August 2009
BBC NEWS | Technology | US file-sharer gets... →
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This should really crack down on file sharing. Just like it will fix all the problems with innernet music killing labels.
A US student is told to pay $675,000 (£404,000) to record…
FCC questions Apple over Google Voice | Software |... →
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Hahahaha. Good. App Store needs a boot up the ass…
The FCC has written to Apple, AT&T and Google questioning the rejection of Google Voice and related applications from the…
July 2009
Comic: Automata, Page Two →
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I absolutely love this thread they’re going down.
New Comic : Automata, Page Two
Licensing Issue Threatens to Shut Skype →
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That really sucks. Skype has come in very handy to chat with friends now out of country.
So let me get this straight. eBay paid $2.6 billion for Skype, but that didn’t include…
amazonmp3: @cosleia We do indeed have music from... →
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Man, it must be fun writing the re-write engine for Amazon…
amazonmp3: @cosleia We do indeed have music from the bearded ones: http://amzn.com/B000QJP88O
nnwbeta.com: NetNewsWire 3.2 beta →
Awesome
The Windows 7 Upgrade Story →
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What could possibly go wrong?
Walt Mossberg on the differences between the many versions of Windows 7, and how to upgrade to them: However, there’s another complication. For…
News: On Being A Language Foundry →
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You mean something like “chocolate fucking turkeys”?
Tycho : My deepest fantasy is that, in my meanderings on this site, we will produce a piece of language that is useful to…
Consequences →
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Probably not. Next question.
I wonder if the press will cover the consequences of Arnie’s actions.
Amazing food tattoos →
Amazing food tattoos: Whoa.
Palin's Resignation: The Edited Version | ... →
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Can you imagine the cringing and eye-rolling that went on during this?
Just how poorly constructed was Sarah Palin?s good-bye speech? V.F. editor Wayne Lawson whips it into…
kiva update 7/25 - recruitment attempt →
Team FSM on Kiva is at $78,150 of our $100k goal.
It turns out that the largest team on Kiva is the Atheist, Agnostics, and Skeptics group with over 4900 members and nearly $740k in loans. Holy…
A City upon a Hill →
Stupid foreign wars: cheered for, given blank checks, can’t end them. Decent health care for Americans: worrying, can’t be paid for, unsustainable.
Maker’s schedule versus manager’s schedule →
Paul Graham explains on how people who make things must manage their time to maximize their productivity: When you’re operating on the maker’s schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single…
The AP, Stuck in a Hole, Digs Deeper →
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Maybe they should ask Metallica for for tips and tricks.
Richard Perez-Pena, reporting for the NYT on the AP’s latest announcement regarding their attempt to restrict their…
Kiva update →
We’re up to 544 team members with a total of $75,150. That’s amazing — 40 additions to our team and more that $5k raised in one day.
Team member Susie Q is auctioning off 3 Plush FSM’s on ebay,…
Microsoft Revenue Falls $1B Short of Projections;... →
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I think I’ll start wondering out loud at work why we’re increasing our investment in such a beleagured company. “SQLServer? Do you really think they’ll be around to support it…
One-Man Rock Band →
playing Rock Band’s guitar, bass, drums, and vocals at the the same time
Introducing Internet Garage Sale →
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Somebody alert Fowler
stevenf:
I’m happy to announce Internet Garage Sale, the product of a few too many very late nights and weekends, and my latest web project.
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Alex Payne: ‘Fever and the Future of Feed Readers’ →
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Still holding out for NNW with GReader sync
Thoughtful essay from Alex Payne on Shaun Inman’s new Fever web-based feed reader and the state of feed reading software, including…
Apple Reports Third Quarter Results →
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3GS should sell well all through Q4
Revenue and profits are up, Mac unit sales are slightly up, iPod sales are slightly down, and iPhone sales are way way way up. (On the …
NYT: In 2003, U.S. Withheld Data Showing Cellphone... →
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A fine example of the separation of government and science.
The U.S. Department of Transportation withheld information showing just how dangerous it is to use a mobile phone…
Citizen Media Project on the legality of... →
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derp. Should have just punted to wikileaks.
publishing trade secrets and receiving stolen property are both illegal under California law
Hid.im, convert torrents into PNG images →
turn any photo sharing site into a torrent hub [via]
My Wee Inner Libertarian Comes Out →
The reason (fair or not) to limit calorie/nutritional information requirements to chain restaurants is that requiring it of every restaurant for every item would really place a really large burden…
Manhattanhenge →
@flickr noticed that photos of Manhattanhenge are starting to flow in from last weekend. What’s…
A Sotomayor Sense of Justice →
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Yes. Next question.
The only real suspense in the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is whether the Republican Party will persist in tying its…
Republican pundits open fire on Sarah Palin - Los... →
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Heh.
Since announcing her resignation, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been pummeled by critics who have called her incoherent, a quitter, a joke and a “political train wreck.”
Enviro-Bear 2010 for iPhone and iPod touch! →
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Imagine Grand Theft Auto, but with bears…and the art is done with MS Paint.
Enviro-Bear 2010 for iPhone and iPod touch!
Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project... →
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They probably have so many ways to burn Cheney it’s not even funny.
The C.I.A. was said to have withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for…
TechCrunch dubs Linux a 'big ol’ bag of... →
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What Ted said.
Can you replace Active Directory with a web app? Is there a site I can visit to connect to my office’s shared printer? What do you mean World of Warcraft doesn’t…
Google Chrome OS →
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Personally I think it’s an unfair comparison. There were no apps for NCs. At least, no good ones. Web apps on the other hand. Shit…we have too many at this point.
Google has…
Why Windows 7 should be free | Storage Bits |... →
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They’re crying so loud you’d think they were iPhone users or something…
Storage is what makes a computer your computer. Robin Harris writes about storage and other tech with a…
What To Do About California? →
On one hand the economy needs them to be bailed out, on the other hand it’s just rewarding really really bad behavior and completely dysfunctional institutions.
Unshitting The Bed →
Somebody emailed me asking what I really think about Afghanistan. The truth is I have no idea. The fact that 9/11 may have provided a moral justification for an invasion of the country doesn’t…
Those Things People Visit Our State For? Let's... →
Worst. Governor. Ever.
The National Park Service has informed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that his budget-cutting proposal to indefinitely close 220 California state parks could compel the…
This is why you can't have a jetpack. →
Headlines from The Future: DEADLY MONORAIL CRASH.
bitquabit - The One in Which I Call Out Hacker... →
Wherein we learn how difficult it can be.
Political Memo - If White House Is Her Goal,... →
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A lot of people might equate the cult of personality around Palin to the support of Obama. Those people would be wrong.
Sarah Palin may be looking to the next few years to do what…
This Is America, Take Your Unicode Somewhere Else →
There’s a question that comes up on Stack Overflow every couple of months: “How do I strip diacritic marks from Unicode characters?”. Popular variants include “How do I remove special…
Surreality Only Beginning | TPM →
It looks like a duck and quacks like a duck. Either Palin is resigning ahead of some titanic scandal (which should emerge in short order if it exists) or her resignation was triggered by an even more…
The Bobblespeak Translations: Gov. Palin Press... →
I’m not wired to be normal politics and as usual and not just hit our head against the wall and make a difference for our priorities and also there’s a full court press from the press and you need to…
Draft Michele Bachmann: Michele for Governor of... →
Microsoft Gets Twitter Search First | Reuters →
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Uh, there is also the search provided by, you know, twitter…
One of the great brass rings in search is figuring out how to search tweets and real-time news as it updates, and it…
Which way is RIGHT? Some drivers haven't... →
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This is different from “normal” traffic intersections how exactly?
“I really don’t think a lot of people know what the heck they’re doin’,” Hiler said.
Leaked AT&T Memo: iPhone 3GS Generated ‘Best... →
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So, as an AAPL shareholder this is awesome. As an AT&T hater, well…
MacDailyNews has obtained an internal AT&T memo: On this year’s launch day, iPhone sales exceeded sales…
72-year-old retired boxer beats up knife-wielding... →
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Ahahahahahahahaa
the inane Facebook photos make this story even more delicious
