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Best of the Sidebar: The Quake Server
via The Daily WTF by Jake Vinson on June 16, 2008
Originally posted by "Da' Man"...It was in the good ol' days of the dot.com era. I worked as a web programmer for this really sleek web and design agency — that is, not much pay, but lots of great parties. Cool chicks, too... well, not too bad altogether, at least in my memory.One day there, we got our very own web server. Well, we needed one to test drive these pages, so I think this...
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Age Old Classic - Grandma Vs. Mercedes Ownage
via Owned Again by Owned Again on June 08, 2008
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Rumor: MS to announce Blu-ray 360 tomorrow
via Xbox 360 Fanboy by Dustin Burg on June 08, 2008
Filed under: News, RumorsComing from the folks over at CrunchGear and their tipster who supposedly has a "close friend" within Microsoft's E&D division, we get word that Microsoft is set to announce a new Blu-ray equipped Xbox 360 console Monday morning at 9:00AM pacific, an hour before Apple's WWDC. A Blu-ray Xbox 360 announcement that is said to confirm the new console's release...
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FbCal Puts Facebook Birthdays in Your Calendar [Facebook]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 27, 2008
One of the best side effects of using Facebook is knowing when your contacts' birthdays are—but you only see them if you log in. The Facebook application fbCal is out to fix that. Once you install it on Facebook, fbCal creates an iCal file for your Facebook contacts' birthdays as well as Facebook events. Subscribe to the feed in your iCal-enabled calendar app of choice, like...
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Five Apple WWDC-related things I WILL do on Monday (2)
via RSSmeme by (author unknown) on June 07, 2008
Shared two timesPlace two yellow post-its on my headphones that say "We'll be right back!"Feel the familiar twinge of remorse for having devoted a year of my life writing software for the NewtonFinish all conversations of longer than 5 minutes with "One more thing..."Convince myself that plastic is the new brushed aluminumBuy whatever shiny new thing Apple deigns to sell to me
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Possible Photos of 3G iPhone with Video iChat
via MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors by (author unknown) on June 07, 2008
A tipster has broadcast claimed 3G iPhone images to a number of rumor and tech sites in the hope of getting their images published:MacRumors, Appleinsider CrunchGear and Engadget have all received these...
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via garfield minus garfield by (author unknown) on June 03, 2008
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IM Can Reduce Workplace Interruptions, Study Shows [Instant Messenger]
via Lifehacker by Jason Fitzpatrick on June 06, 2008
We all know instant messaging has great potential to lead down the path of non-productivity, but researchers at Ohio State University and University of California have found it can be a productivity booster—if used efficiently. Co-author of the study Kelly Garret explains:"It is not the case that people are engaging in extensive conversations or trying to resolve complex problems over this...
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Book Rental Fail
via FAIL Blog - Fail Pictures at Failblog.ORG by ichcadam on June 03, 2008
Thx to Rob:Click the image to see a zoomed-in version detailing all of its FAIL.book rental service?was just thinking. my sister does -alot- of reading, and spends like $1000 a year on just books alone. most of them she reads once then never looks at again. is there any kind of like…video rental store but for books? would make things alot cheaper, plus once one person had read one the next...
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A proposal for Twitter: Shut it down
via Webware.com by Rafe Needleman on June 06, 2008
As I write this, Amazon.com, like Twitter, is offline. Amazon's outage is the big news Friday morning. But what of Twitter?I used to love Twitter. But the site's pogo status--it's up! it's down! it's up again!--is driving me away. I've removed the Twitter sidebar from the Webware home page, and I've stopped religiously updating it. Because I figure its users, and my...
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