technology
Can’t Beat Something with Nothing, South Park Free Online
Rampant proliferation of television shows on YouTube and its ilk have created headaches apace for legal departments caught in a copyright version of wack-a-mole. Fan-driven sites like AllSP posted or aggregated episodes of the show available for free online.
An outbreak of sanity has apparently caught hold in South Park land, who have finally realized that [...]
Charlie Rose Saves Laptop, not Face
I noticed Charlie Rose looked a little worse for wear the other night. According to Michael Arrington at TechCrunch (who recently appeared on an excellent segment) Charlie’s sustained his injuries saving his new MacBook Air after tripping in a pothole. Now that’s dedication.
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Wikipedia and Civic Duty
I read Nicholson Baker’s article The Charms of Wikipedia, took a look at the sparse and paltry edits in my own Wikipedia edit history and was ashamed. Civic-minded people everywhere will soon come to feel the obligation of adding to its borg-like hive of facts the way we now think of voting.
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Annals of Gadget Testing: New and Improved LCD Monitor Repels 100% More Crossbow
Ukrainian technophiles apparently inhabit a somewhat more demanding computing environment. They put this new Asus monitor throught its paces to make sure it has a good picture and can hold up to standard wear and tear, like, you know, cross-bow attacks. Eat your heart out consumer reports.
Engadget: Asus monitors: your best defense against crossbow attacks
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Linzie Hunter, Spam One Liners
London-based freelance illustrator Linzie Hunter had the brilliant idea to take the subject lines of the ubiquitous spam messages we all get and loathe and art-ify it. (via Laughing Squid) The most useful re-purposing of unsolicited email messages since Spam-ku!
Linzie Hunter: Spam One-Liners
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Google Street View Comes to Houston
Google added Street View mapping to Houston last week, making it possible to browse photographs of the city’s major streets from your computer as if you were standing on the corner. Above, is Google’s shot of my house. I wish they would have told me they were coming, I would have tidied up a bit.
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Wine Library TV, An Oenophile for the Rest of Us
Via Slate I’ve discovered Wine Library TV, a web-based video show hosted by the delightfully maniacal Gary Vaynerchuk among others. Give it a looksy…
Bringing Merlot Back - Episode #285. Amen to that.
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John Heilemann on Steve Jobs
John Heilemann takes a look at Steve Jobs in a Box for NY Magazine and notes “It’s a stunning box, a wizard object with a passel of amazing features (It’s a phone! An iPod! A Web browser!). But for all its marvels, the iPhone inaugurates a dangerous new era for Jobs. Has he peaked?”
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Happy Birthday to Me!
The Blackberry 8800 released today from T-mobile. It should be at my house tomorrow.
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Footnote.com - Online Repository, Social Annotation Tool for Original Documents
Here’s a great idea that seems long overdue now that someone else has finally put it into action. Footnote.com is an online repository and social annotation tool for documents and images. Watch the video above for a demonstration. Doing anything useful requires a membership either free or paid depending on the functionality and the images [...]