In the alternate reality presented by these slick illustrations by Coran Stone, Calvin and Hobbes grew up to be super spies, and Christopher Robin and Pooh Bear are hell bent on bringing them both down.

These illustrations, and the story behind them, are just begging to be made into an animated series of some sort, and you can read the whole thing at the Geeks Are Sexy link below.

It’s the ultimate battle of imaginary friends, and I like the fact that, in the Pooh picture, Hobbes is still a stuffed animal!

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It’s just a few weeks since pod2g revealed his untethered jailbreak for iOS 5 and — boom — all of a sudden it’s up for the DL. The exploit has been incorporated into redsn0w 0.9.10, the Pwnage Tool and Chronic Devteam’s Cydia package, and it works on the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 (including the CDMA version), iPad 1, iPod Touch 3G and iPod Touch 4G, so long as they’ve been updated to iOS 5.0.1. Meanwhile, pod2g is reportedly now looking for a way to snap the shackles on A5-based devices too, but hopefully only after he’s taken some rest — a burned-out jailbreaker is no good to anybody. Full instructions are at the source link.

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Rejoice, Android fans! Steve Jobs’ best friend Eric Schmidt says that they are readying their own high-powered tablet to compete with the iPad 3. This Nexus tablet was rumored back in 2010, but he says it’s now only six months away. More »

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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “You have to love a case where Warner Brothers, copyright maximalist extraordinaire, gets sued for ‘piracy,’ in this case for using a knock-off Louis Vuitton bag in a recent movie. This lawsuit has been described as ‘awkward’ for Warner; I have to agree with that characterization. Louis Vuitton’s 22-page complaint (PDF) alleges that Warner Bros. had knowledge that the bag was a knock-off, but went ahead and used it anyway. Apparently Warner Bros. takes IP rights seriously only when its own IP rights are involved.”

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mikejuk writes “It was on this day 220 years ago (December 26 1791) that Charles Babbage was born. The calculating machines he invented in the 19th century, although never fully realized in his lifetime, are rightly seen as the forerunners of modern programmable computers. What if he had succeeded? Babbage already had plans for game arcades, chess playing machines, sound generators and desktop publishing. A Victorian computer revolution was entirely possible.”

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Matt Richardson’s genius has never really been in question. The Make Live host and compulsive hacker has built an impressive library of creations, ranging from a Google Reader pedal to an email-triggered Christmas tree. The man’s works are definitely art, in their own way, but his new project, Fade Away 1, is the first that we could easily see taking up residence in a SoHo gallery. At the heart of the installation is an Arduino (of course) that pulls in posts from Twitter with the phrase “fade away” in them. The same AVR chip then “prints” those tweets on phosphorescent paper with a UV laser mounted on a servo — as the energy dissipates, the messages slowly disappear. And, if you’re wondering what the “1” at the end of the title means, Richardson plans to continuously improve the project. For some more details about the next iteration and to see the current one in action, check out the videos after the break.

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itwbennett writes “In a presentation at the Usenix LISA conference in Boston, researchers from the Naval Academy showed that signal analysis of factors such as timing, packet reordering, congestion and flow control can reveal the work of a spam-spewing botnet. The work ‘advanced both the science of spam fighting and … worked through all the engineering challenges of getting these techniques built into the most popular open-source spam filter,’ said MIT computer science research affiliate Steve Bauer, who was not involved with the work. ‘So this is both a clever bit of research and genuinely practical contribution to the persistent problem of fighting spam.'”

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The Dead Sea’s salinity of 33.7 percent makes it 8.6 times saltier than the ocean. Bordering Israel and Jordan, it is 423m below sea level, making it the lowest place on land on Earth. A tourist hotspot for millenia, more than 1m visitors a year visit on the Israeli side alone. The view from the shore is one thing, but from the air, the sheer strangeness of the salt formations in and around the lake become readily apparent. Photos by Baz Ratner, of Reuters, and others.

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N!NJA writes “One of my favorite facts of this past year was the proof that China makes almost nothing out of assembling Apple’s iPads and iPhones. From the article: ‘If you want lots of jobs and lots of high paying jobs then you’re not going to find them in manufacturing. They’re where the money is, in the design, the software and the retailing of the products, not the physical making of them. Manufacturing is just so, you know, 20th century.'”

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