What lurks below Microsoft's Surface? A brief Q&A with Microsoft
Published Thursday, May 31, 2007 by Stangrunner.
In Meeting, "Wild-Eyed" Bush Thumped Chest, Repeating "I Am The President!"
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Georgie Anne Geyer writes today in the Dallas Morning News about President Bush: "But by all reports, President Bush is more convinced than ever of his righteousness. Friends of his from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated 'I am the president!'"
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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: Historic discussion live from D 2007 - Engadget
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iPhone Matters | Removable iPhone Battery Makes More Sense for Apple Than User
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iPhone Hacks : iPhone rumors | More memory, user replaceable battery and lots more
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MacDailyNews - Apple debuts Apple TV with 160GB hard drive, YouTube integration coming mid-June
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Fast Food Crime Watch: Customer Shoots Wendy's Manager Over Packets Of Chili Sauce - Consumerist
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The Slurpr WiFi aggregator promises "free" broadband -- and jail time - Engadget
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Apple jealously guards its Apple Store "geniuses" -- the tech-support people behind Apple's Genius Bars. The editors of Mac|Life, however, got two of those geniuses to talk. Here are their unapproved-by-Apple comments on what it's like to work for Apple.
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Business & Technology | Leading the charge on iPhone | Seattle Times Newspaper
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MAC.BLORGE.com » Blog Archive » Why Apple WILL release an updated iPod - and soon
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MacDailyNews - Microsoft Office ordered off 25,000 Macs in New Zealand schools
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And they want to know why Micro$oft is often characterized as being "greedy".
MacDailyNews - Microsoft Office ordered off 25,000 Macs in New Zealand schools
MacDailyNews - Microsoft Office ordered off 25,000 Macs in New Zealand schools
Seattle Times interviews AT&T point man for iPhone - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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The Examining Room of Dr. Charles - Ali G shows Dr. Koop the Dangers of Being Humorless
Published Monday, May 28, 2007 by Stangrunner.
The Examining Room of Dr. Charles: "Ali G shows Dr. Koop the Dangers of Being Humorless"
jemmille recently visited the "Big Red" supercomputer at Indiana University. It is capable of a theoretical 20.4 trillion operations per second and has 4 terabytes of memory. It is powered by SUSE Linux. If sources are correct, that power has now been doubled. One awesome computer. (pic)
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Landspeeders, Banthas, even Han & Chewie escaping from Docking Bay 94 in the Falcon! It's all here in impressive LEGO detail. Flickr user Bluemoose uploaded these photos from the 2007 Leicester LEGO Fest. Check out his photoset!
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Brain-eating zombies invade SF Apple store | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
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Pic! The largest wild Hog you will see today. astounding.
Published Friday, May 25, 2007 by Stangrunner.
So you find out that everyone in on your block is using your network without your permission. Do you lock it down or...? Or maybe you want to have a little fun. A little creativity with squid and you could turn your everything they browse upside down (literally)
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Found Footage: Possible video taken by iPhone? - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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Seems a passing sparrow took an opportunity to weigh in on what the President had to say."
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation authorizing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and punish gasoline price gouging. "Today, every member has a choice. Side with big oil or side with the consumers who are being ripped off at the gas pump."
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PiperJaffray analyst predicts Autumn 6G iPod - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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Flickr Find: Microsoft Amnesty Bin for iPods - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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Apple iPhone 8 GB NEW unlocked PDA cell phone 4 sale, 2 SIM card slots
Published Wednesday, May 23, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Apple iPhone 8 GB NEW unlocked PDA cell phone 4 sale, 2 SIM card slots
UPDATE: Link was pulled a few minutes after I found it. But, I did grab a copy of it.....See below
Excerpt from the posting:
Apple iPhone 8 GB NEW unlocked PDA cell phone 4 sale, 2 SIM card slots - $600
Reply to: (removed)
Date: 2007-05-23, 3:47PM PDT
I have a brand new Apple iPhone (8gb) cell phone for sale. 2 SIM CARD SLOTS (so you can switch to whichever SIM card you want)! Very Cool! It is the Chinese version (the box is in Chinese). Phone language is in English. Phone is unlocked and will work with several service carriers such as T-Mobile, AT&T, Cingular and worldwide. Functions and features include: huge 3.5" touch-screen, 2 megapixel camera, video recorder, speakerphone, 8gb internal flash memory, multimedia player (mp3 and mp4), phone book, message, call history, entertainment (i.e. games), calculator, calendar, to-do list, world clock, unit converter, currency converter, health (bmi, menstrual), e-mail browser, and GPRS connection.
Included in the box: 2 batteries, USB connector cable, wall charger, 256mb micro-SD card, stylus pen and stereo headset.
Please e-mail me if you are interested. Interested buyer must be willing to pick up. Price is $600 OBO (cash only). Thank you.
Who are these people? At any given hour on any given workday, well, it turns out it's not a workday at all. Not for these hordes roaming free, anyway. I didn't doubt that the packers had sound explanations. I just wanted to hear them.
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He politely put the peanut butter and jelly to the side, closed my bag and gave it back to me. I was too astonished to talk. I took my bag and walked towards the gate thinking about the 4 or maybe 5 meals that she had taken from me.
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There is a strange disconnect in the way Americans think about George W. Bush. He is extraordinarily unpopular. His approval ratings, which have been abysmal for about 18 months, have now sunk to their lowest ever. Yet the public's dislike of Bush has not translated into any real move to get rid of him. Why? The main reason is obvious...
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This is so wrong on so many levels....
Indian Call Centers: What Tools Do Call Center Agents Have At Their Disposal? - Consumerist
Published Sunday, May 20, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Indian Call Centers: What Is "Quality Assurance" To An Indian Call Center? - Consumerist
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One room, one paintball gun controlled via the Web, and one Iraqi-American
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I recently interviewed Wafaa Bilal, an Iraqi-American who lives 24 hours a day, 7 days a week over 30 days in an enclosed space, and his only companion is a paintball gun hooked up to the Internet for anyone to choose to fire.
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Dell's ultra-thin LCD concept with DisplayPort going retail? - Engadget
Published Friday, May 18, 2007 by Stangrunner.
VIDEOS: XM Subscribers Destroy Radios To Protest Opie And Anthony Suspension - Consumerist
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Apple Patent Watch: Apple to Turn iPhone and MacBook Into Crime Fighters - Gizmodo
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MIT hackers dropped hundreds of labelled playpen balls onto the audience from hatches in the ceiling. The labels bore XKCD's logo as well as the recently discovered 16-byte AACS processing key.
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A 36-year-old German mother-of-five drove her son to a jewelry store he wanted to rob because she was afraid he may come to some harm. While her 17-year-old son and his two accomplices stabbed and robbed a jeweler in the eastern city of Dresden, the mother waited outside in the car.
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Fast Food: McDonald's Employee Hides Pot Stash In Happy Meal Box, Gives Happy Meal To Child - Consumerist
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Details are sketchy on these photographs of what is being labeld a Mystery Giant Marine Turtle (or is it a decomposing whale), thusfar, other than they are a record of a body from a recent Pacific Ocean beaching.
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Showers are great and all, but sometimes I wish they could be more terrifying. That's why I like this Gasmask Showerhead. It strikes fear deep into my soul, which is what I look for in a bathroom appliance.
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Rixstep - The Technological 20070515,00 — Windows Users
Published Tuesday, May 15, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Two days last week, Autoblog got to spend time with the Hugger Orange hued Camaro Convertible Concept that GM brought out to California, along with a few of its designers. In case you didn't realize it already, the car is stunning. Here's 52 high-res pics to prove it.
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Indignation: Don't Question The Existence Of God On Your Starbucks Cup Or Else - Consumerist
Published Monday, May 14, 2007 by Stangrunner.
AppleDefects.com » Shocking: MacBook MELTS While Playing DVD - Customer Complaints & Issues - Defective Apple Products, iPod, MacBook, iMac, Mac probl
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Disgusting.....
This is insane...... incredible!!!!!!!!
Dieselstation Exotic Car Wallpapers - Fuel For Your Desktop - Transformers Wallpapers
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Sweet Jesus: World's Highest Swing Looks Terrifying - Gizmodo
Published Friday, May 11, 2007 by Stangrunner.
If you take a long international flight ten years from now, there's a good chance the airliner carrying you will be made as much out of plastic as metal. But not just any plastic. Tomorrow's airliners will make extensive use of advanced carbon-fiber composite materials, much stronger and lighter than the aluminum parts they replace.
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A lady thought that the puddle was only a few inches deep, but she was very surprised to find out how deep it was.
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A squirrel waltzed into an open classroom at Evergreen Elementary School and scurried up a woman's leg in an attack that ended with an 11-year-old girl and two moms in the hospital this morning.
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Ms. Holsman also said she had found Hispanic workers to be lazy, white workers resentful of having to work with machines, and Asians, while very productive, likely to move on to professional or management jobs.
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''This morning I was fortunate enough to have a chance to sit down with Steve Wozniak, otherwise known as Woz, king of the geeks. The co-founder of Apple and the father of the personal computer is like Santa with a tech fetish, an incredibly nice guy with lots to say about the future of technology.''
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Video: 2001 Dodge Ram Dashboards Collapsing, Cracking, Dealerships Won't Fix - Consumerist
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Free tickets for baseball fans who receive a rectal exam at the stadium
Published Wednesday, May 09, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Want free baseball tickets? All you had to do last night was show up at Miller Park, home to the Milwaukee Brewers, and let a doctor check your prostate.After the "free and confidential" rectal exam, you would have scored two free tickets to a future Brewers game.
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If these blurry camera phone shots aren't lying, then the ultimate Vette ever will have a clear polycarbonate window in its hood to show off the engine underneath. Say whu? Yeah, a plexiglass window, not unlike the totally transparent hood on the car in which John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John liberated themselves from terra firma in Grease.
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Bhandari said he received a letter from the state auditor last month saying the state would sue him if he did not raise his prices. The state could penalize him for each discounted gallon he sold, with the fine determined by a judge.
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Lunch with Warren Buffett; a tasty steak and lots of wisdom - May. 9, 2007
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The Mac OS X command line interface is home to thousands of programs that the average user doesn’t know exists. While using the command line in Mac OS X is not necessary for the every day operation of a Macintosh, if harnessed correctly, it can save you a lot of time. I hope you enjoy these ten OS X command line utilities . .
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Intel rolls out Santa Rosa notebook platform, 2.4GHz MacBook Pro to follow
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Intel Corp. on Wednesday formally ushered in the Santa Rosa upgrade to its Centrino notebook platform, offering faster Core 2 Duo processors and chipsets, improved graphics, stronger wireless signals, better battery life, and an option to turbo-speed boot time and software application loading.
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Partially inside Apple's design process - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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The Examining Room of Dr. Charles - Are Patients Really Dead When We Think They Are?
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Confessions: Best Buy Employee Confesses To Scams Similar To Ones Outlined In Racketeering Lawsuit - Consumerist
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Food: Are You Paying $60 A Year For Water Pumped Into Chicken? - Consumerist
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These concrete towers were unique AIR RAID SHELTERS of Nazi Germany, built to withstand the destructive power of WWII bombs and heavy artillery. Their cone shape caused bombs to slide down the walls and detonate only at a heavily fortified base.
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What Apple CSRs see - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Published Tuesday, May 08, 2007 by Stangrunner.
I would have to agree. This old Mac is probably a million times more stable than even a new Microsoft Vista pc......
A Sacramento boy returned from a family trip to discover his birthday money was missing from his luggage. He thought his wallet with the money would be safe inside a bag he checked. When he got home, everything in his bag had been ransacked. The boy's mom found out there are no surveillance cameras watching TSA employees searching luggage.
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Up to 15% of USDA Certified Chicken Weight is Fecal Soup
Published Monday, May 07, 2007 by Stangrunner.
ID Theft: Closed Your Account Because Of Fraud? Bank Of America Helpfully Links Your New Account - Consumerist
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Drunks On A Plane: Man Convicted of In-Flight Felony: His "Face Was Pressed To Vaginal Area" - Consumerist
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Spreading honey on a diabetic ulcer could prevent the need to amputate an infected foot, researchers say.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have invented a machine that makes you sleep with the PUSH OF A BUTTON, then gives you the equivalent of eight hours of sleep in just two or three hours. The machine uses a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to induce the slow brain waves associated with the deepest phases of sleep.
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Found on jumpergirl's flickr photostream.....awesome...
Costco is carrying cases of "illegally" imported Mexican Coca-Cola - made with real sugar instead of corn syrup. Coca-Cola Co. says there's "no difference."
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This is, apparently, the world's fastest toilet. Powered by a Boeing Jet engine, the $10,000 vehicle's top speed is in excess of 70mph, and it farts flames from its tailpipe - rather like, I would imagine, a man forced to eat ten vindaloos one after another.
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Disgusting: China Is Full Of Nasty Food Practices, Like Reselling Discarded KFC On The Street - Consumerist
Published Thursday, May 03, 2007 by Stangrunner.
LP: Vegan parents guilty in infant murder 6 wk old starved to death fed diet of soy milk & apple juice
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WARNING: (NSFW)!!!!!
Three words: DAMN SMOKING HOT!!!!!
Tubewad - Television Salma Hayek not returning to "Ugly Betty"
Three words: DAMN SMOKING HOT!!!!!
Tubewad - Television Salma Hayek not returning to "Ugly Betty"
Censorship: Liveblogging Digg's $#@*!storm - Consumerist
Published Wednesday, May 02, 2007 by Stangrunner.
You’ve heard about them. You’ve fantasized about them. You’ve dreamed about one day owning your own. But are you really mature enough to have your own harem yet? With great harem comes great responsibility. You might want to read the following five facts before you decide to invest in one.
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Yes, this is how I think it should be done. Can the DMCA come to your work and take you mug? No. Take the shirt off your back? No. Steal you bumper sticker? No.
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"Daniel Strohl, painted some aluminum cans black, drilled some holes in the cans, stacked them, and then put them in a box and, viola, [solar panel]."
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Apple: Get Your Defective Laptop Replaced By Sending Well-Written Emails To Steve Jobs - Consumerist
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