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Was Roald Dahl a Sex Spy? (5)
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Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images Okay. Um. One second, sorry. We're uh … we're trying to work through a troubling bit of information here, having to do with one of our childhood heroes. According to a new biography, children's author Roald Dahl was not only a British spy stationed in Washington, D.C., during the early forties, tasked with convincing powerful American dignitaries to commit to Europe; he was, apparently, some kind of special sex spy. Standard ...- Jacob W said: Good for him!
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iPhone Reception Problems are All Your Fault (23)
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An internal source at AT&T discussed the problems fixed by the 2.0.2 update, explaining, in no uncomplicated terms, that the update controlled the UMTS power control in the phone. Each iPhone requires a small amount of power from the transmitter and that power is requested by the phone itself. If too many phones ask for too much power at once, the transmitter starts shutting down, resulting in dropped calls. The iPhone 3G was asking for ...Shared by adam (25) Adam (10) Alex (18) Apostolos (11) Bob Caswell (15) Brandon Fuller (3) christideli (36) Clint (22) Coolbox (22) David (1) Elroy (22) Harish Mallipeddi (2) Hisham (23) Kirby Witmer (20) Merlin (4) Olivier G. (4) Paul (0) rene (50) Richie de Almeida (30) rjhintz (35) Robert Accettura (15) Ron (9) Stewtopia (8)- Clint said: so wait.. apple can remove apps from people's phones that they don't want you to use (despite the fact that the phone is your property), but they can't make you update such that you don't get dropped calls?!?! LAUGHABLE!!
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Social Networking for Books: One Ring, or Loosely Joined? (43)
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I have to confess that one of the social networking tools I find most valuable is Goodreads. (It's a close second to Twitter, and way ahead of Facebook, Friendfeed, or Dopplr.) Unlike twitter, where I follow hundreds of people (possible because of twitter's minimalism) and am followed by thousands, on Goodreads, I follow and am followed by a small circle of friends and people whose taste in books I trust. As someone who loves books, ...Shared by Aden Davies (8) Ansar (15) atul (81) b (45) Ben (5) blogan (8) Book Patrol (2) Brian (6) Christian Pujol (6) Dave (29) Dave Lovely (11) David (11) David (1) David (14) Don (9) Dr. Ernie (59) Elroy (22) Eric (5) Eric (2) g b (39) Jane (2) Jeremy (1) jeroendemiranda (12) jussi haverinen (1) MagnusEnger (27) Michael Maranda (24) Mike (10) nicolas.gabard (4) Pat (3) pelles (24) rjhintz (35) Rob (132) Rommel C. Caibal (20) Sami (4) Simon Young (30) smdahlen (12) Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (53) That Kid from Omaha (6) Tiffehr (4) Tim Disney (0) virgile (41) Vladimir Yashnikov (10) yamaguchi (13)- Eric said: I miss AllConsuming.
- That Kid from Omaha said: Amen.
- Eric said: I like the people behind the LibraryThing company and subscribe to their business blog, but I don't use their service. Shelfari is a rip off of LibraryThing, but now has the weight of Amazon behind so it becomes more interesting to me. I buy most of my books from Chapters Indigo and I've poked around the community portion of their website, but wasn't impressed. What I do use is the Visual Bookshelf application in Facebook and I wish Chapters and others would stop trying to re-invent social components and plug-in to the Facebook platform.
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Amazon offering release date delivery for big-name games (4)
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Filed under: Culture, Business For gamers, there's usually a push-and-pull battle involved in deciding to order a new game from an online retailer. On the plus side, ordering online means not having to deal with clueless game store employees, not fighting off the harsh rays of the sun and, most importantly, not leaving the comfort of the couch! On the downside, though, those online delivery people will sometimes arrive days after a game is available ...- Eric Atkins said: Excellent service! Way to go Amazon. And, another reason to buy Amazon Prime.
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Muxtape Shut Down by the Man, Pandora Probably Next (2)
onPhoto: muxtape.com Yesterday, playlist-sharing, music-streaming Website Muxtape was predictably shuttered by the RIAA following five awesome months of operation. Like all popular music-related things these days, the site was probably totally illegal, though a post on the official Muxtape tumblr claims "No artists or labels have complained" (not even Prince?) and "The site is not closed indefinitely." This comes as the label-sanctioned artist-recommendation service Pandora is facing its own shutdown over royalty fees that are ...Shared by Allison (11) David (1)Contribute comment
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Muxtape Shut Down by the Man, Pandora Probably Next (1)
onPhoto: muxtape.com Yesterday, playlist-sharing, music-streaming Website Muxtape was predictably shuttered by the RIAA following five awesome months of operation. Like all popular music-related things these days, the site was probably totally illegal, though a post on the official Muxtape tumblr claims "No artists or labels have complained" (not even Prince?) and "The site is not closed indefinitely." This comes as the label-sanctioned artist-recommendation service Pandora is facing its own shutdown over royalty fees that are ...Shared by David (1)Contribute comment
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Feature: "Selections From H.P. Lovecraft's Brief Tenure as a Whitman's Sampler Copywriter" by Luke Burns (8/15/08) (10)
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4 Great iPhone App Review Sites - ReadWriteWeb (24)
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The iTunes App Store is a bit of a big deal these days. Several new applications pop up in the iTunes store every day. With hundreds of apps to download from it can be time consuming to sort through them all. Unfortunately, there is no try before you buy option for any of the iTunes apps. So, if you happen to see one that looks interesting, but requires you to shell out your hard earned ...Shared by Alexander (8) baardoa (29) clacey2 (9) colladude (2) Corvida (85) Cris (0) Cubby Brendle (15) David (1) dobata (366) Jan (17) Jason Oberfest (0) Jonathan (35) Jonathan Fusellier (1) Josh (17) Kaba (1) Luke (8) Mike (18) Rikard Linde (1) rpy (14) SD (12) Seb (8) vlada (7) wizardElite (6) yoshy (339)Contribute comment -
4 Great iPhone App Review Sites (32)
onThe iTunes App Store is a bit of a big deal these days. Several new applications pop up in the iTunes store every day. With hundreds of apps to download from it can be time consuming to sort through them all. Unfortunately, there is no try before you buy option for any of the iTunes apps. So, if you happen to see one that looks interesting, but requires you to shell out your hard earned ...Shared by Adam (10) Alexander (8) Augmented Web (32) CannonGod (237) clacey2 (9) colladude (2) Coop (25) Corvida (85) Cris (0) David (1) dobata (366) ehu4ever (91) Josh (17) kevan (7) lizunlong (10) Marque (0) Matthew Bischoff (36) Michael (28) Mike (18) Mike F (460) Peter v (14) rpy (14) sarahintampa (98) SD (12) Seb (8) shanusmagnus (17) Shyam (6) Syed Akram (12) vlada (7) wizardElite (6) yojibee (19) zapnap (34)Contribute comment
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Frotz brings text adventures to the iPhone App Store (4)
onFiled under: Mobile Ever since the iPhone App Store launch last month, we've been on the hunt for apps we can load on our fancy phones and not forget about immediately. Occasionally something pops up but, sure enough, we manage to forget about it in a matter of days. But here ... this is different. Frotz we'll keep around for a long time. Some of you may be familiar with Frotz; it's a Z-machine, used ...Contribute comment
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Search Geo-Data With Finder. Sneak Peak At GeoCommons (Map) Maker. (33)
onOnline map mashups are about to get a whole lot more sophisticated. A startup in Arlington, Virginia called FortiusOne (based on technology out of George Mason University) is developing a service called Maker! that will let anyone easily find geo-tagged data available on the Web and map it. One piece of the service is already available: a search engine for geo-data called Finder! It lets you find sets of geographical data already on the Web, ...Shared by Alex (7) alleycat (3) Bob (4) cuqui (20) D&G (16) Dan (2) Dani (3) David (1) David (21) David (14) Dr. Sam (8) Dustin Hillard (13) DVD (1) Harleen (4) Igor Schwarzmann (6) Inman (2) Jan (4) Joanna Geary (5) Just A Clerk (3) kevin (19) kleinmatic (25) Kunal Ghate (3) LauraLee (214) Lizy (4) Pablo O. (3) Paul (0) Rob (7) Ryan Scott (0) Sanns (7) Scott (6) Scott Cederberg (1) Shawn F (8) Standard Society (7)
- Alex said: allan, would this be useful?
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onOnline map mashups are about to get a whole lot more sophisticated. A startup in Arlington, Virginia called FortiusOne (based on technology out of George Mason University) is developing a service called Maker! that will let anyone easily find geo-tagged data available on the Web and map it. One piece of the service is already available: a search engine for geo-data called Finder! It lets you find sets of geographical data already on the Web, ...Shared by Alex (7) alleycat (3) arturo.servin (10) BigPru (9) Binsento (19) Bob (4) D&G (16) Dan (2) Dani (3) David (14) David (1) Dr. Sam (8) Dustin Hillard (13) DVD (1) Eric Herboso (12) est (43) FelipeC (19) Forrest (21) Harleen (4) HollowMarkeD (65) Inman (2) Jan (4) Jason Nielubowicz (17) Jimmy (4) Just A Clerk (3) kleinmatic (25) Kunal Ghate (3) LauraLee (214) Lizy (4) motionless (2) munir (12) Pablo O. (3) Paul (0) Philou (16) Phreak 2.0 (51) PMinze (28) Rick Klau (109) roedward (67) Sam (56) Sanns (7) Scott (6) Scott Cederberg (1) Shawn F (8) Standard Society (7) Toby (29) Tomi (8) zoby (0)Contribute comment
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