May 2009
91 posts
Should Google Be Paranoid About Losing The Android... →
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WTH? Just pay the dude off already.
The name “Android” is at the very core of Google’s mobile initiative. It’s even successfully gotten people to move away from calling the…
April 2009
110 posts
NYU Reminds Poor Students How Poor They Are →
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great job nyu! ugh…
While the NYU financial aid flyer, that encouraged poorer students to leave for a more affordable CUNY education, was a fake, it wasn’t too far off…
iPhone vs Asus Netbook Extreme Typing Test [IPhone... →
Crave UK’s Rory Reid did a great experiment: Test the typing accuracy of the iPhone vs an Asus Netbook in a rally car racing at full speed. The video and the results will surprise you. Jump to…
Miss California Breast Implants Paid For By Miss... →
Carrie Prejean, Miss California, (you know, also crowned “Miss Anti Same Sex Marriage) had her Breast Implants Paid For By Miss California Organization just weeks before the Miss California…
Amazon's Web Services Go To School →
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A smart move! Straight out of Apple’s playbook.
Amazon just announced AWS in Education, a new program that will give students and educators free access to Amazon’s Web…
Motorola's First Android Phone Calgary Looks... →
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doesn’t this look like someone from the past’s conception of the future? Like you’d have seen this on buck rogers or something?
I’ve been tired of “Android on X’s phone”…
Ferris Bueller’s Fight Club →
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whoa.
The Fight Club theory of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off:
My favorite thought-piece about Ferris Bueller is the “Fight Club” theory, in which Ferris Bueller, the person, is…
FAA Knew Low Flying Planes Would Freak Out NYers →
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WHAT. THE. HELL.
Photograph of the 747 known as Air Force One when the President is on board and a fighter jet by istolethetv on Flickr
Maybe Senator Chuck…
B&H Selling A Rare Used Canon 1200mm f/5.6... →
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well… godDAM…
By Andrew Liszewski
Sure, $120,000 might seem like a little much to spend on a lens, particularly a used one, but there’s some important backstory for…
Did You Ever Think You Could Deposit Checks Using... →
NCR is now allowing customers to deposit checks anywhere they get reception on their data-enabled mobile phones. Assuming you don’t already direct deposit all your checks, NCR’s APTRA Passport…
The Force Is Not With Queer People In The Star... →
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:(
Homosexuality does not exist in the Star Wars universe, according to Bioware, the developers of Star Wars: The Old Republic, the new Star Wars MMO. Have these…
Microsoft's "Pink" smartphone could... →
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What the - Microsoft! Apple already used up Pink. You don’t remember Taligent?? :)
It’s crazy, we know. Just hours after hearing shockingly believable whispers that…
Bruce Sterling explains swine flu →
Bruce Sterling’s got some pretty good advice for understanding swine flu in perspective:
People freak out over “pandemics,” even though we’ve got one of the worst pandemics in history, AIDS, raging…
Europe Funds Secure Operating System Research →
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minix! Who knew that was still around??
narramissic writes “A Dutch university has received a $3.3 million grant from the European Research Council to fund 5 more years of work on…
Bruce Sterling explains swine flu →
Bruce Sterling’s got some pretty good advice for understanding swine flu in perspective:
People freak out over “pandemics,” even though we’ve got one of the worst pandemics in history, AIDS, raging…
How To Fool Apple's Arbitrary App Censors:... →
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this is genuinely awesome.
Chris Wilcox, from Alkali Media, sends in (without a link, forcing us to go searching…) his story about his company created a somewhat crude iPhone app…
BusinessWeek: Apple Rumored to Bring Tablet and... →
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I still don’t buy this.
BusinessWeek cites two sources reporting that there might be an iPhone “lite” and a connected touchscreen tablet as early as this summer. We’ve…
Will Oracle Keep Funding Sun's Pet Java... →
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Yeah, JavaFX, that always made sense.
gkunene writes “Oracle expects Sun to contribute to its operating profit right away. To make that happen, Oracle may pull funding and staff…
FAA Tries to Scare the Shit Out of New Yorkers →
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“As part of some inane photo-op, the FAA sent a low-flying 747 trailed by a fighter jet into Manhattan this morning. And they didn’t bother to tell anybody, since evidently we’ve…
Apple Hires Chip Guru →
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Apple does not think small… I guess they want to take “owning the whole stack” to all new levels.
A nice hire for Apple’s chip business: The company has hired former AMD…
Snow Leopard Server to offer low cost, secure... →
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What the? I do not approve of this turn of apple’s business. Are they trying to make Snow Leopard Server the new Exchange server? Standards people. We already have IMAP and SSL….
New storage engines for MySQL -- rocket science or... →
There were several new storage engine vendors at the MySQL Conference. I spoke with people from Virident, Tokutek and Schooner at length about their technology. Their products are impressive…
Web 3.0 Conference Ticket Giveaway: Ready, Set,... →
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web 3.0? I want to die.
Hot ticket items up for grabs! SAI has two free passes to the Web 3.0 Conference, May 19-20 in New York City. If you’re the lucky commenter, one…
Nintendo and the Decline of Hardcore Gaming →
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Oh definitely. I’m quite sure that hard core gaming is definitely near dead. Next year no one is going to be making a game that isn’t party friendly. Not even one will be made. For…
Tighten Up Those Apps Or Android 1.5 “Cupcake” May... →
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Will these suggestions turn Android apps into lowest common denominator apps?
Android developers are obviously excited about the new 1.5 version of the SDK. The so-called…
Brooklyn Beer Master Plans to Make Harder Booze →
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oh hell yeah, brooklyn brewery is like 6 blocks from me. :)
A legal distillery may open in Brooklyn, the first in New York City since Prohibition. “Tom Potter, who…
i was going to do the myth of medusa, but... →
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This one kinda makes me think of XKCD except it’s better because it’s wordier and it’s told by dinosaurs!
about - archive - cast - comments - sexy exciting…
China Blocks Micro-Messaging Site Plurk. Is... →
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Plurk?? Really?
As micro-messaging spreads overseas, the threat of censorship looms in certain parts of the world. Yesterday Plurk, a micro-messaging service that competes…
Sun Announces New MySQL, Michael Widenius Forks →
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Oh SNAP.
viktor.91 writes “Sun Microsystems announced three new MySQL products: MySQL 5.4, MySQL Cluster 7.0 and MySQL Enterprise Partner Program for ‘Remote DBA’ service…
Pirate Bay Judge Linked With Copyright Lobby,... →
Tomas Norström, the judge who sentenced the Pirate Bay Four, was recently outed as a member of two copyright advocacy organizations, prompting rumblings about a mistrial. Some Swedish…
Pirate Bay Judge Connected With Copyright Lobby,... →
Tomas Norström, the judge who sentenced the Pirate Bay Four, was recently found to have been a member of two copyright advocacy organizations, prompting rumblings about a mistrial. …
Germany Institutes Censorship Infrastructure →
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WTF is going on with the world.
An anonymous reader writes “Germany’s government has passed a draft law for censorship of domains hosting content related to child pornography. A…
Time Warner, Embarq Fight to Outlaw 100 Mbps... →
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That sucks.
Jason Mick / DailyTech: Time Warner, Embarq Fight to Outlaw 100 Mbps Community Broadband in Wilson, NC — The cable companies aren’t happy…
The Pirate Google Bay Gives the Finger to Record... →
Demonstrating how futile the war against Pirate Bay really is, someone has created The Pirate Google bay: A Google custom search dedicated to find torrent files. I can’t wait for the industry…
The Pirate Google Bay Gives the Finger to Record... →
Demonstrating how futile the war against Pirate Bay really is, someone has created The Pirate Google bay: A Google custom search dedicated to find torrent files. I can’t wait for the industry…
Rumor: MacBooks Updated With Built-In 3G and Pro... →
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3g in the laptops would kinda, in some weird way, make me think that tethering would happen at the same time… you know?
9to5’s “favorite Apple source” says that WWDC will bring…
Paul McCartney's Confused About The Pirate Bay →
Paul McCartney is making some news by speaking out in favor of The Pirate Bay verdict, claiming he thought it was “fair,” but the details of his comments suggests he is speaking about these things…
Twitter Must Be Stupid Because It’s New, See? →
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Wow, this interview wasn’t just overtly biased against the company - it was embarrassingly stupid. This is what journalism is afraid of losing these days? Really. Embarrassing.
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Pro Apps and MacBooks to see update at WWDC (Cleve... →
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pro app updates. yum.
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac: Pro Apps and MacBooks to see update at WWDC — We just got a call in from our favorite Apple source who…
No Evidence To Support The Need For Broadband... →
Just as the various broadband providers are ramping up their bogus astroturf attempts to convince the world that broadband caps are necessary and good for customers, Saul Hansell has been digging…
Tenso: Get Your Own Japanese Shipping Address (and... →
What Tenso is doing is one of those ideas where you think “dang, I shoulda thought of that.” It’s simple, it’s helpful, and provides a really good service. I tried it out recently, and…
New Map Color Codes Your Commute →
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That is pretty awesome and clever.
No map is going to make your commute any easier, but this new Triptrop subway map makes it a lot more vibrant. The creator tells us,…
Are App Store Customers Good Customers? →
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Apple’s App Store sucks on several levels, it’s surprising how bad a store it actually is.
Garrett Murray: This kind of thing continually reinforces something I’ve thought…
Sun Announces MySQL 5.4: Up To 90% Faster Response... →
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced MySQL™ 5.4, a new version of the world’s most popular open source database, designed to deliver significant performance and scalability improvements to MySQL…
Study: pirates biggest music buyers. Labels: yeah,... →
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It’s the willful ignorance of the old business models that is their problem.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: Study: pirates biggest music buyers. Labels:…
jPerl - Perl on the JVM →
Note: any errors in this post are mine, not Ben’s.
Many of you might think that the idea of porting Perl to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is silly. In fact, it’s not silly, but it’s difficult and…
Muji Opens US Mail-Order Store [Japan] →
Muji, a Japanese retail chain that offers super-simple yet very high-quality objects of all natures, just opened a US mail-order store. You should check it out. [Muji via Boing Boing]
Muji Opens US Mail-Order Store [Japan] →
Muji, a Japanese retail chain that offers super-simple yet very high-quality objects of all natures, just opened a US mail-order store. You should check it out. [Muji via Boing Boing]
Oracle-Sun Deal An Opportunity For Microsoft To... →
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A funny stance for Ballmer to take (not that I particularly disagree, though), given how hard he was pushing to acquire Yahoo…
Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer was in…
New Black Eyed Peas Video….or is it an Ad for HP? →
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Really? This is at all surprising? These guys are in like every commercial ever.
The Black Eyed Peas are back with a new album and the video for the first single “Boom…