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New York City Snowicane
In case you haven’t heard, New York has gotten a ton of snow this month- so much in fact that February 2009 is now the snowiest month in NYC history (breaking a 114 year old record). Well I came across this time-lapse video of the latest storm [...]
New App Menu for Facebook
This is new… I just cant keep up with the facebook design changes anymore. But it is kind of cool.
The End of an Era…and the Beginning of Possibilities.
Today was Bill Gates’ last day at Microsoft. That simple statement of fact is really pretty incredible. I realize that they are very different in what they did, but I cannot help but think of this as being similar to when Washington left the White House. One [...]
Proximity to Ozone Hole Causes Space-Time Continuum Rift over Australia… iPhone Hysteria to Ensue
All the world is abuzz with the news of Apple releasing the iPhone 3G on July 11th. (Which, I may note is inconveniently before my July 15th payday) and apparently the fervor over the product in Australia has reached such monumental levels that the folks over News.com.au [...]
How Much Is Your E-Mail Account Worth?
Apparently on Monday, Charter Communications was doing a sweep of customer email accounts to delete inactive accounts and managed to accidentally delete 14,000 active accounts as well. The company says all the data contained in them is irretrievable and that is “sorry”….so they are giving all affected [...]
Why We Fight: Writers’ Strike 2007
A cool intro video that explains why the Writers’ Guild is on strike! support the strike: www.unitedhollywood.com from www.youtube.com
The Great Google Strikes Again
Over the past few days, the internet has been abuzz with the news about Google’s upcoming foray (or perhaps more accurately: retry) into the world of social networking. It has promised to build 2-way APIs for multiple networks that will change the way users transfer their social [...]
Twitter Finally Gets a Grown-Up Design
Twitter has just launched a new site design, finally varying from its trademark sky-blue and cloudy background. One of the biggest criticisms of Twitter over the past few months has been that it seems to be having major growing pains, and since it got a nice chunk [...]
Finally a Federal Shield That Might Work
Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed the Free Flow of Information Act, a journalist shield law that would protect professional journalists from prosecution should they refuse to reveal sources. Ars Technica has a good analysis of the Act and its implications for the blogging world: at first [...]
The Village Idiot
In case you haven’t seen the recent exchange between TechCrunch and some delusional pseudo-attorney, be sure to check it out and get a hearty laugh for the day. Basically, some photographer took a picture of Ashton Kutcher and someone linked to it in a comment left on [...]
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