June 2009
13-year-old Trades iPod For a Walkman For a Week →
BBC Magazine convinced 13-year-old Scott Campbell to trade in his iPod for a Walkman for a week and see what he thought. Scott thinks the iPod wins when it comes to sound quality, color, weight, and…
Adobe Shuts Down for a Week →
Uh-oh: Adobe Systems has shut its North American operations for the week as part of a cost-cutting effort that the company said it will repeat at least once more this year.
This strategy has…
vague. →
Tagged: midas touch, vague, what the fuck are you talking about
13-year-old trades iPod for Walkman, reports on... →
If you want to get an idea of just how fast technology moves, a brilliant piece from the BBC should help light the way. The setup is simple enough: 13-year-old Scott Campbell is given…
Annoyed that Google Chrome checks for updates every 2 hrs or so on my Mac. Permanently killed it now.
Billy Mays dead at 50 →
Billy Mays dead at 50 But wait, there’s no more! Billy Mays dead at 50
Looks Like There’s a Winner on the Netflix Prize... →
The team named “BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos” scored a 10.05 percent improvement. Update: Looks like “BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos” is the result of a merger between two leading teams.
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Mozilla Firefox to Google Chrome : You Suck... →
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A neighbor just cranked up “Beat It” to what must be painful volume for those in the same room.
Hellooooo weekend!
Michael Jackson, Dead at 50 →
Michael Jackson, the undisputed King of Pop, has died of cardiac arrest in Los Angeles, California. He was 50 years old. Jackson, who grew up in a troubled and abusive home, first gained fame…
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xo pilot.
Creep of the Week: Clarence Thomas →
The New York Times: Justice Clarence Thomas was the only member of the court to conclude that the strip search of Savana Redding did not violate the Fourth Amendment. He asserted that the…
RT lane1008 RT @RoryOMalley The Golden Girls talk Marriage Equality. http://tinyurl.com/llohc7 The amazing part: this clip is 18 years old!
Climatologist James Hansen: we're almost too late... →
Climatologist James Hansen, who is the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the creator of one of the first climate models that predicted global warming, is convinced that…
Nerd Wear: 8-Bit Keyboard Cat Shirt →
Do you browse the internets? Do you want everyone to know how much you browse the internets? Perhaps, you feel that your coworkers do not realise how internet savy you are. You want them to…
Why We Need Steve Jobs →
Dan Lyons nails it: Cook is a great manager, a whiz when it comes to managing supply chains and keeping the trains running on time. He is vital to Apple. Jobs cannot do what he does. But neither…
Pentagon Confirms Cyber Command, Under NSA Control →
eldavojohn writes “The Pentagon’s been planning a cyber command for a while now but it’s just been confirmed. The Pentagon will set up a Cyber Command outfit most likely around — surprise surprise —…
Farrah Fawcett dies at age 62. →
Farrah Fawcett died today of cancer at the age of 62. She was perhaps best known for her role in Charlie’s Angels, and also for inspiring the lust of a whole generation of men with one photo.
If you write or create anything you owe it to yourself to listen to @merlinmann on @tsoya. Seriously. Go now. http://bit.ly/1397TC
But at least HBO makes a 1 hr. show. SHO only makes 30 min shows.
True Blood, Nurse Jackie, and Weeds are the only shows worth watching these days. Everything else is so bad. Mostly.
Finally watching True Blood 02xe02. 20 hrs late.
Our Super made a “super”-late (har har) visit and decided we need a new fridge for our malfunctioning one! Yay! No arguments!
Girl with 56 Stars Admits Lying →
In an update on last week’s story, 18-year-old Kimberley Vlaminck, the girl with 56 stars tattooed on her face, has recanted her story. She had blamed the tattoo artist, Rouslan Toumaniantz, for…
Fantastic start to Monday…sat in a pool of water (?) in a subway seat.
My Apartment Collapsed, Tweets NY Blogger →
Have some sympathy for Twitter user Andrew Schneider, who just found out his apartment collapsed today.
Andrew, who has maintains a Tumblelog, a Twitter account, a Dopplr profile and…
$1.00 Macaroni & Cheese On Wednesday, June... →
-By Janet Raiffa, Contributing Writer, Member & Recruiting Manager
“Newsweek” published research…
Writing Microcopy - Bokardo →
Sometimes, the best way to improve your interface is through the use of Microcopy. Joshua Porter: Microcopy is small yet powerful copy. Itâs fast, light, and deadly. Itâs a short sentence, a…
After feeling so alive and positive in FL, my return to NYC has been anything but. After 4 yrs here, a change may be required.
Changed my avatar in support of fairness with the #iranelection. Mousavi to the people: “You are the media” http://bit.ly/H0SfU
The crappy weather here isn’t helping, BTW
Mos Def Tries T-Shirt As An Album Business Model →
While some folks like to mock the business model examples we talk about by saying that the future is just in selling looooooooooooooooooottss of t-shirts, the truth is that while the models involve…
Man records TSA harassment with iPhone →
At CNN:
On a recording a TSA agent can be heard berating Bierfeldt. One sample: “You want to play smartass, and I’m not going to play your f**king game.”
They pulled him aside because he was…
Iranian Police Attack At Shiraz University; A... →
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About halfway into this video Iranian police take their batons to veiled women standing against a metal fence. The women are…
Epic Win: USA Up All Night →
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USA Up All Night was the legendary home of every terrible movie ever made during the ’80s and ’90s. They featured all of the classic Troma movies, Bikini Car Wash…
376. If you need music on the beach, you're... →
TiPb on NPR, OMG →
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Immediate contact DOES feel req’d these days.
We’re pretty sure you were turning your eyes to TiPb today for the haps on the iPhone 3G S launch, but you weren’t alone in…
Pizza Hut will become "The Hut," finally... →
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Warrantless NSA Email Surveillance of U.S.... →
James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, reporting for The New York Times: The National Security Agency is facing renewed scrutiny over the extent of its domestic surveillance program, with critics in…
RIAA awarded $1.92 million by jury against file... →
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still drunk. →
Tagged: 8am, drunk
#22578 - 'Inside the Jaws of the Venus... →
‘Inside the Jaws of the Venus Flytrap’, a remarkable collection of photographs. (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com)
Walter Cronkite reportedly 'gravely ill', with... →
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“drenching rain” tomorrow according the weather report & rain for 3 more days after. I miss the beach
Andy Ihnatko’s iPhone 3G S Review →
Andy Ihnatko: Everything feels faster. Safari on the iPhone 3G S seems as interactive as a desktop browser. At times, pages were being rendered so quickly over WiFi that I had to double-check to…
More than copy/paste in iPhone OS 3, the 2x speed podcast playback is useful. Twice the content and ppl don’t sound like chipmunks
Watching True Blood again. Totally dig this show.
Between my vacation last week and the boss on his the week before, we are busy monkeys here this week :)
Just walked by @MarthaStewart.