Official Google Blog: Google Voice invites on their way (127)
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A couple of months ago we announced Google Voice, a service that gives you one phone number to link all your phones and makes voicemail as easy as email. We are happy to share that Google Voice is beginning to open up beyond former GrandCentral users. If you requested an invitation on the Google Voice site or previously on GrandCentral, keep your eye out for an invite email.Once you receive your invitation, just click on ...
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philco said:
oh thank god.
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Jacob W said:
Jury's still out on whether this will be useful in the short term, but I wager that it (or something like it) will be VERY useful once everybody has a portable internet machine that gets good reception (e.g., not T-Mo or AT&T on their current networks). Although, much like Wave, it's kind of a tough/complicated sell.
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Cristian said:
I already have my GNumber, you guys (in the US) should also request one.
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Gianluigi Cogo said:
Vabbè, come dicevo i giorni scorsi in un post sull'argomento, alla fine la unified communication sarà una sfida globale. Big G ha comprto 1.000.000 di numeri di telefono, vediamo se ne comprerà ancora. Allora vorra dire che fa sul serio e gli utenti lo seguono.
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vanlandw said:
To the joy of vanberge4's everywhere...
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Erica Baker said:
Woot!
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yooper1019 said:
oh, man! you can choose your number now using words? damn!
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Todd said:
I don't know how (or if) I'll use this - but I signed up for an invite ages ago. Looking forward to trying it out.
Previously on Lost (36)
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A Bolivian TV station was duped into airing screencaps showing a plane crash from Lost thinking that it was the crash of Air France Flight 447 somehow photographed in widescreen from inside the plane. In their rush to air exclusive photos of Flight 447's destruction, no one in this newsroom stopped to ask the logical questions, such as: 1) How did the camera survive? and 2) Why are the photos in wide-screen format?The answers, of ...
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Casey said:
I think the original story has been shared a lot before but the wording of the quotation is pretty great.
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philco said:
i bet everyone on that plane wished they were on lost too. oh. :(
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EchoWhiskey said:
Laura, you must be so proud.
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Zio Bonino said:
lol
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JMO said:
this is way too funny
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camilalpav said:
Eu SABIA! Era impossível isso não dar merda, somehow, somewhere.
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Benjamin Kabak said:
Wow. Just wow.
Climatologist James Hansen: we're almost too late re: climate change (15)
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Climatologist James Hansen, who is the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the creator of one of the first climate models that predicted global warming, is convinced that the problem of climate change caused by humans is much more dire than is generally thought (subscribers only link; abstract). Hansen has now concluded, partly on the basis of his latest modeling efforts and partly on the basis of observations made by other scientists, ...
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Boris Mann said:
I washed Sharkwater with Rachael the other day, and finished reading Bottomfeeder some time ago, about our approach to the oceans' biomass. This seems equally fucked.
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philco said:
WE'RE DEAD MEAT!
Ponyo trailer (9)
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The trailer for Ponyo, the latest animated feature film from Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, etc.). The film opened in Japan last year and made more than $150 million at the box office. The American version is dubbed and I don't know if a subtitled version will made it to theaters in the US or not. There was a theatrical release of a subtitled Mononoke but that was a long time ago. Tags: hayaomiyazaki ...
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philco said:
miyazakiiiiii!
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mac said:
be there or be square
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striatic said:
i know rebecca wants to see this one.
All-purpose tanuki testicles (14)
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In the mid-1840s, ukiyo-e master Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) created a number of woodblock prints showing legendary tanuki (raccoon dogs) using their humorously large scrota in creative ways. River fishing Shelter from evening showers Rokurokubi (long-necked monster) disguise Net fishing Making dashi (soup stock) Weightlifting Catfish mallet Coming and going Making mochi Visiting Konpira, the guardian deity of seafaring Boy’s festival Cause of chronic abdominal pain Shichifukujin (the Seven Lucky Gods) disguise Fortune-telling tent Shop signs ...
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Nick said:
OMGWTFROFL!
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philco said:
These would have been really beneficial in super Mario 3.
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Daniel Ferraz said:
FODA.
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Graham Smith said:
Allow me to be the third person in the sharing chain... multi-functi scrota FTW.
19th century bike tricks (42)
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In 1899, Thomas Edison filmed some very contemporary looking bike tricks. This seemed fake when I first watched it but here it is at The Library of Congress. Tags: cycling Thomas Edison video
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Matthew said:
that final one is MENTAL!
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philco said:
there's nothing new under the sun!
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Jacob W said:
Pretty hilarious to think that they anticipated Jackass by over a century.
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CableMonkey said:
Enjoy, Soto.
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wise said:
EDISON DOES THE DEW, WIPES OUT
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Beck said:
WAY cool.
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Joe Hughes said:
How little things change
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dare said:
apparently NOT fake :)
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