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Run away! - Star Wars Benny Hill

2008-12-08T19:50:16Z

The $300 Million Button

2009-02-18T20:01:52Z

House Spending Bill Breakdown

2009-02-13T14:53:26Z

Very cool graphic of the House spending bill

Gmail Goes Offline With Google Gears

2009-01-28T00:51:11Z

How I Made a 1,474-Megapixel Photo During President Obama's Inaugural Address | David Bergman -- ALL ACCESS -- sports, concert, and music photographer

2009-01-26T21:45:51Z

The Biggest Ponzi Scheme of Them All - O'Reilly Radar

2009-01-06T14:05:38Z

How Twitter Can Turn One-Way Webinars Into Two-Way Conversations

2008-12-16T14:17:55Z

This is a great post about how companies can really use twitter well.

LibraryInsight

2008-12-10T21:34:35Z

In case anyone who lives in/near Marlborough ma needs passes to local musuems, they have quite a few avialable to check out.

Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS

2008-12-02T20:04:31Z

This is a great interview. It really starts about 5:00 in, but its a great interview with Michael Pollan.

bubbl.us - free web application for brainstorming online

2008-12-02T14:46:18Z

Very cool interface - actually seems to work very well with quick keyboard shortcuts for mapping

At Home with John Cleese | Small Pictures

2008-11-13T19:58:51Z

John Cleese takes someone on a tour of his house. The beginning is probably best, but it was funny for the 5 mins it took to watch.

Don’t Play Slug Bug While Working

2011-10-31T13:00:00Z

Bad Idea: Playing Slug Bug with your road-painting partner.

Horrible Idea: Playing Slug Bug with your co-pilot.

~NSHA

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What A Rotten Build

2011-10-31T23:00:00Z

This Halloween, busy yourself with a project that will be good for 5 days!

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Google Reader Rolls Out a New, Clean, Google Plus-Integrated Interface [Updates]

2011-10-31T21:55:00Z

Google Reader is following in the footsteps of Gmail, Docs, and Voice with a clean new interface, that's easier to use and contains integration with the Google+ social network. More »

Strength In Number Twos

2011-10-27T19:00:00Z

Did I just make a pun about writing utensils and poop, based on a popular idiom? Yes. Yes I did. You’re welcome.

~NSHA

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Meanwhile, In Bangkok

2011-10-28T11:00:00Z

As the flood waters continue to spread this weekend, we hope those affected by the floods in Thailand are able to reach higher ground in safety. And their adorable pets too.

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Android fragmentation gets visualized [infographic]

2011-10-27T14:30:55Z

There have been six smartphone distribution updates since Android was released: Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread and most recently, Ice Cream Sandwich. One man, Michael DeGusta, decided to map out every release and every Android smartphone launched in the United States before July 2010. He then compared the revision updates to the iPhone. The results are a bit surprising, even if you’re aware the Android market is fragmented. For example, DeGusta discovered that 7 of the 18 smartphones in his chart never ran a current version of Android. 12 of the devices only ran a current version of Android for a “matter of weeks or less” before a new distribution was released. Here are several other compelling facts discovered by DeGusta:

10 of 18 were at least two major versions behind well within their two year contract period.

11 of 18 stopped getting any support updates less than a year after release.

13 of 18 stopped getting any support updates before they even stopped selling the device or very shortly thereafter.

15 of 18 don’t run Gingerbread, which shipped in December 2010.

In a few weeks, when Ice Cream Sandwich comes out, every device on here will be another major version behind.

At least 16 of 18 will almost certainly never get Ice Cream Sandwich.

“It only gets worse for people who bought their phone late in its sales period.”

As a result of the fragmentation, DeGusta argues that consumers get “screwed,” developers are constrained and security risks increase when support updates aren’t applied to earlier devices. Read on for a link to DeGusta’s research and a full infographic.

[Via TechCrunch]

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Hardcore: Sixteen Shot Drinking 'Battleship'

2011-10-05T15:30:27Z

This is a homemade (you can tell by the beach towel) drinking Battleship setup. If you do the math (which I had a friend do for me on account of the double digits), the loser winds up taking 16 shots. That's a lot. Unless they're playing with beer (which I suspect), then it's ~~less~~ a waste of time. Image Thanks to David, who leaves tips on Geekologie's Facebook wall like a cat leaves dead birds by the back door. Daaaaaaw, are you trying to impress me?!

Isaac Asimov on Security Theater

2011-10-03T18:20:09Z

A great find:

In his 1956 short story, "Let's Get Together," Isaac Asimov describes security measures proposed to counter a terrorist threat:
"Consider further that this news will leak out as more and more people become involved in our countermeasures and more and more people begin to guess what we're doing. Then what? The panic might do us more harm than any one TC bomb."
The Presidential Assistant said irritably, "In Heaven's name, man, what do you suggest we do, then?"

"Nothing," said Lynn. "Call their bluff. Live as we have lived and gamble that They won't dare break the stalemate for the sake of a one-bomb head start."

"Impossible!" said Jeffreys. "Completely impossible. The welfare of all of Us is very largely in my hands, and doing nothing is the one thing I cannot do. I agree with you, perhaps, that X-ray machines at sports arenas are a kind of skin-deep measure that won't be effective, but it has to be done so that people, in the aftermath, do not come to the bitter conclusion that we tossed our country away for the sake of a subtle line of reasoning that encouraged donothingism."

This Jeffreys guy sounds as if he works for the TSA.

IBM ThinkDrill, Business Edition

2011-10-28T21:00:00Z

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