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TYWKIWDBI (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
"President Barack Obama plays peek-a-boo with Maeve Beliveau, the daughter of Director of Advance Emmett Beliveau, in the Outer Oval Office, Oct. 30, 2009." Credit . Taken out of context, a variety of other captions would be possible. The Reddit thread was entitled "Obama bows to everyone." Blogged because some of you will be interested to learn that the White House has a Flickr...
CBC Radio 3 (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
LA man finds out his biological father is Charles Manson . Muppets perform "Bohemian Rhapsody" . 20 years later... (via Reddit ) The decline of empires . If CBC Television doesn't steal this idea for their next big game show, they are CRAZY. Documentary from the Future - The Beatles: 1000 Years Later Having trouble finding a cereal that's right for you? There's a flow chart for that . Jimmy...
TYWKIWDBI (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Most people are aware that in some cultural settings, women and girls are punished by having acid thrown in their face. Typically these stories circulate without photographs of the victims, perhaps in part because of the shame felt by the victim, but also because of hesitancy of the mainstream press to inflict such images on the public. This week I found at the All Eyes blog at TampaBay.com an essay...
Geekologie (Free subscription) | yesterday
Apparently this is a real resignation from a designer in Doesitreallymatter, Somestate, that was tired of being treated like the proverbial piece of monkey shit. According to somebody who allegedly knew what was going on: He believed he was in a temp-to-hire position, and after three months of extra hours and butt-kissing, turns out it's just a temp position. He was a good worker too. I'd have recommended...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | yesterday
Get your mind out of the gutter. This isn't about distributing your crude weekend photography, it's about being able to upload content outside the parameters of basic community categories. While we all know that YouTube is for video, Redux is for entertainment and LinkedIn is for career-related content, it's hard to tell where we should be sharing our important but uncategorizable content. Nincha...
MethodShop (Free subscription) | yesterday
. We found this screengrab on Reddit this morning. Apparently the person who quit was unhappy with his job and chose to inform the company via a custom Macintosh OS X application. Assumetehposition , a former co-worker of the guy who quit, submitted the screengrab to Reddit and posted the following explanation in the comments thread. "He believed he was in a temp-to-hire position, and after three...
Juice The Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
I saw a reference on Reddit today linking to a wikipedia page on List of U.S. States By Percentage of Population Claiming No Religion and decided to make a map out of it using the Google Charts API. Lighter states represent a higher population of people that identify with no religion. There was no data for [...]
Epicenter (Free subscription) | yesterday
Woot.com is no longer satisfied with one-deal-a-day. Now the pioneering online discount store has launched deals.woot.com, an attempt to turn its rabid fans into a crowd-sourced deal finding-and-evaluating machine that finds dozens of bargains worthy of a “w00t, w00t!”. The new site resembles a Digg or Reddit focused on deals, a Web 2.0 version of FatWallet [...]
RocketDock.com - Newest Addons (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pack with 78 Chicklet Cookies icons: -Anvil Studio -Axialis -Blinklist -Design Float -DeviantArt -Ffffound -Fly for fun -Fraps -Freecommander -Garena -Geeko -Google (Analytics, Android, AppEngine, Contacts, Desktop, Feedburner, Finance, Groups, iGoogle, Knol, Notebook, Sites, Webmaster, WebToolkit) -Ical -Ichat -Lightwave -Linkedin -MovAvi -Netlog -Nimbuzz -Nvu -PerfectDisk -Photoscape -Phun -Pownce...
Lionel Deimel's Web Log (Free subscription) | yesterday
“ I am Episcopalian ,” a site containing videos of Episcopalians explaining why they are a members of The Episcopal Church, has been on the Web since Ash Wednesday last. In principle, it is lovely piece of PR, though I don’t know if Episcopalians or seekers view its videos more. I do have some criticisms of the site, however—five of them, in fact. First, it is left to the visitor...
Dinosaur Comics (Free subscription) | yesterday
archive - contact - sexy exciting merchandise - search - about – ← previous November 24th, 2009 next November 24th, 2009: I'm doing an interview RIGHT NOW with you guys, you guys! This link is the place to be . You need to create a Reddit account to ask a question but it literally only takes like 20 seconds, and there's no email verification or anything. YOU CAN ASK ME ANYTHING –...
Bigmouthmedia (Free subscription) | yesterday
Microsoft have adopted a new advertising approach for their operating system Windows 7. Hoping to appeal to the common man - or indeed the Family Guy - Microsoft have managed to 'sneak' a little brand placement into the popular animated TV show. The episode (sourced from Crunchgear) on which the above clip appeared was immediately followed by an advert for Windows 7. Windows 7's appearance on Family...
Bigmouthmedia (Free subscription) | yesterday
Articles at Zeit Online and TechCrunch Europe carry details that suggest federal and state officials believe Google Analytics to be illegal, and are considering imposing fines against companies which use the service to collect and collate data about their website visitors' usage without the visitor's express consent. Approximately 13 per cent of German website publishers - those using the .de TLD -...
Bigmouthmedia (Free subscription) | yesterday
Microsoft is revealed to be in early discussions with Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation to remove their news content from Google's search engine and host them exclusively on Bing. If such a deal went ahead, it would be a landmark event in the history of the internet, which has thus far largely thrived on providing an open platform for consumers and businesses. If exclusive agreements are reached to...
TYWKIWDBI (Free subscription) | yesterday
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy Many news sites have been carrying a story today about a man who allegedly for 23 years has been "locked in" to a paralyzed body while being "fully alert" but misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state. The James Randi Educational Foundation has published a rebuttal - The "facilitated communication"...
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