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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- Unhappy Hipsters
The reindeer had tolerated the cheetah’s posturing — up until today.
- Wait Wait Don’t Eat Me
From NPR and Chicago Public Radio, this is Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me … We’re going to be cutting our show a little short today, because, as you may have heard, there’s a zombie apocalypse happening!
- Man Carried 9.4 Miles by Strangers in NYC
Who said New York is unfriendly?
- Mr. Ballmer, would you sign my mac?
”Need a new one?”
- Neil Young (Jimmy Fallon) – Pants On The Ground
Pants on the ground
Pants on the ground
Lookin like a fool with you pants on the ground - Death Metal Rooster
Step off Keyboard Cat …
- Internet-Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview
Prerequisites
ENG: 102—Staring Blankly at Handheld Devices While Others Are Talking
ENG: 231WR—Facebook Wall Alliteration and Assonance
LIT: 209—Internet-Age Surrealistic Narcissism and Self-Absorption - The Daily Show’s Decade in Review
- I am locking the Wikipedia article on our sex life
Dear Josie,
After repeated instances of vandalism and abuse, I have taken the step of locking the Wikipedia article on our sex life. Although I have previously banned both your user account and your home IP address, malicious edits have continued, both anonymously and from newly registered users “alanequalswanker” and “ooohImabigimportantadmin.” - Things I Learned from iPhone and Droid Ads
Droid is a robot and should mostly be handled by other robots. It is packaged inside missiles launched by stealth jets. iPhone records video and seems to have a lot of useful apps.
