September 2009
110 posts
Console Makers Worry Over Apple's Growing... →
Shared by felix I wouldn’t have thought that it’d be concern for the consoles - just the portables. Is this just a little pre-hysteria for the benefit of impending monopoly type lawsuits or is it…
Sep 28th
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IE 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome... →
Shared by felix Heh. Gregg Keizer / Techworld.com: IE 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in  — Chrome Frame boosts Microsoft browser’s JavaScript performance  — …
Sep 26th
PRESS RELEASE: 37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $100... →
Shared by felix heh. CHICAGO—September 24, 2009—37signals is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group of investors who have agreed to purchase 0.000000001% of the company in…
Sep 26th
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Palm Pre Slashed To $100 on Amazon [Palm Pre] →
Shared by felix Amazon loves them thin margins. I wonder if this is a sign of poor sell through… Sprint may have recently dropped the Pre to $150 (after rebate; with 2-year contact),…
Sep 26th
Lily Allen No Longer in Favor Of Kicking People... →
Well, this is getting particularly silly now. Despite claiming that she wasn’t going to the meeting of various musicians in the UK to discuss Peter Mandelson’s “three strikes” proposal, Lily Allen…
Sep 26th
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Lamp that runs on human blood →
Shared by felix that’s pretty neat. grisly, but neat. Mike Thompson’s “Blood Lamp” is a single-use lantern that draws its energy from a drop of your blood, making you consider the cost of energy…
Sep 25th
Lily Allen Distributing Tons Of Copyrighted Music;... →
Really don’t want to turn this into an all Lily Allen all the time blog, but reader Peter has sent in something rather interesting: When Lily was first trying to get attention, she created a couple…
Sep 25th
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Americans Don't Want To Bail Out Newspapers →
Surprise, surprise: It seems the only folks eager for a newspaper bailout are: Newspapers Politicians who have friends at newspapers Support for a newspaper bailout is so low that only 2…
Sep 25th
Martin Jetpack: How Much Would You Pay to Be a... →
Shared by felix Want. An eBay auction (ending in 10-hours) offers the chance to be amongst the first to go through the Jetpack’s test pilot training program. You’ll need to be over 18, have…
Sep 25th
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Chamber Of Commerce Gets Basic Stats Backwards,... →
David Levine points us to an analysis by Kevin Smith (not the movie maker) at Duke University of a recent report from the World Economic Forum, placing the US as 19th in how strong our…
Sep 25th
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A Teaching Moment For Lily Allen [Update: And... →
Shared by felix I find this whole thing sad. It was the perfect time for an illuminating discourse (by proxy) between the music industry and the filesharing community. I wonder if Techdirt has…
Sep 25th
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At $3.2 Billion, Palm Is Too Pricey For... →
Shared by felix Microsoft! Yeah, hell, why not? Add another one to their mobile mix. We’ve heard rumors about a Palm (PALM) acquisition ever since the firm launched the Pre in January. You…
Sep 25th
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Apple ready and waiting with redesigned iMac line... →
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider: Apple ready and waiting with redesigned iMac line  — Apple as early as this month will begin to fill out its 2009 Mac product line with a new…
Sep 25th
Microsoft Retail Locations Are Trying To Steal... →
Shared by felix Heh. Heheh. Very much money says that they can take all the mgrs and sales team with the allure of huge salaries, but if you compare the sales/sq ft, much less profitability of the…
Sep 24th
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Lily Allen, Don't Apologize To Me, Apologize To... →
It seems that a few folks misunderstood the point of my post yesterday in joking about Lily Allen’s double standard in ranting against unfair copying while copying blog posts from other sites. And…
Sep 24th
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Men Are More Likely Than Women to Be Hit by... →
Shared by felix to paraphrase… men are way stupiderer than women. Natalie Avon writes in Popular Science that between 1995 and 2008, 82% of people in the US killed by lightning were male….
Sep 24th
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Introducing Google Chrome Frame →
Shared by felix i guess this will affect all html rendering. maybe msft will start shipping this default. :) Today, we’re releasing an early version of Google Chrome Frame, an open source…
Sep 24th
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Did Pencils Make Us Dumber? →
We’ve talked about the popularity of moral panics for any new kind of technology, and shown how various reports of new technologies somehow being “bad” are almost always unfounded and over…
Sep 24th
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BlackBerry Down Nationwide* →
Shared by felix This has always been the wierd thing about RIM to me, why is RIM able to take out all blackberries? Update: Sprint let us know that the problem is on RIM’s end, not…
Sep 24th
Google acquires ReCaptcha →
Shared by felix interesting acquisition. I love the little acquisitions, they always make more sense. Google has acquired ReCaptcha. The exact terms of the deal were not disclosed but…
Sep 24th
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Google Finally Enables Push Gmail for iPhone and... →
Shared by felix Need to try this out. Google just announced that its users can now get their Gmail messages pushed directly to their iPhones and Windows Mobile phones. Push Gmail is now a…
Sep 24th
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Internet Explorer, Now Powered by Google Chrome... →
Shared by felix Wow, will this make ie render like chrome? Though Internet Explorer has been panned for lack of web-standard compliance, many are forced to use the browser because of…
Sep 24th
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Editorial: Keep Fighting The iTunes Fight, Palm →
Shared by felix What I find most interesting about this article are the comments - especially on a palm-centric blog - they all believe Palm got what it had coming to it. I agree in spirit that it…
Sep 24th
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There Should Only Be One: Highlander Reboot In The... →
Shared by felix I’d be more angry about this, but I like Justin Lin, so there it is. Justin Lin, the director of Fast And Furious 4, is bringing his shiny fast paced style to the hills of…
Sep 24th
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Monopoly Sets for WWII POWs: More Information →
Shared by felix Amazing. I already blogged about this; there’s more information in this new article: Included in the items the German army allowed humanitarian groups to distribute in care…
Sep 24th
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Lily Allen: Copying Isn't Alright... Unless It's... →
The folks over at TorrentFreak alerted me to the news that singer Lily Allen, who made some news last week for speaking out against file sharing and against artists who have defended file…
Sep 22nd
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Clothing Firm Pirated Itself... And It Worked... →
As fashion designers in the US are, once again, pushing for a misguided new “fashion copyright,” it’s worth remembering that studies have repeatedly shown that knock off fashions are what help make…
Sep 22nd
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exercise and smarts →
Shared by felix Link to a pretty interesting nytimes article on exercising and new brain cells. Man. I could use some new brain cells. Another article, this time over at the NY Times, discussing…
Sep 22nd
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No CNN, Airplanes Are Not A 'High-Risk... →
Shared by felix it’s good to know our fbi has their minds in the right place. sigh. Apparently there aren’t any cute blond girls who’ve gone missing overseas lately, so someone at CNN got…
Sep 22nd
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Bing Keeps Pecking Away At Search Share And Making... →
Shared by felix I gotta admit, Bing is doing some nice stuff. I still don’t use it, but I’ve seen some cool features. If they could just wean themselves off Silverlight, that’d probably help, too….
Sep 22nd
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SGI releases personal supercomputer →
Shared by felix SGI?? Octane III?? SGI — formerly the titanic Silicon Graphics company — has released a “personal supercomputer” that can handle up to 80 cores and up to a terabyte of RAM. I…
Sep 22nd
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Getting More Sleep Almost Certainly Staves Off... →
Game addictions, all-night crams, and television catch-up marathons will probably cost you in Kleenex. That’s according to a recent (and cruel) study that exposed both under-slept and…
Sep 22nd
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Hacking Two-Factor Authentication →
Back in 2005, I wrote about the failure of two-factor authentication to mitigate banking fraud: Here are two new active attacks we’re starting to see: Man-in-the-Middle attack. An attacker…
Sep 22nd
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Lightroom vs. Aperture →
Shared by felix A pretty rare (these days) example of Apple feeling the bite of someone else’s monopoly(ish) control. InfoTrends survey of over 1,000 professional photographers shows Lightroom…
Sep 22nd
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Pantone offers color libraries for iPhone, mostly →
Shared by felix it’d be cool if you could calibrate your iphone screen. Filed under: Graphic Design, App Review While it’s been in the App Store for the last few days, Pantone is…
Sep 21st
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AT&T Femtocell Website Comes Online - Comes in... →
Shared by felix That is a weak ass pricing structure - “We will let you supplement our crappy ass infrastructure using your own internet, and you can pay us $20/month for the privilege”?? …
Sep 21st
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New 'Montauk Monster' Crawls Out Of Cave... →
Shared by felix With the animal lieing there dead, beaten to death with by a bunch of kids w/ sticks, it kinda makes you wonder where the word “monster” should be applied. Last summer, the…
Sep 18th
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Summer Glau and Ray Wise Live In Joss Whedon's... →
Shared by felix Summer and Ray Wise?? And everything else in this article?? Curious about what Ray Wise (Reaper) and Summer Glau (Firefly) are up to on Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse? Whedon…
Sep 18th
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Google contradicts Apple, states Apple rejected... →
Shared by felix About time Google stepped up. Filed under: Apple Corporate, iPhone, App Store The Google Voice story grows even murkier today as new details arise about its App…
Sep 18th
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Jedi tossed out of supermarket for wearing hood →
Shared by felix “Jedi are very welcome to shop in our stores although we would ask them to remove their hoods. Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Luke Skywalker all went hoodless without going to the Dark…
Sep 18th
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Why We're Frustrated With Google Apps And... →
Shared by felix I’ve always hated the ridiculous inconsistency in the UI between google properties. It’s terrible. In response to Henry Blodget’s earlier post about Gmail, many of you have…
Sep 18th
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Palm Abandons Windows Mobile (Dieter... →
Shared by felix Wow, this is a ballsy, but great move for palm. Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net: Palm Abandons Windows Mobile  — Jon Rubinstein just made it official during…
Sep 18th
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Microsoft: No App Store For Zune HD →
Shared by felix I mean, why keep it if they aren’t even going to try? Microsoft seems happy to let Apple’s iPod steamroll yet another Zune. Read the rest of this story » See Also:
Sep 16th
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hi cutie ur realy sexy. msn? →
Shared by felix This is a totally great study! How (not) to write an online-dating message, based on a sample of 500,000 “first contact” messages. The average message from a man to a woman on…
Sep 16th
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Is Apple too powerful? - The new iPod nano is a... →
Shared by felix I don’t know how I feel about all this, but there are many reasonable points here. Michael Mace / Mobile Opportunity: Is Apple too powerful?  — The new iPod nano…
Sep 15th
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LG GW620, Its First Android Phone, Gets Official... →
Shared by felix Who made a law that all these android phones needed to be sliders? It’s embarrassing, really. LG may have over 10 WinMo phones planned for the next year, but that hasn’t…
Sep 15th
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obesity as phenomenon of social norms →
Shared by felix Some really crazy infographics. A fascinating article at Wired discusses the changes in a social group in Framingham MA, and how obesity spread through the population.  The…
Sep 15th
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George Clooney would rather a rectal examination... →
Shared by felix Not that anyone has to have a Facebook page or anything, but really to what extent does Facebook force its users to give up their private life? It seems like we ought to revisit…
Sep 15th
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Google Quietly Pushing More Links + Data in... →
Shared by felix Pretty cool Posted by randfish The last 3 months have heralded a bevy of new tests and features from Google’s search results, and it’s worth taking a review of the most frequent…
Sep 15th
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Bing Pops With Visual Search →
Shared by felix ugh, requires silverlight? really? bleah. HTML5, take me away. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand keywords. Today at TechCrunch50, Microsoft senior vice president Yusuf…
Sep 15th
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