It all started when Mary needed a laxative (1)
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Old advertisements are the gift that keeps on giving.Take this gem, posted on BoingBoing, found originally at the Learning 2 Share blog. A few favorite lines:"It all started when Mary needed a laxative.""I'd seen those laxative tantrums before.""I asked [the school nurse] for advice. She knows so much more about children.""All mothers should think more about the laxative they give their children…Forcing a child to take a bad-tasting laxative can shock her delicate nervous system."And, ...
Illegal Filesharing: A Suicide Note From the Music Industry [Voices] (1)
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By Cory Doctorow, Blogger, BoingBoing This month’s announcement of a backroom deal between internet service providers and the big record companies to spy on suspected copyright infringers and reduce the quality of their Internet connections is just the latest paragraph in the record industry’s long, self-pitying suicide note, and it’s left me wishing they’d just pull the trigger already and stop beating their chests and telling us all how unfair it all is. Read the ...
Who Almost Has As Many RSS Subscribers As TechCrunch? (5)
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I guess its debatable about whether the number of RSS subscribers is a useful metric. Now that we’ve all acknowledged that it *might* be debatable, here’s a tiny bit of techblogger mind candy for you to enjoy — know which tech-related blog that almost has the same number of subscribers as TechCrunch? I should add at the time of writing, TechCrunch has a mindboggling 900K subscribers. Mashable? Nope — Rizzn’ et al. have around 185K. ...
BoingBoing Interviews Syd Mead (1)
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Joel Johnson over at BoingBoing Gadgets/BoingBoing TV has a great interview with futurist/artist/genius, Syd Mead.See also:Syd Mead Art for U.S. Steel (1960s)Syd Mead
Apparently, Mac FireFox users iz smart. (1)
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Filed under: Fun, Internet, Windows, Macintosh, LinuxAccording an online survey/test performed by a group called IQLeague, MacPPC users who browse the interwebs with Firefox are the smartest web users alive. Alexander Uslontsev says: "IQLeague guys have some kind of online IQ test on their site and they group IQ scores of all visitors by different geographical locations (city, country, etc.) Here is an interesting part - they also group IQ Scores by referrer website and ...
