WiiSpray turns your Nintendo Wiimote into a virtual spray paint can. Wheeeeeeeeee! This one's just a prototype out of Bauhaus University, but still, very cool.

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1. WiiSpray Teaser Video
2. Digital Graffiti With Wiispray
3. WiiSpray Lets Virtual Taggers Spray Without Fear of the Man
4. Game Developers, Will You Look at This?!

TECH BUZZ: Meet the 18-year-old hacker behind the recent string of celebrity Twitter takeovers . He was able to hack into a Twitter staffer's account because that staffer chose an incredibly weak password: “happiness.” Britney's gonna be pissed .

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1. Video Of How The Twitter Hack Went Down
2. How GMZ Broke Into Twitter

Those fun-loving pranksters over at 4Chan have been busy today. In addition to (allegedly) getting a crude visual reminder of 9/11 to rise to the top of Google Trends, they managed to take over the live feed for the MacRumors live-blog coverage of today's Macworld keynote address. After announcing that Steve Jobs had died, they moved on with lightning speed to an endless string of penis jokes (which may have undermined their credibility somewhat).

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1. When Livestreams Go Wrong: MacRumors Gets Hijacked
2. Today, We Are All MacRumors
3. MacRumors’ Unprotected Admin Interface
4. Hackers Hit MacRumors Keynote Coverage
5. More From the Hacked Feed

CELEBRITY BUZZ: Today is officially “Hack Into A Celebrity's Twitter” Day. So far Bill O'Reilly, Rick Sanchez, and Britney Spears have been targeted. It's kind of dumb, and the comments aren't particularly clever, but overall the hacks have kind of a brain-dead “ha” factor that seems fitting on the first Monday after the holidays. I hope they come up with something good for Shaq .

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1. Britney Spears has a 4-foot wide vagina (with razor sharp teeth)
2. Bill O’Riley is Gay
3. Rick Sanchez is high on crack right now
4. Hackers are cool again.

TECH BUZZ: Griffith — the subject of a profile in this weekend's NY Times magazine — is the disruptive technologist behind WikiScanner who says that one of his missions in life is “to create minor public-relations disasters for companies and organizations I dislike.” “The hacker high life — girls, notoriety, White Russians — can be hard to resist,” writes Virginia Heffernan. “Girls hang on Virgil Griffith. This is no exaggeration. At parties, they cling to the arms of the 25-year-old hacker whose reason for being, he says, is to 'make the Internet a better and more interesting place.' ” She's witnessed the fandom and unusual drink choice first hand, and describes how at a recent tech conference, “Griffith, enjoying a White Russian that I first mistook for chocolate milk, reveled in the attention of his female fans. He smiled broadly. He seemed like a young Henry Kissinger, but sweet, or Arthur Fonzarelli, but not a dropout.” What do girls like more, his hacking skillz or cutey-pie dimples?

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The Best Links:

1. Griffith’s Home Page
2. WikiScanner: List Anonymous Wikipedia Edits from Interesting Organizations
3. Wired On Virgil’s Awesome WikiScanner
4. Report on Griffith Being Served Cease-And-Desist Orders
5. All About Virgil Griffith’s Relationship With Blackboard, Inc.

CULTURE BUZZ: Mixing Ikea’s readymade philosophy with a touch of DIY creates interesting results. These all look way better than that time I tried to make a futon frame out of a shipping pallet.

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1. The Blog of Ikea Hacks
2. Top 10 IKEA Furniture Mods