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Why I love working with family people
via Signal vs. Noise by David on April 23, 2008
The stereotypical startup dream hire is a 20-something with as little life as possible outside of computers. The one that’ll be happy working 14-hour crunch days for weeks on end sprinting for an ever-shifting target that keeps being 90% done for 90% of the time. The one you can make sleep under the table or please with a foosball table in the center of the room. The one where the company...
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Real Life Pessimism
via In the Plane of the Ecliptic by Jetse de Vries on April 28, 2008
... village to the big city, not only because the city offered more opportunities, but also because there was much less social control. ‘The big-scale industrialisation has done miracles for our privacy’ (paraphrase).Cut to 1989, where he has become a technological advisor, and he is in a think tank meeting about the future of information technology. ‘Would the robot replace industrial l...
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Hire family people
via Signal vs. Noise by David on April 23, 2008
The stereotypical startup dream hire is a 20-something with as little life as possible outside of computers. The one that’ll be happy working 14-hour crunch days for weeks on end sprinting for an ever-shifting target that keeps being 90% done for 90% of the time. The one you can make sleep under the table or please with a foosball table in the center of the room. The one where the company...
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Ouija board guitar plucks gothic heart strings
via Boing Boing Gadgets by Rob Beschizza on April 22, 2008
A demented facsimile of a folk tune presented itself in mind the moment I set eyes on the ouija board guitar, a contemporary mashup to honor it's crazy blend of art, music and madness.From the URL, it looks like the artist's name is Nick Holcomb. I'd love to see and hear video of this in action.Gallery page [via GearFuse]
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The Dark Knight Trailer
via SF Signal by John on April 20, 2008
The official trailer for the upcoming Batman film looks groovy.
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BBC and Nintendo collaborate to offer BBC iPlayer on Wii
via BBC Press Office by (author unknown) on April 08, 2008
Erik Huggers the BBCs Group Controller for Future Media and Technology today unveiled a collaboration with Nintendo UK to offer BBC iPlayer via the Nintendo Wii.
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mcbess 2D
via FFFFOUND! | EVERYONE by zora84 on March 30, 2008
via http://mcbess.com/illus.html
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ILLUSTRATIVO: Mark Verhaagen
via FFFFOUND! | EVERYONE by augentier on March 30, 2008
via http://illustrativo.blogspot.com/2008/03/mark-verhaagen.html
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BIGBOT
via FFFFOUND! | EVERYONE by augentier on March 30, 2008
via http://kooch-e-koo.com/GALLERY/HTML/robot.html
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Protect Your Privacy When Downloading [Feature]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on March 26, 2008
Earlier this week, a Lifehacker reader caught downloading copyrighted material using BitTorrent told us about the scary warning letter she received from her ISP about a big media company who filed a complaint. Fact is, whether you're downloading copyrighted material or not, no one likes to have their activities online monitored. Let's take a look at ways you can protect your downloading...
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