The image above isn’t something from James Cameron’s Aliens of the Deep. No, it’s actually an artist’s rendering of a spam e-mail with the subject, “HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THAT YOU ARE GETTING FAT?” The images below represent some of the most notorious code the world has seen, including PWS-Lineage, Stormy, MyDoom, Mytob, IRCBot and Netsky.

Artist Alex Dragulescu renders these eerie 3D images using the neutralized code of viruses, worms, spyware and Trojan horses. He gets the code from the security firm MessageLabs, which commissioned the works. Dragulescu explains:

API calls, memory addresses and subroutines are tracked and examined. Their frequency, density and grouping are mapped to the inputs of an algorithm that grows a virtual 3D entity.

Why does this remind me so much of all those movies where scientists culture supposedly neutralized biological viruses, and the next thing you know 97% of the earth is dead? No, Alex, we wouldn’t like a signed, numbered digital copy of your virus collection on our hard-drive, no matter how safe you state it is! [Alex Dragulescu via Gizmodo AU]

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It’s a good thing I just ate brunch, or this would make me very hungry. I like it better than Apple’s actual logo. Retro Apple Logo fruit salad [Flickr, via Technabob] ShareThis

It’s a good thing I just ate brunch, or this would make me very hungry. I like it better than Apple’s actual logo.

Retro Apple Logo fruit salad [Flickr, via Technabob]

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iTunes will offer private developer pages, which will host app stores for a select audience only; e.g. specialized for universities etc. Some of the pages have already been opened to those select individuals with audio and video content on offer. One such example is the Education First Educational Tours site the above picture was taken from. The site hosts an interesting, teeny-weeny image showing an iPod/iPhone hybrid type device, which seems to have a home button built in to the dock connector. What is it? We cannot say, but with all the fuss it is generating on the tubes, we thought we’d let you take a peek. Jump for a shot of the original page.

We would not get too hot under the collar. If Apple were planning to drop an iPhone nano touch OMFG pod, you can bet your ass they would have an event bigger than CES to unleash it to the public. [iLounge]

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In honor of it being Friday, I believe it’s time for another top ten list. This one comes to us today from ValleyWag, who’s wisely compiled a list of the top ten videos of Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, losing his shit. If you’ve never seen it in person, you’re really missing out. Above is just one, […]

In honor of it being Friday, I believe it’s time for another top ten list. This one comes to us today from ValleyWag, who’s wisely compiled a list of the top ten videos of Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, losing his shit.

If you’ve never seen it in person, you’re really missing out.

Above is just one, but they’re all worth watching. And then think to yourself about Vista: Would you really trust your personal to this guy?

Steve, we love you man, but take a Xanax.

Ten ideal Ballmer-goes-nuts videos [ValleyWag]

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The race to release the world’s first mobile projector continues to heat up with the word that 3M has found a “leading consumer electronics company” to help get its product out the door. It appears that the product in question is the same half-inch thick LED illuminated projection engine that 3M was shopping around back in January.

3M vows not to release the identity of the partner company, but if things move forward as planned, 3M could snatch the “first to market” spot from the likes of companies like Texas Instruments and Microvision. Estimates put the price point of the device at around $300-$400 at launch with prices falling to $150 in five years. [West Central Tribune via About Projectors]

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I don’t really see the need for a PSP2 at this time, considering the ideal games are probably yet to come (by the looks of God of War), but that hasn’t stopped Kotaku from holding a contest to design a new version of Sony’s sexy little handheld. Go give the guys a hand and vote something […]

I don’t really see the need for a PSP2 at this time, considering the ideal games are probably yet to come (by the looks of God of War), but that hasn’t stopped Kotaku from holding a contest to design a new version of Sony’s sexy tiny handheld.

Go give the guys a hand and vote something ridiculous up.

PSP2 Concept Mega Gallery Extravaganza [Kotaku]

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On Tuesday, California energy company PG&E started generating energy from a rather unusual source: cow manure. Yes, cow poop emits methane as it decomposes. And while usually that’s a bad thing, with methane being a potent greenhouse gas and all, it can be captured and turned into a renewable source of energy.

So that’s just what PG&E is doing, using manure to power up to 1,200 homes in California. It’s all part of new regulations in the state that are to require utility companies to have 20% of their energy coming from renewable sources by 2010. With a figure that high, they need to look outside the standard solar and wind sources.

So how exactly do you turn cow crap into energy? How’s a 33-foot-deep pit full of the stuff sound? Get ready to appreciate your desk job a tiny bit more:

To tap the renewable gas from cow manure, the Vintage Dairy farm first flushes manure into a big, octagonal pit, where it becomes about 99 percent water. It is then pumped into a covered lagoon, first passing through a screen that filters out big solids that eventually become the cows’ bedding.

The covered lagoon, or “digester,” is the size of nearly five football fields and about 33 feet deep. It is lined with plastic to protect the ground water and the cover, made of high density polyethylene, is held down at the edges by concrete. The digester’s cover was sunken into the lagoon on Tuesday, but officials stated it would be taut and raised in a few days as the gas collects underneath it.

Weights on top of the digester channel the gas to the small facility where it is “scrubbed” of hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide. The end product is “close to 99 percent pure methane” according to BioEnergy Chief Operating Officer Thomas Hintz.

Saving the environment ain’t pretty, my friends. [Reuters via New Launches]

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Samsung’s no stranger to dual touchscreen phones—their Soul is a slider with one huge one and one small one—but this G400 seems like a clever use of dual touchscreens. The two, one on the outside and one on the inside, are both 2.2-inch TFT LCDs, and allow people to control the phone without flipping it open. Inside, there’s a 5-megapixel camera with facial detection and image stabilization, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, FM radio and three distinct GUI themes for you to select from. No price or availability yet for the US, but it will be launched in Europe starting June 2008. [Mobile88 via Mobilewhack]

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