March 2009
92 posts
Mark Ryden's first toy, photographed by Brian... →
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it kinda looks just like his painting. awesome.
Seen here is a Brian McCarty’s splendid photograph of Mark Ryden’s first ever toy, titled YHWH, on its way this summer…
Status Pages Provide Transparency for Operations →
These days, I find it’s a requirement for vendors to provide operational status pages on their services. I say this because I know there are many companies who aren’t yet on-board. Status pages…
Skype works on AT&T's 3G on iPhone 3.0... →
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac: Skype works on AT&T’s 3G on iPhone 3.0 — We just found something very interesting. When you install Skype on a 3.0 iPhone, you can use AT&T’s…
Google is now a VC →
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A good way to try and keep google alum in the fold.
Google has launched Google Ventures, a $100 million VC fund that will target early stage companies.
Managing…
Italicize Your Unread Tabs in Firefox without an... →
If you’re a fan of Tab Mix Plus, you already know how handy having your unread tabs italicized can be—but you don’t need to install an extension for this useful feature. You can run a tight…
am i to understand the operating room also has... →
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“only analogously!”
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Reports: Google Pulling Tethering Apps From... →
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Google pulling apps that piss off the carriers?? GASP! Who would have thought it! Oh. Everyone.
Developers are reporting a mass delisting of Android tethering apps from…
Privacy and the Fourth Amendment →
In the United States, the concept of “expectation of privacy” matters because it’s the constitutional test, based on the Fourth Amendment, that governs when and how the government can invade your…
Sony Drops Prices... On The PS2 →
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In other news, Atari has dropped prices on their 2600 console!
Sony (SNE) made its big gaming announcement this morning, and as we expected, the company cut prices on…
You Can’t Please Everyone - Pulp Fiction →
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Wow. I didn’t like Pulp Fiction… but this guy really didn’t like it.
One star Amazon reviews of classic movies, music and literature. Today we take a look at Pulp…
Teenage Girl Arrested Over Nude Self-Pics On... →
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Can you really go to jail for 17 years for exploiting yourself??
A 14-year-old girl is facing child porn-related charges over a series of nude self-photographs found on her…
NYPD Shuts Down Craigslist Vice Squad →
On the heels of radio journalist George Weber’s murder, apparently by a 16-year-old who responded to Weber’s Craigslist ad requesting rough sex, the Post reveals, “The NYPD quietly shut…
McCarren Pool Concerts Relocate to Banks of the... →
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This is like 3 blocks from me. Nice.
Photo of McCarren by Ryan Muir, photo of East River State Park by mizstacie. Last year as the the McCarren Park Pool parties…
There’s Something About Boxee →
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Boxee is definitely awesome.
600 fans showed up for a Boxee event in New York Tuesday night. Smells to me like Boxee is going to go big, soon.
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Clicking that link could land you in jail →
The FBI, taking lessons from Dateline’s To Catch A Predator, have been hanging out in some pretty bad neighborhoods on the web lately. While there they are spreading around some…
Get Ready For Java On AppEngine →
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It was between Ruby and Java for me… if I had to have laid money down on this, I’d have said Ruby. Show’s what I know. If I was Google and laying down money, it’d have been PHP.
Microsoft Readies For Another Big Tech Battle →
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OMG! Right? And I can’t believe she said that. And then He said. And OMG. WTF is this crap? Are we back to high school?
Last night we learned major tech companies have…
Apple drops to number two in reliability →
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Lenovo! Huh, I wouldn’t have guessed it.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Desktops, Hardware
RescueCom is a company that provides tech support and help from a…
Google, at your service →
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A lot of services all bundled up!
It used to be that creating a webpage was a pursuit reserved for the truly tech-savvy, requiring a geek’s expertise in HTML, Java, or C++ coding.
Fennec Reaches Beta - How is Mozilla's Mobile... →
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They’re bringing extensions to mobile? Weave?? Amazing.
In yesterday’s post about my recent trip to Mozilla HQ, we looked at where Mozilla’s Chief Innovation Officer, Chris…
Apple's Tablet Will Flop? We'll Believe It... →
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I continue to not believe that Apple is releasing anything with an 6-10” screen.
TheStreet.com’s Scott Moritz pans the not-yet-announced Apple tablet and gets the Apple…
Letter from an AIG bonus recipient →
Letter from an AIG bonus recipient - The resignation letter of an AIG executive explaining his point of view on the bonus furor. The proverbial other side of the story.
LOL116DEADCANADIANSOLDIERS →
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Fox news… sigh.
Fox News, keeping it classy, recently aired a comedy segment ridiculing the Canadian military’s efforts in Afghanistan. On the overnight programme, host Greg…
Apple Making Developers Pay Up For Any Refunded... →
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This is stupid, Apple! They should just have a week or two holding period for money and use that as an allowable return period.
Lucretious points to a Kotaku post claiming that…
Boxee alpha boasts API, Hulu-stomping browser and... →
Filed under: Software, Apple TV
Boxee is having a massive meet-up in NYC tonight and is unveiling a new version of the alpha that brings more features, some Hulu manageability,…
MTA Ready To Approve Fare Hike, Service Cut... →
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It is ridiculous that the MTA remains an independent, unsupervised entity. It should be run by the city. Grrr.
Photograph by nschaden on Flickr
After the MTA’s…
New York Times.com Keeps Leading The Way →
The company and the paper are in trouble, but New York Times’ web site continues to amaze.
Reader-generated videos smack-dab in the center of the front page? Well done!
Join the…
So Where’s Dell’s Mobile Phone? →
Eric Savitz on Dell’s long-rumored but nowhere-to-be-seen mobile phone: Shaw Wu, an analyst at Kaufman Bros., asserts in a research note today that the company’s first attempt was basically…
Best Buy Staff Paid Bonuses to Deny Legit... →
Best Buy, like many other stores, has a public “price matching” policy. But HD Guru reports that according to internal docs, personnel are trained to deny price-matches and even paid…
Bedbug-Infested Man Removed From Subway Train →
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so nasty.
Courtesy Triborough
According to NYC the Blog, a rather revolting incident took place on on the 2 train Saturday night. Arron Howell, the blogger’s…
Is Palm Doomed If the Pre Bombs? →
Here’s a fun hypothetical. Let’s say you’re Palm, and you’ve poured untold sums of money and time into developing the Pre; the early response has been positive. But when you launch the phone,…
Do Elementary Particles Have Free Will? →
Princeton mathematicians take their case to the public - if you have free will, so do elementary particles. (SF in the News)
New Hitwise Stats Show How Bad Hitwise Data Is →
It’s no secret how bad most of the analytics firms are at gathering statistically relevant data about Internet traffic. All of them, Quantcast, Comscore, Hitwise, Compete, Alexa, etc.,…
Twitter’s Constant Stream Of Update Messages... →
Everyone’s always raving about the huge popularity of Twitter given its limited feature set. After all, the service lets people share whatever they’re doing, eating, listening to, reading,…
Most-Secure Browser: Chrome →
Ryan Paul: Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer were all exploited during the Pwn2Own competition that took place at [CanSecWest]. Google’s Chrome browser, however, was the only one left…
Is Captain Kirk On Track To Play Hal Jordan?... →
A shortlist of actors for the iconic role of Green Lantern/Hal Jordan went up on IESB, and everybody’s fixating on Christopher Pine, who already has some experience playing cocky young…
Avatar’s Budget Exceeds $300 Million! Most... →
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does this almost ensure that it’s going to be a crappy movie?
When James Cameron’s Avatar was announced a couple years back, we wondered if it would be the most…
Palm CEO Confirms That, Yes, There Will Be More... →
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Not that any of this news is surprising… but what time was it when Palm had a “rich line of great handsets”? They only ever had 1 Treo handset that they kept re-releasing with…
Google provides some slapdown on who really serves... →
Copyright laws around the world are in the process of being re-written and in many cases they are a draconian move into the the past with us – the users – being made out to be the worst…
AT&T confirms contract-free $599 / $699 iPhone... →
Just in time to nab your soon-to-be-jailbroken copy of iPhone OS 3.0, AT&T has now confirmed that commitment-free iPhones are going to happen — soon, in fact. As of next Thursday, you’ll…
Salt Water on Mars →
In the category of neat science news: Water droplets have collected on NASA’s Phoenix Lander located in the Martian arctic region. See photos below:
As the Mars Daily reports:
Salty,…
Start BitTorrent Downloads at Home from Any... →
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pretty sweet and easy setup. just the way i likes em.
Blogger Guillermo Esteves loves his BitTorrent, so when he’s away from his home computer, he still wants to start up…
iPhone OS 3.0 firmware unearths new iPhones and... →
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be interesting to see what happens!
We’d already heard that evidence of a new iPhone model was found buried in newer firmwares, but how about two new iPhone models —…
How Upgrades Should Be Done →
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gruber’s being a little too defensive here, even if he doesn’t agree, he has to believe that it is reasonable for other’s to think of copy/paste and MMS to be basic functionality -…
Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 8 →
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the big question is, will people actually do the upgrade? I’m sick of the perpetual 20% in IE6. If I’ve got another 20% going to linger on with IE7… well, then I’m going to have…
Ballmer: Sun Micro Nothing But A Sandbag For IBM →
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Ballmer’s not wrong, although I wonder how long he thought msft’d spend digesting Yahoo had that happened. Google’d’ve relished that.
IBM (IBM) may be making a play for Sun…
Google soon to be banned in Australia under... →
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God I hope Australia passes these laws. And then shuts down the interent for the country. We’ll see how long that lasts.
Recent action by the Australian Government may…
iPhone OS 3: The moat strategy vs.... →
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Apple, happily, doesn’t succumb to checklistism. Although, I’d still like me some tethering. :)
The chattering class has a fetishistic indulgence with smartphones bordering on…
Analysis: Apple's iPhone Shows How Upgrades... →
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Apple’s a little different because it’s been the only handset maker to bend the carriers to its will. But the article still has a good point.
Sascha Segan / PC Magazine…
IBM Offers To Buy Sun For $6.5 Billion →
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holy smokes. I have no idea what I think about this.
After months of knocking on doors at HP and Dell, Sun Microsystems may have found itself a buyer.
The WSJ reports IBM…