"Glenn also has a rather dry sense of humour, which I'm guessing not enough people pick up on." -- Andrea See
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Coondoggie passes along a NetworkWorld report on the pronouncement of a judicial conference committee recommending that trial judges specifically instruct jurors not to use any electronic communications devices or sites during trial and deliberations. Here's the committee report (PDF). "If you think you're going to use your spanking new iPhone to ...
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Lifehacker
TouchMouse Controls Your Computer's Mouse and Keyboard via iPhone or iPod touch
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iPhone/iPod touch: TouchMouse is a free application for the iPhone/iPod touch that, when paired with its accompanying control software on your Mac or Windows computer, turns your touchscreen into a mouse and keyboard. Once you download the software to your iPhone or iPod touch and pair it with the server software—Logitech has versions of ...
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Lifehacker
BackOff Shortens Long iPhone and iPod touch Sync Sessions
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iPhone/iPod touch: If you carry a ton of stuff around on your iPhone or iPod touch, you know syncing it can take forever. BackOff turns off iTunes' automatic backup process so you can sync faster. Okay, before you go galloping off to download this slick free utility, let's go over the most important point one more time. BackOff prevents iTunes ...
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New iPhone Attack Kills Apps, Reroutes Web Traffic
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Trailrunner7 sends in a threatpost.com article on exploiting flaws in the way the iPhone handles digital certificates. "[Several flaws] could lead to an attacker being able to create his own trusted certificate and entice users into downloading malicious files onto their iPhones. The result of the attack is that a remote hacker is able to change ...
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It's been a year and Obama has yet to fill the empty seats on the government's main civil liberties oversight committee: The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was recommended initially by the bipartisan September 11 commission as an institutional voice for privacy inside the intelligence community. Its charter was to recommend ways to ...
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Zombie/NPR fanfiction
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Kirby sez, "Spot on parody of the NPR News Quiz Show during a Zombie Apocalypse. Peter Sagal, Carl Kassel, Mo Rocca, Paula Poundstone, and Tom Bodett don't miss a beat as they broadcast their last show before retreating to the cave system. The author gets the personalities perfect. You can imagine that this is exactly how the panelists would ...
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Boing Boing
Liquid glass will change your life, eliminate detergent profits
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A Turko-German consortium has announced a liquid glass product "that will revolutionize everything" (it's a "new kind of glass," as Mr Wolfram might put it). Seriously, it sounds like the applications for this stuff are endless, and yes, that's what everyone said about aerogel and the Segway, but maybe this time... They're shipping to the UK soon,
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An anonymous reader points out an article at SavyGamer in which several game industry veterans were polled for their opinions on DRM. Cliff Harris of Positech Games said he didn't think his decision to stop using DRM significantly affected piracy of his games, accepting it as an unavoidable fact. "Maybe a few of the more honest people now buy the ...
 
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Davenetics
You ask someone: “What state is Boise in?” And they answer: “Idaho.” And you say: “You are? Really?” Get it? I da hoe
Drew Falkenstein joined Marler Clark in January, 2004 and has concentrated his practice in representing victims of foodborne illness. He has litigated nationwide against some of the biggest food corporations in the world, including Dole, Kellogg’s, and McDonald’s. He has worked on landmark cases that have helped shape food safety policy, ...
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You have to assume that America's dying monodailies are now actively auditioning for state ownership. How else to explain the silence of the massed ranks of salaried "environmental correspondents" on the daily revelations emerging from the fast disintegrating "scientific consensus" on "climate change"? You get livelier coverage from the Chinese ...
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Hweimer writes "A novel study analyzes the installed base of various office packages among German users. (Here is the original study report in German and a Google translation.) While Microsoft Office comes out top (72%), open source rival OpenOffice is already installed on 21.5% of all PCs and growing. The authors use a clever method to determine ...
An unusual new service called YouMe is being touted as the next generation of gaming, and a new way of sourcing help. The service will let users ("Yous") control real people ("Mes") in real time. Yous give instructions to the Mes via bluetooth headset or text message, and the Mes ...
Ry Nakajima points to an interesting contrast of function and finishing. These bike helmets are painted with traditional Japanese Wajima lacquer that is often found on tableware and craftwork.
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Ant notes a piece up on WBUR Boston addressing theories to explain the universal human experience that time seems to pass faster as you get older. Here's the 9-minute audio (MP3). Several explanations are tried out: that brains lay down more information for novel experiences; that the "clock" for nerve impulses in aging brains runs slower; and ...
 
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Lifehacker
Earlier today, several Twitter users received emails from Twitter prompting them to change their passwords because of suspicious activity that appeared to have resulted from phishing. Turns out it was something different from a traditional phishing scam altogether, and it involved BitTorrent. From the Twitter Status blog: It appears that for a ...
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A shel of my former self
I surrender. @shelholtz is my new Twitter handle
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I give up. I can’t take it any more. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I’ve thrown in the towel and renamed my Twitter account from @shel to @shelholtz . If you think this is because of the number of people who have been tweeting to me when they meant to tweet to Shel Israel, that’s not it. I’ve met some great ...
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Lifehacker
Remains of the Day: Conquer Your Email Inbox with the Trusted Trio, Video Edition
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Chrome's browser share gets goosed in January, our own Gina Trapani offers some video advice for conquering your email inbox, and I find a workaround for my biggest Snow Leopard annoyance. Browser Version Market Share Shows Chrome Growth According to one internet tracking company, Chrome use grew significantly in January, up to 5.2% of the web ...
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Thelasko writes "I'm sure many here have been the victim of bullying at some point in their lives. A new study suggests why. '...now researchers have found at least three factors in a child's behavior that can lead to social rejection. The factors involve a child's inability to pick up on and respond to nonverbal cues from their pals.' The ...
In the "Did they really do that" category comes this bit of not so subtle word play from Spirit Airlines.
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MUFF Diving is the New Alternative to Air Travel
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Spirit Airlines has a new promotion for flights to "Many Unbelievably Fantastic Fares to Diving destinations" — an acronym that stretches the limits of creative copywriting much in the way one uses his/her tongue in the dance known as cunnilingus. What else can we draw from this beautifully distasteful promo?
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The Groundhog Day-themed spot features Troy Polamalu of the Pittsburgh Steelers. The ad promotes the new truTV series NFL FULL CONTACT, which premieres the day after the Super Bowl: Monday, Feb. 8, at 10 p.m. In the ad, Troy plays the role of “Punxsutawney Polamalu.” After he sees his shadow, a proclamation of six more weeks of football is ...
 
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Wizbang
... while sounding, at times, much like your typical American leftist, one you might read at The Huffington Post or The Daily Koz (or in the comments at WizBang):"I believe...
(CNSNews.com) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Feb. 11 would mark the demise of “the liberal capitalist system,” adding that its champion, America, was on the decline and that Iran and its Islamic Revolution were on the rise.
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This year Cars.com reasons "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" and basically repeat David Abernathy from Super Bowl XLIII. Except Timothy puts out a grease fire from his highchair. Bypassed the training wheel stage while learning to ride a bike. Helped a damsel on the beach suffering from a jellyfish sting, in perfect italian. Delivered breached ...
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Darthcamaro writes "As expected, Facebook today announced a new runtime for PHP, called HipHop. What wasn't expected were a few key revelations disclosed today by Facebook developer David Recordan. As it turns out Facebook has been running HipHop for months and it now power 90 percent of their servers — it's not a skunkworks project it's a ...
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Wizbang
That would be my state of Virginia:Virginia's Democratic-controlled state Senate passed measures Monday that would make it illegal to require individuals to purchase health insurance, a direct challenge to the...
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