastrophic

People have been saying that OLED TVs are the wave of the future, offering up brilliant color and brightness in very thin panels that are very energy efficient. What’s not to like? Well, the price, for one, with Sony’s first OLED TV, the XEL-1 , measured a mere 11 inches and cost over $2,000.

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World’s thinnest OLED TV is a (relative) bargain at $9,000

Because stupid people hurting themselves really tickles my fancy, here’s a story about some jackass who blew himself up in the bathroom trying to kill a spider . Come on maine, haven’t you ever heard of a shoe?! The 28 year-old suffered severe burns after attacking the arachnid with an aerosol can at his home in Clacton in Essex. The man was summoned by his wife to deal with a spider she had seen scuttling behind the lavatory on Bank Holiday Monday. Not being able to reach it, the man decided to kill it by spraying it with the can. However he was unable to see whether it was dead because the bulb in the bathroom light had blown. At this point he turned to a cigarette lighter to illuminate the room, but in the process ignited the gas fumes and caused an explosion. The blast was so strong it blew the man off his feet and lifted the loft door off its hinges. He suffered flash burns to his head, legs and torso and was rushed by ambulance to hospital after dousing himself in cold water. Granted this guy is MENSA material compared to Electric Nips , but still. Haven’t you ever heard of masking the smell of a numero dos by lighting a match? And have you ever heard of someone dropping it between their legs before all the gas trapped in the bowl has dissipated? What happened? Exactly, they blasted off like a rocket and fought a towel bar with their face. Been there, done that, six stitches and an Owen Wilson nose, amirite?! Man blows himself up trying to kill a spider [telegraph] and Picture Thanks to Ash, who kills spiders the old fashioned way: tearing their legs off one by one and then letting them starve to death. WOW. Also, my apologies to anybody who’s itching now because of the picture. I couldn’t help myself!

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You’ll Never Be An Exterminator!: Man Blows Himself Up Trying to Kill A Spider For Wife

Just a day after Steve Jobs showed off a freshly shrunk, content-backed Apple TV , Amazon is taking the Cupertino company’s streaming policy head-on. With Apple, you’re renting — a dollar only gets you so much time. With Amazon, your buck lasts forever.

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Amazon strikes back against Apple TV with $0.99 unlimited streaming

Seen here trying to bite his tongue but catching his lip instead, Stephen Hawking claims there’s no need for a God in order for the universe to exist. *Preparing napsack and evacuation route for flame war* Now, in his upcoming book, according to an excerpt of the introduction released by the London Times which isn’t getting any traffic from this because of their pay wall), Hawking declares that the Big Bang can be explained without God. “Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing,” Hawking and his co-author, Caltech physicist Leonard Mlodinow, write in “The Grand Design,” which is due to be issued next week. “Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper [British way of saying light the fuse] and set the universe going.” Listen: I’m not even gonna pretend to be smart (because I’m not), but Stephen Hawking did give us E=Mc 2 , amirite? No? That was Einstein? Oh . Well then maybe he’s just bitter at God for wheelchairing him. Bad News, Religious People: Stephen Hawking Says God Didn’t Create the Universe [nymag] Thanks to lil co., who a universe without isn’t worth living in.

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Somebody’s Going To Hell! Stephen Hawking: "God Not Necessary For Universe To Exist"

Note: X-wing your way over to a full-size version HERE . Rogue Leader Rebecca Crane went and created a map of The United States of Star Wars (or USSW if you’re into the whole brevity thing), with a different planet/location from Star Wars representing each state based on similarities in geography and other factors like the kind of people that live there. For example: Maine is Naboo because it’s filled with nothing but annoying @$$holes. Get it? Because that’s where JarJar’s from . Oh come on — I’z just kiddin’, Maine! (See what I did there?) There are probably tens of planets that work for each state, I picked either the first one that I came to or the best fit. Planets were assigned based on partial terrain, landmarks that correlate with the planet and state, types of people in the state and planet, famous landmarks, or slightly randomly selected (but loosely based on facts) from my brother and myself. Rebecca posted a list of all the states and their corresponding Star Wars planets HERE in case you can’t identify them all by picture alone because at some point you decided the whole “virgin for life” thing wasn’t for you. Hey, it’s not for everybody. Back me up, sister! The United States of Star Wars [wedgeantilles] via Geeky Geography of the Day [thedailywh.at] Thanks to lucy, Gerald and Erik, who want to live on Endor with the Ewoks. Uh, find me someone who doesn’t.

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The United States Of Star Wars (Geography)

In the U.S., “iPod” is pretty much synonymous with “MP3 player.” How many people do you know who own anything else? It’s the same in Japan, but times could be a-changin’. See, the iPod has finally be out-sold, and it was beat by the venerable Sony Walkman.

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Sony Walkman dethrones the iPod in Japan

Most people have widescreen TVs now, as all HDTVs are widescreens. Unlike older tube TVs, which had a more square aspect ratio, people are now into a more rectangular image. But Philips 21:9 3D TV makes normal widescreen TV’s look downright square in comparison.

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Philips creates the widest 3D TV yet

The iPad has enjoyed a long period of being the only game in town when it came to tablets, but that’s about to change with the introduction of Samsung’s freshly announced 7-inch Galaxy Tab .

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Samsung’s Galaxy Tab: the iPad’s first true competitor