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• Remainders - Things We Didn't Post [Remainders]
  ...NASA Flashes a Full Moon...Disney Buys a Piece of Another Lifeless Rock...Move Without Moving (aka How To Get Fat Fast)...iPhone Screens Fixed at a Store Near You... These beautiful hi-res shots of…
• Facebook 3.0 for iPhone Adds Events and Photo Albums, But No Push (Yet) [IPhone Apps]
  Here's what Facebook for iPhone 3.0 looks like—pretty nice. Besides the new giant button home screen, you'll be able to actually RSVP to events and create new photo albums. No push yet, but here's t…
• The First Integrated Circuit Chip: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary [Retromodo]
  The Computer History Museum is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the integrated circuit, pictured above, with a multimedia exhibit called The Silicon Engine to explain why many claim the IC as one o…
• Ceiling Porn Is Probably Not What You Think It Is [Image Cache]
  We tend to take ceilings for granted, unless there's water coming through them thanks to a careless upstairs neighbor. Deputy Dog collected ten insane architectural feats of ceiling-craft to show off…
• With a Name Like 'Luminotherapy' It Hardly Sounds Seedy at All [Furniture]
  Philippe Boulet's luminotherapy bed is supposed to help you sleep. But since when does light shining in someone's face help them sleep? Loaded with a variety of multicolored LEDs, you can change the h…
• Self-Portrait Machine Forces Your Hands Into Drawing a Pretty Picture [Robots]
  No artistic ability? Let a friendly robot force your hands into drawing a realistic self-portrait of yourself. Jen Hui Lia's Self-Portrait Machine takes your picture and then guides your hands into dr…
• Apple's Future iPhone Patents Show Fingerprint ID For Different Gestures, Plus More [Patent]
  MacRumors found three interesting patents that point to various new interaction techniques. The most interesting is the fingerprint ID directly on the screen so that the iPhone can see which finger yo…
• LG Making iPhone Competitor, Android Phone and Prada III [Lg]
  It would be amazing if LG could make an iPhone competitor, an Android device and a Prada III that's one single device, but somehow I don't think that's what LG's president means. In an interview for a…
• Land Rover S1 Phone Tested By Elephants: It Really Is The Strongest Phone [Cellphones]
  This is why the Sonim/Land Rover S1 phone is the toughest phone yet: it can stand an elephant stomp, being run over an actual Land Rover and being tossed out of a second floor window. Plus... ...it wa…
• Magnetic Big Wheel or Ring of Death? [Cars]
  Car designer Harsha Vardhan has a different vision of tomorrow. While his vehicle calls for an electric engine, just like we see in cars now like the Prius or Volt, that engine drives magnetic fields,…

• Robo-Geisha Invade Theaters With Chainsaws, Butt Blades and Fried Shrimp [Nsfw]
  If fembots were viciously cultured Japanese escorts instead of just ditsy blondes, Austin Powers would not have lived to make The Love Guru. (Tagged NSFW for crude violence and PG13 T&A) This preview…
• Windows 7 Home Premium Will Have a Family Pack [Windows 7]
  Kristian Kenney finds this M&M buried inside the horrible trail mix that is the Windows 7 Home Premium End User License Agreement: there's going to be a Family Pack. That's it. There's going to be a f…
• Urination Is Where We Draw the Line on Home Beauty Products [Wellness]
  You know what they say: Nothing takes the callouses off like fastening plastic bags filled with urine around your feet. The Foot Pee! Pack, essentially two ziplock bags intended for your feet, support…
• Heinz Beanzawave USB Desktop Microwave In Action [Microwave]
  We already knew Heinz was developing a USB-powered and possibly portable mini microwave, but now we actually get to see how it works. You guessed it, just like a microwave. It's supposedly going to be…
• Gadget Deals Of The Day [Dealzmodo]
  We've got some stunning deals on laptops and TVs today. If you're enjoying Wimbledon (it's been on 24-7 at my house), there's a free subscription to Tennis Magazine for ya'. Have a happy and safe Inde…
• Altrove Lighting: How Spiderwebs Might Look in 2020 [Design]
  Altrove is a new lighting product that uses transparent wires (which we think means fishing line, not fiber optics) to create a geometric yet ethereal mesh of light on your wall or ceiling. [Artemide…
• Sixty Videos to Explain Sixty Symbols of Physics and Astronomy [Science]
  Do you know what the hell is the Schwarzschild radius? I didn't have a clue, but now I know that if you compress Earth to an 8mm radius ball, you will get a black hole. My fascination didn't stop ther…
• Apple Pulls iPhone App That Allowed for Child Pornography Uploads [IPhone]
  Apple has pulled BeautyMeter—the iPhone/iPod touch app that allowed users to upload naked pictures of themselves for others to rate—after a 15-yo girl published this picture showing her bare breas…
• Sputnik Solar Lamp Brings Free Light to Your Yard [Lights]
  This solar lamp from IDEA is inspired by Sputnik, requires 2-5 hours of sunlight for 8 hours of operation and costs a mere $16. [IDEA via Engadget]
• RIPT FUSION Shirt Transforms Man Into Meathead, Instantly [Fashion]
  Dilemma: You want to look sexy but not too sexy—and certainly not all the time. You're busy and have errands to run, and you can't have post office employees rubbing up in your junk like pups in hea…
• Photoshop Contest: Design a New iTunes Icon [Photoshop Contest]
  The iTunes icon is old and busted. I mean, didn't iPods kill CDs or something? And like, 7 million of the 8 million things iTunes does have nothing to do with tunes. So let's make a new icon! Send you…
• NZXT Sentry 2 Touchscreen Fan Belongs In KITT's Dashboard [Accessories]
  This is the NZXT Sentry 2 fan controller. It installs into any 5.25-inch bay, and you can use its touch screen interface to set the speed of up to five fans. Note: Leather pants are not included. [NZX…
• Verizon Does an About Face, Offers BlackBerry Tour to Existing Customers [Verizon]
  Behold, the power of bad press! Verizon is now set to offer pre-orders of the upcoming BlackBerry Tour to existing customers in the very near future. While yesterday had Verizon reps telling us that t…
• Microsoft Chooses Zune's Ad Agency to Promote Zune Phone "Pink" [Microsoft]
  Advertising firm McCann Erickson has won a lucrative advertising contract with Microsoft, beating out CrispiBLAH BLAH BLAH the point is, people—Zune advertising people—are now talking on record ab…
• Explained: Fireworks vs Firecrackers vs Sparklers [Science]
  While prepping for our nation's independence, we came across this excellent explanation as to how most basic fireworks function. The clip takes about a minute of your time and will imbue you with impr…
• The Aliens of the Star Iota Horologii Are Just Watching Captain Kangaroo Now [Space]
  When our broadcasts leave Earth, they slowly travel into space. There is, however, a sizable delay between what we watch and what distant aliens watch. This convenient chart shows us what TV various s…
• Enigma Battleship Is Probably the Best Drinking Game Ever [Games]
  The Enigma Battleship Drinking Game—a classic Battleship game that makes you drink a shot of your favorite alcohol every time you take a hit—is the last thing I need now, while I'm back visiting f…
• What Is This? [Image Cache]
  I thought this was some kind of bird hunting device sitting on top of a massive forest. In reality it may be your next vacation destination. And you will need the largest thermal airship to get it up…
• Here Are Some Cute Ducks Trying to Use an Escalator [Escalators]
  Ducks, don't try to use escalators, ok? And humans, follow the same advice. Except you, you sexy spinning escalator girl you. You can use the escalator at any time. [Dark Roasted Blend—Thanks Daffy]…
• iPhone Patents Promise to Automate Our Relationships at Last [Apple]
  Unwired View uncovered three new iPhone patents that promise to turn everything from calling grandma on her birthday to turning off your phone in a movie theater into gloriously mindless activities. S…
• Hello I'm a Pear, Hello I'm an Apple [Design]
  Do the Pear Post-Its require a Registry to work and get viruses? Are the Apple Post-Its snotty and obnoxious? I don't know, I don't care. They are both pretty and will match your monitor nicely. [D-Br…
• Psystar Emerges From Bankruptcy With New Product, Same Insane Resolve [Psystar]
  In what is probably the most surprising non-celebrity-death story in weeks, recently bankrupt Psystar—surly maker of all things hackintosh—is now claiming to be ready for a comeback, with a new pr…
• Man Stuff - The Best of Uncrate [Roundups]
  A three-wheeled scooter, a bike with a trunk, and the ultimate all-in-one piece of man furniture - release your inner child Jacko-style with the week's best from Uncrate. This week at Uncrate: We bell…
• Cheap, Thin Laptops Suffering From Cheapness, Thinness [Notebooks]
  The new litter of thin, cheap laptops, as we've seen from Lenovo and Dell, is inherently charming, making the experience of using a cheap, portable laptop bearable for people put off by netbook tinine…
• Cool Time Lapse Video of Atlantis Getting Mounted On Its 747 Mothership [Space]
  We have seen the shuttle on an spectacular shot on top of its 747 mothership and a video of their almost impossible take off, but we have never seen a time lapse video on how everything gets ready. So…
• Sonos Remote Goes Touchscreen; New System Bundle On Its Way [Sonos]
  It's fair to say that everyone would've loved it if the last remote for the Sonos wireless media systems, the $400 C100, had a touchscreen. It didn't. Years later, the CR200 does, but it might be a bi…
• ASUS Eee Keyboard Blithely Glides Past June Release, Now Scheduled For August [Asus]
  ASUS's touchscreen PC-in-a-keyboard was expected to land in June, according to rumors direct statements from company executives. That didn't happen! Prices and specs are presumably unchanged, but the…
• Remainders - Things We Didn't Post [Remainders]
  ...When It's Not OK To Steal From a Church...Apple May Say Buh-Bye to Nvidia...Best Buy Shoppers Admit This Smartphone Thing Is Soooo Confusing...Exactly Who Is America's Fastest Typist?... Some a-hol…
• Alton Brown Would Not Approve of the Bandai Gyoza Maker [Food Gadgets]
  Though it looks a lot like a larger version of those little cigarette rollers, this gadget is actually used to form perfect stuffed Japanese gyozas. We like it, but Alton Brown would never approve of…

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engadget.com

• DARPA contractor shows off tiny robo-hummingbird UAV
  We've seen plenty of tiny UAVs (or NAVs -- Nano Aerial Vehicles -- as they're also known), but none quite like the robo-hummingbird that's been in development at DARPA-contractor AeroVironment for th…
• The Daily Roundup: here's what you might've missed
  Psystar bounces back from Chapter 11, intros new high-end hardwarePsystar's new Open(7) hardware runs Intel Nehalem Xeon, which should provide a nice performance jolt to hackintosh land. Sony exec sa…
• Ask Engadget: Best Bluetooth mouse out there?
  We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget question is coming to us from Sang-Jung, who is desperately…
• Engadget HD explains: Where to put your DVR when you wall-mount your HDTV
  With CableCARD enabled HDTVs being a complete bust and the crazy popular trend of mounting HDTVs on the wall, many wonder what they can do with their DVR or cable box. As you might expect, the crew o…
• PSPgo packs a 480MHz processor, probably not crossing 333MHz mark
  Officially, Sony's PSPgo is only clocking in at 333MHz like the rest of its brothers and sisters, but as the gang at Sony Insider found out in the FCC filing, the internal processor actually maxes ou…
• Archos 9 Windows 7 tablet does a little hands-on time
  Looks like the Archos 9 Windows 7 tablet has made it out of the labs (and controlled show floor settings) and into the hands of Crave UK, where that seemingly-amazing resistive touchscreen continues…
• LG eyes number two phone maker spot for 2012, premium brand in the works
  Sitting pretty as the number three cell maker in the world would make many of the bigger names happy -- not to mention the usurped Sony Ericsson and Motorola a bit green -- but not LG, as it's now gun…
• Sega Toys makes indoor fireworks infinitely safer, to Elvis Costello's dismay
  Lovers of pyrotechnics everywhere have always struggled with the quandary: what to do on a rainy day? Well, firebugs, get a load of this: Sega Toys Japan has heard your prayers and answered 'em in th…
• Tiny, printable batteries promise to change the face of obnoxious greeting cards forever
  Researchers at the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Electronic Nano Systems ENAS in Chemnitz led by Prof. Dr. Reinhard Baumann have unveiled tiny, printable batteries that they hope to put into pr…
• iPhone facing potential trademark issues in China?
  Apple's on-again, off-again deal with China Unicom to officially bring the iPhone to China may still be up in the air, but it looks like it could now also be facing some trademark issues that could p…

• 'Asteroids' heading towards the big screen?
  According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal has won an all-out bidding war over the film rights to Atari's classic Asteroids video game. We're not entirely sure who all was involved in this war, b…
• Sony exec says UMD-less PSP was "always the plan"
  Well, it's no secret that plenty of folks have been talking about a UMD-less PSP since day one, but it looks like that's been the case behind the scenes at Sony as well, at least according to the com…
• D-Link's Xtreme N DIR-685 storage router hands-on and impressions
  Somehow or another, D-Link managed to combine a NAS, digital photo frame, secondary display and 802.11n router into a single device, and when the Xtreme N DIR-685 Storage Router was announced way bac…
• Crapgadget: 'Gee... thanks?' edition
  If you need a flash drive or USB hub there are many useful and, more to the point, tasteful options out there. But if you want to saddle a hapless co-worker or relative with a silly, embarrassing, or…
• Apple patching nasty iPhone SMS vulnerability
  Given the hype surrounding Apple's iPhone, we're actually surprised that we haven't seen more holes to plug over the years. In fact, the last major iPhone exploit to take the world by storm happened…
• Archos Vision PMPs get UK pricing, August release
  Few details were available when Archos announced its new lineup of PMPs last month, but today we can provide you with fuller specs and news of imminent UK availability. The new flagship model, 3 Visi…
• Apple patent applications offer glimpses of haptic screens, RFID readers, fingerprint ID
  Alright, so you know the drill by now. A patent application doesn't necessarily mean an actual product is on the way -- but it's always fun to speculate, right? And this latest trio of applications f…
• Engadget's recession antidote: win an 8GB Lexar Retrax!
  This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn't want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving…
• Shadowy modder gives Eee PC a risky back alley trackball implant
  Remember that guy who uber-hacked his Eee PC with a GPS, Bluetooth, draft-n WiFi, FM transmitter, SDHC card reader, modem, USB hub, 2GB RAM? Well, we got one more for him. This enterprising gentleman…
• Psystar bounces back from Chapter 11, intros new high-end hardware
  Everybody's favorite fuzzy little Apple clone maker is back from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection (we're still waiting on that revelatory outing of creditors that Apple is so hungry for), and already…
• HTC Hero hits FCC with US 3G
  No mention was made of a Hero with 3G that'd work on Rogers or AT&T back at its announcement a few days ago, but HTC has been getting awfully good at making phones that work properly around these par…
• Wind powered knitting machine takes the tedium out of your heirloom production
  Knitting is one of those acquired crafting skills we just never fully warmed up to. We'll embroider, crochet, or quilt until the sun sets for the last time on the day of the apocalypse, but knitting…
• SUPERTENDO portable SNES hack elevates an artform to something impressively commercial
  Yeah, we're all been-there-done-that with portable SNESs these days, but we've never seen it done like this. Marshall posted his creation, dubbed the SUPERTENDO, to Ben Heck's forums, which seems to…
• UK moviegoers treated to industry's first interactive 3D game
  Now here's a way to make us show up for the previews. O2 has evidently figured out that getting moviegoers involved in the action is a good way to get more fundaments in seats, and starting next week…
• Video: D-Touch drum machine keeps heads, hands bobbing
  Oh sure, we've seen countless drum machine hacks over the years, but there's just something special about one that's so simple, yet so fulfilling. D-Touch is hailed as a visual markers recognition sy…
• AMD's RS880 integrated graphics chip could make netbooks usable
  Tired of hearing that your next favorite netbook / nettop is hamstrung with one of those woefully underpowered GMA950 graphics chipsets? Eager to see what all AMD is going to do about it? If The Inqui…
• Motorola's Aura Celestial Edition soon taking "giant leaps" for "mankind"
  Here's a fact: the world really doesn't need another mildly tweaked Aura. Sorry, it just doesn't. That being true and all, we're still pretty jazzed to see Motorola giving the ultra-luxurious handset…
• IDEA's Solar lamp glows like a Sputnik heatshield
  While the original Sputnik burnt out after only 3 months in orbit, here's an homage that promises to be rather more resilient. IDEA, Japan's answer to you know who, is offering a 30cm tall (11.8-inche…
• Toshiba's TG01 outed on Orange UK
  Well, well, there it is. The world's first and only Snapdragon phone available for retail, Toshiba's TG01, is up and dancing on Orange's UK site with a coming soon badge. Soon meaning the July 9th Lo…
• Solid Alliance's $10,000 Mnemosyne USB drive is built for style, not convenience
  The Greek goddess of memory, Mnemosyne, would surely be proud of this product bearing her name. For starters, it comes at a price few mere mortals can afford and is couched within an extravagant all-…
• Sonos CR200 remote control has a touchscreen, at last
  And here it is. After we unearthed the Sonos CR200 in a FCC filing, out comes the first pic. As we expected, it's a portrait controller and is said to include a touch-screen which makes an on-screen…
• Thanko's Spy Button video camera, because you've already failed
  So what if Thanko's ¥5,980 (about $62) Spy Button Camera doesn't look exactly like the other buttons on your shirt. Anyone inclined to wear such a device to covertly record VGA video at 15fps (or 12…
• Samsung's SCH-W760 with infrared video conferencing is ready for your parole hearing
  We get it. Sometimes, not often, but sometimes when you're staring into the sad abyss of an empty Tennessee fifth, the idea of initiating an impromptu video conference in total darkness seems mighty…
• T3 Motion goes third wheelin' with its CT3 personal commuter EV
  Don't get too excited, the above picture's only a render, but T3 Motion -- the company that brought you the security-focused electric stand-up vehicle -- is planning to bring this whip to life as the…
• DIY HD projector hits the right note, sub-€500 price range
  It's really hard to say how much of a value this DIY HD projector is, given we're missing some crucial specs like resolution (gotta be at least 720p, right?), contrast ratio, and luminosity. Still, a…
• The Daily Roundup: here's what you might've missed
  Olympus E-P1 hands-on, test shots, and mini-reviewIt goes without saying that we've been pretty excited about the Olympus E-P1 (or digital Pen) since we first laid eyes on the prototype the company w…
• Pool-Mate watch packs built-in accelerometer to track laps
  It may not monitor your heart rate or double as a media player like some other devices for swimmers, but this new Pool-Mate watch from Swimovate looks like it should appeal to quite a few folks nonet…
• Python skin-covered HOON headphones likely to get PETA in an uproar
  French accessories company HOON has teamed up with audio company The Perfect Unison for a line of python skin skinned headphones. The cans are made of nine layers of birch wood, lined with goat skin,…
• Taiwan 'orders' Dell to honor $15 monitor mishap (updated)
  It's not exactly all that uncommon for Dell to misprice an item on its website and, if you're lucky, it might even honor it. But it looks like the stakes have just been raised considerably in Taiwan,…
• Hulu still silent on PS3, Windows Mobile blocking - but there's a free solution
  A few days after blocking PlayStation 3 users, Hulu has yet to respond to questions concerning the change which has only helped to fuel rumors it is related to the Microsoft ad campaign currently fea…

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boingboing.net

• Raul Gutierrez: new limited-edition photo print set released
  Raul Gutierrez is one of my favorite photographers. I particularly love his images of Tibetan life, like the Kham logging camp above. I've traveled to some of the same places, and Raul's work captures…
• Larry King "interviews" Paul Krassner
  Ever the happy prankster, Paul Krassner met with Larry King for an interview. This video was made to promote Paul's new book: Who's to Say What's Obscene: Politics, Culture & Comedy in America Today.…
• Boing Boing Video review: Joel tries the Sigma DP2 camera
  
• RoboGeisha trailer is awesome, includes weaponized tempura shrimp
  Direct link to video. There is no part of this trailer that is not made of awesome. A robot geisha transforms into a tank. Two robot geishas (I guess) spew poison milk (don't ask) out of their titties…
• Books as planters
  BB pal Tara McGinley spotted these delightful planter kits, called Honbachi, from Japan, containing the plant, soil, and a hollowed-out book. Looks like it would be fun and easy to DIY too! Book plant…
• New Orleans jazz trumpet icon Kermit Ruffins on barbecuing
  Trumpet player Kermit Ruffins is an icon of New Orleans jazz. His sensational Rebirth Brass Band is a jazz/funk musical extravaganza that must be experienced live for full effect. Ruffins is also the…
• Photos of famous people with their faces turned upside down
  Page after page of this unsettling effect applied to well-known folks. (However, the photo of James Earl Jones looks about the same. And I guess you could argue that George W. Bush looks more distingu…
• @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  (Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the BBVBOX. Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips the…
• NCBI ROFL: terrific blog about funny and odd scientific publications
  My pal and IFTF colleague Alex Pang just turned me on to NCBI ROFL, a hilarious blog written by two molecular and cell biology grad students at UC Berkeley in which they point out funny, bizarre, and…
• Laurie Anderson's Language Is A Virus video
  Cory's post about the Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense, one of my fave concert films too, reminded me of Laurie Anderson's fantastic Home Of The Brave movie. I distinctly remember seeing it for the fi…

• SEC boss told underling to stop investigating Madoff in 2004, then marries Madoff's niece
  Funny coincidence: The SEC's Eric Swanson, who told his underling lawyer to stop looking into Bernie Madoff's questionable activities in 2004, married Bernie's niece Shana Madoff in 2007. By the way,…
• Alan Watts on enjoying the spectacle of self-importance
  Christopher Ryan wrote a short profile of Alan Watts for Psychology Today. He included this quote from Watts' about the self-importance of humans: “The point is that rapport with the marvelously pur…
• Deduct your Ponzi scheme losses
  The IRS will let you deduct your losses from Ponzi scheme ripoffs. No word on whether losses due to the wire, the pigeon drop, advance payment or three card monte are allowable, but I'm gonna claim 'e…
• Andy Paiko's wunderkammer of glass sculpture
  Andy Paiko's glass sculptures and machines are absolutely breathtaking. Top left, a functional glass seismograph. Top right, a 5.5 foot long syringe. Other favorites include a 24-carat gold-plated coy…
• People getting stuck on freshly tarred street
  Like flypaper for humans. (Via Arbroath)...
• Heather McDougal on black widow spiders
  Heather McDougal, who writes about curiosities and wonders of nature on her blog Cabinet of Wonders, has a good essay about black widow spiders, which have infested her new trailer. Unlike brown reclu…
• Today on Offworld: war-driving for treasure, cloud gaming, Dylan in The Sims
  Today on Offworld we took an extensive look at Treasure World (above), the just-released DS game that turns the ubiquitous cloud of Wi-Fi signals around you into collectible treasures -- it's easily o…
• Man who walked into Burning Man fire loses lawsuit
  Anthony Beninati sued the organizers of Burning Man because he said they failed to restrain him from walking into a fire. He lost the lawsuit. Beninati's complaint stated that when he approached the b…
• Iran: SMS re-activated after 20-day blackout
  Above, confirmation via the Persian equivalent of Digg, Cyrus Farivar has more on the story....
• Chocolate Waterboarding (food art)
  Artist Stephen J Shanabrook's Waterboarding tells the tale of a peaceful song of a pair of choir boys turned into a silent scream, through figuratively chocolate-waterboarded choir boy Christmas statu…
• Ian McDonald's brilliant Mars book, DESOLATION ROAD, finally back in print
  Ian McDonald's Desolation Road is one of my most personally influential novels. It's an epic tale of the terraforming of Mars, whose sweep captures the birth and death of mythologies, economics, art,…
• Jamendo open music comes to Moovida open media center
  Jutta sez, Moovida Media Center now offers Jamendo's creative commons music library. Access over 20,000 albums straight from your living room TV! Moovida, the free and open source media center for Win…
• French cops use racial profiling for stop and search
  Chris sez, In France, there's no provision for monitoring ethnicity under the law. This is not an altogether bad thing, but it makes it impossible for anyone to get data about police 'ethnic profiling…
• Voyageur, a storied guitar made from legends
  Yesterday's episode of CBC Radio's As it Happens celebrated Canada Day with an interview with Jowi Taylor, author of Six String Nation: 64 Pieces, 6 Strings, 1 Country, 1 Guitar. The book chronicles t…
• Elderly retired boxing champ beats six kinds of crap out of drunken burglar neighbour
  A British hard-partying 24-year-old bartender got upset that his elderly neighbour called the cops over all the noise he was making, so he got drunk and broke into the 72-year-old's house, wielding so…
• Life During Wartime video from Stop Making Sense
  Robbie sez, I have no other reason for sharing the link to this video of Life During Wartime than I can't stop watching it. It's from the Talking Heads concert film for _Stop Making Sense_, directed b…
• Cuddly felted Jabba the Hutt
  Flickr user Kit Lane's created this beautiful felted Jabba the Hutt (with bunny rabbit). I could cuddle the slimy little bastard all day! Jaba the Hutt - The Early Years (via Neatorama)...
• Proposal to raise book royalties, lower advances
  Writer John Green makes a compelling case for reforming the way that publishers calculate advances and royalties, lowering the former and raising the latter. Doing this would -- he argues -- create a…
• Zombie short film festival call for entries
  Robbo sez, Talented Toronto writers & filmmakers, Jim Taylor & Cory Laffin, have announced the first Zombie Short Film Festival and are calling for submissions. The festival will be held in Toronto, a…
• Running fiber through a city sewers with a model sub
  Francesco sez, Italian Company uses an RC scale model Submarine to lay fiber through city's sewage system. The submarine used is the NETPUNE SB-1 produced by Taiwanese company Thunder Tiger. It costs…

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pcworld.com

• Smartphone Speed Tests: Which New Phone is Best for Type A Users?
  Can't stand to wait for your phone to deliver e-mail and other functions? We put the iPhone 3G S, Nokia's N97 and the Palm Pre to the stopwatch to see which is the fastest.
• Google Updates Some Apps Functions
  Google updated some Gmail and Docs features for some Apps customers.
• Frag Doll Wannabe: One Woman’s Quest to Become a Girl-Gamer Idol
  Kristin Reilly spent months playing games, making videos, and tolerating sometimes obnoxious male gamers, all to become a Frag Doll, one of a team of female gaming ambassadors.
• Mac News: BenVista Releases PhotoZoom Pro 3 Photo Enlarger
  BenVista has released the latest version its photo enlargement software, PhotoZoom Pro 3.
• DOJ Officially Opens Investigation Into Google Book Search
  The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed it began a formal antitrust investigation of a settlement involving Google Book Search.
• Will iPhones Get Tactile Feedback, Fingerprint ID?
  Nothing gets the rumor mill churning like uncovering Cupertino’s latest patent applications. Get ready for another round of rumors.
• Preview: Facebook's Upcoming New iPhone App
  Change is in the air at Facebook. First came word of sweeping changes to the site's privacy controls. Now, a new and improved iPhone app is on the way.
• Social Networking Trumps Censorship Every Time
  Analysis: Recent events underscore the futility of attempts to keep sex off the Web, something both governments and businesses repeatedly try to do.
• What to Look for in Online Backup
  Important factors to consider before deciding to backup critical data online.
• Performance Issues Plague Cloud-Based Applications
  Analysis: Despite browser improvements, Web apps still suffer from network bottlenecks and scripting problems.

• Net Activists, PC Makers Pressure Chinese Gov't
  Analysis: The People's Republic will not require PC makers to install Green Dam censorship software, but we haven't heard the last of Internet censorship.
• Gag Me with a Browser! What Was Redmond Thinking?
  Analysis: With its porn-and-puke ad, Microsoft has crossed the line of bad taste --- by about three miles.
• Google Voice Gets Boost from Enterprise Virtual PBX Maker
  Analysis: Google Voice is getting buzz in the consumer space, but it may find fans in the enterprise.
• Judge Temporarily Dismisses MySpace Cyberbully Case
  A U.S. judge on Friday tentatively dismissed a case against a Missouri woman who was earlier convicted in a cyberbullying case.
• First Look: Zinc Internet Video Browser
  Those wishing to unplug from expensive cable and satellite TV services are increasingly turning to video content streamed across the Web. Media center...
• London Stock Exchange Drops Windows System
  Analysis: System brought LSE to a standstill for almost an entire day, with more than enough blame to go around. But who really is at fault?
• Palm Pre: Flimsy Phone or Just a First-Gen Freshman?
  Users complain of cracked screens, gaps in seams in the case, pixels missing in the display, and more in online forums.
• How to Keep Your iPhone 3GS from Overheating
  Apple has published a set of guidelines to help iPhone users ensure that their devices keep their cool.
• Online Ad Groups Release New Behavioral Ad Principles
  Advertising trade groups release principles for online data collection when delivering targeted ads.
• Boost Your Company's Image With Video
  It's easier than ever to create and share, so get rolling.
• Unlock the Secrets of Successful Websites
  Creating a great website and promoting your business via search engine optimization and social media websites can be done in 8 steps.
• More Broadband for Your Buck
  Low-cost approaches to connectivity that appeal to business owners' frugality.
• Get a Handle on Your Overhead
  Technology is making it easier for you to keep tabs on your business's resources.
• Ask.com Bets on Semantic Search, Targeting Special Audiences
  Ask.com is counting on semantic search and other enhancements to increase the popularity of its search engine.
• Bing Beats Google to the Punch, Launches Twitter Search
  Microsoft beats Google out of the gate by adding Twitter searches to its Bing search engine.
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• Claims That Apple Admits IPhone 3GS Overheating Are Hot Air
  They say the iPhone 3GS is hot. Hot as in sexy. Hot as in selling like cakes that are hot. Hot as in scorch the skin off your face Raiders of the Ark-style.
• Microsoft Removes Projectile-vomiting IE8 Ad From Web
  Microsoft has removed an online advertisement for Internet Explorer 8 that showed a woman projectile vomiting after the ad left a bad taste in people's mouths.
• Choose a MobileMe Account for Publishing IPhone Media
  A nifty iPhone feature is the capability to upload a photo or video directly from the phone's Photos app or Camera Roll to a MobileMe gallery. The iPhone grabs...
• Create Events-based IPhoto Albums With Specific People
  If you use iPhoto '09 and its Events organizational feature in a true events manner--separating your photos by actual event--then you may have stumbled onto a...
• Conficker: Forgotten but not Gone
  While the hype about Conficker may have died down, the botnet hasn't.
• Xbox 360 Dashboard Ads to Get Animation, Audio
  Microsoft's reveals plans to enhance its Xbox 360 dashboard ads with its web-oriented Silverlight audio-video technology.
• Sony's Walkman Turns 30
  Thirty years ago this week, a revolution began in the audio market. With Sony's launch of the TPS-L2 Walkman in Japan on July 1 1979, music was suddenly portable.
• Court Orders Spammers to Pay $3.7 Million
  A U.S. court orders alleged spammers to give up $3.7 million after an FTC complaint.
• Windows XP User: I'm No Thief
  A year after Microsoft assured this reader his copy of XP was legitimate, the company changed its mind
• Vendor Squabbles Cause W3C to Scrap Codec Requirement
  The latest rewrite of the Web's mother tongue won't recommend the use of specific audio and video encoding formats.
• RIAA Wins, Usenet.com Loses in MP3 Copyright Suit
  Bloggers react to the latest MP3 filesharing lawsuit. Here's a roundup of their opinions.
• Bing Adds Twitter Search, Overload
  Real-time searches from Twitter add to search overload and undermine Bing's claims to simplicity.
• Report: Apple Bailing on NVIDIA
  Apple may stop using NVIDIA chips in new Macs after negotiations between the companies come to a bitter halt.
• iPhone App Helps You Mind Your Manners
  Save yourself from making a faux pas at a job interview, business dinner or networking event.
• Stock Exchange Keeps Pirate Bay Buyers Under Close Watch
  The company that plans to buy The Pirate Bay will be delisted from a Swedish stock exchange if it engages in illegal activity, a stock exchange official warned.
• Microsoft Pulls Gross-Out Ad for IE8
  Online ad that showed a woman throwing up after accidentally viewing pornography has been pulled. But why?
• Bing Builds an Underwhelming Twitter Search
  Microsoft plans to index Twitter updates in real time, but -- so far, at least -- the results are hardly impressive.
• Couple Gets Prison Time for Internet Obscenity
  The owners of Extreme Associates were sentenced to a year in prison on obscenity charges.
• AT&T, iPhone Customers Angry Over Voicemail Delays
  Some AT&T and iPhone customers are angry over delayed delivery of voicemail messages.
• More Pornography Sneaks onto the iPhone
  This time, the app in question, which has already been removed by Apple, included a nude photo of an underage girl.
• Sweden Aims High for Creation of a Single EU Patent System
  Sweden took over the rotating six month presidency of the E.U. this week, promising to push hard for an agreement on the creation of a single E.U.-wide patent
• Microsoft Unleashes Five Service Packs for Its Enterprise Security Wares
  In the past week, Microsoft has launched five service packs for its enterprise security wares including Geneva, Forefront, Antigen.
• Microsoft Readies IE8 Business Push
  Microsoft will begin pushing Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) to enterprises next month via Windows Server Update Services, the company said this week.
• Make Your Own Xbox Games With Kodu
  Microsoft Research's Kodu Game Lab, which allows you to create your own video games on the Xbox 360, is now available.
• FAQ: How Much Will Windows 7 Cost You?
  Last week, Microsoft unveiled retail pricing for Windows 7, the successor to Vista and Microsoft's hope for a revival in operating system buzz.

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techweb.com

• Ad Industry Sets Seven Privacy Protection Principles
  Internet marketers have agreed on a set of seven principles for online ads to foster consumer trust and forestall government regulation.
• Apple Files Touchscreen-Related Patent Applications
  The iPhone-maker may be on track to fix one of the biggest complaints about the smartphone, and to add RFID and biometric identification capabilities.
• WiMax Ready To Surge Again
  Growth of the wide-area technology slowed in the economic meltdown, but analysts predict the deployment of WiMax equipment will take off again by year end.
• Canonical, Eucalyptus Offer Private Cloud Consulting
  Consulting service would encourage the concept of hybrid clouds -- open source private clouds that align with Amazon's EC2 public cloud.
• Google Optimizes Search For Mobile Phones
  The search giant is tailoring its results to fit better on a mobile screen, and it will also include relevant data from Google News, Google Images, and other Web properties.
• Apple Planning Fix For iPhone SMS Flaw
  An SMS vulnerability in Apple's iPhone is slated for disclosure at the Black Hat conference later this month. Apple is reportedly rushing to get a fix ready.
• Mobile Payments Startup Raises $8 Million
  Bling Nation is entering the highly competitive space filled with deep-pocketed rivals such as Visa and MasterCard.
• California, Hawaii Governors Veto Online Sales Tax
  Online retailers, led by Amazon and Overstock, are resisting state legislators' efforts to raise revenue with online sales taxes.
• Apple Obliquely Addresses iPhone 3SG Overheating
  Users have complained of handsets overheating while using applications that tap the iPhone's GPS and 3G wireless components.
• Nokia Updates Ovi Maps
  The 3.0 version of Ovi Maps includes 3-D views, weather information, walking directions, and a host of other features.

• China's Green Dam 'Definitely' Coming
  The controversial requirement that PCs in China come with the Green Dam Web filter may have been postponed, but the rule will be implemented, a Chinese official insists.
• Apple Bans Another iPhone App For Nudity
  BeautyMeter showed a nude picture of a 15-year-old girl. It's the second explicit app Apple has removed from the App Store in the last week.
• First American Spatial Solutions and ESRI Partner, Release Risk Analysis Solution
  First American Spatial Solutions and ESRI have released Risk Analysis Solution for ArcGIS.
• Dell To Offer Location Features On Mini 10 Netbooks
  Skyhook Wireless' Wi-Fi position app is already a standard feature on tens of millions of Apple iPhones and iPod Touch devices.
• Farmers Completes Acquisition of 21st Century Insurance
  Largest acquisition in the company's history strengthens its position as the third-largest personal lines carrier in the U.S. and makes it the top auto insurer in several states, including California.
• Hedge Fund Investors Demand More Data and Oversight
  Many hedge fund investors burned by last year's market meltdown will likely demand a system of checks and balances in which outsiders keep a closer watch over assets.
• NACHA Launches International Payments Committee
  The U.S.-International Committee will allow payments stakeholders in the U.S. to play a more prominent role in shaping the international payments space.
• Q&A: Obama's Health IT Czar On Strategy, Incentives
  Dr. David Blumenthal explains how work is progressing on a stimulus program that would give doctors and hospitals incentives to use qualified electronic health systems.
• Bing Adds Twitter Searches
  Microsoft's new search engine looks to capture the real-time Web.
• U.S. To Release $4 Billion For Broadband
  Funds are part of a program built into the federal stimulus package to build an affordable high-speed Internet structure in rural areas.
• Macs Sales Growing Faster Than PCs
  Apple Mac sales growth outstripped PCs even before Apple cut prices and introduced new MacBooks last month.
• Treasury to Name Up to 9 Fund Managers
  The U.S. Treasury Department is expected to name as many as nine fund managers to operate the long-awaited Public-Private Investment Program (PPIP) to cleanse banks of toxic assets, a person familiar…
• Facebook Simplifies Privacy Settings
  The privacy controls at Facebook are getting reworked in the hope that users will choose to be more open.
• Zer01 Launches Unlimited Voice, Data Service
  The mobile virtual network operator is using mobile VoIP to offer unlimited voice, text, and mobile data for $70 a month.
• Garda Cash Logistics Names CISO
  Garda Cash Logistics has appointed Barbara Danzi to the newly created position of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).

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mashable.com

• 10 Ways to Find People on Twitter
  Twitter is all about facilitating conversations, but until you’re following some people, it’s just a blank page. Once you find people to follow and talk to, however, Twitter becomes exceptionally…
• UserTesting.com: Get Video of Real Users Testing Your Web App
  This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. T…
• Unknown Lifeform in North Carolina Sewer: A Monstrous YouTube Hit
  With 3.3 million+ YouTube views in the past two days, the video “Unknown Lifeform in North Carolina Sewer” (below) is taking the web by storm, becoming the most viewed video this week and beating…
• FriendFeed Adds Real-Time Search Results
  Social activity aggregator FriendFeed, which re-designed earlier this year to show updates from friends in real-time, has just extended that same functionality to search. Now, when you search for a gi…
• Google Blog Search Gets More Like Other Google Search Tools
  Google Blog Search has just added a few features that users of other Google services are likely familiar with. First, you can now subscribe to any topic via RSS or Atom, like you already can do in Goo…
• GoDaddy Wants You to Go Twitter
  Ideally, your brand has the same name across all of the social sites you use, and, it matches your domain name (for example, we’re mashable.com, twitter.com/mashable, and facebook.com/mashable). Rea…
• iPhone 3GS Used to Film Music Video: Technologic Overkill
  Not to be confused with the first music video about the iPhone 3GS (”Got My Mac on With iPhone 3GS“), the first video purportedly shot using the camera on the new device is making its way around t…
• HOW TO: Get Retweeted on Twitter
  Retweeting, as we explained in our article How To Retweet on Twitter, has evolved as the main way to reshare content you like on the social media service. There’s also a great deal of data we can gl…
• Jammie Thomas To Appeal Her $1.92 Million RIAA Verdict
  Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the woman who was charged with copyright infringement through online file sharing, tried to fight, and subsequently lost, will appeal the verdict in her case, which ordered her t…
• Understanding Luxury Brands and Social Media
  Samir Balwani is a social media marketer who helps businesses create effective web strategies. You can follow him on Twitter and get his newsletter. One of the biggest misconceptions by brand managers…

• Can The New Pirate Bay Succeed?
  Hans Pandeya, the CEO of Global Gaming Factory (the Swedish company that had recently acquired The Pirate Bay for $7.8 million) has an ambitious plan for the new Pirate Bay. It seems bold, perhaps eve…
• New Guidelines for Web Tracking Ensure More Privacy
  Surf the web for a couple of minutes, and – usually without anyone asking you – you’re giving away a lot of personal data to the various companies that are tracking your browsing habits. Yes, yo…
• Official Claims: Green Dam Was Not Dropped, Only Postponed
  I guess the celebrations were premature. According to a China government official, Chinese authorities haven’t given up on web filtering program Green Dam; they’ve just postponed it. The controver…
• Spam In Twitter Trends, Again (Update: Not Really Spam)
  Twitter’s trending topics are a great way to find out what’s hot in the Twitterverse, but they’re also a haven for malicious hackers and spammers who are constantly finding new ways on how to ab…
• Twitter Increases API Limit
  Tweetdeck users have noticed tonight that their hourly API call limit has been increased from 100 to 150 per hour, essentially meaning you can get more frequent Twitter updates if you require them. Tw…
• RunPee: iPhone App Tells Moviegoers When it’s Safe to Pee
  It’s a rare find: an iPhone app that’s both useful and hilarious. RunPee, an existing website that launched its iPhone app today, checks both those boxes. Here’s the idea: you’re watching a mo…
• Staggering #IranElection Stats: 2 Million+ Total Tweets
  In mid-May we published stats that measured the scale of the #iranelection coverage on Twitter, as tracked by social media tracking service Trendrr. Mashable’s Ben Parr remarked that we were “appr…
• Bing Includes Tweets With Search Results (For Famous People)
  There’s a growing fascination with the so called “real-time Web,” with Google, Facebook, and Twitter all reportedly working on major changes to their search tools that leverage status updates an…
• Michael Jackson’s Thriller: 28 Million Views Since His Death
  Michael Jackson’s online popularity continues to soar: we reported previously that 2.6 million Michael Jackson songs were downloaded this week; Nielsen SoundScan says that no artist has ever sold mo…
• Forget Love: Paypal Wants You to Do Stuff For Money
  Ever have one of those conversations that culminates in someone saying “I’d give you $20 to _____”? That’s the premise of a new site PayPal has launched: Do Stuff For Money. The site is rather…
• Your Facebook Photos = Bing’s New Homepage
  One of the unique aspects of Bing is the background images it uses on its homepage, that include information about the picture when you roll over various parts of it. The feature actually originated o…
• YouTwitFace: No Longer Just a Conan Joke
  “YouTube, Twitter and Facebook will merge to form one super time-wasting website called YouTwitFace”, Conan O’Brien predicted in his hilarious Year 3000 sketch (below). He may not be far wrong:…
• Twitter Promotion Done Right: #moonfruit
  A few weeks ago, we wrote about a promotion from website builder Squarespace, where the company offered up 30 iPhones in 30 days to be randomly awarded to users who included #squarespace with their tw…
• New Internet Explorer Ad Features Projectile Vomiting [Video]
  Microsoft has started running a series of online ads for Internet Explorer 8, including this curiosity featuring a woman projectile vomiting. The other ads in the series, posted to YouTube last week,…
• Facebook’s Complete Privacy Presentation
  As we reported earlier today, Facebook has announced some sweeping changes to user privacy settings in an effort to both make it easier for users to understand them, and also beef up the amount of pub…
• gdgt: Engadget Founders Launch “The World’s Greatest Gadget Database”
  Update: moments after our test run, the gdgt site is now down, presumably due to too much traffic. – Ryan Block and Pete Rojas, creators of the leading gadget blog Engadget, flicked the switch momen…
• Facebook’s Twitter-Like Transition Begins With New Privacy Options
  Over the past couple weeks, we’ve learned a lot about upcoming changes to Facebook that will significantly change the nature of the site. For example, a new publisher option will allow you to post c…
• Gmail Kills Right Side Labels, Adds Drag and Drop
  There’s good news and bad news for Gmail users today. The good: Gmail is releasing “drag and drop” for labels. This means that if you want to label a mail, you can simply drag and drop it over t…
• LIVE NOW: Obama Takes Your Questions on Healthcare
  As promised, President Obama is set to start his live stream in a few minutes (starting 1.15pm ET), answering the public’s questions on healthcare reform with live discussion on social media channel…
• HOW TO: Use Wikis for Business Projects
  Jeff Hobbs is Director of Engineering at ActiveState and works on Workspace and dynamic languages. He blogs occasionally at blogs.activestate.com. One of the best web tools available to businesses for…

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techmeme.com

• Marketers Call For Twitter To Filter Content For Pornography, Spam (Laurie Sullivan/MediaPost)
  Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost: Marketers Call For Twitter To Filter Content For Pornography, Spam  —  Nude and explicit photographs have become more common on Twitter.  While the site has begun to…
• Attacks, arrests slowing online news from Iran (Doug Gross/CNN)
  Doug Gross / CNN: Attacks, arrests slowing online news from Iran  —  (CNN) — Bloody attacks and midnight arrests, combined with a regime growing more technologically savvy, have begun stemming…
• Yelp Launches Facebook Connect (Nick O'Neill/All Facebook)
  Nick O'Neill / All Facebook: Yelp Launches Facebook Connect  —  Today Yelp launched their implementation of Facebook Connect to enable users to share reviews with their friends on Facebook.  Aft…
• One More Thing: The New Facebook iPhone App Will Allow Video Uploads (MG Siegler/TechCrunch)
  MG Siegler / TechCrunch: One More Thing: The New Facebook iPhone App Will Allow Video Uploads  —  Yesterday, we wrote about what Facebook was planning for the next major release of its iPhone app…
• FriendFeed real-time search. We have it. It's here. (Jim Norris/FriendFeed Blog)
  Jim Norris / FriendFeed Blog: FriendFeed real-time search.  We have it.  It's here.  —  One of the coolest things about FriendFeed is how you can see everything that's happening on the site in…
• Apple retail stores can now replace broken iPhone screens (Jim Dalrymple/The Loop)
  Jim Dalrymple / The Loop: Apple retail stores can now replace broken iPhone screens  —  Apple has expanded the services offered by its retail stores to include fixing damaged iPhone screens.  �…
• Twittering from the tractor: smartphones sprout on the farm (John D. Sutter/CNN)
  John D. Sutter / CNN: Twittering from the tractor: smartphones sprout on the farm  —  (CNN) — As he rolls across the wheat fields of his Nebraska farm, Steve Tucker often has his hands not on t…
• New Blog Search tools: Feeds, Hot Queries and Latest Posts (Akshay Patil/The Official Google Blog)
  Akshay Patil / The Official Google Blog: New Blog Search tools: Feeds, Hot Queries and Latest Posts  —  Ever since the new Google Blog Search homepage launched, we've been fielding requests for a…
• Apple patching serious SMS vulnerability on iPhone (Sumner Lemon/Computerworld)
  Sumner Lemon / Computerworld: Apple patching serious SMS vulnerability on iPhone  —  The flaw could allow an attacker to remotely install and run unsigned software code  —  IDG News Service -…
• Google App Engine Stalled Out For About 6 Hours Today (MG Siegler/TechCrunch)
  MG Siegler / TechCrunch: Google App Engine Stalled Out For About 6 Hours Today  —  A little over two hours ago, a Google employee posted a note in this Google Groups thread indicating that Google…

• Leaked AT&T memo: Apple iPhone 3GS generated 'best ever sales day' (MacDailyNews)
  MacDailyNews: Leaked AT&T memo: Apple iPhone 3GS generated ‘best ever sales day’  —  Multiple sources have provided MacDailyNews with an internal AT&T memo that highlights the company's recen…
• Murdoch Talks Media (Dan Freed/TheStreet.com)
  Dan Freed / TheStreet.com: Murdoch Talks Media  —  NWSA , GE , NYT , GOOG , YHOO , TWX  —  Rupert Murdoch has not allowed the crisis in his most-loved medium — the newspaper — stop the gr…
• Update - Apple Pulls BeautyMeter App With Nude 15-Year-Old (KRAPPS)
  KRAPPS: Update - Apple Pulls BeautyMeter App With Nude 15-Year-Old  —  Yesterday's BeautyMeter article resulted in quite the firestorm.  Media outlets such as Fox News, Wired, Gizmodo, DownloadS…
• Microsoft chucks vomit ad (Chris Matyszczyk/CNET News)
  Chris Matyszczyk / CNET News: Microsoft chucks vomit ad  —  Earlier this week, we were all rather intrigued by the appearance of a Microsoft ad, in which a wife borrows her husband's laptop and s…
• Apple Issues Heat Advisory for iPhone 3G, 3GS (Mark Hachman/Gearlog)
  Mark Hachman / Gearlog: Apple Issues Heat Advisory for iPhone 3G, 3GS  —  Whether anecdotal reports of iPhones overheating are true or not, Apple has taken them seriously enough to reveal the pre…
• New Linux patch could circumvent Microsoft's FAT patents (Ryan Paul/Ars Technica)
  Ryan Paul / Ars Technica: New Linux patch could circumvent Microsoft's FAT patents  —  Microsoft's recent lawsuit against TomTom, alleging infringement of filesystem patents, has left many questi…
• Twitter followers 'can be bought' (BBC)
  BBC: Twitter followers ‘can be bought’  —  Twitter users who lack an audience for their messages can now buy followers.  —  Australian social media marketing company uSocial is offering a…
• The Coolness Index (Plamere/Music Machinery)
  Plamere / Music Machinery: The Coolness Index  —  Some artists just are not cool - your mom likes ABBA, so there's no way you are going to listen to them, even if you think Mamma Mia is rather ca…
• Facebook Connect Is A Huge Success - By The Numbers (Nicholas Carlson/Silicon Alley Insider)
  Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider: Facebook Connect Is A Huge Success — By The Numbers  —  As much as Beacon was Facebook's low point, that service's replacement, Facebook Connect, is va…
• PC makers voluntarily supply Web filter in China (Joe McDonald/Associated Press)
  Joe McDonald / Associated Press: PC makers voluntarily supply Web filter in China  —  BEIJING -  —  Several PC makers were including controversial Internet-filtering software with computers s…
• No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam (Eric Lai/Computerworld)
  Eric Lai / Computerworld: No to SQL?  Anti-database movement gains steam  —  But can enterprises take open-source alternatives Hadoop, Voldemort seriously?  —  Computerworld - The meet-up in…
• Haptic Feedback, Fingerprint Identification, and RFID Tag Readers in Future iPhones? (Arn/MacRumors)
  Arn / MacRumors: Haptic Feedback, Fingerprint Identification, and RFID Tag Readers in Future iPhones?  —  Apple has let loose a number of revealing new patent applications that cover some interes…
• Microsoft to offer Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium (Ed Bott/Ed Bott's Microsoft Report)
  Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report: Microsoft to offer Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium  —  In two recent posts (Windows 7 versus Snow Leopard: How much do upgrades really cost? and Do yo…
• Coke, Pepsi Make Nice on Twitter (Abbey Klaassen/AdAge)
  Abbey Klaassen / AdAge: Coke, Pepsi Make Nice on Twitter  —  Amnesia Razorfish Promotes ‘Public Hug’  —  Yes, even hardcore rivals can be social-media friends (or followers, at least). …
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centernetworks.com

• BillFlo Discusses First Year Learnings
  As an entrepreneur, it’s always interesting to read about lessons other startups have learned as they move on their journeys. Paperless invoicing startup BillFlo has just hit their one-year annivers…
• Yahoo Mail is Down
  I’ve been a happy Yahoo Mail user forever and to the best of my memory, I don’t ever remember the service being down. As of 7pm Eastern this evening, Yahoo Mail has not been functioning. The few…
• Fresh Web Jobs - July 2
  Below are some of the latest jobs posted on the CenterNetworks Job Board. Subscribe to the CN Jobs feed and get all of the latest Web industry jobs delivered directly to you. Featured Jobs: Technical…
• Breaking/Exclusive: Microsoft Adds 3rd Twitter Message!
  Last night while winding down and watching Ask This Old House, I was alerted to an important post by MG Siegler (MG writes for Techcrunch). The post noted that Microsoft Corporation is now tweeting (t…
• Tumblr Launches Photosets
  NY-based microblogging service Tumblr has announced a new feature today: Photosets. Photosets takes a bunch of photos and creates a Flash-based slider/photoshow of the photos. You can either upload ph…
• Pingdom Goes Free
  Web site monitoring service Pingdom has announced the launch of a free plan option today. Paid plans are still available starting at $10. The free plan is only limited by the number of websites that c…
• Remember That Zoho Secret Launch? It’s Zoho Projects 2.0
  
• Tatango Partners With Subway for SMS Marketing
  I guess the people at group SMS service Tatango are loving the “Five…Five Dollar Footlong” commercial these days. Tatango has been testing a program with a 16-store Subway franchise in upstate…
• Got 250 Followers on Twitter? Best Buy Wants You!
  This afternoon Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang posted a link to a new job opening at electronics retailer Best Buy. The job title is, “Sr. Manager - Emerging Media Marketing”.  The job seems ve…
• Simply Hired Launches International Sites in Europe and South America
  Job aggregation service Simply Hired has announced the launch of a variety of international sites today. The list includes local job search sites for Italy, Ireland, Belgium, Brazil and the Netherland…

• Amazon Offers Free Credit Card Processing
  Amazon has announced that they are offering free credit card processing through their AmazonPayments division through the end of September. AmazonPayments is similar to PayPal and Google Checkout. The…
• Zoho Provides Clues to Their New Product
  This weekend Online office and tools provider Zoho announced that they are launching a new product this week. They didn’t provide any details except a mad libs comment. Today they posted a bit more…
• StartupTicker Launches to Track Startup Activity
  A new aggregator has launched today named StartupTicker. The idea behind StartupTicker is to aggregate startup news from around the world. It’s a really simple website - just a listing of the latest…
• Quantcast Adds Media Program
  Web measurement company Quantcast has announced the launch of the “Quantcast Media Program” today. Quantcast describes the media program as, “connect(ing) Marketers and Publishers using consiste…
• So What’s Zoho Launching This Week?
  Some startups give exclusives (sadly)… some startups go with embargoes… some startups just go. Online office and tools provider Zoho has announced that they will be launching “something” this…

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slashdot.org

• HTML Tags For Academic Printing?
  meketrefi writes It's been quite a while since I got interested in the idea of using html (instead of .doc. or .odf) as a standard for saving documents — including the more official ones like academ…
• Microsoft Changing Users' Default Search Engine
  BabyDuckHat writes Cnet's Dennis O'Reilly caught 'Windows Search Helper' trying to change his default Firefox search from Google to Bing. This isn't the first time the software company has been caught…
• DOJ Confirms Google Antitrust Investigation
  An anonymous reader points to Digital Daily, writing Looks like the fireworks have begun early in Mountain View. On Thursday afternoon, the Department of Justice officially notified Google that it is…
• Enthusiasts Convene To Say No To SQL, Hash Out New DB Breed
  ericatcw writes The inaugural NoSQL meet-up in San Francisco during last month's Yahoo! Apache Hadoop Summit had a whiff of revolution about it, like a latter-day techie version of the American Patrio…
• First Fully Programmable Gesture-Recognition Glove, Cheap
  Al writes The AcceleGlove from AnthroTronix, is the first fully programmable glove that records hand and finger movements. Other gloves — like 5DT's Data Glove, which is used primarily in virtual re…
• Judge Tentatively Dismisses Case Against Lori Drew
  An anonymous reader writes According to Wired, 'A federal judge on Thursday overturned guilty verdicts against Lori Drew, and issued a directed acquittal on the three misdemeanor charges.' A similar s…
• 200-Year-Old Cipher Finally Cracked
  Attila Dimedici writes A code expert just cracked a code used by a friend of Thomas Jefferson in a letter written to Jefferson some 200 years ago. This code is fairly easy to crack using a computer, b…
• HIV/AIDS Vaccine To Begin Phase I Human Trials
  An anonymous reader writes An HIV/AIDS vaccine developed in Ontario has applied for Phase 1 human trials. Safety and immunogenicity studies of the vaccine, dubbed SAV001-H, have already been completed…
• Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs
  snydeq writes Major browser vendors have been unable to agree on an encoding format they will support in their products, forcing the W3C to drop audio and video codecs from HTML 5, the forthcoming W3C…
• The Essentials of RPG Design
  simoniker writes As the latest in his Game Design Essentials series for Gamasutra, writer John Harris examines 10 games from the Western computer RPG (CRPG) tradition and 10 from the Japanese console…

• Japanese Creating "Super Tuna"
  motherpusbucket writes The Telegraph reports that Japanese scientists hope to be breeding a so-called 'Super Tuna' within the next decade or so. They have about 60% of the genome mapped and expect to…
• FDA Considers Banning Acetaminophen-Based Pain Killers
  Greg George writes The FDA has determined that Tylenol enhancing pain killers are dangerous enough to potentially be pulled from the market. Drugs including Vicodin, Hydrocodone, Lortab, Maxidone, Nor…
• What Are the Best First Steps For Becoming a Game Designer?
  todd10k writes I've recently decided to go back to college. I have a lot of experience with games, having played them for most of my adult life, and have always toyed with the idea of making them one…
• Safe Harbor Sp