November 2008
Rick Astley rickrolls the Macy's Thanksgiving Day... →
quite possibly the widest instant exposure of an Internet meme ever
iPhone 3G Ad Gets Banned in the UK for Being Too... →
After banning an Apple iPhone ad earlier this year, the British Advertising Standards Authority has pulled out another one that glossed over how “really really” fast the new iPhone 3G is….
HOLY SHIT, MAN WALKS ON FUCKING MOON →
“Neil Armstrong’s Historic First Words On Moon: ‘HOLY LIVING FUCK’”
Detailed Sitemaps & Partial Sitemaps in Footer... →
A co-worker recently attended a conference and noted that several speakers talked about the importance of sitemaps to SEO. He also said that a few of these speakers also recommended “fat footers”…
HandBrake →
Decode and rip anything!
Triviagasm: Why You Can’t Travel Back in Time and... →
I need to read/watch everything in this list.
● Shaq on Twitter →
And thus ends the first full week of Twittering by Shaquille O’Neal. The real Shaquille O’Neal. The NY Times has the details. Apparently Shaq was spurred into tweeting by an imposter posing as…
20 Bond Devices That Didn't Make the Cut |... →
“An employee retention program with no organization or coordination is...”
– Psystar case reveals Apple’s questionable policy on email retention | The Industry Standard
Geek Armageddon: "Watchmen" Case Reaches Its... →
Fucking lawyers.
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Mac OS X targeted by Trojan and backdoor tool →
Two pieces of malicious software affecting Apple’s Mac OS X appeared this week: a Trojan horse with the ability to download and install malicious code of an attacker’s choice, and a hacker tool for…
Google Relies On Akamai To Stream YouTube Live;... →
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Interesting.
Speculation was rampant the last few weeks that Google had to rely on a third party content delivery network to make the YouTube Live live concert stream…
Are Ferraris Losing Their Good Looks? - Wheels... →
Yes.
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New X-Men Trailer: Days Of Future Awesome! →
Holy fucking shit. This is amazing.
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SEC Gives Facebook The Greenlight To Go Beyond 500... →
When most private companies reach 500 shareholders, they trigger an SEC rule which effectively treats them like a public company and requires them to some of the same reporting requirements….
The Screens Issue - If You Liked This, Sure to... →
Super awesome.
17,000 Square Foot LED Billboard Flipped On at 1... →
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Bladerunner!
When we first wrote about this comically huge Walgreens LED sign — the largest of its kind in the world — construction was just getting under way. That…
10 Really Cool Windows 7 Media Center Features... →
A few days back, I showed you the new touch interface for Media Center PCs running Windows 7, and though I had to pull the video, I promised a walkthrough of proposed Windows 7 Media…
Giving Up on God - washingtonpost.com →
fillup:
I could not agree more with this article. I am a dyed-blue Democrat, but I voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger. This issue is the #1 reason I can’t ever vote Republican.
Law Blog - WSJ.com : A Maverick Exchange: The... →
So it seems like the insider trading charges stem from one SEC officials vendetta against Cuban for being anti-American? Interesting turn of events. I always though the case against Cuban was pretty weak at best.
The Vigorous North: The Black Belt: How Soil Types... →
As a history major, and someone who researched the Black Belt, this is FASCINATING.
The known and boring →
The first line of Tyler Cowen’s review of Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell’s new book: The book is getting snarky reviews but if it were by an unknown, rather than by the famous Malcolm Gladwell, many…
MPR: Challenged ballots: You be the judge →
Jeebus. Are people so stupid they can’t even fill bubble in circles correctly!?
How To: Make a Video DVD from Media Files with... →
Although DVDs are quickly losing the limelight to their higher-definition Blu-Ray brethren, they’ve still got a lot going for them. They’re cheap, for one, as are DVD burners. And DVD players and…
Hitler HAD only got one ball | The Sun |News →
Sometimes having a Nordic name is weird; “But the document tells how Johan saw the proof with his own eyes. In the account, he relives the horror of serving as an army medic in World War I.”
dromano:
Finally! The world can sleep better at night.
Members Of Twisted Sister Now Willing To Take It |... →
Friday Night Lights - 20 years later →
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Proof that Email Scams Still Work: Woman Loses... →
Fuck off. Wow. Amazing.
The Pirate Bay hits 25 million simultaneous peers →
that’s not unique people, but concurrent connections; Napster peaked at 26M users
Researcher Claims “Attention Spirals” Hold Key To... →
Why do certain videos on YouTube become mass phenomena while the vast majority of videos just get a handful of views, if any?
Riley Crane, an American post doctoral fellow currently…
Big City - 12-Year-Old’s a Food Critic, and the... →
This is pretty funny.
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Amazon CloudFront →
Amazon CDN, pay as you go!
Flash 10 on the Android G1: It's Getting There... →
It’s no secret that Adobe is playing with Flash products on Android, but at the Adobe MAX 2008 developer conference that company showed off Flash Player 10 running on Android (and the…
Would You Sell To This Ebayer? | www.holytaco.com →
DIY Coffee Cup Speakers Crank Out Grande Sound... →
Don’t get me wrong, the CupSpeakers were interesting, but if you are looking for a cup-based speaker solution that is a little more tech and a little less ghetto this DIY project should…
“From my vantage point, this year Office Max gave too much power to Jib Jab....”
– Random Culture: Elf Yourself 2008: For Office Max or Jib Jab?
Officially Official: 2010 Ford Mustang! →
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Sweeeeet.
Filed under: LA Auto Show, Convertibles, Coupes, Sports/GTs, Ford
Click above for high-res gallery of the 2010 Ford Mustang
When the…
It’s Official. Facebook Is Running A Protection... →
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lols!
Earlier today Facebook released details on its new Verified App Program for third party developers.
Basically, application developers (there are 48,000…
New MacBooks Have HDCP, Gives iTunes Purchases... →
High Definition Content Protection—the annoying DRM-y thing that’s supposed to stop people from copying hi-def stuff as it travels over a card-display connector— has apparently, and…