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Houston being overrun by electronics-killing ants (21)
via RSSmeme by Nilay Patel on May 15, 2008
Shared 21 times Taggedants (8)crazy raspberry ants (1)CrazyRaspberryAnts (1)houston (14)infestation (1)Filed under: Misc. GadgetsWe'll let you read the hed again -- nope, it's not a joke. Apparently millions of tiny swarming ants called "crazy raspberry ants" are causing quite a ruckus down in Houston after they accidentally arrived on board a cargo ship and started busily invading...
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gwap.com - Home
via www.gwap.com by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by npike billys mom will LOVE this!
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More acquisitions: Comcast buys Plaxo, Ask.com buys Dictionary.com
via Download Squad by Brad Linder on May 15, 2008
Filed under: Internet, News, Web services, Social Software, Search, web 2.0There must be something in the water this week. While the biggest new media acquisition story of the day has to be CBS buying CNET for $1.8 billion, big companies are swallowing up smaller ones left and right. Media company Comcast is buying social networking site Plaxo for something like $150 million, while Ask.com is...
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Intel Germany 'Confirms' Apple Tablet
via Wired: Gadget Lab by Charlie Sorrel on May 15, 2008
If we take a statement from Intel Germany's CEO, mix in a little internet rumor and season with a salty sprinkling of speculation, we come up with an Apple Internet Tablet. Here's the first ingredient, machine translated from ZDNET, Germany:Germany-World's managing director Hannes Schwaderer today confirms what has long been a rumor on the Internet [...]: namely, that there is an...
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Jack Black and 40 Kung Fu Pandas
via |Film by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) on May 15, 2008
Jack Black and 40 Kung Fu Pandas kicked off the Cannes Film Festival yesterday, and here’s some photos:
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Scanning wallet cards into the iPhone
via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Mike Schramm on May 14, 2008
Filed under: Software, Hacks, Tips and tricks, Odds and ends, iPhoneThis is pretty much genius. Like Albert, I have a bunch of "membership cards" in my wallet -- they're those cards with a barcode or number on them that you get from places like the local grocery store, or some other retailer. They're useful to have around, but they tend to pile up after a while, and pretty soon, your...
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Raise Your Hand If You Like Freebies!
via yumsugar -- To die for. by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Shared by Jenny free food!Tomorrow, May 15, there are two fast-food freebies for you to catch. The first involves free chicken sandwiches, and the second involves free coffee.First up, McDonald's is promoting their new Southern Style Chicken Biscuits and Sandwiches by giving them away at 14,000 of their US locations. If you purchase a medium or large beverage you can get a free chicken...
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GOW2 details: multiplayer, vehicles, Carmine's back!
via Xbox 360 Fanboy by Richard Mitchell on May 14, 2008
Filed under: NewsIn a recent interview with GameTrailers at Microsoft's Spring Showcase event, Gears of War 2 maestro Cliff Bleszinski dropped a ton of details regarding Marcus Fenix's second outing. Cliffy had plenty to talk about, including new details on Gears of War 2 multiplayer, storyline, vehicles, and the return of a certain fan-favorite character. Here's a quick rundown of...
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Visual Studio 2008 SP1 "Background Compiling" for C#
via CodeBetter.Com - Stuff you need to Code Better! by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
... functionality for those developers who are not using ReSharper or another tool that provides similar code analysis in the background. I had to jump on my development machine that is not running the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta just to make sure this background compilation wasn't already being done in Visual Studio 2008.I didn't put the feature through a thorough testing, but I was just...
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