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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…

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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…

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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…

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…

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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….

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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…

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…

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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…

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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…

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SGI?? Octane III??