June 2011
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Giant Nyan Cat On French TV →
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THIS CAT IS MISSING THE POP TART
This is wonderful.
Tom Coates on Google+’s Prospects →
Tom Coates: Fundamentally, Google is a utility. No one wants to hang out at their power company.
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May 2011
4 posts
The Army Had Their Own AT-AT Years Before George... →
Years before Lucasfilm created the AT-AT and Boston Dynamic’s Big Dog terrified the world, the US Army was working with General Electric on the “Walking Truck” project, basically a large…
The lost Indiana Jones-Star Wars crossover was... →
Here’s some weird trivia to bandy about. In 2004, Dark Horse Comics published “Into The Great Unknown,” a 10-page story that marked the first Lucas-approved (if non-canonical) meeting of Han…
Android Leaking Authentication Tokens in Clear... →
Bastian Könings, Jens Nickels, and Florian Schaub, security researchers at the University of Ulm: We tested this attack with Android versions 2.1 (Nexus One), 2.2
(HTC Desire, Nexus One), 2.2.1…
Fox News Attacks Rapper Common Over White House... →
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wait, I thought white people loved Common?
Common has never been seen as a particularly controversial hip-hop artist but his recent invitation to the White House has caused the…
April 2011
5 posts
Airpush — Push Notification Ads for Android →
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This sounds awesome!
Sounds like hell on earth. Update: Dan Wineman: Airpush sounds like a really good way to turn “inactive users” into active uninstallers.
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Engagement Ring Disappears From Force-Checked Bag... →
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good god
Brad flew halfway across the country to propose to his girlfriend, but the engagement ring that he picked out didn’t make the trip. He was forced to check his…
USPS accidentally issues Vegas Statue of Liberty... →
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LOL awesome!
How fantastically hyperreal: Turns out the United States Postal Service’s brand new Statue of Liberty stamp, seen below, accidentally features an…
Kobe Bryant Fined $100,000 By NBA For Gay Slur →
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LOL RAPIST
Link: http://gothamist.com/2011/04/14/kobe_… A very expensive bar of soap to wash out his mouth. Read More ›
Microsoft Files EU Competition Complaint Against... →
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LOLWUT
bLanark writes “In an amazing about-turn, the bully has turned into the bullied. Microsoft, having been on the receiving end of many anti-competition lawsuits, has filed a…
March 2011
6 posts
How Did the New York Times Manage to Spend $40... →
Philip Greenspun: Aside from wondering who will pay more than the cost of a Wall Street Journal subscription in order to subscribe to the New York Times, my biggest question right now is how the…
Why the Internet Freaked Out About the Attractive... →
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“What’s implicit in Good’s outrage is the assumption that Fried, badass engineer and genius, couldn’t have possibly been as attractive as she appears on Wired’s cover.”
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WTFacebook →
Facebook’s “verify your login” friend recognition test needs some work.
Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi Edition Due on March 27 for... →
That’s a much more competitive starting price.
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eReaderJoy Interview With Adam Engst on iPad and... →
Adam Engst: Seriously, I can’t say that working with Amazon has ever been easy for publishers (and we haven’t done much with it), but working with the iBookstore has been the most amazingly…
NPR letters: The tedious, annoying complaints of... →
On Valentine’s Day, NPR’s All Things Considered ran a two-and-a-half-minute segment about Justin Bieber fans gone wild. When the teen star lost at the Grammys to Esperanza Spalding, a few of Bieber’s…
China Is Copying the Web Too [Internet] →
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Dammit China
China is not only copying consoles, iPhones and Rolexes. They are also in the business of copying web sites. Why come up with an original idea when you just…
February 2011
9 posts
Developer: BlackBerry PlayBook apps too costly,... →
An open letter to RIM has given a look into potentially serious problems with the development process for the BlackBerry PlayBook. Jamie Murai noted that the costs of getting involved were far…
MPAA: record-breaking box-office year is proof... →
Once again, the motion picture industry has smashed all annual box-office records. According to the MPAA, this proves that we need more laws allowing them to censor and spy on the Internet to…
What happens after Yahoo acquires you →
Whether it’s Flickr, Delicious, MyBlogLog, or Upcoming, the post-purchase story is a similar one. Both sides talk about all the wonderful things they will do together. Then reality sets in. They get…
Motorola Xoom Will Ship Without Flash Support →
But they’re advertising it as “Fully Flash-enabled”, with a footnote claiming “Adobe Flash expected Spring 2011”. Expected by whom? My guess: Flash is killing battery life, so they want the initial…
Some Publishers Are Happy With Apple's... →
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Wow … what a headline.
Apple’s new subscription plans are kinda crappy for publishers, but apparently some of them are happy the terms of the deal aren’t worse. Some were…
Cyclists Treated Like "Bedbugs In Need Of... →
According to Clarence Eckerson Jr. of Streetsblog NY, “television and print media portray cyclists as if they were a menace to society, like bedbugs in need of extermination. The constant…
Motorola's XOOM Tablet To Cost $799; Wi-Fi... →
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HAHAHA WHUT?
WrongSizeGlass writes “The price of Motorola’s XOOM Tablet has been leaked in a Best Buy ad. The $799 Android 3-enabled tablet will be available starting Feb 24th….
Why Facebook Should Do More to Help Egypt's... →
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Its easy to condemn Facebook on this issue, but it is one policy they are pretty consistent about.
An image making the rounds features an Egyptian protester…
November 2010
3 posts
The Effect of Flash on Battery Life →
Chris Foresman, in his review of the MacBook Air for Ars Technica: We did find (quite by accident) that Apple may have more reasons
behind not installing Flash by default other than the…
Super There Will Be Blood →
The Super Nintendo version of There Will Be Blood: This is pitch perfect. What really puts this video over the top are the sound effects (“milkshake!”) and that it doesn’t go on too long. …
What the Fuck Has Obama Done So Far? →
Apt domain name.
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October 2010
23 posts
Rush Limbaugh Defends Video Game Free Speech,... →
As the U. S. Supreme Court battle for free speech in video games closes in, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh is adding his support for video games as art. More »
Researchers Find the 'Liberal Gene' -... →
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this is so ironic I can’t believe it. Fox is willing to promote the theory that liberalism is the result of a gene, but homosexuality is a “choice”. LOL
Don’t hold liberals…
How to hire a programmer when you're not a... →
How do you hire a programmer if you’re not one yourself? Some things to look for… 1. How opinionated are they?
Ask them about a juicy programming topic (e.g. Ruby or Python?). The tone and…
Tim Profitt: Rand Paul Curb-Stomper Identified →
Tim Proffit, Rand Paul’s Bourbon County Coordinator, has been identified as the man who pulled MoveOn.org’s Lauren Valle to the ground and stomped on her head and neck where her head and…
How to hire a programmer when you're not a... →
How do you hire a programmer if you’re not one yourself? Some things to look for… 1. How opinionated are they?
Ask them about a juicy programming topic (e.g. Ruby or Python?). The tone and…
Firesheep In Wolves Clothing: Extension Lets You... →
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whoa
It seems like every time Facebook amends its privacy policy, the web is up in arms. The truth is, Facebook’s well publicized privacy fight is nothing compared to the…
Rooting Google TV →
I don’t understand why these guys are working on “rooting” Google TV. Why not just download the source code from Andy Rubin?
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Google Admits To Collecting Emails and Passwords →
wiredmikey writes “Alan Eustace, Google’s Senior VP of Engineering & Research, just put up an interesting blog post on how Google will be creating stronger privacy controls. Right at the end is an…
Google TV Growing Pains: Networks Block Web TV... →
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Ugh, lame
Three major broadcast networks are blocking Google TV’s access to their online programs. That’s not a good first sign for a product whose main purpose is to make…
HP's Slate specs slated by bloggers →
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Its most interesting characteristic is a bizarre slide-out tray that exists only to display the Windows 7 licensing information.
HP’s Slate is official, with an $800 price…
Author: 4chan bootlegging led to big sales... →
Legend has it that piracy harms legitimate sales, but the truth is often otherwise. Underground, Steve Lieber’s brilliant graphic novel, was recently bootlegged in full at 4chan. Lieber,…
Found in a Gizmodo comment string →
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Facebook's Hewitt: Android no more open than... →
Facebook’s well-known developer Joe Hewitt today dismissed Google VP Andy Rubin’s claims that Android was more open than iOS by pointing out limitations in Google’s philosophy. He noted that…
Gangsta lorem ipsum →
For all your dummy text needs, the Snoop Double Dizzle version of lorem ipsum: Lorizzle ipsizzle dolizzle sit amizzle, consectetuer adipiscing yo mamma. Nullam sapien velizzle, its fo rizzle…
Lacking an African-American Candidate for Mayor,... →
In a twist that is so very Bay Area, the candidate for mayor who’s increasingly becoming the favorite among black churches in Oakland is Rebecca Kaplan, a Jewish lesbian City Council member…
How Your iPhone Bill Is Used Against You [Damage... →
AT&T is taking some of the money from your iPhone bill and using it to intercept your complaints to the federal government. How? By become the biggest advertiser on Google, that’s…
China Blocks Web Searches for Nobel Winner... →
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Fucking China
Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize this morning, and China’s censorship machine is already cracking down: Search…
Nicholas Deleon Calls ‘No Clothes’ on Google TV →
Nicholas Deleon at AOL/TechCrunch: So we’ve established that Google TV will bring the Internet to your TV. Great. But you know what? I already “have” the Internet. You do, too. It’s called a…
Ridley Scott goes back to Philip K. Dick for The... →
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oh shiiiiiiiiiit
Ridley Scott is going back to the man who gave him one of his greatest movies, Blade Runner. What would the world look like if we’d lost World…
WHAT THINGS DO →
Wanna read Jin & Jam No.1 in its entirety for free online? OK!
Jordan Crane (yes, JORDAN CRANE) set me up on his insane new comics site, What Things Do, where you can read a whole lotta…
Carr's NYT piece on Tribune Co. illuminates the... →
David Carr’s epic piece in the New York Times today on the reckless, misogynist culture that flourished at Tribune newspapers under Sam Zell and cohorts is a must-read. Carr documents arrogant…
