May 09, 2009

Digg A telephone call by a shopper who rings a helpline to complain that his pizza has no topping before realising it is upside down, has become an internet sensation. (Read More)

May 03, 2009

Digg No one tells a story quite like Glass and his crew, and over the past fourteen years they've spun nearly four hundred of them. We present these seven prime entry points for your imminent This American Life devotion. (Read More)

May 01, 2009

guardian.co.uk Technology The head of Google's new university, Ray Kurzweil believes the advance of technology will solve the energy crisis, upgrade the human genome and even lead to everlasting life - no wonder he is so optimisticRay Kurzweil has a surrealist's eye for disorientation. The lobby of his offices outside Boston have the quality of a Da (Read More)

Apr 30, 2009

TorrentFreak Support for the Swedish Pirate Party really began to surge with the introduction of the IPRED anti-piracy legislation. Its membership already surpassed that of the Green Party, with more than half of men under 30 reportedly considering voting for them in the 2009 European Parliament elections. Then a guilty verdict was hand (Read More)

Apr 30, 2009

GigaOM Yahoo layoffs have started and seem to have hit the Flickr team. Many engineers from the service have been either laid off or are leaving on their own. Rev Dan Catt, Ashot Petrosian and Neil Kandalgaonkar were amongst those who tweeted about their exits. Catt for instance is moving back to UK. I am told Cal Henderson, Flick (Read More)

Apr 29, 2009

Wired Science Google’s search data may have been able to provide an early warning of the swine flu outbreak — if the company had been looking in the right place.Last week, at the request of the Centers for Disease Control, Google took a look at their search data from Mexico. And there they found a pre-media bump in telltale flu-related s (Read More)

Apr 29, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Today the White House launched an official collection of photos depicting Obama's first 100 days in office on Flickr. The Creative Commons Foundation asks why these photos are licensed as Creative Commons Attribution instead of being in the Public Domain free for use in any context, as data created by the Federal Government (Read More)

Apr 29, 2009

FriendFeed mediaright Ryan imported Final Fantasy: Advent Children from Japan since it comes with a demo for Final Fantasy XIII. Either way, Ryan, Cesar, and JayFresh were the only ones who are really obsessed enough with it to bear the heat of the unusually hot weather we experienced during the filming of this week's episode. (Read More)

Apr 27, 2009

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Apr 24, 2009

CNN Saddest story I ever read. School was always tough social (for most of us) but reading what happened to him. Just breaks my heart. R.I.P. Jaheem Herrera. (Read More)

Apr 23, 2009

Digg the Blog Hey everyone, I’m excited to announce our next Digg Dialogg with Virgin Group founder and record-breaking adventurer, Sir Richard Branson. We wanted to pay homage to his various aviation pursuits, so for this next installment, Huffington Post Co-Founder Arianna Huffington will be conducting the interview on Virgin America’s (Read More)

Apr 22, 2009

digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Ubuntu 9.04 will represent the next upgrade from either 8.04 Long Term Release (LTR), which is supported through April 2011; or the 8.10 standard release, which is supported through 2010. (Read More)

Apr 21, 2009

Silicon Alley Insider Some startling numbers pumped out by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: The U.S. now has almost as many paid bloggers as lawyers.  Mark Penn in the WSJ:The best studies we can find say we are a nation of over 20 million bloggers, with 1.7 million profiting from the work ,and 452,000 of those using blogging as their primary sou (Read More)

Apr 21, 2009

FriendFeed mediaright Featured in this episode: Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, GTA: Chinatown Wars, iPhone Favorites. From the minds behind the 1up Show. (Read More)

Apr 20, 2009

FriendFeed mediaright "Loflin, a former cop, says he's baffled and wasn't shouting during the exchange. The neighbor -- who happens to deliver papers for the News -- says Loflin kept using the word, even though the neighbor's 13-year-old daughter was present.". (Read More)

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