September 2007
Texas Government Commiting Crimes on Video Tape →
How can you be a trusted publicly elected spokesperson and then be caught on video tape committing a crime not get arrested? Help Spread the word this is one worth DIGGING…
Nintendo pushes 50 millionth DS out the door →
Well if there are still any doubts as to who’s winning the portable console war, let them be dispelled here and now: in the less than three years since it’s been on the market, the Nintendo DS (in both its Lite and Phat flavors) has sold a total of 50 million units, according to the unofficial VG Chartz.
Hersh on CNN: 'Bush will hit Iran to 'protect' US... →
The only thing different about the Bush Administration’s rhetoric about Iran and statements made Iraq before the US invasion in 2003 are the words chosen, says journalist Seymour Hersh. “Instead of… hitting the various [nuclear] facilities we know that exist, instead they’re going to hit the Iranians as payback for hitting us [in Iraq],” he said.
Annie Dillard on Taking Risks →
Annie Dillard: “If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be too cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.” ★
DirecTV uses illegal telemarketing to ask to... →
DirecTV is defending automated sales calls to Do Not Call List subscribers as “informational,” and “not telemarketing.” The satellite TV provider recently called customers to say: “Because you are on our Do Not Call List, we can’t call you with all of our super-awesome special promotions.”
How Big is the Universe? →
How big is the universe? Could it be infinitely large? If the universe has an edge, what is beyond the edge? And if the universe had a beginning, what was going on before that?
Blogging is Dumb, Stupid and Successful →
Most blogs are dumb, even the successful ones. The ones about blogging. Everyone is looking for that next quick fix. Like a bunch of cyber junkies. Only our drug of choice is knowledge. It’s no ones fault. We are plagued by the seemingly easy success of others and can’t understand why we can’t be as successful.
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American Style Democracy [Comic] →
This is so true….
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GEORGE W. BUSH: "Help! I Don't Know Who BLACKWATER... →
In a 2 minute video, recorded on April 10, 2006, a first year college student asked Bush what laws, if any, governed the conduct of U.S. mercenary groups in Iraq. His answer is the headline…
rsizr - intelligent image resizing →
How to Unbrick a Bricked Unlocked iPhone: the... →
Here’s a very easy method to defeat Apple and bring your bricked unlocked iPhone back from death. If you have an unlocked iPhone and you updated to firmware 1.1.1, you now can revive and bring all your third-party applications back by following these steps to restore firmware 1.0.2. This has been confirmed by the Dev Team, we are testing now live.
Q&A: The creators of Digg, StumbleUpon and... →
New AT&T TOS: We'll cut off your internet service... →
AT&T has brought down new Terms of Service for its network customers. From now on, AT&T can terminate your connection for conduct that “tends to damage the name or reputation of AT&T, or its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries.” So AT&T customers aren’t allowed to write/podcast/vlog critical things about AT&T, its billing-practices, or its coopera
Bruce Springsteen calls out Bush Administration →
“… But over the past six years we’ve had to add to the American picture: rendition, illegal wiretapping, voter suppression, no habeus corpus, the neglect of our great city New Orleans and its people, an attack on the Constitution. And the loss of our young best men and women in a tragic war. This is a song about things that shouldn’t happen
New AT&T terms of service: We'll cut off... →
AT&T has brought down new Terms of Service for its network customers. From now on, AT&T can terminate your connection for conduct that “tends to damage the name or reputation of AT&T, or its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries.” So AT&T customers aren’t allowed to write/podcast/vlog critical things about AT&T, its billing-practices, or its cooperation with...
Blackwater probe expands to 5 deadly incidents →
The United States and Iraq are focusing on five incidents where Blackwater USA guards killed civilians in Iraq this year as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ordered a high-level review board to Baghdad, U.S. officials said.
10 Tasty, Easy and Healthy Breakfast Ideas | zen... →
SUPERGUIDE: The Open Source Challenge. How to... →
Thirteen Tricks to Motivate Yourself -... →
Complete Your First Book with these 9 Simple... →
Transcript: Ahmadinejad Interview, Part 1, Read... →
Internet Blackout in Myanmar Stalls Citizen Report →
StonyandCher writes “The government in Myanmar has reportedly cut off Internet access in the troubled country. The loss of Internet access in Myanmar has slowed the tide of photos and videos shared with the rest of the world but people outside of the troubled country continue to use new media sites and other technologies to protest military activity in the Southeast Asia country.”
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Micro Persuasion: Turn Gmail (or any E-mail... →
Rands In Repose: The Button →
Hospital Wants Critical Blogger's Anonymity... →
rs232 sent in a link to this story about one’s right to privacy, which opens: “An unlikely Internet frontier is Paris, Texas, population 26,490, where a defamation lawsuit filed by the local hospital against a critical anonymous blogger is testing the bounds of Internet privacy, First Amendment freedom of speech and whistle-blower rights.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
AT&T Silences Criticism in New Terms of... →
marco13185 writes “AT&T’s new Terms of Service give AT&T the right to suspend your account and all service “for conduct that AT&T believes”…”(c) tends to damage the name or reputation of AT&T, or its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries.” After cooperating with the government’s violations of privacy and liberties, I guess AT&T...
Actually, in Trenton, You Do →
Tourist: Is this the 1:13 to Trenton? Suit: No. Tourist: Oh, well, where is that? Suit: Are you just, like, picking track numbers and hoping for the best? Go read the screen, you dumbass. Tourist: You don’t have to be rude. Suit: You don’t have to be stupid. —NJ Transit Overheard by: Erin
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How the Mind Affects Your Happiness at Happiness →
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50 Green Tips for Earth Day and Beyond :... →
Trouble Brewing →
Woman #1: He is so sophisticated. Woman #2: He sounds like he is. Woman #1: Yeah, like, he loves champagne. I’m just as happy with Colt 45. —D train Overheard by: Billy Dee Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down |
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Posted 2007-09-29
Secure Your Mac: Untrusted networks and how to... →
BBspot - Former Star Trek Star Stages Raid at Las... →
[Followup] Mutinies reported in the Burmese Army... →
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[Wheaton] Twenty years ago, "Star Trek: The Next... →
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Cheney to address top secret conservative policy... →
An ultra-secret conservative group — so secret that members don’t even use the group’s name in communications — will feature Vice President Dick Cheney as a speaker at a meeting in Utah today.
[Hero] Not news: Nickelodeon trying to teach kids... →
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The Art of eWar | Blogging Experiment →
Interview With A Convicted Hacker: Robert Moore... →
Powerful Blast Confuses Astronomers →
eldavojohn writes “Astronomers are still speculating as to what could have caused an abnormally strong five millisecond burst to be detected six years ago when it completely saturated their recording equipment. From the article: ‘The burst was so bright that at the time it was first recorded it was dismissed as man-made radio interference. It put out a huge amount of power (10exp33...
Macworld: Editors' Notes: Requiem for a... →
rickfu: Missing my 3rd party apps. Apollo, I hardly knew ye.
If you care about your rights, don't buy an iPhone →
By breaking the phones that customers dared to unlock from AT&T, Apple has come out against its own customers legal rights.
Wired's Easy-Peasy iPhone Lockdown Checklist →
Filed under: Bad Apple, Developer, iPhoneApple’s hardly been on the charm offensive recently, what with the hard-hitting press release, clarifications from Phill Schiller, and the lockdown of the iPhone 1.1.1 update. So if you’re wondering what on earth all the fuss is within the iPhone hacking community, then the folks at Wired have put together a brilliant at-a-glance checklist...
The REAL Threat to Americans →
iPhone Re-Reviewed by Gizmodo (Verdict: Don't Buy) →
Apple’s firmware wiped away the powerful apps that helped push the iPhone to greatness. With this, I’m going to have to move our recommendation from “Wait” to “Don’t Buy”. I’m done with this phone until the apps come back.
"For instance, Blacks make up 14 percent of those... →
“For instance, Blacks make up 14 percent of those who use drugs, yet 36 percent of those arrested are Blacks and it ends up that 63 percent of those who finally end up in prison are Blacks. This has to change. We don’t have to have more courts and more prisons. We need to repeal the whole war on drugs. It isn’t working.” - Ron Paul