May 2009
91 posts
What Secret Horror Is Destroying the Nation's... →
Shared by felix and then they wonder why they can’t attract an audience under 60. sigh. “They do it late at night when their parents are asleep. They do it in restaurants and while crossing…
May 26th
Judge Exploring Pirate Bay Judge Bias...Was Biased... →
Last month, a Swedish court found the four men behind the popular Pirate Bay website guilty of assisting copyright infringement, sentencing each of them to one year in prison and a $905,000…
May 23rd
Warrantless searches courtesy of the FCC →
I’ll bet that you didn’t know that if you have any of the following wireless router cordless phone cellphone remote control for <pick your appliance> baby monitor you are…
May 23rd
Regarding Eucalyptus →
Eucalyptus is a new e-book reader for the iPhone, created by James Montgomerie. Content comes from freely available books from Project Gutenberg. The main draw for Eucalyptus is that the user…
May 22nd
Three Wolf Moon Shirt →
Shared by felix Sales of the shirt up 2300% and the company’s mad? You can make fun of me if it’ll up my salary 2300%. Sales of the “Three Wolf Moon Shirt” are up 2300% after word got out that…
May 22nd
Top 10 Things That Are The New Black! →
I tweeted recently that we marketers should make a commitment to never say, write or pitch anything as ‘the new black’ again because that is just old and tired media speak that stops us from…
May 22nd
Yahoo Thinking About Buying Into That Whole Social... →
Shared by felix god i hope they don’t buy FriendFeed. Maybe Ning might be a decent fit for them. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo is looking to buy companies that will allow it to become a…
May 21st
On the Anonymity of Home/Work Location Pairs →
Shared by felix creepy as hell. although, I wonder how well this holds up in manhattan. Interesting: Philippe Golle and Kurt Partridge of PARC have a cute paper on the anonymity of…
May 21st
CW confirms new fall lineup →
Shared by felix this summer sees transformers joining gi joe and next season to feature 90210 followed by melrose? Did I get sucked into a blackhole and thrown back a few decades? TV News: As…
May 21st
Gmail Magic Inbox →
Shared by felix I don’t know if I will like this feature or not. Gmail’s code reveals an upcoming feature called “magic inbox” or “icebox inbox”, which is likely to prioritize the messages sent by…
May 21st
The web needs its own App Store →
Shared by felix This doesn’t happen because people will go to that site and then leave immediately when it isn’t free. And no one will link to the site, so it will get no google traffic. Services…
May 21st
Intel: Kinda Thin, Kinda Cheap Laptops Are the... →
Shared by felix See… this is the beginning of the end for netbooks. For all its impressive engineering and hyper-stylized design, the ultrathin laptop category isn’t very enticing, mainly…
May 20th
Google is your friend →
News today says that Anders Eka is the person (together with some friends) who will decide if the judge in #spectrial S01 was biased or not. The court decided that he will try the case because…
May 20th
Shawn Johnson Crowned Winner of Dancing With the... →
Shared by felix Who doesn’t love Shawn John?? Gymnast Shawn Johnson has been crowned the winner of Dancing With the Stars 2009. Three contestants remained going in to tonight’s show:…
May 20th
Biased! →
One would imagine that, as part of an ongoing court case, you would get all information about that case from a lawyer. Not so much in our #spectrial - we get most of the news in the media, even…
May 20th
Amazon Updates The Kindle App To Be More... →
Shared by felix Man alive, I also wish all apps had that rotation lock business… grrr… As a Kindle owner, I love the fact that Amazon released an iPhone app to allow me to continue…
May 20th
For sale: San Francisco church converted to home →
Shared by felix Want. This 1910 Gothic Revival style church in San Francisco’s Mission District has been converted (tastefully, it seems!) into a 3+ bedroom home. The interior…
May 20th
Android Donut Interface Makes Us Forget All About... →
Shared by felix Looks really sweet. I don’t know if I’d really use so many widgets, I have too many apps to suck up with widgets. Although if you could throw those onto the lock screen… that’d…
May 19th
Egyptian Pig Slaughter →
Shared by felix W.T.F. is. wrong. with. people. This video was too sickening for me to watch more than 30 seconds. A film showing the destruction of pigs in Egypt has caused an…
May 19th
Apple to look to software to differentiate... →
Shared by felix If they pull the Microsoft play of hobbling software to make it cheaper… that’d be really bad news and stupid. I guess I could see bundling diff’t software… James…
May 19th
Palm launching Pre on June 6th for $200: It's... →
Shared by felix So much for this phone being more expensive than an iPhone because it’s better. Also, mail in rebate? vomit The day you’ve been waiting for is here. Sprint just announced that…
May 19th
An Unexpected Chance To See TSCC Again? [Sarah... →
Shared by felix I’d buy it. With the fate of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles apparently cancelled (according to Entertainment Weekly, at least), one website has come up with a…
May 19th
Sarah Connor's Boss Says Goodbye [Terminator:... →
Shared by felix I hope that guy gets another show pronto. He really does kick ass. Feeling angry and frustrated at Fox for canceling Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles? One man wants…
May 19th
New Features for Amazon EC2: Elastic Load... →
Shared by felix This is gigantic news. Really unbelievable. We are working to make it even easier for you to build sophisticated, scalable, and robust web applications using AWS. As soon as…
May 18th
Bad News For Sarah Connor [Terminator: Tssc] →
Shared by felix :( :( :’( Unconfirmed anywhere else as yet, but Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello is reporting that Fox has officially canceled Terminator: The Sarah Connor…
May 18th
Swan at breaking point after brick attack →
Shared by felix WTF is wrong with people. Nesting swans have had all their eggs smashed by vandals who threw bricks at their nest in east Dorset. Andrew Stevens, who lives nearby, said he noticed…
May 18th
Stand Firm Craig (and Jim) →
South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster is giving even the normally sleazy Attorney General title a bad name. This is an office that has little to do with protecting the public and…
May 18th
Danger Mouse Releases Blank CD-R To Spite EMI →
An anonymous reader writes “DJ Danger Mouse famously fought with EMI over his Beatles/Jay-Z mashup, ‘The Grey Album,’ and now seems to be battling with the label again. Rather than release his latest…
May 16th
Apple Serious About Background App Support For... →
Shared by felix If this happens, I will totally say I told you so. Background operation is like Coke, there’s nothing like the real thing. Apple (AAPL) is serious about letting more…
May 15th
Absolutely Amazing Video Game Remake Wallpapers,... →
Shared by felix AWSM. SRSLY. Lifehacker reader Orioto stunned us a few months ago with his gorgeous paintings of classic video games for your desktop—and he’s at it again with another must-see…
May 15th
Chrome Dual View Lets You Split Chrome in Two... →
Shared by felix Ok. That’s genuinely cool and useful as all get out. I hope your watching Firefox!! Chrome only: Whether you want to split the screen to compare two things side by side or to…
May 15th
Keeping Your Pints Honest →
Shared by felix F that. The only real pint is 20 ounces, dammit. Oregon’s House recently passed the “Honest Pint Act,” which would allow drinking establishments to display state-issued stickers…
May 15th
Hulu Staff Write Nielsen Frustrated Emails Over... →
Shared by felix Maybe we can dump Nielsen altogether! Metrics firm Nielsen calculates the Web traffic numbers it reports to the public by closely following the activity of a subset of users…
May 15th
The Evolution of Apple.com →
Shared by felix Amazing how little it’s changed over a decade. The Apple website is somewhat iconic, and over the past few years has become one of the most frequented sites on the internet….
May 15th
The Reaper Isn't Dead Yet [Reaper] →
Shared by felix I’d like to see it again, but if the producer’s are out… One of the genre shows on the cancellation bubble of late has been Satan’s bounty-hunter show Reaper. But now…
May 14th
Just Posted: Compact Superzoom Group Test →
Shared by felix Man alive, I want that ZS3. But I guess I have to wait till my TZ5 dies. Sigh. Just Posted: Our Compact ‘Superzoom’ Group Test. We continue our series of group tests with six…
May 14th
Bailing Out The RIAA? →
Shared by felix aarg At the Tech Policy Summit yesterday, David Carson, the General Counsel of the US Copyright Office spent a bit of time at the beginning of his talk explaining why the…
May 14th
Flies make ants into zombies? →
Shared by felix that is so nasty. sometimes, mother nature, you really freak the hell out of me. The attention-grabbing headline above is about a University of Texas at Austin effort to…
May 13th
#21640 - carbon fiber chair by shigeru ban -... →
Shared by felix They look stackable. WANT. carbon fiber chair by shigeru ban - “I wanted to make a chair that is even lighter than the gio ponti’s superleggera - a chair so light that a…
May 13th
Your Hulu Questions, Answered →
Hulu’s CEO, Jason Kilar, answers reader questions.
May 13th
Uh Oh: No New iPhone Or Steve Jobs At Apple's... →
Shared by felix yeah, i was coming around to this belief. denial was strong in me. Anticipation was building that Apple would launch the sexy new iPhone at its worldwide developers’…
May 13th
Your Hulu Questions, Answered →
Hulu’s CEO, Jason Kilar, answers reader questions.
May 13th
Glass Top Pool Table →
Shared by felix It’d be more believable if they showed any shots with english on it. By Evan Ackerman “Vitrik.” That’s the name of the patented coating that allows the Nottage G-1 pool…
May 13th
Apple confirms WWDC keynote time, Phil Schiller... →
Shared by felix Ugh… if the OS isn’t being launched, I suspect neither is new hardware… OH NOES! The anticipation is palpable, sure, but those hoping for a Steve Jobs comeback at…
May 13th
Google Isn't "A Problem" Like... →
Shared by felix Sanity! In our gov’t? I could get used to this… Microsoft has spent a lot of time and money selling the idea that because of its dominant search advertising position, Google…
May 13th
Intel Smacked With Staggering $1.45 Billion Fine... →
Shared by felix Intel has long been the worse offender in the Wintel monopoly. It’s even more obvious now, glad they got some comin’. In the largest trust-busting fining in EU history—about twice…
May 13th
Blind man dragged off plane in Philadelphia,... →
Shared by felix WTF? A blind man flying with his wife from Philadelphia to Belgium (where he works as a translator) was arrested and dragged off the plane when he stood up and demanded to know,…
May 13th
Lenovo gazes into its netbook crystal ball,... →
Shared by felix I think touchscreens on notebooks and desktops are something the hardware people really want you to want. But nobody’s gonna buy it. Wonder what the future of the…
May 12th
Dollhouse Renewal Talks Going On Right Now... →
Shared by felix I have crossed everything. Dollhouse star Eliza Dushku, who’s apparently off traveling and volunteering in Africa, just Twittered this message: DOLLHOUSE talk’s are…
May 12th
Spore Hero and Hero Arena Coming to Nintendo... →
Shared by felix DS?? I want Arena for the iPhone, dammit. It’s gotta be more fun than the original spore iPHone game… By Shane McGlaun If you have never played Spore on the PC or Wii…
May 12th