August 2010
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Don't go walking into any doorknobs, fanboy.
Essentially, Apple’s patent provides for a device to investigate a user’s identity, ostensibly to determine if and when that user is “unauthorized,” or, in other words, stolen. More specifically, the technology would allow Apple to record the voice of the device’s user, take a photo of the device’s user’s current location or even detect and record the...
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Linux. Can you Digg it? (No.)
“In early 2009, new popular Linux stories would pop up every day or two on Digg,” Vaughan-Nichols wrote. “By mid-2010, Linux stories on Digg became popular only once every week or so.” Indeed, Linux Girl can’t help but note that she has noticed this too! As have I. It’s the main reason I lost interest in Digg. With no cool Linux news on the site, it just...
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Some graffiti inspiration
http://ping.fm/6uDJF
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Pedobear is a Bad Parent - Chatroulette Trolls:...
Pedobear is a Bad Parent - Chatroulette Trolls: Art of Trolling.
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Justin Bieber takes one on the face
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xkcd: Dilution
xkcd: Dilution.
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My new hero!
In short order, his gray two-story house on Beach 128th Street in the Rockaways, just off the ocean, was swarmed by detectives and uniformed officers from New York City and the Port Authority. “It was like there was a hostage in there,” said Curt Krakowski, who was working on the deck of a house across the street. This guy is awesome. He cussed the prick out, grabbed a beer, and hit the chute....
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Republican Party eating itself from the base...
S.C. Rep. Bob Inglis ousted for not hating Obama enough http://ping.fm/SzgR3 Yes, this does make me smile a little. I just keep hoping the wrong-wing wingnuts will expose themselves sufficiently to the American people before it’s too late to turn this ship around. But even then, we’ll still have the damned Democrats to deal with. At least they’re spineless.
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Alt Text: It’s a Fee-for-All as Credit Card...
People with personalized credit cards that incorporate a photo of their car will be charged a $200 “douche charge.” Now that one I could actually get behind. The rest of them are probably on the way. You might think these fees are ridiculous, but remember that, while being able to charge people money for spending money may seem like an easy road to profit, it’s a slightly more difficult road to...
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Happy National Clown Week.
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BustedTees - Free Tibet
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Epic win for justice!
Today the GAYS (insert horror-movie scream) won a great victory against injustice. The judge took apart the flimsy rationales behind California’s Prop 8 piece by piece (I started reading at page 133). Including the hokum that schoolchildren would be taught homosexuality. It’s wonderful to see some small bit of evidence supporting the idea that the system actually works. I bet the people at Fox...
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Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it’s the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it. John Waters (via 52books)