Boom! 3D Printable Death Machines getting cheaper by the minute.

Here's a video of another 3D printed gun being fired (admittedly, fired by pulling a bit of string from a safe distance, but still...)

The first 3D printable gun was designed by Defense Distributed and whilst the blueprints were taken down on the orders of the U.S. State Department, they are still widely available online through the likes of Pirate Bay.

The gun in the video above is the first of what will no doubt be numerous copy-cats, and it is frightening. Why? Because it costs $25 to print on a $1,725 printer and is robust enough to survive eight shots. OK, so it has to be manually reloaded and is basically a single shot gun, but do you really want everyone on your street to own a musket?

Application of Moore's Law to this problem means we are probably going to get a gun that is twice as powerful, or half as expensive, within two years. Given the average teenage boy's fascination with guns, I think it is going to be a lot quicker than that. It's probably an even shorter amount of time until somebody blows their own fingers off.

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Is Google Building a Walled Garden?

Google have developed a habit of closing down open protocols and replacing them proprietary or closed applications.

Google Reader, the powerful RSS reader, has been killed off. The replacement? Reading your "news" in Google+.

CalDAV support was dropped from Google Calendar, disconnecting the app from third party applications.

Now, Google have dropped XMPP from Google Talk, disconnecting third party apps such as Pidgin. XMPP has been part of Google Talk for over a decade and was also the protocol that underpinned the ill- ...

Four and a half ways to bring back Agent Phil Coulson in S.H.I.E.L.D

The S.H.I.E.L.D TV show is go, with Joss Whedon at the helm and some faimilar Whedon-verse talent behind the scenes. The real buzz around this show however is the "resurrection" of Agent Phil Coulson.

**If you haven't seen Avengers - look away now. Actually, look away forever. Thanks... **

Coulson was killed by Loki on the Helicarrier, an act that forged the alliance between Avengers and "gave them something" (in the words of Nick Fury). Queue an internet me ...

Is your Wordpress Blog a Zombie? How Wordpress is killing other websites and how to stop yours from "turning"

A recent report from security consultancy Incapsula concluded that an DDOS attack launched against a large gaming webs ...

Nook - The Hackable eInk Android tablet that just dropped to �30.

Barnes and Noble have dropped the price of its Nook eReader "for a limited time" in the UK.

Now cheaper than a Raspberry Pi, the Nook is not just a solid ...

Amazon Kindle for Writers - April 2013

Keeping tracks of the ups and downs of Amazon and its Kindle ecosystem is something every writer should be doing. Amazon and its Kindle are, in effect, a market in and of itself and if you' ...

From Indie Hit to Hollywood A-List: How Celtx is taking over the film industry

Celtx, the "free as in beer" pre-production scripting tool, is growing rapidly and almost certainly shaking things up at Final Draft headquarters as it makes ...

All your comments are belong to us: Why Google+ Comments in Blogger is bigger than you think.

Google have announced the Blogger now has support for in-line Google+ comments.

If this sounds like no big deal to you, step b ...

Marvel Characters Balls: Swish

Rather pleased that I will now get hits from weird costume-pervs searching for "Marvel Character's Balls" on Google, I humbly present this rather cool video from Blackmeal.

It is a great testament ...

Giant Ass Kicker Robot "Coyote Tango"

I have nothing to add to this poster, I just wanted to put a giant ass-kicking robot on my blog. Enjoy!

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One of our Androids is Missing: How to detect Android x86 with GRUB Bootloader

You may have read my previous post about why your netbook should run Android. If there is one OS that I would put alongside Android on my netbook, it ...

Iron Man: Rise of the Technovore Trailer (or "How to make an Iron Man Trailer that is brilliant without telling us the whole story).

There have been a lot of Iron Man 3 trailers. Arguably, there have been too many and we can only hope ...

Bubble Version 0.6 Released: Splash Pages A-Go-Go

Peter Rogers pointed out that you can almost make Bubble say "Splash Page" if you don't bother to mark out any panels (with ##) on your page and crack straight on with descriptio ...