January 2010
How to build the ultimate... →
Adobe Plays the Porn Card in Flash Campaign... →
Apple has clearly hurt Adobe’s feelings. When Steve Jobs demonstrated an iPad at Wednesday’s tablet event, its Safari browser clearly did not support Flash. Adobe has published a blog post calling Flash the Apple iPad’s “broken link.” And now Adobe’s platform evangelist Lee Brimelow has compiled an illustrative montage (partly screengrabbed above) in an effort to illustrate what the lack of...
Apple Makes $208 On Each $499 iPad →
The $499 version of the new iPad tablet actually runs Apple about $270 in materials and manufacturing costs, a Wall Street analyst said today.
First Round Capital Gives Entrepreneurs A Way To... →
In case it wasn’t obvious, being an entrepreneur is risky business. Even those that get investments have a relatively small likelihood of a successful exit. So early-stage investment firm First Round Capital has a plan to alleviate some of the risk: an entrepreneur’s exchange fund.
Obama's State of the Union Address In 5 Minutes →
Not everybody has 70 minutes (!) to watch a speech, even if it’s the most important speech in history, ever. So we’ve condensed President Obama’s State of the Union speech into its five most glorious minutes for you. Watch it so you can drop references to it in conversation and fool people into believing that you saw the whole thing.
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Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger →
In this big dramatic production that didn’t do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author J.D. Salinger, who was 91 years old for crying out loud. “He had a real impact on the literary world and on millions of readers,” said hot-shot English professor David...
WatchPee-wee Herman Gets An iPad!
J.D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye Author Dies at 91 →
Author J.D. Salinger, who wrote the iconic “Catcher in the Rye,” has died at age 91. The author’s son, through Salinger’s literary agent, said Salinger died at his home in New Hampshire of natural causes.
New York woman falls, rips Picasso painting →
A significant Pablo Picasso painting was damaged after a woman attending art class lost her balance, fell into “The Actor” and tore it, The Metropolitan Museum of Art said.
How to Use a Semicolon - The most feared... →
[COMIC] How to use the most feared punctuation on earth.
China Accuses U.S. of Cyberwarfare →
In the wake of a recent speech by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemning countries that censor the internet and engage in hacking, China has lobbed a return volley and accused the United States of hypocrisy and initiating cyberwarfare against Iran.
Google founders to sell stock, cede majority... →
By 2014, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will have sold enough of their stock to give up majority control of the company, Google announced Friday evening.
China condemns US call for unrestricted internet →
China has denounced US criticism of its internet controls, saying it could harm ties between the two countries.
Simple Passwords Remain Popular, Despite Risk of... →
Back at the dawn of the Web, the most popular account password was “12345.”
Today, it’s one digit longer but hardly safer: “123456.”
How to Say 'Fuck You' in Any Language Worldwide →
Conan O'Brien's $1.5 Million Bugatti Veyron Mouse →
Conan O’Brien introduced the Bugatti Veyron Mouse as a new Tonight Show character Thursday night, not because it was funny, but because it was “crazy expensive” for NBC. To be funny he’d have to crash it into a lake.
Star Wars opening crawl, using only HTML & CSS →
insane!!
Google Docs gets file storage: Is this the GDrive? →
Google on Tuesday is making a big move with its Docs service, opening it up to all types of file uploads. This includes photos, movies, music, and ZIP archives, all of which will be stored on Google’s servers.
listening to "Starship - We Built this City" →
this is where my head is right now…scary right?
Official Google Blog: A new approach to China →
After discovering a major security breach from hackers in China that sought to steal info on Chinese and international human rights activists, Google says it will stop self-censoring Google.cn content in Chinese Google searches. Too bad the realization comes after they supported the Communist Party’s censorship for years.
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Samsung's Impossibly Thin 3D TV Debuts at CES →
Is Cash Cab for Real? 7 Contestants Speak! →
If you’re reading this post, you probably love trivia and game shows as much of the rest of us _flossers. So chances are you’ve watched at least one episode of Cash Cab on Discovery Channel, right? And chances are you’ve wondered whether it was rigged or not.