Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results of 2008 Election Early
Spoiler alert!
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Mobile Desktop
Improv Everywhere sets up three full-size desktop computers at Starbucks. Kudos to Agent Plaza for setting hers up on her lap.
Yahoo! Buzz: Like Digg, But Purple and 3 Years Late to the Social News Space
Jerry Yang has about 20 days to convince Yahoo (YHOO) shareholders that they’re better off saving the company than selling it, and he is pulling out all the stops. Last night Yahoo officially launched Buzz, a social news service where “buzz-worthy” articles are ranked according to user interest. It’s essentially Digg (if Digg was purple), redundant and three years late to the social news market.
Pakistan Restores Access to Funny Cat, Dog Videos 
Pakistan today lifted the ban that inadvertently caused YouTube’s near global blackout Sunday, after the site removed a video the country’s government claimed was offensive to Islam. Pakistan insists it was not responsible for YouTube’s outage and says it was forced to take the issue into its own hands when YouTube failed to respond to the complaint it submitted through the standard channels. Abdullah Riar, Pakistan’s minister for information technology and telecommunications, described the whole incident as “very sad, very unfortunate,” adding “We have nothing against the YouTube site itself.”
The sad thing about this is that literally hundreds of people who were not paid to stand in line, or paid by their employer to attend, were prevented from even entering the building.”
–Craig Aaron, a spokesman for Free Press, comments on Comcast’s efforts to pack the FCC hearing on Net neutrality yesterday with its own employees.
My Google Shares! They’re Melting … Melting … Melting
Google (GOOG) took a nasty slide this morning as comScore released new data that reveals what appears to be a material weakening in the company’s advertising business. How material? Google’s sponsored clicks were down 7% month-over-month, effectively flat year-over-year and down 12% quarter-over-quarter.
Perhaps the slowing economy is having an impact on Google’s growth after all. [...]
The Anchor Found Near the Cut Google Cable–It’s From the S.S. Ballmer, Sir
If your corporate mission is to organize the world’s ever-increasing mass of digital information and make it universally accessible and useful, sooner or later the telecom costs and peering fees associated with the transmission of that information are going to get, you know, quite large. So large, in fact, that it may make sense to build out your own network.
Apple Announces “Update” to MacFaithful Credit Cards
It’s been 267 days since Apple last updated the MacBook Pro. That’s 81 days longer than the company historically takes between updates. Which means it was high time for an upgrade. And today we were finally given one.
This morning Apple (AAPL) refreshed both its MacBook and MacBook Pro lines, adding Intel’s Penryn [...]
When Machine Tastes Coffee
Instrumental approach to predict the sensory profile of espresso coffee
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- 10 Best Uses Of Classical Music In Classic Cartoons
Includes “Pigs in a Polka,” “Rabbit of Seville” and, of course, “What’s Opera, Doc?”
- Web Site Story
Take the famous ballads and duets of West Side Story, insert a dozen mentions of famous social media sites like twitter and facebook, and this is what you get.
- Wooden iPod
An iPod mini rebuilt with a wooden case
- Han Solo, P.I.
Star Wars meets Magnum, P.I.
- The “literal video” collection
Music videos recreated with new lyrics based on what’s actually happening in them. Daydream Believer and Total Eclipse of the Heart are particularly good.
- E-Mail From Your Facilities Department
In response to numerous e-mails, I have no idea what planet the giant alien creature is from. Judging from its enormous gills, I’d have to guess it’s from a watery planet. Reminder: please let me know if you plan to be in the office on Memorial Day so I can request HVAC for your floor.
- Amazon Customer Reviews: Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt
For those of you who mock the wolf shirt beware. There is an old Navajo story about a young man who made fun of another man for wearing a wolf trio shirt. Legend has it that in his sleep, the wolves on the other man’s shirt came to life and tore his body to shreds. They never found any part of that man’s body. The Wolf is something to be respected and feared, not treated like a novelty.
- Nice Muscle!
Hands down the most inexplicably bizarre game for Wii I’ve ever seen
- Respectful Yo Mama Jokes
Yo mama is so attractive she could be on the cover of Prevention.
- Introduction to Microcontroller Programming: The Flatulometer
The inspiration for this project was to determine who could generate the worst flatulence measurable in a personally unbiased manner.
