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Odd camphone plaque in Toronto
via Remove Feed Ads by (author unknown) on April 14, 2008
This curious plaque was apparently photographed on the streets of Toronto. LinkUPDATE: This and other similar plaques were part of an art installation by 640 480 Video Collective. Link
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I Refuse To Admit I See Any Parallel Paths...
via Ozymandias by Ozymandias on March 28, 2008
... to this and my life. Though there may be a few segments here and there. Ahem.Share this post:email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | live it!
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Health Unit Wants Legal Drinking Age Raised
via A-Channel News London by (author unknown) on March 28, 2008
Pushing for Return to 21
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Scoble’s Dead Wrong About Twitter
via davefleet.com by Dave Fleet on March 28, 2008
Robert Scoble wrote a post a few days ago saying that the secret to Twitter is following a lot of people:I’ve gone through stages with Twitter. At some point I thought it was important to get lots of followers. But lately I’ve been telling people that the secret to Twitter isn’t how many followers you have, but how many people you are following. Sorry Robert, but I think you’re dead...
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L Ron Hubbard plagiarized Scientology
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on February 27, 2008
Evidence that L. Rob Hubbard plagiarised Scientology from a 1934 German book called "Scientologie." The text seems to map to various hoo-haw from the cult's official doctrine, too.Link(Thanks, Marilyn!)
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Social Networking Features are Toilets [chrisbrogan]
via Pipes Output by (author unknown) on March 28, 2008
In the future, social networking features will be like toilets. Charlene Li is quoted in The Economist as saying:Future social networks, she thinks, “will be like air. They will be anywhere and everywhere we need and want them to be.”She’s right, and I agree with this. But I’m going to put out a different version of the same idea. Future social networks, or rather those features we...
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Bell Canada caught throttling ISPs' net connections
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on March 26, 2008
... on the unlimited lines they sell, and if we want real unlimited service, then we should go out and buy commercial-grade connections. Well, that's exactly what these lines are: enormous pipes sold to ferchrissakes ISPs for subsequent public use.Bell Canada's position is that the Canadian Internet belongs to it, and that it has the right and duty to simply toss out packets based on which ...
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Providing a great Silverlight deployment experience
via Method ~ of ~ failed by timheuer on March 26, 2008
... a better user experience, a fun game, whatever it is you are trying to convey. I hope this has helped at least some be enlightened on ensuring you make that a work item in your task list and the tip of disabling the add-in is helpful to some. tags: silverlight, swfobject, silverlight.js, object, deployment, no silverlight, firefox, add-ins, add-ons, plugin, ie8, ie, internet explorer
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London Indie Media Fair
via A Life Untold by titusferguson@gmail.com (Titus Ferguson) on March 26, 2008
This Saturday is the 3rd annual London Indie Media Fair from 1 to 5 pm. The event is taking place at the Central library in downtown London at 251 Dundas Street.There is both an exhibit hall in Stevenson and Hunt and a presentation room in the Lerner’s and Tonda Rooms.Myself, Bill Deys, and Greg Fowler will be heading down to promote blogging and podcasting, as well as our monthly geek dinners....
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OpenSocial continues to grow: Welcome, Yahoo!
via Official Google Blog by A Googler on March 25, 2008
Posted by Dan Peterson, Product ManagerLast November, OpenSocial was created to help build infrastructure for the social web. OpenSocial provides a common mechanism for developers to easily hook into many different social networks and extend their functionality. Sites including MySpace and orkut have begun to provide OpenSocial applications to their users, and hi5 will be rolling out next...
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