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A Righteous Spider Battle (1)
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For those of you who may one day find yourselves preparing to engage in a righteous spider battle (the parameters establishing any such battle as “righteous,” naturally being 1) the spider is in your domicile, and 2) the spider is of sufficient size, toxicity, and/or fang to give you the howling fantods and disable your ability to think rationally). If you should ever find yourself in this situation (i.e., you are in Australia), it may ...Shared by Charlie (3)Contribute comment -
L’Oreal admit fat woman from Barnsley actually ‘not worth it’ (2)
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L’Oreal has added a disclaimer to its famous advertising campaign slogan ‘You’re worth it’ after coming to the conclusion that one particular woman from Yorkshire definitely wasn’t. Ms Shelia Crabb, 47, a divorced, unemployed and clinically obese former bar worker was said to be upset and offended that the world’s largest cosmetics company had singled her out as the only person on the planet who would be wasting their money paying that little bit extra ...Shared by Charlie (3) Matt Hall (4)Contribute comment -
McDonald’s Beijing Olympics Commercials: Crouching McNugget, Hidden Fries (1)
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(FranchisePick.Com) This over-the-top Beijing 2008 Olympics tagged McDonald’s commercial pits two Chinese children in a martial arts battle over the last remaining McNugget. (In America, there would just be a lot of hair pulling and punching in the back seat.) But the question remains: Do they really eat McDonald’s with chopsticks in China? Do they come in a plastic bag with a napkin salt, pepper and soy sauce? Lest you think the connection between theatrical ...Shared by Charlie (3)Contribute comment -
McDonald’s Beijing Olympics Commercials: Crouching McNugget, Hidden Fries (1)
on(FranchisePick.Com) This over-the-top Beijing 2008 Olympics tagged McDonald’s commercial pits two Chinese children in a martial arts battle over the last remaining McNugget. (In America, there would just be a lot of hair pulling and punching in the back seat.) But the question remains: Do they really eat McDonald’s with chopsticks in China? Do they come in a plastic bag with a napkin salt, pepper and soy sauce? Lest you think the connection between theatrical ...Shared by Charlie (3)Contribute comment
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Chief of German Olympic Committee Compares China and German Censorship (1)
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One thing German mainstream news are currently obsessed with (except Cuil – yes, it’s even showing up on German subway station info billboards!) is a statement made by the chief of the German Olympic Committee, Michael Vesper. On TV last Sunday in regards to Chinese web censorship he reportedly said, “In every country of the world, including Germany, internet pages are blocked. Here it’s right-wing websites which are locked down. And of course in China ...Shared by Charlie (3)Contribute comment - Sydney's top 10 Indie Nights - Clubs - Time Out Sydney (1)
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Starbucks gives staff Double Mocha Sackuccino (1)
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Paris Hilton Responds to McCain's "Celeb" Attack Ad (115)
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- Brian Newby said: Too funny
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How Image-to-Text Could Be Used in Google Street View (19)
onGoogle Street View’s photo data could be used for more than just plain showing it to users. Internally, Google could do some image analysis – like OCR, optical character recognition, to convert text contained in the images of the houses, shops and so on to text. Such text could be utilized for several things: Google could be able to make the streets searchable through a normal text input box. If a club is called “Foobar” ...Shared by AJ (161) Allison (0) Brenton (5) Charlie (3) Chris Thomson (3) defcon (13) Elias Bizannes (1) guercheLE (5) Joel (0) Jrod (58) ketszeri (8) Lu Tao (2) lxb (9) Mike F (357) Nathan (0) Priyadarsan Venugopalan (7) Sinan Yüce (1) ultraviolet (34) Uno (5)Contribute comment
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Mobile Killed The Desktop Star (1)
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IMGP0512_lzn Originally uploaded by iron fillings So I now use about 10 times more apps on my iPhone than I did even on my HTC smart phone. And it go me thinking….. If I plug the iPhone into a monitor and have basic spreadsheeting, word processing and presentation tools, then why do I need my desktop? My email, calendar, task list, research, reading and most of my communicating (and more coming) is done via a ...Shared by Charlie (3)Contribute comment - Comment on: The Google Knol Threat to Content Businesses - a Wiki Plug-in Might Level The Playing Field (1)
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Self-destruct buttons are 'a needless risk' (1)
onA health and safety watchdog has condemned self-destruct buttons as ‘dangerous and completely pointless’ in a review for the government published this week. The watchdog concluded that including a self-destruct facility in nuclear power stations, spaceships and secret missile silos seems ‘totally illogical and irresponsible’ and yet the government agencies have continued to install them in all high risk secret projects since the 1950’s. A spokesperson for the watchdog said ‘a self-destruct button only gives ...Shared by Charlie (3)Contribute comment
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We knew the web was big... (162)
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We've known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we've seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days -- when our systems that ...Shared by aemkei (2) Alec Resnick (102) Alex Trafford (1) Andrew Bruce Smith (2) Andy (3) Anthony (26) Antonio Ortiz (34) Appu (17) Arvind (1) atul (70) Avinash (186) Aydin (2) Ben Shoemate (4) Bernhard Jodeleit (0) Brandon Bloom (2) Breyten (15) Bruce (2) Caleb Elston (13) Carlos Pinto (5) CB (12) Charlie (3) cheewu (6) chills (1) chimeric (13) Chris Boran (0) Chris Fried (4) Chris Gurney (4) Chris Qie (1) Christian (52) chstdu (11) Chuqui (5) Compuwizard123 (16) Daiko (4) Dan Rua (0) danb420 (9) daniele rollo (21) Darren (6) Data Vortex (0) David Bradley (16) Deep.ed (35) Diego (13) diffus (0) Dimitar D (35) doransky (22) Edin (6) Edouard (18) ema (3) Ernest (3) Ernie (5) Ethan (0) Faraz (1) fmanjoo (0) Fumi (33) G$ (3) Gary (4) Gonzalo Lopez (3) Grandje5ter (20) Greg (2) Gregory (3) guercheLE (5) henry (5) History of Blogging (155) Ingo (4) Ion (3) Ionut (9) Jake (34) Jakob (26) James and Tom (7) James Forbes Keir (6) Jason (17) Javed (62) Jay Deragon (1) jccamus (15) Jeff (12) Jeff (34) Jill (48) JLH (2) John Gunn (0) Jorg (1) Jorriss (8) Journ (1) jtuchscherer (2) jv (3) kan65535 (3) Kerk (1) Kirby Witmer (0) Krazy (83) Lantash (3) Lerch (23) Linkletter (5) livibetter (0) louisgray (112) lrunejensen (14) luke (7) macbeach (1) Magnus J (3) Matt McGee (11) MaXCoDeR (3) Mic (5) Michael (12) Michael Johnson (0) Michael Neel (7) Miguel (1) Mike F (357) Mike Reardon (6) MiramarMike (19) Mr. Matt (8) Navid (50) Nick (6) nickc321 (9) Nico B (0) Nilay (14) onurka (9) Paolo Bozzelli (0) Pat (53) Paul (16) Paul Helmick (24) Peter N (4) philoscribe (6) phrakture (3) plsburydoughboy (0) PMinze (26) Pouya (5) prattmic (9) Priit^ (42) Quasidot (22) R (35) rachna (1) Ricardo Acras (1) Rich (2) rjhintz (34) ro11z (7) Robby R (4) Robert Birming (33) Roel (16) Sakib (15) sarahintampa (79) Sean (11) SeanConnolly2000 (2) Sebastian (4) Semaho (13) Setu (4) shakeel (3) Shaun (5) Si (8) Simon Bugler (0) Siva (1) soufron (5) Surferbill (5) Telmo Carlos (0) Tim Disney (0) Tjeerd Jan van der Molen (0) TOMHTML (6) Tony Ruscoe (13) Trace Windham (4) Tyler (3) vcamaral@gmail.com (17) Vipul (34) Wolf (8) yigalc (7) ysamjo (11) سروش رسولی (15)Explore read nine notes- MiramarMike said: And I'm happy to contribute to the 1 trillion pages of useful pages, *ahem*
- Magnus J said: I find this crazy awesome. I love the internet. I love the way people like to share content.
- Kirby Witmer said: WOW! One trillion pages!
- Deep.ed said: Är det ens intressant att räkna "sidor" när de flesta sajter idag bygger på databaser.
- TOMHTML said: And how much spam among that?
- Brandon Bloom said: Is that even a real number?
- chills said: Incredible...
- lrunejensen said: Pyha de må have travlt i Googles Storage afdeling....en af mine venner mente i fuldt alvor at når man søgte med Google var det en live søgning på hele webben som den ser ud i dette sekund. Så Google der er lang vej igen...
- JLH said: There ya have it. PageRank is recalculated several times a day.
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Man goes on trip of a lifetime to work out where to end it (1)
onClinically depressed entreprenuer Joseph de Rossi, 27, has embarked upon a six-month whirlwind tour of the world’s major cities, in search of...Shared by Charlie (3)Contribute comment
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Study reveals bass players 'every bit as dull as golfers' (1)
onFollowing a study which showed rock drummers to have the stamina of premiership footballers, similar experiments have been carried out to search for sporting equivalents to other members of a typical band. The first results show categorically that bass players exhibit almost exactly the same level of crowd-pleasing charisma usually found in golfers with some even achieving standards of personal engagement with the crowd displayed by only the very top golfing professionals.Shared by Charlie (3)Contribute comment
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Gmail and Google Calendar to Add Offline Support (130)
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It seems that this year Google's most popular web applications will work offline. After Google Reader and Google Docs, two other services will integrate with Gears. Andrew Fogg saw a preview of the integration at Google's offices and found that Gmail and Google Calendar will add offline support in approximately 6 weeks.In the past months, Google accidentally enabled the option in Google Calendar and some users saw the dialog illustrated below: "To view and edit ...Shared by adrcc2 (6) Alan (0) Alberto (9) Alvin A. (19) Ameer (14) Andrew (10) Andrew Mitry (21) arturo.servin (8) Ben (2) Bhavesh (17) Bill (0) Brent (1) Brian (6) Charlie (3) Chris (3) Chris. F. Masse (17) Clint Ecker (10) Compuwizard123 (16) danliebke (47) David (27) dd (7) Denis Gobo (19) Dennis Laumen (11) Dirk Schrama (3) dobata (324) Doctor Setebos (12) Dom Derrien (4) Donnie Berkholz (5) Doogie (16) Dzu (19) erbianchi (26) Eunix (0) faizal (4) Fernando Batista (9) fyc (17) Garrett (2) geekblake (8) gisc (3) Glen Horton (1) Gothy (17) guercheLE (5) Harper (75) Hasan (21) HBreda (0) Henry Webb (0) hosein (20) Ian (3) individual8 (9) invariant (0) James Forbes Keir (6) Jazz (3) JDevL (14) Jesper Kjær Hansen (5) Jeton (5) Jim (5) John (12) JustonWestern (2) Kaleb (0) kcearns (0) Kevin (0) kmohr25 (16) Larsen (1) Laughing Squid (13) Leo Romanovsky (15) lpalli (4) Lu Tao (2) macbeach (1) Martin Gordon (11) merkurov (14) metaeuphoria (0) metallicker (1) mgratzer (0) MH (25) Mike F (357) minus-one (4) Mr. Matt (8) Navid (50) Netviber (10) Nick (9) Nicolas Lehuen (2) Nkululeko Masondo (0) norti (18) nyenyec (3) Oscar J. Baeza (4) Page (1) Pat (8) Patrick (0) Patrick (14) paul (2) Paul (16) Paul (5) Paul O'Flaherty (9) Peter (1) Philou (9) PMinze (26) ppalli (20) psi (3) Quasidot (22) R (35) R Daneel Olivaw (2) ricardo (0) Rob (1) Robert Birming (33) Robert van Bregt (0) robteix (8) Rutger Blom (1) rzklkng (60) Sacha (0) Sam (6) Sara (12) sasb (2) senpi (2) sevas (4) Shogun (13) Sonny Cloward (5) Swaroop (3) swined (6) symtym (15) tapir (15) Tewe (0) theundesided (4) Timothy (0) Tommy (4) Toomore (3) xeal (6) xrx (23) Yi Zhou (0) Yu (9) 摩摩诘(Momojie) (0) 攻疼新一 (201)Explore read 15 notes- Oscar J. Baeza said: OMG! PD: Y con foto de Mariano... qué bueno...
- Doogie said: ah ha! SyncML? At long last the ability to sync Gmail contacts? Outlook/PDA/Gmail all in sync (without using complex third party solutions? Gcal sync for Outlook was tres bon. For me this would be "the missing piece".
- dd said: Andrew also found out that Google will add SyncML support for Gmail contacts next month. He thinks this is "related to the sync that they worked on with Apple for 3G iPhone".Remove starShareShare with noteEmail
- Peter said: Finally!
- Harper said: looks like i will have to dust off my syncml skills.
- Kaleb said: I am an extreme user of Google Calendar at university. This will be great for those spots that my laptop doesn't get WiFi.
- Paul said: gCal sync for iphone should be easier after syncML...won't have to go through GooSync.com
- Tommy said: Sweet, offline support will be awesome, how often do you really read old email?
- Pat said: What does this mean for Soocial?
- Martin Gordon said: OMG
- Dom Derrien said: Cool: a SynchML port means that I'll be able to synchronize my calendar and my contacts on my cellphone from simple Internet access! Just as a long time ago during my Steltor days ;)
- individual8 said: Perfect...
- Eunix said: Ура!
- Bill said: That is great! I use them as my primary personal e-mail and calendar. Makes it WAY more useful to be able to use offline. Move it to the cloud!
- Charlie said: This is really great news if it's true
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Four horseman of the Apocalypse split; ‘Pestilence to go solo’ (2)
onA spokesman for the legendary Horsemen of the Apocalypse has confirmed rumours that the famous foursome are to split over ‘apocalyptic differences’ following a statement from Pestilence that he intended to concentrate on his solo career. ‘Pestilence has had a great time with the guys over the past few millennia, but feels that the time has come to move on’ said his manager to shocked journalists.Shared by Charlie (3) Matt Hall (4)Contribute comment
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