Google announces Project Virgle. Be sure to walk through the entire thing, answer the 15 questions, etc.
LiveJournal announces a new team member.
TUAW passes on that iPhone Dev Team canceled pwnage and instead sold their IP to an unnamed third party.
TechCrunch tells us they are suing Facebook for $25 million in damages because of a [...]
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That time of the year again
Yes We Can
I couldn’t resist. The more people see this, the better.
Linkage
You can’t make this stuff up…
How to split up: Vienna hosts world’s first divorce fair:
“If people untie the knot in good faith, it can turn out that the day you divorce is the best day of your life,” said the organiser, Anton Barz, who also arranges wedding fairs.
Vinyl May Be Final Nail in CD’s Coffin:
Pressing [...]
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How to build your own Sputnik:
“I wouldn’t be surprised if you could build one in a container smaller than a matchbox, weighing about as much as a wristwatch. The components, including a transmitter, battery and the sensors you’d need would probably cost less than £50,” he says.
That’s progress.
Stellarium:
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for [...]
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Verizon Wireless: If you don’t opt-out, we get to share your CPNI call data:
Verizon Wireless has been contacting its customers via mail to inform them of their intent to share CPNI [Customer Proprietary Network Information] data with “our affiliates, agents and parent companies (including Vodafone) and their subsidiaries.” The company says that customers who do [...]
Linkage on 2007-10-11/12
A little bit of everything.
Amp’d Mobile’s Sordid Remains:
As Hamilton was cleaning out the desks and filing cabinets, he came across some of those excesses in the form of marketing schwag—like condoms stamped with the unfortunate tagline, “Try not to die.” Little did the Amp’d marketing genius who came up with that line know that the [...]
Linkage on 2007-10-10
Happy birthday Pär! I promise to catch up with you in about 2 months, as usual.
Case of vodka used to treat poisoned tourist:
Australian doctors used a case of vodka to treat an Italian tourist who poisoned himself with a highly toxic substance found in anti-freeze.
The man was unconscious on arrival at Mackay [...]
Linkage on 2007-10-09
His silence mistaken, deaf man attacked:
The cashier tried to speak to him but got angry when Goodnight didn’t respond, Goodnight told police. The cashier threw Goodnight’s change at him, scattering it on the floor.
As Goodnight picked it up, the cashier hit him in the side of the head with the crowbar, Goodnight said.
The Inflation Calculator [...]
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This doesn’t sound so good. Vonage admits it can’t avoid Verizon patents:
Vonage has admitted that it has no technical work-around to avoid infringing Verizon’s patents on key VoIP techniques, putting the future of the company, and other VoIP providers in the US, in doubt.
The article suggests that Skype might not be affected, but I can’t [...]
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What the… Berlin Wall secretly removed?
Kurt Vonnegut died at the age of 84, after suffering brain injuries after a fall at his home in New York.