Sep 25, 2009

Engadget The Pre's proven to be an eminently hackable platform pretty much from day one, and given that, it stands to reason that major "missing" features are going to either be added in the hard way or a few good programmers are going to die trying. The virtual keyboard developments are seen as a big win for users, and next up is t (Read More)

Jul 23, 2009

The Inquisitr Next to apple pie and baseball nothing says United States of America than the legendary hot dog. Even though many of us wouldn’t touch one with a ten-foot pole if we knew what was really in those tubular steaks they continue to be a mainstay of our dinner tables, backyard BBQs and culture.Recently Brynn Mannino over at Woma (Read More)

May 15, 2009

Submitted by Amishjim: Trailer for "The Road", a movie a was a Grip and Crane Operator on : http://htxt.it/hSCc. (Read More)

May 13, 2009

Digg / Technology We don't know where, when, or by whom this was filmed, but it looks very real to us, confirming our earlier suspicions that the Pre will be packaged in a box. (Read More)

May 14, 2009

Hacker News The Obama administration's new drug czar says he wants to banish the idea that the U.S. is fighting "a war on drugs," a move that would underscore a shift favoring treatment over incarceration. In his first interview since being confirmed to head the White House ONDCP, Gil Kerlikowske said the bellicose analogy was a barrie (Read More)

May 11, 2009

Digg / Apple The complicated tango between the iPhone and AT&T's network isn't a new story, but the latest stats—web browsing eats 69 percent of phone bandwidth—highlight the fragility of networks, allowing fresh portents of doom. (Read More)

May 01, 2009

Submitted by Amishjim from Digg: 46 percent of Americans now favor legalizing small amounts of marijuana for personal use, the most in data back to the mid- 1980s and more than double its level 12 years ago. While 52 percent remain opposed, that’s down from 75 percent in the late 1990s and 78 percent in 1986. (Read More)

May 01, 2009

NY Post ALBANY -- Gov. Paterson, who raised state taxes by $8 billion last month, just cost state taxpayers $300,000 more. The state has secretly settled an embarrassing federal racial-discrimination lawsuit, The Post has learned. The suit accused... (Read More)

Apr 30, 2009

digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular We need tools to build, repair and maintain the mechanical world in which we live. With these 50 tools, you’ll be ready for just about any project. (Read More)

Apr 26, 2009

TorrentFreak Taking on The Pirate Bay in court seems to be asking for trouble. A few days ago the IFPI’s website was DDoSed by a group of Pirate Bay supporters. Now MAQS, movie industry lawyer Monique Wadsted’s site, has been targeted and taken down.The DDoS attack against the IFPI website was part of Operation Baylout which also encour (Read More)

Apr 24, 2009

Ars Technica Time Warner Cable's plan to impose tiered data caps on Internet users imploded last week, but that doesn't mean TWC users can download to their heart's content. No, like many other ISPs without explicit data caps, TWC retains an "acceptable use policy" that lets it curtail any "abuse" of its network, as one us (Read More)

Apr 25, 2009

Digg / Linux/Unix "Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavor of Ubuntu, built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphics enthusiast or professional". (Read More)

Apr 25, 2009

FriendFeed amishjim I honestly wasn’t aware that believing in our founding principles was so radical. I find great logic in listening to the wise words of Great Americans that risked everything to establish our republic. Why should they be vilified and slandered in such a way?. (Read More)

Apr 20, 2009

digg.com: Stories / World News / Popular First-Ever Nationwide Pro-Marijuana TV Ad Campaign Is Launched in Conjunction with ‘4/20′. (Read More)

Apr 23, 2009

Digg One of the biggest cases in file-sharing history ended last week with The Pirate Bay Four sentenced to huge fines and jail time. Today it is revealed that far from being impartial, the judge in the case is a member of a pro-copyright lobby group - along with Henrik Pontén, Monique Wadsted and Peter Danowsky. (Read More)

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