This is so cool and Nerdy.

Darth Vader’s imperial march played with a Tesla coil. Vader would be so jealous.

That’s the impressive party trick demonstrated by ArcAttack, a group that uses Tesla coils to make music.

Original story “This new-fangled electric music“.

You know its strange how some people think that the internet, with all of its interactivity, user colabration and social networking, is the place more of the same old, pump and dump.

The Smarthouse post, “Banned Freeview Video Reappears On New Web Sites”, explains how Freeview requested YouTube to pull a parody video of their advertisement. Freeview are promoting an internet TV service, where you can watch, as the parody puts it, more of the same old stuff that you can see on the standard free to air TV stations, but wait for this, you still can’t skip the ads.

And so now in true internet justice the same banned ad is now appearing again on many more sites on the internet. It reminds me of 2Clix’s attempts to stiffle public opinion. Some people just don’t have a clue.

Here’s the clip.

While the other browsers are screaming ahead in developments and speed, there is still no sign of Internet Explorer 8. There are dribs and drabs of information that surface from time to time. And the latest one is not encouraging at all.

It seems Mircrosoft think it a good idea to turn their browser into spyware, after of all these years of monthly security patches to protect users against those with malicious intent gathering your personal information, they will go ahead and do it themselves. “Trust us”.

The component in the next version of Microsoft’s browser software “discover websites you might like based on sites you’ve visited”. Collecting a user’s browser history and using it to create profiles that steer users towards one website or another may seem like a useful pointer to Microsoft’s developers, but the feature is giving some privacy-conscious surfers the fear.

The addresses of websites visited are sent to Microsoft, together with data such as IP address, browser type, regional and language settings. Microsoft cautions (in a draft for its IE8 privacy policy here) that “information associated with the web address, such as search terms or data you entered in forms might be included”.

It sounds like a security disaster in the making.

More on the story from the Register.