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CollegeHumor's "Truth in Website Logos" [Google]
via Valleywag by Nicholas Carlson on May 13, 2008
Recently departed Google designer Jeff Veen may think the company's logo is "childish" and "ugly," but in their "Truth In Website Logos," CollegeHumor's Streeter Seidell and Amir Blumenfeld demonstrate that after a few tweaks, it's just right.
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WEEZY F., COREY LIDLE AND THE APOCALYPSE
via THE REALESTS by The Realests on May 15, 2008
A couple months ago we detailed DMX's interview with XXL:Dude refused to believe a candidate by the name Barack Obama was running for President.Fast forward to the current issue of Blender.Lil Wayne is asked who he'd vote for: Obama or Hillary. Weezy F. claims he's a Barack-backer, so props for just knowing who the guy is (not only that, he even realizes an "old white dude" is also...
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Dear Yahoo: You’re Fired
via TechCrunch by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by Amish Mark Cuban on the board at Yahoo?!As expected, Carl Icahn presented an alternate slate of directors for the upcoming Yahoo shareholder meeting. The letter to Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock says it all: Carl C. Icahn ICAHN CAPITAL LP 767 Fifth Avenue, 47th Floor New York,...
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Facebook vs. CollegeHumor beer pong canceled [Cubicle Culture]
via Valleywag by Nicholas Carlson on May 15, 2008
The smack-talk inspiring contest of beer pong — known as beiruit in some quarters — scheduled between Facebook and IAC subsidiary CollegeHumor is off. Why? Because Facebook's PR and legal departments said so, CollegeHumor cofounder Ricky Van Veen told our tipster:Facebook's PR and Legal dept said they can't participate. I guess that's what its like working in corporate America...
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Too Ridiculous To Be True And Yet...Entirely Plausible
via Dealbreaker by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
At Citigroup's meeting in Manhattan in late April, a security guard removed an orange from a visitor's knapsack at the door. "No fruit allowed in there. They're afraid people will throw it," the guard said, according to Crain's New York Business.Fireworks expected at Centennial Bank shareholders meeting [Denver Business Journal]
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A need for speed: the path to a faster loading sequence
via Official Gmail Blog by Gmail Blog on May 13, 2008
Posted by Wiltse Carpenter, Tech Lead, Gmail PerformanceGreat performance has always been an obsession at Google and it's something that we think about and work on everyday. We want Gmail to be really fast, and we keep working on ways to make it faster. Gmail's architecture eliminates many of the delays in reading mail by employing techniques like prefetching, but recently we decided to...
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Unverified Voracity Defeats Tornadoes
via mgoblog by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by Amish Nice job Michigan fans.Tom Harmon would be proud. In 1943, Tom Harmon's plane went down in a tropical storm over South America. Four days and fifty miles later, a half-dead Harmon stumbled into a clearing in French Guina, swearing eternal revenge against tornadoes, hurricanes, tropical depressions, cyclones, tsunamis, and those little swirling eddies you get on fall days....
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Weird stuff on cars....
via [name: tbd...] by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
... 2004, gore 2000, kerry 2004- college- honor roll- jesus fish- darwin fishbut this was insane...it was literally a Ubuntu bumper sticker. Seriously? you have that much pride in your operating system, that you want the world to know about it? That's like me putting a sandisk flash drive bumper sticker on my car.What are some other equally ridiculous bumper stickers that you guys have seen?
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MADDEN '09 ALLOWS YOU TO SUPERMAN HO'S
via With Leather by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shutdown Corner has a few minutes of gameplay footage from the upcoming Madden '09 that is set, of course, to one of the tracks from "The Power and the Glory". Seriously, the game has a large soundtrack. Spare us the heavy orchestration.Anyway, the game looks like the tits and I'll be one of the unclean mongoloids robbing the geeks who wait in line outside the store for six hours before...
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Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope Released
via TechCrunch by Mark Hendrickson on May 13, 2008
Microsoft has released its highly anticipated Worldwide Telescope software, which can be used by astronomers and non-astronomers alike to explore the heavens with a desktop client akin to Google Earth. We’ll have a detailed review up shortly. Until then, head over the site and download your copy for free (Windows only).See our previous coverage here and here.Crunch Network: CrunchBoardbecause...
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