Nokia Gives You A New Opportunity To Have Your Music Eventually Disappear [Adventures In Bad Ideas] (1)
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Nokia's Comes With Music service was rolled out extensively today in the UK (or whatever they call today over there) and the basic premise sounds promising: Pay a little extra for a phone, download all the music you like, and keep it, even when you switch plans. Of course, it's not as good as it seems. While the service is initially only available in the UK, Nokia promised the service would hit our shores soon. ...
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Derek said:
Wow, DRM'd WMAs? That's worked out so well with PlaysForSure music!
Mackerel economics in prison (7)
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Today's Wall Street Journal has a fascinating article about "macks," tins of mackerel that are commonly used for bartering in prison. Macks took over around 2004 when smoking bans in federal prison knocked out the previous currency: packs of cigarettes. From the WSJ: Unlike... more expensive delicacies, former prisoners say, the mack is a good stand-in for the greenback because each can (or pouch) costs about $1 and few -- other than weight-lifters craving protein ...
New Nintendo DSi Announced (7)
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justme8800 writes "The DSi has a bigger screen, an SD card expansion, a 0.3 megapixel camera, is thinner (no GBA slot), and has improved audio. To be released in Japan on November 1st, everywhere else sometime in 2009."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Daniel said:
if the camera lets you video conference with your friends, that would be pretty cool
Netflix Streaming Coming Soon to Macs. [NetFlix] (35)
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Amongst all the other news out of Netflix lately (content from Starz/Warner Bros., new API), a late-night blog post announces that Macs will get streaming movies-on-demand "by the end of the year." No word yet on Firefox compatability. [via]
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Derek said:
Excellent! Quickly, Netflix!
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Dan said:
About effin time.
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Bill said:
niiiice.
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Ortelius said:
Now I will have one less reason to keep a Windows partition on my MBP
Bank Robber Uses Craigslist To Hire Unsuspecting Accomplices (53)
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A man robbed an armored car outside a Monroe, Washington bank and used a dozen unwitting accomplices to act as decoys during his getaway. He hired the accomplices on Craigslist and instructed them to wear very specific clothing. From King5.com: "I came across the ad that was for a prevailing wage job for $28.50 an hour," said Mike, who saw a Craigslist ad last week looking for workers for a road maintenance project in Monroe. ...
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Mashable said:
Hilariously absurd. Best line: "The suspect is described as a white man in his 20s, between 5-foot-7 and 5-foot-10, wearing a dark blue shirt, jean shorts and a mask."
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Fuzzyman said:
Sheer evil genius.
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Andrew Ferguson said:
Holy Jinkies Batman!
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Tim said:
AWESOME!!!
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phrakture said:
Awesome
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Jonathan said:
Craigslist *can* be used for evil (by someone other than a real estate broker).
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Preeti Desai said:
haha, this is kinda ingenious.
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Ortelius said:
Brilliant!
Rolling Stone presents 11 myths about Sarah Palin (57)
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Rolling Stone has compiled a nice list of myths about Sarah Palin. 1. THE MYTH: "She took the luxury jet that was acquired by her predecessor and sold it on eBay. And made a profit!" — John McCain, at a campaign stop in Wisconsin THE FACTS: No one bought the jet online. It was eventually sold through an aircraft broker — at a loss to taxpayers of nearly $600,000. 2. THE MYTH: "I told the ...
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Jake Spurlock said:
I side with Tina Fey in saying that I don't want to see/hear anything more about her after Nov. 4th.
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Dedalus said:
Oh, boy! Tina Fey's got material for months and months of SNL.
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Jason said:
Truth.
Epic Failure Wrapup (1)
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I'd Buy That for a Dollar (1)
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We think most would agree that right now isn't exactly the time to get into the speculative real estate market. But one Chicago woman, Joanne Smith, decided to buck the odds, buying a home sight unseen last week in Saginaw, Michigan with the plan to resell it (pictured right). In her defense, she bought the home on eBay for a steal -- $1.75. [Ed's Note - This reminds me of that episode of The Simpsons ...
Google, Circa 2001 (13)
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An anonymous reader writes "If you have 10 minutes to spare, take a look at an archive that Google has posted to mark the company's 10th anniversary. The search engine and its results are based on data from 2001, but it's interesting to see what turns up when popular 2008 terms are entered. For instance, iPod generates a reference to Image Proof of Deposit Document Processing System, and the 771 Barack Obama results centered around ...
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Daniel said:
Re-sharing for my home boys.
The Female George Bush Turns Out To Be Every Idiot On A Message Board (2)
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I must have argued with her one million times online.Epic FAIL.
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Derek said:
Holy shit, she NEVER ANSWERS A QUESTION. Ugh, we should really throw people like this out of the country.
Mars Lander Sees Falling Snow (10)
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Riding with Robots writes "NASA reports that the Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds. According to the Canadian team running a weather experiment, a laser instrument designed to study how the atmosphere and surface interact on Mars has detected snow from clouds about 4 kilometers above the landing site. Data shows the snow vaporizing before reaching the surface, but one of the mission scientists said, 'We'll be looking for signs that ...
Control Remember the Milk from Ubiquity [Featured Firefox Extension] (18)
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Firefox with Ubiquity: Command-line quickness and universal task managers go together like milk and ultra-organized cookies. Developer Gary Hodgson realized this and created a super-useful interface for universal to-do manager Remember the Milk inside Ubiquity, the natural language, terminal-style extension that we've taken a shine to. The command plug-in allows registered RTM users to log in and out, add and complete tasks with suggested auto-completions, and offers visual cues when tasks are seriously overdue or ...
Visualizing with salt (3)
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This gets a little intense. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Science | Digg this!
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Derek said:
This is really neat. You might want to turn your speakers off, the audio gets really annoying
Company will apply green spraypaint to dead brown lawns of foreclosed homes (10)
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This story came out in February, but I just heard about it on the news today. A company in the depressed town of Stockton, California (which looked to me like it was about to collapse when I was there ten years ago; I imagine it's much worse now) is keeping busy painting the dead lawns of foreclosed homes with green paint so banks can tart them up for auction. Nick Terlouw has launched the Greener ...
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Derek said:
Wow, this guy is a marketing genius.
What Obama Is Up Against (1)
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Kentucky:I would totally hit that. If I wasn't married. And hated myself.
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Derek said:
The guy in the front talks at 3:15, and it's awesome. No idea what he tried to say.
What if he'd called it PIGS? (7)
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I just got this email from John Langley, the guy who made the uber-reality show Cops. I see it as an acknowledgement of all of us who tend to read more into TV programs and their creators' intent than they might suggest on the surface. Dear Mr. Rushkoff: It was refreshing to recently read "Media Virus" and your take on "Cops," which I happen to produce and for which I'm responsible as the guy who ...
Apple simplifies iPhone 3G buying process (2)
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The Pacific Ocean ate my iphone some weeks ago -- coincidentally, right around the time the sweet new 3G model came out. No, seriously. When I went to the Apple store to buy a new one, there were very long lines. It seems that either the ocean ate everyone's 1st-gen iPhone, or people were excited about the new model. The lines were made slower by the fact that you had to register the phone and ...
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