Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data: The Pirate Bay Lives On | To (56)
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Like everyone else I’ve been reading, talking to friends and thinking about this for the last couple of days. What I’m about to say is the result of that — my own opinion and nothing more. Let’s start with a great fact: that, as Rasmus Fleischer of Piratbyran points out, the entire Pirate Bay could fit on a single USB stick. This got me thinking: what if someone was to simply scrape and copy all ...
Celebrate the Fourth of July with a New Desktop Wallpaper [Friday Fun] (41)
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If ever there were a holiday that yields colorful and flashy desktop wallpaper, it's definitely the Fourth of July. Celebrate the Fourth on your desktop with these swanky fireworks wallpapers. If you're not going to be shooting your own stunning Fourth of July pictures this weekend, you might as well take advantage of the great photos other people have taken to properly decorate your computer screen for the holiday. The following gallery is a collection ...
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Wao said:
漂亮 : )
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Marcel said:
That's what I call nice pictures of fireworks.
Ten Companies Twitter Should Consider Acquiring Next (36)
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If you were a little blue bird, with a good pile of money and a whole lot of hype, what would you buy to spice up your nest? There are so many little services being built on top of Twitter that we wouldn't be surprised to see some more of them acquired by the company soon. That would mean more features for everyday users and more usefulness for features loved by loyal early adopters. Twitter ...
Ads Spotted on Twitter (30)
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Three months ago we reported that Ads Had Come to Twitter and it was a pretty big deal - until Twitter promptly said the word "sponsored" was only appearing on the site in error. Now the "sponsored definitions" of certain Twitter "concepts" have appeared on the site again - and they sure look legit this time. These first ads probably aren't going to bring in enough cash to fuel a micro-app acquisition spree by Twitter, ...
Microsoft And Linux Hold Peace Tweets (30)
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Okay, it’s not exactly the Camp David Summit that took place in 2000 between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but sometimes the littlest gestures can go a long way. A couple of days ago, upon hearing that Microsoft had officially joined Twitter, the official Linux account sent out a tweet welcoming them. “Welcome to Twitter, @Microsoft!,” they said. The tweet sat unanswered for over a day, and it seemed like Microsoft may never answer. But ...
4 Rotten Websites That Everyone Should Hate (17)
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Anyone who has spent any time simply browsing the Internet for interesting things to read quickly realizes that while the Internet is certainly filled with interesting and fascinating websites covering all sorts of useful topics, it’s also overrun by countless rotten websites that promote things like racial hatred, anti-semitism and even encourages fanatical censorship. Sound hard to believe? While here at MakeUseOf, you’ll always find lots of great advice about cool websites, such as Aibek’s ...
Michael Jacksons Memorial: The Biggest Web Event in History? (17)
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The web’s response to the passing of music legend Michael Jackson has been staggering. Social media was pounded with tributes last Thursday after the news broke, but next Tuesday could be a huge test for the entire infrastructure of the web, when the memorial for Michael Jackson will take place. The tribute and remembrance of the late King of Pop occurs next Tuesday (July 7th) at 10:00 AM PT at the Staples Center in Los ...
Hawking Says Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution (17)
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movesguy sends us to The Daily Galaxy for comments by Stephen Hawking about how humans are evolving in a different way than any species before us. Quoting: "'At first, evolution proceeded by natural selection, from random mutations. This Darwinian phase, lasted about three and a half billion years, and produced us, beings who developed language, to exchange information. I think it is legitimate to take a broader view, and include externally transmitted information, as well ...
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jonezy said:
your face is entering a new stage of evolution!
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V said:
Didn't Richard Dawkins figure this out 35 years ago?
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Laurent said:
Go Hawking!
4 Must Have Android Apps For The Next Time You Hit The Road (17)
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Post from: Google And Blog 4 Must Have Free Android Apps for the Next Time you Hit the Road Driving can be one of life’s finest frustrations. Getting lost, encountering traffic, and not being able to find exactly what your looking for are all stresses that make driving, especially in an unknown area, such an unpleasant experience. Thankfully, through the power of Android, drivers can download several applications that can curb these stresses and make ...
Did an embezzlement scandal force Sarah Palin to resign? (15)
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Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal. The gist of the rumor is that an Alaska building company called Spenard Building Supplies (SBS) was awarded a contract by Palin to build a hockey arena in Wasilla, AK, and in return, SBS helped construct Palin’s home: Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that ...
Ubuntu is A Microsoft Product Now! (14)
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Post from: The Linuxologist A blog that advocates Linux and Open Source. Ubuntu is A Microsoft Product Now! Well at least according to Dell’s website. A 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 8GB of disk space armed with Microsoft’s latest masterpiece: Ubuntu! [Via TuxRadar]
Tweetmeme Retweets Become Elite Next Week (13)
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Retweeting, as we’ve mentioned before (see HOW TO: Retweet on Twitter), is an increasingly popular way to share content on the web. Twitter is such a powerful tool for sharing media, in fact, that the former market leaders are racing to keep up. News sharing site Digg recently added short URLs and attempted to append a toolbar to those short URL clicks (Diggbar was later scaled back), while serendipitous sharing site StumbleUpon also got into ...
