August 2009
25 posts
Apple says you can't have freedom because you... →
Apple claims your freedom is just too dangerous. You might be a drug dealer! But it’s greed like Apple’s, which will stoop to the lowest kinds of threats to justify crippling everyone else’s…
July 2009
27 posts
WatchIs This The Stupidest Person Ever? (VIDEO)
- Really? Really? Also, applause FAIL!
How to Optimize Images for the Web with Smush.It?... →
- Hehehehe - funny name: Smush.It
Australian Police Start Wardriving; Telling You To... →
They don’t seem to note that having an open WiFi network is legal if you want it to be open. Perhaps it’s a nice thing to do to alert people who might not know, but it seems like police resources could be spent in a more useful manner.
FSF welcomes Amazon apology but asks them to free... →
The FSF welcomed the apology issued today by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, as negative reviews from DefectiveByDesign.org campaign supporters criticizing the Kindle’s use of proprietary software and DRM to…
TV Shark.com - Taco Bell Chihuahua, Gidget, Dies... →
“She had a good day and was running around as normal,” Karen McElhatton tells ‘Us Weekly’. “We’re happy that she was very well off right until the end.”
“She was old. Of course, we were hoping she’d be around for a few more years, but if you have a dog that lives that long, you can’t really complain.”
“She lived like a...
TV Shark.com - 'Spider-Man's Sam Raimi To Direct... →
Sam Raimi, who is best known as the director of the ‘Spider-Man’ franchise, is set to take video game ‘World of Warcraft’ to the big screen.
Blizzard Entertainment and Legendary Pictures say Sam Raimi has signed on to direct ‘Warcraft’, a live-action film based on the popular game which features trolls, orcs, humans and dwarves.
In fact, the game is so popular...
Hero Pirate Stephen Fry Stars In BitTorrent Game |... →
Just last week, multi-talented entertainer and general all round good guy Stephen Fry confirmed what everyone had secretly hoped he would, that he pirates TV shows with BitTorrent.
Slate Magazine - Why 2024 Will Be Like Nineteen... →
The difference between today’s Kindle deletions and yesteryear’s banning is that the earlier prohibitions weren’t perfectly enforceable.
Vegeta products — Vegeta →
Yu-um!
TV Shark.com - Tony Romo Dumps Jessica Simpson On... →
Jessica Simpson [photos]’s planned a Barbie-themed birthday party to celebrate her 29th birthday on Friday but Tony Romo was in no mood to play Barbie’s Ken.
Romo broke up with Simpson the night before the big bash.
- Birthday FAIL!
P.S. I know we talked about this already, but we didn’t know about the birthday part.
10 things your IT guy would like you to know
1. If you ask me technical questions please don’t argue with me because you don’t like my answer. If you think you know more about the topic, why ask? And if I’m arguing with you…it’s because I am positive that I am correct, otherwise I’d just say “I don’t know” or give you some tips on where to look it up, I don’t have the time to just argue for the sake of it.
2. Starting a conversation by...
Judge Rules P2P Legal, Sites To Be Presumed... →
“P2P networks, as a mere transmission of data between Internet users, do not violate, in principle, any right protected by Intellectual Property Law,” said Raul N. García Orejudo, a judge in Barcelona. Although some activities are barred, those do not concern P2P he said, noting that there has to be a presumption of innocence.
"The DNA Code" - Is Life Hardwired in the... →
A recent mathematical analysis says that life as we know it is written into the laws of reality. DNA is built from a set of twenty amino acids - the first ten of those can create simple prebiotic…
Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google... →
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks.
50 Useful Firefox Add-Ons for Job Seekers →
Firefox 3 has proven itself remarkably popular, especially thanks to the add-on feature which allows users to customize their browsers to perform a wide range task specific functions. Here are 50…
WatchVideo - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com
Squirrel wedged in cleavage
- Thanx CNN - what would we do without you!
