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The Social Network Wars Begin In Earnest: Facebook Bans Google Friend
via TechCrunch by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by SharonG ahahahaha!!! this stuff is hilarious!Facebook is all about openness and data portability, as long as that doesn’t involve openness or portability of data, it seems. Today they wrote a long 7 paragraph blog post to get a single point across: Facebook has banned Google’s Friend Connect access to the Facebook API:Now that Google has launched Friend Connect, we’ve had a...
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Presidential Geek Survey Diary - Day 318
via Pink Raygun - News, Reviews and Interviews for Fangirls...and boys by Alpha-Girl on May 15, 2008
The presidential campaign has gone on long enough that someone brought up Nazis. George Bush is the one who brought in the Nazi comparison, so does that mean his side lost?
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Prescription
via GraphJam: Pop culture for people in cubicles. by ichcadam on May 15, 2008
Graph by: Ryan DowdViolent Femmes, Kiss Off
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Poor Children Of The World No Longer Will Have To Struggle With Linux
via TechCrunch by (author unknown) on May 16, 2008
Shared by SharonG "On the upside, though, the pain of having to deal with Windows crashes may make some of these kids excellent technical support people over time. They’d just get lazy with Linux being so stable all the time."One Laptop Per Child will ship a special version of Windows on their low cost laptops for poor children, the two companies announced this afternoon. Previously the...
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President Bullshit [News Roundup]
via Jezebel by (author unknown) on May 16, 2008
Shared by SharonG תתעלמו מכל שאר הפוסט, שימו לב רק לתמונת הזוועה של דליה איציק וג'ורג' בוש. אני לא יודעת מי מבין שניהם נראה יותר מפגר בשכלו.George W. Bush is in Israel right now where he equated Obama with Hitler over his suggestion that he meet with Ahmadinejad. I guess in Israel they have to...
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Teenage Rape Victim Turns To YouTube For Help [Clips]
via Jezebel by Dodai on May 15, 2008
The clip at left is a report about an upsetting YouTube video created by a 16-year-old girl named Crystal, who says, "I need some help. I didn't want to do it this way, but it's the only way I know that's going to work, that someone out there in the world is gonna listen to me." Crystal explains that a 23-year-old man has raped and drugged her and the Florida State attorney won't...
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Google Doctype, an Encyclopedia for Web Developers
via Google Operating System by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by SharonG cool!Google released an encyclopedia of the "open web". "The open web is the web built on open standards: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and more. The open web is a beautiful soup of barely compatible clients and servers. It comprises billions of pages, millions of users, and thousands of browser-based applications."Google Doctype is an encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone who has...
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NNDB mapper lets conspiracy theorists connect the dots between powerful
via Boing Boing by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
... with the NNDB Mapper tells a story about the world throughconnecting the lives of billionaire executives, scientists and inventors,politicians and activists, writers and musicians, and even Hollywoodstars.These stories are shared by saving the maps for others to explore- fromSan Francisco'spolitical landscape, to Hollywood sexcharts, to who rocks more: Ozzy vs Slayer?Link(Thanks, Gweeds!)
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Techno
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on April 16, 2008
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Oldies But Goodies [Retro]
via Jezebel by Dodai on May 15, 2008
"Farewell to the ugly cigarette," reads the copy on this late '70s ad. "Smoke pretty." Because lung cancer and emphysema are gorgeous. The ad also says these are "the newest way to express your love of pretty things." Chicks like flowers! Why else would the box feature Eve drowning in blooms? Wait, are those poppies??? (Click to see larger.) [Vintage Ads]
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