1 month ago
deusx : Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login - "@David, it's real. We've determined by looking at our traffic stats that people are doing Google searches for "facebook login" and coming upon RWW. They see the FB Connect button and assume that RWW is the "new Facebook.&quo
Andy Baio : Confused Facebook users think ReadWriteWeb is the new Facebook login page - they're searching for "facebook login" on Google, using FB Connect, and posting hundreds of confused comments
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deusx : GPS-led travel goes amiss; 3 Ore. parties rescued - Yahoo! News - "If you are following your GPS and all of a sudden you find yourself in the middle of nowhere with snow all around, don't go there. Turn around."
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deusx : Tea Party Protesters Protest D.C. Metro Service - Washington Wire - WSJ - In case it's not clear: These nutters are complaining that government services weren't expansive enough to accommodate their protest of expansive government services. "Rep. Kevin Brady asked for an explanation of why the government-run sub
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Andy Baio : 72-year-old retired boxer beats up knife-wielding knucklehead - the inane Facebook photos make this story even more delicious
deusx : Pictured: The battered and bruised face of a burglar who got on the wrong side of a 72-year-old former boxer | Mail Online - "The blows were so powerful that McCalium, who had just lunged at Mr Corti with the knife, was left looking like he had been in 'a car accident'."
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deusx : TheCabin.net ·· Prank call leads to $50K in damage 06/09/09 - "The bogus caller told the employee that there was a problem with the sprinklers and that she needed to "reset" them by pulling a nearby fire alarm, which the caller claimed to have deactivated for the purpose. When the audible alarm went o
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deusx : Tax Tea Party Time, Part Two - Forbes.com - "People should remember that while they have the right to their opinion, they are not entitled to be taken seriously. That only comes from having credibility gained by the correct presentation of facts and analysis and a willingness to be even-handed
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12 month ago
deusx : Giles Bowkett: Gay People, Come To Rails - "Seriously, you use gay as a synonym for bad or lame or whatever? You suck. DIE. Gay people still get beaten and killed all over the world just for being themselves. You think you're helping to change that? Get over your ridiculous programming-
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deusx : Will Obama Break Up Google? (GOOG) - I hope not. Google's not a monopoly - it's got plenty of lesser competitors. They just happen to be really successful. It's easier to live Google free than MSFT free. "Obama's pick to head the Justice Department's antitru
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15 month ago
Andy Baio : Flickr designer George Oates on her insane layoff from Yahoo! - she was in Taipei when she got the call; her last Flickr blog post about The Commons was just posted yesterday [via]
deusx : kewlchops: Not quite what I had in mind. - ""I'll just get straight to the point. You've been affected by the layoffs." ... I watched as my access to various parts of the guts of Flickr fell away. I noticed how naturally I searched for any and all bits I could think of, ju
Rod Begbie : Not quite what I had in mind. - George Oates's tale of being laid-off from Flickr, whilst half-way around the world, speaking on Flickr's behalf. [via] #
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deusx : Terrorist 'tweets'? US Army warns of Twitter dangers - Yahoo! News - Seriously? Aren't we tired yet of finding new reasons to be scared? "The report outlined scenarios in which militants could make use of Twitter, combined with such programs as Google Maps or cell phone pictures or video, to carry out an ambush
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21 month ago
deusx : Right Wing Watch: The Dangers of Auto-Replace - "automatically replacing any use of the word “gay” with the word “homosexual” in any of the AP stories they run … leading to instances in which proper names are reformatted to meet their ridiculous standard"
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21 month ago
deusx : The Chemistry Set » How I Lost My S#?! at the Apple Store - Guy can't read a manual; can't find a Torx driver; can't Google for it; freaks when the Apple Genius Bar charges a $30 stupidity tax; and is amazed that things come from Taiwan. It's somehow Apple's fault, and worth drawing a comic to bitch about it.
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29 month ago
Rod Begbie : 'Cool Cash' card confusion - Manchester Evening News - Apparently, the consumers of lottery scratch cards in the UK aren't particularly good at maths. Whodvethunkit? "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it." [via] #
deusx : 'Cool Cash' card confusion - News - Manchester Evening News - "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it."
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33 month ago
deusx : Video - Airbag puts an end to this moron's family tree - ToxicJunction.com - "This gentleman does the world some good by putting an end to his gene pool."
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35 month ago
Andy Baio : Rage fans didn't like Crowded House's reunion at Coachella - unfortunate lineup placement leads to disastrous results, foreshadowed here
deusx : stereogum: Coachella: Rage Fans Didn't Like Crowded House - "would any of these kids respond, even in passing recognition of the tune? And they responded alright. With a water bottle straight to Neil Finn's head!"
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35 month ago
deusx : LSD as Therapy? Write about It, Get Barred from US :: News :: thetyee.ca - "Now I am being seen as one of those drug users, perhaps an addict, perhaps a dealer, one can't be sure. In the matter of a second, I became powerless, whatever I said wasn't going to be taken seriously. I was labeled, sorted and disposed of. Dismiss
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36 month ago
deusx : US teen jailed for school's daylight-saving cock-up | The Register - "In fact, because the school had not reset the clock on the hot line, which continued to show Eastern Standard Time, officials and police failed to spot that the bomb threat had actually come in at 4:17am - more than an hour after Webb's innocent cal
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36 month ago
deusx : Mooninites coming to Hub: Theaters ‘toon’ out Tom’s plea - Local & Regional - BostonHerald.com - "If it was banned in Boston it would get bigger numbers nationally because it would be front-page news."
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36 month ago
Andy Baio : Internet Access CAPTCHAs - that Matthew Baldwin guy is versatile
jimray : Internet Access CAPTCHAs - "Enjoy the porn!"
Rod Begbie : Internet Access CAPTCHAs - CAPTCHAs to keep the internet looser(sic)-free. I would fully support this project. [via] #
deusx : Internet Access CAPTCHAs - "I'd also like to see certain people on the Internet prevented from doing certain things. You know, like: logging onto the Internet."
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37 month ago
deusx : Dems abandon war authority provision - Yahoo! News - "Top House Democrats retreated Monday from an attempt to limit President Bush's authority for taking military action against Iran as the leadership concentrated on a looming confrontation with the White House over the Iraq war. "
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37 month ago
deusx : Schneier on Security: Is Everything a Bomb these Days? - From a comment: "Ignore then, laugh at them, try to understand them, but for gods sake do not give them a victory."
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38 month ago
deusx : Schneier on Security: Non-Terrorist Embarrassment in Boston - "Refuse to be terrorized, people!"
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38 month ago
deusx : Thomas Menino is an incompetent coward - August J. Pollak - xoverboard.com - "There is no excuse for blaming Turner Networks, Adult Swim, and especially a single 27-year-old, for the overzealousness of Boston's government and the news media."
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38 month ago
deusx : Turner Broadcasting "regrets" Boston security scare - Yahoo! News - "Turner Broadcasting apologized on Wednesday for a marketing campaign that sparked Boston's biggest security scare since the September 11, 2001, attacks -- closing bridges, shutting major roads and putting hundreds of police on alert. "
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38 month ago
deusx : MAKE: Blog: UPDATED: Aqua Teen Hunger Force LED art shuts down Boston - "Even if it was just something random, it sort of shows the folly of our security-obsessed world when a fictional martian can set a major city on high alert."
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