Oct
31
Reading Options by Fake Steve Jobs (Verdict: Fanboys Must Read) [FSJ Book Review]
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Whether you tune in for Keynote liveblogs, or despise Applemodo, Options by Fake Steve Jobs will be an effortless read. The opening:
It is Tuesday afternoon. I am barefoot, sitting on a cushion in…
Oct
31
Google Culture Creep At YouTube
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As far as I know, YouTube never changed their logos for holidays like famously Google does. But today they did, quietly adding a pumpkin to the logo in lieu of the television screen we normally see. Too bad it wasn’t something a little scarier. An evil looking clown, for example, would have been perfect.
Crunch Network: [...]
Oct
31
Apple Hasn’t Given Up on Time Machine AirPort Disk Support [OS X Leopard]
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If you kept up with our Mac OSX Leopard Liveblog, you might have heard that Apple pulled wireless Time Machine back-ups with AirPort disks at the last minute. If you were irritated by this…
Oct
31
Rock Band Gear Unboxed: Christ, That’s a Lot of Boxes [Gaming]
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Game|Life has gotten their box of Rock Band goodness and it looks like there’s more cardboard and assembly instructions involved than a desktop from Dell. After tearing through the tree’s worth of…
Oct
31
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Search Updates Algorithm, Index & CrawlThe Yahoo Search Blog has posted that they are currently undergoing an index, crawl and algorithm update. Priyank Garg of Yahoo said: Over the last few days, we’ve been [...]
Oct
31
Brian and I have been debating the merits of the Leopard feature called Spaces. Using CTRL keys, you can shift up, down, left and right, to different sets of open apps and windows, while the desktop…
Oct
31
Marco says: “Paul Rand left a huge mark on American graphic design thanks to his corporate logo designs you’ve all probably seen. It was only recently that the UPS logo was redesigned from his original look. “Here is a 4 minute Quicktime film tributing Paul’s work, a delicious animated journey through very familiar shapes and [...]
Oct
31
Turn Your Old, Dusty PC Into Ghetto Gas Mask [Planet Cheap Terror]
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Everyone needs a gas mask to go with their tinfoil hat, but the problem is that they tend to cost too damn much. Unless you construct one from scrap parts from your last PC. With a paper bag base, CD…
Oct
31
“Here at Google, we take our user’s privacy very seriously. In fact, we’re not even allowing ourselves to joke about this topic – yes, it’s that serious. To give you an idea, here is some of the data we don’t pass on to anyone outside our 10,000+ employee company (provided there’s no subpoena making us [...]
Oct
31
Bamboo microscopes made in India for $4
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Mason says:
Bamboo microscopes that cost just $4 are being made in India by a group called Jodo Gyan. They’re hoping to supply kids with more hands-on learning, and get away from rote memorization.
Nature has an article about this, with photos of the microscope [...]
Oct
31
Stuff found in jail library books
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Jumbled Pile is a volunteer for the Jail Library Group, which provides reading materials to the residents of jails in Dane County, Wisconsin.
Occasionally, he comes across notes and sketches placed between the pages of the books. He scans these and posts them to his Flickr site.
Link (Thanks, Seán in Seattle!)
Oct
31
Approximately 100k iPhone users, and what I’d guess as about 5-7% of all iPhone users, browsed to jailbreakme.com to put apps back on their 1.1.1 iPhones. That’s not far from the 9% owner base that…
Oct
31
Advertising has gotten a lot more complicated since the early days of the internet. There are hundreds of ad networks out there. With targeting being the name of the game, efficiently allocating your ad space to visitors is nearly impossible. In response, automated ad optimization engines have started up to help manage these advertising complexities. [...]
Oct
31
Schwarzenegger says Marijuana not a drug
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Dan says: “Here is a great story I found about Arnold Schwarzenegger telling a British journalist that marijuana is not a drug. He was trying to deflect suggestions that he had used drugs in the past by saying weed is ‘not a drug. [...]
Oct
31
With 1.3 million households out of 7.4 million total—17.5 percent—receiving at least one HD network, NYC is leading the US in HD uptake. Los Angeles technically has more households…