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Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:49:53 -0800

FCC unimpressed by Verizon's reply
Verizon's new $350 early termination fee and "gotcha" internet access charges recently attracted FCC attention. It is not amused by the company's reply, which has already drawn the Wrath of Pogue. Verizon's answers are "unsatisfying and, in some...
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Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:17:27 -0800

Firefox 3.5 passes IE7 as most popular web browser
Filed under: Microsoft, Mozilla, Browsers We've all been watching the browser share trends for quite some time now, wondering when the day would come that an alternative finally shoved Internet Explorer off its perch. It's finally happened - at least...
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Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:16:29 -0800

Art Lebedev's Transparentius eliminates opacity, improves road safety
Kudos where it's due: not many design houses use tanks in their illustrations of a new road safety concept. Transparentius, as with most good ideas, is remarkably simple -- you jack a camera onto the front of a truck, or lorry as they're known in some...
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Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:15:49 -0800

Can a single bottle of soda decimate your company? Absolutely.
(Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This column originally appeared on his blog.) Sometimes financial decisions that are seemingly rational on their face can precipitate mass exodus of your best...
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:11:31 -0800

Christmas Plans
http://www.rssmeme.com/story/563197/christmas-plans Shared 110 times. Ara said: Hehehe lostmagic said: 啊geeky jokes多么高级
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:00:40 -0800

Calvin and Hobbes for December 23, 2009

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Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:59:45 -0800

Christmas Plans

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Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:49:50 -0800

Comcast Pays Out $16M In P2P Throttling Suit
eldavojohn writes "Comcast has settled out of court to the tune of $16 million in one of several ongoing P2P throttling class action lawsuits. You may be eligible for up to $16 restitution if 'you live in the United States or its Territories, have a...
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:49:32 -0800

BlackBerry Outages Across North America
TheHappyMailAdmin writes "BlackBerry service in North America is out: no email, no BB Messenger and no web browsing. Last carrier estimate I got was 24 hours until service will be restored, with others saying they've gotten estimates from support from...
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:37:56 -0800

Verizon Removes Search Choices For BlackBerrys
shrugger writes "I picked up my BlackBerry this morning to do a search and noticed Bing as my default search engine. I thought this was very strange, since I didn't pick this setting. I went to change it back to Google and, to my chagrin, Bing was my...
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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:13:16 -0800

Firefox 3.5 Inches Past IE7 As World's Most Popular Browser [Web Browsers]
According to global analytics web site StatCounter, Firefox 3.5 has edged past Internet Explorer 7 as the most popular browser on the market today. Keep in mind that the stats in question are differentiating by version, so it's actually kind of a lucky...
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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:01:11 -0800

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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:04:36 -0800

Ten science party tricks
Professor Richard Wiseman, from the University of Hertfordshire in the UK shows you ten cool, quirky tricks of science you can show off at your next party. [via Boing Boing] Top 10 quirky science tricks for Christmas parties Read...
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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:59:29 -0800

Jeri's homemade pinball machine
Hardware hacking goddess Jeri Ellsworth has been busy building her own pinball machine from scratch, and with subassemblies she's cannibalized from other machines. On day three of the build, she runs through what she's done so far. Can't wait to see...
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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:05:31 -0800

Despite increasingly frequent attacks, no update for Adobe's Reader
Although the first websites are already exploiting the hole in Adobe Reader, Adobe does not plan to release an "emergency patch" before January 12, 2010. The vendor says that other holes would remain open if it did so
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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:30:54 -0800

Drink Lighter-Colored Liquors to Avoid Hangovers [Alcohol]
If you're anticipating a night of hard partying, skip the bourbon if you'd like a better morning-after. Photo by Experiment 33. The best way to avoid of hangover is, obviously, to not drink. Barring that, you can opt to drink lighter-colored liquor to...
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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:28:27 -0800

Microsoft Sued Over Bing Trademark
mentus writes "Bing! Information Design, a design company from Missouri, is suing Microsoft over 'intentional interference' with their trademark and claiming Microsoft had knowledge of the trademark when it relaunched its rebranded search engine....
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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:25:47 -0800

Avatar earns $232.2m in opening weekend
That's the biggest ever for a non-sequel. It earned $73m in the U.S, the rest abroad. The LA Times points out that many on the east coast were snowed in by the worst blizzard in a decade, and that it's yet to open in China and Japan. Subhead of the...
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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:46:50 -0800

HP webcams are racist
“As soon as my blackness enters the frame…” Listen, HP, this is the 21st century. Obama is in the White House. This needs to be fixed STAT.
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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:43:54 -0800

Picture table lets you hide your kitchen table in plain sight
If you're tight on space in your apartment, it can be tough to find room for a kitchen table. Well, if you want to have somewhere to eat other than your coffee table, take a look at this ingenious Picture Table. The Picture Table is like a normal...
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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:38:14 -0800

Firefox 3.5 Now the Most Popular Browser Worldwide
gQuigs notes a graph up at StatCounter Global Statistics, which shows that in the last few days Firefox 3.5 became the most used browser version worldwide, edging ahead of IE7. IE8 is rising fast (along with Windows 7), but over the last few months the...
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Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:31:21 -0800

Common Laptop/Netbook Positions to Avoid [Health]
The great thing about laptops and netbooks: You can use them anywhere. The downside: If you spend a lot of time in the wrong position, you're in for a world of RSI pain. The illustration above—from weblog Core77's netbook case study—highlights...
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Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:30:43 -0800

Fashion Faces Clothing Sculptures
One of our most popular posts this week was Grace's The Single Life: Finding the Motivation To Clean, opening a great deal of debate over what counts as dirty or unkempt in a person's home. But let's end the week on a more lighthearted...
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Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:30:33 -0800

How Fanboys See Operating Systems
This article also appears in Global Nerdy.
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Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:27:34 -0800

Photo of Note: ZA001 as seen from T-33 chase planes
Photo Credit Boeing
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