16-Port USB Hub Has Classy Aluminum-Like Fascia [USB Hubs]
March 15th 2010
Tags: Aluminum, Extra, Hub Usb, Port Usb, Slippers, Tenner, Thinkgeek, Usb Hub, Usb Hubs
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The Pirate Bay’s Founder Likens P2P To Coke [Blockquote]
March 15th 2010
Tags: Blockquote, Coca Cola, Coke, P2p, Pirate Bay, Sergey Brin, Skype, Sunde, Sxsw
Developers: Nintendo DS2 To Be Revealed At E3 With Accelerometer and Higher-Res Screens [Nintendo]
March 15th 2010
Tags: Accelerometer, Developers, E3, Gdc, Nintendo News, Omission, Res, Screens, Shape
Very Chilled Chinese Man Destroys HP Laptop [Video]
March 15th 2010
What do you do when a laptop breaks down three months after purchase? Get it repaired? Sell it? Or do as this Chinese man did, and destroy it silently at a HP store, with not a single swear-word passing your lips? More »
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Tags: Chinese Man, Hp, Hp Laptop, Hp Store, Lips, Three [...]
AT&T’s Latest Dumbphones Come With New Smartphone Services [At&t]
March 15th 2010
Tags: Amp, Boast, Handsets
Today Is The 25th Anniversary of The First Dotcom URL Registered [Internet]
March 15th 2010
On this day, back in 1985, the first ever dotcom URL was created, Symbolics.com. There were just six dotcoms registered that year, compared to the 100,000 that are created every day now. More »
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Tags: 25th Anniversary, Dotcom, Dotcoms, Url
Privacy nightmare: Geotagging in Twitter goes live
March 15th 2010
Initially available only to US users, geotagging is a new opt-in Twitter feature that lets you tag select tweets with your geographical location. Other folks see a user-friendly location name next to your tweet and can click it to reveal the location in Google Maps.
For privacy reasons, this feature needs to be turned on from [...]
Google “99.9% certain” to close China search engine
March 15th 2010
According to the Financial Times, Google is now almost certain to close its google.cn site in the wake of the search giant’s public clash with the Chinese government.
Google has spent the past two months negotiating with China in an attempt to reach a compromise over censorship issues. Google publicly rebuked China after suffering Chinese-originated attacks [...]
Think Gmail’s too Slow? Google’s on It [Gmail]
March 14th 2010
At Google’s panel today at SXSW in Austin, a Gmail team member named Jonathan Perlow asked the crowd to raise their hands if they think Gmail is too slow. We love Gmail, but certainly we can sympathize with the fair percentage of those audience members who raised their hands—the problem is pretty much limited to [...]
Breakaway: High-Schooler-Designed Robots Play Gauntlet Soccer [Image Cache]
March 14th 2010
Tags: American Gladiator, Breakaway, Gauntlet, High School Kids, Image Cache, Inspiration, Match, Play Soccer, Robots, Science And Technology, Science Technology, Soccer Image, Soccer Picture
Kotaku Reviews Final Fantasty XIII: Not Perfect, but "Fresh, New, and Highly Enjoyable" [Reviews]
March 14th 2010
Tags: Blockbuster, Final Fantasy, Game, Loving Sister, Rpg Series, Step In The Right Direction
The Spiderpodium Gadget Stand Is Unnecessarily Freaking Me Out [Accessories]
March 14th 2010
Tags: Arthropod, Gadget, Origins, Pod, Tripod
The Diamond iPad Is for You, Pretentious Imbecile [Ipad]
March 14th 2010
Tags: Cancel, Carats, Clarity, Diamond, Diamonds, Imbecile, Ipad, Rich People, Si1, Steve Jobs, Stupidity
AT&T Confounds Expectations by Not Ruining SXSW [Att]
March 14th 2010
Tags: Amp, Att, Nerve, Stress, Sxsw
Rhapsody iPhone App Allows Downloading Songs, for Listening Offline [Rhapsody]
March 14th 2010
Rhapsody just released a little teaser video for the next version of its iPhone app (to be followed closely by its new Android app) that marks a major change for the service: You can now download songs instead of streaming. More »
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Tags: Android, Download Songs, Downloading Songs, Iphone, Rhapsody
iPhone-Loving Microsoft Employees Endure Unspeakable Hardship [Bluster]
March 14th 2010
Tags: Bluster, Iphone, Microsoft, Microsoft Employee, Microsoft Employees, Phenomenon, Sentiment, Wsj
Do Social Network Users Have a Right to Privacy?
March 14th 2010
I am not wandering the streets of Austin at the SXSW conference this weekend, but GigaOM is making it easy for me to keep up with the important things happening there. Liz Gannes covered an important keynote address discussing privacy on the web, and the ramifications of it have my mind buzzing. In researcher Danah [...]
Ridiculously Fast iPhone Typist Shames Soft Keyboard Haters [Winners]
March 14th 2010
This iPhone typist/possible woodpecker earns today’s Holy Shit YouTube Moment of the Day Award. I’m positive I couldn’t beat him on my Droid—hell, he’d put up a good fight against me on my laptop. More »
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Tags: Good Fight, Haters, Hell, Iphone, Laptop, Shames, Soft Keyboard, Woodpecker
Total Solar Eclipses, 2001-2025 [Astronomy]
March 14th 2010
Tags: Astronomy, Fifteen Years, Glimpse, Map, Mdash, Memphis, Total Eclipse, Total Solar Eclipse, Total Solar Eclipses
Happy Pi Day, Math Nerds! [Happy Pi Day]
March 14th 2010
Tags: Alienation, Circles, Club Members, Happy Day, High School Math, Love, Math Club, Math Pi, Nerds, Pi Day, Pi Math