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[video] Portrayal Of Obama As Elitist Hailed As Step Forward For African Americans (5)
on The Onion (1131) permalinkOverjoyed civil rights leaders say that Barack Obama has paved the way for future black politicians to be smeared as country club snobs.Contribute comment
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iPods, MacBooks, iMacs up next on Apple's 2008 roadmap (Kasper Jade/AppleInsider) (2)
on Techmeme (3800) permalinkKasper Jade / AppleInsider: iPods, MacBooks, iMacs up next on Apple's 2008 roadmap — With a multinational iPhone 3G launch now successfully under its belt, electronics maker Apple Inc. is preparing to close out the year with a final phase of product introductions that will stretch over the course of the next two months.Shared by Brent (134) InspireMedia (3)Contribute comment
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BackType -find, follow and share blog comments [del.icio.us] (1)
on Brent Sordyl's Blog (246) permalinkBackType is a website that lets people find, follow and share comments from across the web. BackType’s technology crawls and indexes millions of comments so you can search them by topic or follow those written by the people you care about.Shared by Brent (134)Contribute comment
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In Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas Friedman Calls for a Green Energy Revolution (10)
on Wired Top Stories (5412) permalinkThomas Friedman is about to dive into the green-tech fray. In his latest book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, the multi-Pulitzer-winning journalist says everyone needs to accept that oil will never be cheap again and that wasteful, polluting technologies cannot be tolerated. The last big innovation in energy production, he observes, was nuclear power half a century ago; since then the field has stagnated. "Do you know any industry in this country whose last major breakthrough ...Shared by Brent (134) Courtney (117) Hakim (33) hallie (79) Henry Webb (77) MV (73) Nathaniel Dean (112) rsgalloway (80) Sid (124) Varun Mahajan (97)Contribute comment
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Zeep Mobile: Free SMS Gateway For Developers (26)
on ReadWriteWeb (14114) permalinkWhile SMS has already become one of the most important forms of communication in many parts of the world, the U.S. is only catching up to this trend slowly. Part of the reason for this is the high cost of using SMS, not just for users, but also for developers who want to use SMS for their applications. In contrast to other SMS service providers, Zeep Mobile offers developers a free SMS API without volume ...Shared by _dot_ (118) Akhmad Fathonih (54) Alfonso Martinez (50) Anol (32) Brent (134) Bwana (264) Eoin (71) giro (10) gisc (80) green (17) iBspoof (72) KevM (10) Leon (57) LJ (11) Miguel Angel (141) Mudiam (21) Nichol (89) Phil (297) Q-BEE (48) Roland Tanglao (315) sarahintampa (448) Selwin (56) Shaun (54) Simone (66) vega gravity (36) zeaz (192)Contribute comment
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BackType, A Twitter For Comments (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch) (4)
on Techmeme (3800) permalinkMichael Arrington / TechCrunch: BackType, A Twitter For Comments — BackType is the newest YCombinator startup to launch from their summer program. They're a blog-comment focused startup - founders Christoper Golda and Michael Montano are for the first time aggregating all comments from millions of blogs into a single, searchable, parsable stream.Contribute comment
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Sun-Times Editor Slams Mariotti (1)
on Chicagoist (227) permalinkAnd the hits just keep on coming with this Jay Mariotti story. Sun-Times EIC Michael Cook issued a statement today touting the paper's sports coverage as "the best sports section in the city" and boasting of its remaining columnists, yada yada. The statement also included this: The Chicago Sun-Times and suntimes.com will continue to have the scores and the stories before anyone else, anywhere, and the deepest and most comprehensive stats and standings. We wish ...Shared by Brent (134)Contribute comment
- FriendFeed readying faster alternative to RSS (12)
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Mozilla shows off Ubiquity: Mashups for the rest of us (2)
on ZDNet Blogs (243) permalinkMozilla Labs introduced Ubiquity, an experiment that would allow users to create mashups at will without any advance knowledge. The game plan for Ubiquity, still in its early stages, is to allow users to control the browser by searching on something in real English and then connecting the dots with existing APIs (Techmeme). In other words, the rest of us can create mashups and extend the browser easily. Mozilla describes a simple map meets email ...Shared by Brent (134) Ullash (135)Contribute comment
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On Technical Debt [del.icio.us] (1)
on Brent Sordyl's Blog (246) permalinkSecond, all technology has future liability. The more code you write, the more you have to maintain and support. That has a cost as well for the future.Shared by Brent (134)Contribute comment
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Techdirt: AMC Upset That Fans Are Making Mad Men More Fun; Sends DMCA Notices To Twitter (5)
on Techdirt (2125) permalinkIt's really amazing how many times we see companies using the DMCA to shut down and stamp out fan efforts to help promote some content. Take, for example, the latest situation pointed out by MG Siegler over at VentureBeat. Apparently, cable TV network AMC has been sending DMCA takedown notices to Twitter because some fans of its popular show Mad Men have created Twitter accounts for the main characters in the show. The fans are ...Contribute comment
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ProofHQ makes proofing artwork collaborative [del.icio.us] (1)
on Brent Sordyl's Blog (246) permalinkProofHQ is a web application that manages collaborative review and approval of designs, artwork, documents and images.Shared by Brent (134)Contribute comment
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Guter Screenshot Maker für FF (2)
on Brent Sordyl's Blog (246) permalinkFireShot is a extension for Firefox and Internet Explorer that creates and edits screenshots of web pages entirely.Shared by Brent (134) CHRISTIAN (43)Contribute comment
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Comparative Hilarity Levels of Various Marxes (5)
on GraphJam: Pop culture for people in cubicles. (AKA Song Chart Meme) (662) permalinkGraph by Scottch The Marx BrothersContribute comment
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Prototype: Turning Point for Touch Screens (3)
on NYT > Technology (568) permalinkThe market for touch screens has grown quietly for years, both in commercial applications and in consumer devices.Contribute comment
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Digg head leaks 4th-gen iPod nano, iTunes 8? (2)
on MacNN | The Macintosh News Network (385) permalinkClaims of a tall iPod nano are accurate, Digg founder Kevin Rose says as part of a detailed rumor report. Providing what appears to be photographic evidence, Rose says the portable music player will switch to a tall screen ratio but also a heavily redesigned shell that returns to wrap-around aluminum in a tapered, curved design. The click wheel will remain and switch to dark gray on the silver m...Shared by Brent (134) Brian (43)Contribute comment
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Do We Really Need a National CTO? (20)
on Mashable! (11139) permalinkRobert Scoble has become a cheerleader for Barack Obama’s concept of a national Chief Technology Officer. Though he claims that both Republicans and Democrats have asked for a CTO position to be created for the Whitehouse. Senator McCain has revealed his technology plan for America, and so far I haven’t found a part where he calls for a CTO yet. I’ll leave it for our always colorful commenters to speculate as to why that is, ...Shared by bhc3 (224) Brent (134) Chung (373) Jeff Greco (73) Joe (34) Jonathan Sterling (141) losamorales (26) Loyolny (61) michael (24) Mike (50) Mike F (2102) Nate (99) Quinny (81) Rabid Cow (36) rexy (174) Rizzn (265) Rubin (53) sarahintampa (448) Sean (87) Tim (276)
- Joe said: We don't need a CTO!!!
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Get Free Airport Wi-Fi with a Simple URL Hack [Wi-Fi] (203)
on Lifehacker (34012) permalinkBlogger Felix Geisendorfer points out a clever URL hack that scored him free Wi-Fi at the Atlanta airport. I found that I could easily visit sites like slashdot, Google, or even this weblog, when adding a ?.jpg at the end of the url. The next logical step was to automate that. I downloaded Greasemonkey and wrote a 4 line script that would add ?.jpg to every link in a document. That way I was able ...Shared by Abby (28) AbdO (43) Adam Selwood (108) Adrian (83) AfroWhitey (58) Akshat (31) Alex (438) Alex (118) AlphaPapa (49) Andrés Milleiro (185) Andrew Meyer (35) Andrew Terry (149) Andy (22) aNTwNHs (145) Augmented Web (118) azlon (38) Ben Shoemate (230) Benjamin Golub (76) Bill Shakes (49) blackbelt (22) Brent (134) Brian Megilligan (30) brownpau (260) Bryan (11) bussiere (216) C.K. (306) Camtron 9000 (230) Chad (406) Chad (38) Chandoo (210) Charles (276) Chris (35) Chris (49) Chris Schrier (41) Christian (207) Compuwizard123 (225) Convoluted (118) dan (107) Dan Russell (143) Daniel (23) dasmart (139) Data Vortex (44) dave (16) Dave C. (70) David (30) David (39) David Bradley (132) Dedalus (89) Dejim (53) Deks Daka (12) Dimitris (109) dknowles (66) dmkanter (14) Donnie Berkholz (98) Doug (21) Dov Harrington (22) Duncan (216) Dustin Diaz (34) Eater (99) ema (73) Emmett (84) erikeric (58) fabio (134) fonsus (18) Frank (44) Frank (14) fundament (114) genieyclo (154) GG (303) Glen Horton (68) Glenn Batuyong (261) gnusic (270) Goktug (63) Graham (35) hallie (79) HejGustav (238) Herock (101) Hubert Taler (11) Humberto Gonzalez (145) INCyr (70) J. Robertson (60) Jacob (48) Jake (31) jamesjbigler (90) Jamie (22) Jamin (188) Jared (106) Jaron (54) Jason (76) Jason (56) JeDa (72) Jeff Grosse (1) Jeff Stonebraker (12) Jeffrey (92) Jeffrey (34) Jeremiah (98) Jesse (69) Jing (24) Joe (273) Jon (54) Jon Lowder (23) Jonnie (29) Jordan (58) Jorg (36) Jose (42) Julian (45) Julius (41) keith (125) Ken (12) kennethjayden (9) Kevin (55) Khosrow Ebrahimpour (21) kidmarmite (117) Kourosh (137) Les (4) lizunlong (153) lucky13cxc (24) m8 (24) maccman (87) Marc Stamper (11) marcusmeisel (62) Matthew (43) Matthew (176) Michelle (28) Miggity (26) Mike F (2102) Mitchell Tsai (277) Mookyjooky (133) Morton Fox (310) n8dude (113) narkomanC (62) Nick Humphries (76) Nico (25) Nicolás (34) nilegomez (61) nparker13 (605) OGeleia (77) Oren (23) Page (40) Pat (98) Patrick (124) pbizzle (42) Peli (53) perry (30) Peter (21) Peter Du (24) reisfeldt (40) Rémy (46) ricardo (70) Rich (52) Rich (20) Richard (172) Robert (36) Robert Birming (860) Ron (43) Roy (22) rpy (29) Ryan (123) Ryan Cahoon (54) Sai Gudigundla (47) sameer (24) Scott (103) Scott Walter (38) Sean (83) Sh (17) Shannon Prickett (103) Shanthi (25) shizhao (179) Sid (56) Sid (124) simplynutty (71) sirmikester (116) Siva (47) Sky-Walker (276) solsuknjerk (23) sparrowsmith (15) Stacy (263) Sweevo (24) Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (330) TechDad1246 (33) Theotrek (45) Thunderror (45) Tiffehr (30) Tim (118) Tim (91) Tino (42) tobalito (68) tomwsmf (89) Ulises (68) ULTIMATE CREATOR (28) Unseen (79) vega gravity (36) Venci (85) Whiz (129) WindPower (89) wvpv (53) Xdroot (200) Xu Li (Leslie) (101) youdots (56) zsafwan (242) 狮子真好吃啊 (91) 绯村剑心 (36)Explore read 13 notes
- Peter Du said: If you are stuck with Starhub again at Changi Airport in Singapore, perhaps you should give this a try.
- David said: Definitely using this next time I travel. I hate paying $25+ for 15 minutes of WiFi useage.
- Rémy said: reshare
- Dustin Diaz said: Well this is useful information. Get free internet access just by appending .jpg :)
- Eater said: Some of them allow non-http{,s} ports outbound without authenticating, too, so you can just port forward and proxy.
- Jeff Stonebraker said: brilliant
- Emmett said: Take note all of you who fly.
- dknowles said: If I didn't already have an iPass account this might be interesting.
- Jeffrey said: it'd be interesting for you people who are flying back to college in a couple of days to try this out
- Dedalus said: Hmmm. I wonder if it works here...
- rpy said: Got to try this!
- sparrowsmith said: Has anybody tried this?
- Tiffehr said: Note to self for the Phoenix airport for my October trip....
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Less Than Meets the Eye: The 12 Most Ridiculous Transformers of All Time | Geekdad from Wired.com (22)
on Wired Top Stories (5412) permalinkOur beloved Transformers: Generation 1 was not without fault. In fact, each iteration of the titular "Robots in Disguise" has seen its share of missteps: The Transformers universe has managed to throw us some unapologetic curves, some wholly ill-conceived characters.Shared by BrendoMan (292) Brent (134) christideli (81) Craig (27) Dan Messer (9) darkeye11547 (1051) Datch (68) david henderson (45) Erwin Tang Yew Hon (124) J (29) Jason Matthews (64) Jeff (41) John (12) Jorge Wagner (127) MG (166) ming (56) Moose (41) Paul Winch (150) rene (190) Shane Coffey (595) Trevor Shafer (47) Yvette (67)
- Jeff said: Worth the read just for the paragraph on Frenzy from the recent Transformers live-action movie. Things get pretty ugly in the comments section tho..
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