April 2009
193 posts
Disney Joins the Hulu Lineup: Report →
Disney is on the verge of acquiring a 30% stake in Hulu and putting full ABC programs on the red-hot video service, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Panda Cloud Antivirus is a Lightweight,... →
Windows only: Panda Cloud Antivirus uses the power of cloud computing to scan and eliminate viruses from your PC that can identify new malware in almost real time.
Traditional anti-virus…
Swedish Pirate Party Heading for EU Parliament →
A poll carried out by a major Swedish newspaper predicts that the Pirate Party will grab around 5.1% of the votes in the upcoming European Union elections. This means that the movement, which has…
Mexico Senate OKs bill to legalize drug possesion →
MEXICO CITY, April 28 (Reuters) - Mexico’s Senate approved a bill on Tuesday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of narcotics for personal use, in order to free resources to fight violent…
Oliver Stone To Tackle Wall Street Again →
We guess the Madoff movie has some competition! Oliver Stone is set to direct the sequel to his 1987 film, Wall Street. According to Variety, Shia LaBeouf “is negotiating to join…
But Who's Counting? →
No one really knows how many people visit websites. A San Francisco startup and Google are both working to change that.
At 100 Days, Obama Approval Broad as Well as Deep →
As President Barack Obama concludes his first 100 days on the job, Gallup Poll Daily tracking for the week of April 20-26 finds 65% of Americans approving of how he is doing and only 29%…
"Pirate Google" sets sail to show copyright... →
The Pirate Bay trial saw the defendants trot out “the Google defense” on multiple occasions: Google indexes .torrent files, so what’s wrong with our doing it? That point didn’t sway the…
Your Facebook Profile Makes Marketers' Dreams Come... →
Many of us are entering an unprecedented amount of personal information into social networks, offering marketers new ways to crunch, sell, and otherwise monetize our likes and dislikes. And you…
Windows 7's XP Mode Requires... →
Shared by Milan Sooooo lame. Are you kidding me? I think this alone near solidifies my defection from Windows.
A Microsoft director has pinned down the details for the “XP Mode” to be…
Lawyer Sues Sears for Millions Over Their Flat... →
Shared by Milan While the word “hero” has been thrown around a lot over the last several years, in my book this man is a true hero.
In its advertising, Sears vows to match competitors’…
Totally love what these guys are doing: http://www.cloudcell.com/
Specter To Switch Parties ... Dems now... →
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter will switch his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat and announced today that he will run in 2010 as a Democrat, according to a statement he released this…
At the library using my lunch time to study for my SCUBA exam this weekend. Only about 200 pages more to go!
Serb cut off finger to protest overdue wages →
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Crazy Serbs!
A Serbian union official who chopped off his finger and ate it in a protest over wages that in some cases have not been paid in years, said Monday he did it to show…
Apple readying "media pad" and "iPhone lite" for... →
Apple is preparing to launch not one, but two new devices with Verizon, according to yet another new rumor. Two “people familiar with the matter” speaking to BusinessWeek have leaked…
Konami Code turns ESPN.com into a Lisa Frank... →
Update: ESPN got wise, and removed the mysterious Unicornification ability reported below. It was fun while it lasted! You need to stop what you’re doing right now, and go to ESPN’s…
Bus Tour of Elite Gossip Girl Sites Now Offered →
Shared by Milan I am proud to say I have still not watched a single episode of this show. Woohoo!
You want to experience what it’s like to live like Manhattan’s elite? Well a bus probably…
NYC Ernst & Young Employee Has Swine Flu →
WCBS 2 reports that an employee at Ernst & Young’s Times Square office has swine flu. However, Ernst & Young does not believe anyone in the office was exposed; here’s the company’s…
With no $10 laptop in sight, India buys 250,000... →
The government of India has signed an agreement with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project and will purchase 250,000 of the organization’s XO laptops. The machines will be distributed to…
Judge: Women's Studies at Columbia Are Perfectly... →
There’s just no justice for dudes in this world: Last week a judge threw out a lawsuit against Columbia University over the school’s practice of offering women’s studies, but no…
Samsung Android Phone! →
It’s real and it’s here! HTC watch out!
The Privatization of the English Language →
Today I received an email from the lawyers of author Susan Jeffers, PhD., notifying me that I’d infringed on her trademark by using the phrase “feel the fear and do it anyway” in a blog post. The…
Newsweek: Gov Mark Sanford - The Last Conservative... →
Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) is accustomed to life outside the mainstream. Since arriving in Congress in 1995, he has opposed new spending so mulishly that many critics, including some big-government…
First Gardens on the Moon by 2012 →
As part of the Google Lunar X Prize, Paragon Space Development Corp. has recently teamed with Odyssey Moon to develop a pressurized mini greenhouse to deploy on the surface of the moon, grow a plant…
Now, Green LCD monitors watch you - go dark if you... →
The EcoView feature, allows the monitors—using motion detectors—to detect if a person is sitting in front of it. If it senses for 40 seconds that no one is there, it puts the monitor into sleep…
Death camp commemoration amid controversy →
Serbian PM Mirko Cvetković is in Jasenovac, Croatia, this Sunday, for a commemoration dedicated to the prisoners of the WW2 death camp there. Cvetković heads a Serbian delegation attending the…
Bosnian Serb party deputy leader shot dead →
The Serb Democratic Party (SDS) Vice-President Branislav Garić was murdered today in Doboj, Bosnia. Beta news agency quoted unofficial information from the Republic of Srpska police (MUP RS) that…
A blast from my past: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzzw2DSqQKI
FF7's Cloud spotted in BSG spin-off, Caprica →
Battlestar Galactica and gaming culture seem to go together like carrots, celery and onion (what, mirepoix too fancy for ya?). And so it’s with little shock that we bring you the…
Spain's jobless rate soars to 17 pct →
Spain’s unemployment rate hit 17.4% at the end of March, figures have shown, with the jobless total now having doubled over the past 12 months. In the past year, two million people have lost their…
Off to SCUBA class, my final pool session
I think it’s time to call it a day, the weather is nice here in New York and it’s not wise to let it go to waste
Package: The Orange Box Only $9.99!!!!!!!!!! →
This is an instabuy, no questions. Just go, log on, buy it. There is no discussion, go do it.
I think I will try to enjoy the nice day up on my roof
Geocities to close after 15 years of aesthetic... →
Believe it or not, the webpage service Geocities is still alive—but not for long. Fifteen years after its original creation, Yahoo has announced that it will shut down the service later…
Run the OLPC OS From a Thumb Drive [Downloads] →
All systems: If you’re keen on trying out one of those clever devices from the One Laptop Per Child project, you can get halfway there by running the OLPC’s operating system from a USB drive.…
Hezbollah TV Channel Gets S.I. Man Almost 6 Years... →
A Staten Island man will spend nearly six years (69 months) in prison for selling a satellite TV package to New York customers that included the Hezbollah television channel Al Manar…
The App Store hits one billion downloads! →
Shortly before 2 p.m. PDT (1:52 p.m.), the iTunes App Store hit 1,000,000,000 apps sold since it originally just nine months ago. It’s by no means perfect, but it’s still a significant milestone for…
Going to see a movie called “Here and There” at the Tribeca Film Festival which has something to do with Serbs.
E*TRADE Mobile Pro for iPhone →
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Food.com Searches Pretty Much Every Recipe Site at... →
Food.com’s recipe search is worth getting excited about. It comes from Food Network founder Scripps Networks, but can pull recipes from Epicurious, Food & Wine, Cooking Light, Gourmet,…
Torrent File Search Using Google Custom Search -... →
Sounds to me like the RIAA and friends should be going after Google next.
I live every day like it’s Earth Day … .
Video: Victim Of Serbian Beatdown Plans To Live... →
Photograph by Bebeto Matthews/AP If there is any way to garner more sympathy and further prove yourself an unfair victim for the monstrous college athlete who put you into a coma after…
Debating on whether or not to pick up Caprica on iTunes …
Yahoo to cut 600+ jobs after Q1 results fall →
Yahoo says its slump worsened in the first quarter as the recession made it more difficult to sell the ads that generate most of its profits…
Play classic Sierra adventures for free -- with... →
Hopefully this gets to you before the inevitable cease-and-desist: right now, a site called Sarien (named after the antagonists in the original Space Quest) is offering a selection of…