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John Wayne Memorial Balloon Fight
via Geek Entertainment TV by media@geekentertainment.tv (Geek Entertainment TV) on June 16, 2008
June 11 is John Wayne’s birthday and what better way to commemorate the Duke’s enduring legacy than the John Wayne Memorial Balloon Fight at Alamo Square in San Francisco? Don’t answer that, let’s let Irina try.Episode links: John Wayne, John Wayne Memorial Balloon Fight, Music: Doctor PopularFormats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)
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The United States Park Police vs. the Google Maps Car San Francsico’s Presidio
via The San Francisco Citizen by sfcitizen on June 16, 2008
The Presidio of San Francsico hasn’t seen this much action since they filmed The Presidio, starrring Sean Connery. It appears that a mounted member of the United States Park Police briefly detained a Google Maps camera car for some sort of driving infraction this morning.So this is how the magic of Google Street View happens - you can see their method all laid out. In this case,...
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Introducing MagCloud and the Future of Magazine Publishing
via Derek Powazek by Derek Powazek on June 16, 2008
Short attention span version: For the last year, I’ve been working with HP Labs on a very cool new project. It’s called MagCloud, and it’s the future of magazine publishing. Go see.Longer attention span version: If you know me at all, you know I’m obsessed with publishing. My mom tells a story about me, in elementary school, having to write a paper about confederate times. Instead, I...
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Social Networking Gets a Sanity Check
via GigaOM by Om Malik on June 14, 2008
After years of hype, noise and funding, the social networking sector is finally getting a harsh, but necessary, sanity check. Today there are numbers out from comScore that indicate plateauing growth for the big two — MySpace and Facebook — in the U.S. Last week, Revision3 canceled “SocialBrew,” an online video show dedicated to social networking. Meanwhile, Monster killed its Tickle...
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Berlin Infrastructure
via berlinfrastructure.tumblr.com by (author unknown) on June 07, 2008
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French Spiderman scales New York Times building | U.S. | Reuters
via www.reuters.com by (author unknown) on June 07, 2008
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One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
via The Official Google Blog by A Googler on June 07, 2008
Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience, and Micheal Lopez, Web DesignerYou may have noticed that Google has a new favicon, the small icon you see in your browser next to the URL or in your bookmarks list. Some people have wondered why we changed our favicon -- after all, we hadn't in 8.5 years(!). The reason is that we wanted to develop a set of icons that would scale...
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Breaking: Exclusive leaked pics of the iPhone 2! Thinner design? Check! Different colors? Check! Video chatting? Check and check!
via CrunchGear by Matt Hickey on June 07, 2008
It wasn’t long ago that my inbox was full of screen caps from an image editing program of a new iPod, it was a fat yet small iPod that we now know as the 3rd gen Nano. We posted the photos and were later told by Apple’s legal team to take them down.A similar tipster tonight has very generously given us these pics of the iPhone 2, or iPhone 3G as some are calling it. Like the Fat Nano from...
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From Mind-Blowing to Mockery -- The iPhone 2 Mocked Up
via www.wired.com by (author unknown) on June 07, 2008
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The Machine That Changed the World: The Paperback Computer
via Waxy.org Links by (author unknown) on June 06, 2008
The third episode of The Machine That Changed the World covers the development of the personal computer and the modern graphical user interface, which made computing easy to use for everyone. (Previously: Part 1, Part 2.)Notes:Like the books of the Middle Ages, early computers were large, extremely expensive, and maintained by a select few. It seemed unlikely they'd be commonplace, partly...
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