Built in the early '80s, this luxurious villa in Vienna, Austria is owned by a successful IT entrepreneur who lately commissioned Najjar & Najjar to design its futuristic interior. The owner is a big fan of Lamborghini and Mac computer designs, so he wanted an interior that would also show his passion.

Architects over at Najjar & Najjar did the interior with the latest technologies available today. There is a vast open space that connects the entrepreneur's working space with a lounge area, a bar and a kitchen.

Almost everything inside the Villa F is digitally controlled. There are Plasma TVs, a huge aquarium with computer generated graphics, LED lighting and sound systems that respond at a click of the mouse. Hit the jump to see more shots of the futuristic interior.

what a seriously badass pad, mang... looks like something from the set of a futuristic movie or something, but to think this guy comes home to this everyday? lucky bastard... me likey.

(hat tip: bradley)

A legend born: A young Mormon, forbidden from looking at porn, discovers a way to Photoshop safe-for-work bikini shots in such a way to let his mind fill in the blanks.

It's not porn if it's in your brain. Another!

gotta luv it... heh.

(hat tip: bradley)

i think i might hold off for a day or two on this one, since the last time i jumped into updating my 3G iPhone, i ended up wishing like hell i'd held off on it... if i had, it would've saved me a lot of grief, that's for damn sure.

the temptation to download and update when i get home later will be pretty high, since i'd love to checkout taking HDR photos with it since i'm curious... but if anybody's already downloaded it, and have had no problems to speak of so far, let me know.

p.s. i'm still really disliking this new iTunes icon — everytime i see it, i think of Windows.

update: one of my Android loving buddies just pointed out to me how "cute" it is that i have to plug my iPhone into my computer to update it... fucker.

took a moment for it to sink in, but the real-time updating of the page while you type in the search field is pretty incredible.... wow, that's some seriousy slick shit right there.

also really dig how they managed to keep the "i'm feeling lucky" by simply using the right-arrow key... very nice touch.

p.s. i'm not really liking how the standard search results page gets centered in my browser — visually seems to shift all over the place when clicking around, especially if i search on something and then flip over to the image results... but maybe that's just me.

Maybe this time Brett Favre won't get picked off with victory in his grasp.

In as juicy a season opener as the NFL could provide, Favre marches the Minnesota Vikings into New Orleans on Thursday night for a reprise of January's NFC championship game.

The Saints and their long trod-upon fans get the opportunity to celebrate the franchise's first Super Bowl title, then the New Orleans defense tries to batter Favre the way it did in the 31-28 overtime win that sent the former Aints to the Super Bowl.

Favre sort of retired in the offseason before having left ankle surgery in May, then balked again about returning to Minnesota when the recovery was slower than he wanted.

But retirements never really last with the 40-year-old quarterback, and he's back behind center, making the Vikings one of the conference favorites.

i can't wait to for the season to get kicked off tomorrow night, especially to see the Saints/Vikings going at it once again... should be pretty awesome, even if we have Brett Farve playing yet another season — if you're a vikings fan then i'm sure you're pretty happy about it... after hearing about whether or not he's going to retire for the last 3 years, i'm beyond sick of it.

here's to hoping the Saints kick there ass. again.

p.s. how many fingers, brett?

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Microsoft Corp. and the chief rules enforcer for Xbox Live are apologizing to a small West Virginia town and a 26-year-old gamer accused of violating the online gaming service's code of conduct by publicly declaring he's from Fort Gay — a name the company considered offensive.

The town's name is real. But when Josh Moore tried to tell Seattle-based Microsoft and the enforcement team at Xbox Live, they wouldn't take his word for it. Or Google it. Or check the U.S. Postal Service website for a ZIP code.

Instead, they suspended his gaming privileges for a few days until Moore could convince them the location in his profile, "fort gay WV," wasn't a joke or a slur: It's an actual community of about 800 in Wayne County, along West Virginia's western border with Kentucky.

"At first I thought, 'Wow, somebody's thinking I live in the gayest town in West Virginia or something.' I was mad. ... It makes me feel like they hate gay people," said Moore, an unemployed factory worker who plays Medal of Honor, Call of Duty and Ghost Recon under the gamertag Joshanboo.

"I'm not even gay, and it makes me feel like they were discriminating," said Moore, who missed a key Search and Destroy competition because of last week's brief suspension. His team lost.

XBox Live does a pretty good job of keeping people, mostly little teenage shitheads, from using offensive language in their public profiles and motto's... but with millions of users logging on everyday, things like this are bound to happen -- i just found it amusing that the name of his town, Fort Gay, would get flagged by the system and suspend his account... poor bastard missed his online match, too.

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is voicing unwavering opposition to extending Bush-era tax breaks for the nation's wealthiest families even for a year or two, drawing a sharp contrast with Republicans eight weeks before the November elections.

The president was to outline his stand Wednesday in a speech in Cleveland, where he also will propose a package of infrastructure investments and business tax incentives that the White House says will put the economy on a path toward long-term growth while allowing for some immediate job creation.

The Bush tax cuts, the most sweeping in a generation, are due to expire in January, setting up a big fight in Congress over what to do about them. Republicans and some Democrats want them to remain in place for a year or two or to make them permanent. Obama wants to make the tax cuts permanent for middle- and low-income families while allowing them to expire for individuals making more than $200,000 and married couples making more than $250,000. [...]

House Republican Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, offered his own proposals Wednesday, saying in a nationally broadcast interview that Congress should freeze all tax rates for two years and should cut federal spending to the levels of 2008, before the deep recession took hold.

"People are asking, 'Where are the jobs?'" Boehner said, calling the White House "out of touch" with the American public.

Obama is asking Congress to consider three proposals:

• A $50 billion infrastructure investment to rebuild and repair the nation's roads, railways and runways.

• A permanent extension of research and development tax credits for businesses.

• Tax breaks to let businesses quickly write off 100 percent of their spending on new plants and equipment through 2011.

i saw a video clip of Obama and thought to myself, "whoa... well, the campaigner in chief is definitely back in full swing again."

i just can't seem to understand why the fuck they think adding another $50 billion will help... please, for the love of god, stop spending! fuck me, it's insane.

The "adult services" listing on Craiglist was removed late Friday from its U.S.-based sites and replaced with the word "censored."

Craigslist did not announce the move and its blog was not updated as of Saturday morning. Craigslist did not immediately respond to e-mail and voice mail messages seeking comment. Adult services listings continue to be available outside the United States.

The change comes as the service faces growing pressure in the U.S. over sex services advertised on its classifieds network, as well as allegations that it abets human sex trafficking. While most of the listings on Craigslist are free, it charges $10 to post ads in its adult services section. It also charges fees in a handful of other areas, including New York apartment rentals.

Police routinely conduct prostitution sting operations using its listings, as have some media outlets such as CNN, which has made it something of a mission to highlight the issue (see below). Wired.com has also reported on the problem.

The stakes were raised again last week when Craigslist received a letter from 17 state attorneys general demanding the company immediately shut down its adult services listing, citing the case of two girls who said last month that they were trafficked for sex through the site. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, a democrat and a signee of last month's letter, said in a statement Saturday he welcomed Craigslist's apparent decision to close the section and said he was seeking to verify the site's official policy going forward.

i rarely find myself pulling up craigslist.org, but i've been seeing blog posts and articles about this all over the place today... also not sure who the hell goes into the "adult" section, but i'm sure there are plenty of people that do... anywho, i think it's a pretty crappy way to go about fighting this sort of thing — sure, they take down the section, but it's not like there aren't other sites people can and will go to... CL was just a nice big juicy target, i guess.

p.s. enjoyed reading through the comments on techcrunch's post.

if this is just a taste of what's to come, then i'll have to start practising with this new BR — otherwise, i'm going to have my ass handed to me real quick... running around and getting single-shot head kills has to be satisfying. heh.