December 2011
5 posts
Three Things to Do RIGHT NOW Toward Your New... →
listening to "Darlene Love on David Letterman... →
One of my favorite Christmas traditions. Darlene Love on David Letterman.
How the Tea Party Gets Obama Re-elected
randygage:
Conventional wisdom has it that President Obama will be a one-term president and whoever wins the Republican nomination is a foregone conclusion to be the next Commander-in-Chief.
Not so fast…
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October 2011
4 posts
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RIP Steve Jobs
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you...
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September 2011
44 posts
Tumblr Raises $85 Million
Blogging service Tumblr said it has raised $85 million, although the company has barely any revenue and the business plan is sketchy at best.
But it was the lack of revenue part that kept some major venture firms away from making the dea. Graylock Partners, investors with Facebook and Groupon, and Twitter-investor Insight Ventre Partners. Speaking of sketchy business plans…
Who else is...
Xoom 2? Amazon Tablet? iPhone 5? Here's All The...
The next two weeks are going to be huge for gadget lovers. We’re ready. You should be too.
Here’s everything we know so far:
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/gadget-news-you-may-have-missed-this-weekend-2011-9#ixzz1Z46Y6c5z
How Steve Jobs Ruined Comics
Before the iPhone, “This image would clearly be understood without the voice balloon, or the character’s open mouth,” says cartoonist Tom Pappalardo, who jokes that Steve Jobs ruined comics.
Check out the whole gallery of images here.
Amazon Kindle Owners Can Now Check Out Books at...
Amazon just sealed the deal on a partnership with 11,000 public libraries in the United States to allow Kindle owners to visit and check out books using their ereaders, straight from the library’s web site. Just make sure to have your library card handy.
Read on here.
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Witness Protection
Cool article from the ridiculously named BestOnlineColleges. I’m not sure how the blog ended up on a scam college website but there it is. This is certainly a trap.
The witness protection program is frequently used as a plot device in movies and on TV shows, but many people don’t know much about the system in reality. In the U.S., witness security has protected 7,500 witnesses and...
Netflix Plan to Lure Back Subscribers: Confuse...
Listen closely: From now on, that Criterion Edition Seven Samurai gathering dust on your coffee table for the past three months will need to be sent back to Qwikster, not Netflix. Qwikster is in charge of all your DVD-by-mail needs. Netflix will continue to be your trusted name in streaming of hundreds of TV shows and terrible movies you didn’t know existed, plus the occasional decent...
The Facebook iPhone | TechCrunch →
The headline is a little misleading but some interesting points are presented. BTW, if you haven’t put the Facebook Messenging app on your phone yet, by all means, do it. It’s great, fast and all your contacts are there. Good stuff.
Did Case-Mate Just Leak The iPhone 5? | TechCrunch →
Facebook Adds New Subscribe Feature So You Can...
Facebook has just announced a new option to follow people who aren’t your friends. If they’re posting public updates, you’ll now be able to click a “Subscribe” button so you can see their latest status messages in your feed. This feature may take some time to roll out so don’t expect it immediately, but keep an eye on the “Poke” and...
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randygage:
Fascinating list.
20 Stunning Social Media Metrics →
randygage:
Fascinating list.
From Jack Bauer to Cylons, How Scripted Television... →
Now We Can All Use the FBI Anti-Piracy Warning! |... →
Ever-Popular iPhone Named Top Smartphone. Again |... →
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Google Buys Zagat to Reinvent Mobile Search Engine... →
The Evolution of 'Star Trek' (Infographic)
Source: SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration
Sept. 8, 1966: Liftoff for the Starship Enterprise
1966: Star Trek makes its network television debut.
Given the cultural impact and enormous franchise spawned by the original Star Trek series, it’s hard to believe that the show lasted just three seasons and was canceled by NBC in 1969 because of low ratings.
Read on here.
First Photo Possibly Taken With iPhone 5 Surfaces
This isn’t just any photo of a plate of sushi.
This very photo is said to have been shot with an iPhone 4, but its EXIF data says otherwise. According to the data, it was shot with an 8-megapixel camera, as it originally had a resolution of 3264 x 2448 before being cropped to a 5.12-megapixel size of 2235 x 2291. It’s also fishy that the photo was taken at 4.3mm f/2.4, which is decidedly more...
Sept. 7, 1998: If the Check Says ‘Google Inc.,’...
1998: Handed a check for $100,000 made out to “Google Inc.,” Sergey Brin and Larry Page figure they better incorporate their fledgling search engine. So they do.
Read on here.
The Spy Who Tweeted Me: Intelligence Community...
A research arm of the intelligence community wants to sweep up public data on everything from Twitter to public webcams in the hopes of predicting the future.
The project is the brainchild of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, or Iarpa, a relatively new part of the spy community that’s supposed to help investigate breakthrough technologies. While other projects exist...
Beating the Afternoon Slump: 3 Preventions and 3...
You’re familiar with the afternoon slump. It’s that lethargy that sets in around 3pm. It’s the feeling that you’d rather be doinganything but working. (And a nap sounds awfully tempting…) Your motivation is at a complete low. You find yourself checking Facebook every five minutes. And it’s inevitable … right?
Read on for 3 preventions and 3 cures.
‘Invisibility Cloak’ Makes Tanks Look Like Cows
British defense company BAE Systems has developed an “invisibility cloak” that can effectively hide vehicles from view in the infra-red spectrum.
Read on here.
7 Tools to Make Going Back to the Office Suck Less
Ahh, a nice three day weekend. The weather was good. You’ve been outdoors, active, having fun, eating well. Now you’re back in your sterile, loveless office. Here are a few tools to make the transition back slightly less brutal.
See the 7 tools here.
The Best Tech People To Follow On Twitter
With so much tech news out there, it’s tough to keep track of what’s new, and what’s important.
The best thing to do is turn to Twitter, where reporters and newsmakers share links and gab.
We’ve assembled 25 of the best tech people to follow on Twitter. Click the link below to check them out.
Click here to see the top tech people on Twitter →
Want to Live Cheaply? Head to Texas
In Texas, it’s not all oil wells and rodeos. Despite this state’s great wealth and culture, plenty of folks are living a hardscrabble existence. Harlingen, a developing city in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley, has one of the lowest income levels in the U.S. Fortunately for residents of this hot, dry city in the state’s southern tip, it is also the cheapest place in the country...
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How The Economy Is Affecting Labor Day Weekend...
This year, Labor Day arrives on the heels of news that the economy added no jobs during the month of August, just the latest sign of an economic recovery that appears to be quickly losing steam. Indeed,consumer confidence has dropped to its lowest levelin two years. But is it affecting how people plan to spend their holiday weekend?
According to the below infographic by Visible...
iPhone 5 Prototype is Deja Vu All Over Again
We’ve seen this happen before. An iPhone test device goes missing on the eve of its expected launch, the media drums up the drama, and everybody’s talking about Apple’s next big thing.
A year ago, an iPhone 4 prototype was lost in a bar in Redwood City, Calif. and subsequently wound up in the hands of tech blog Gizmodo, which paid $5,000 for the device. Two men have been...
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