April 2010
HTC Agrees to Pay Microsoft for Patent Licenses... →
Todd Bishop: The Redmond company says mobile-phone maker HTC will pay Microsoft an undisclosed sum to license a series of patents that, according to Microsoft, cover technology in HTC mobile…
Japan-inspired illustrations by Zain7 →
Link via TokyoMango
Angry woman bites off man's ear →
When a guy told 21-year old Ann Godfrey that she was fat at a party in Lincoln, Nebraska, the woman bit off a chunk of his right ear.
Is the Uzbek government sterilizing women to... →
To control population growth, the Uzbek government has reportedly been sterilizing women without their consent. Not cool. From the Times Online:
Uzbek sources say the measure was ordered by Islam…
Tacacs Server Configuration in Debian →
HOWTO configure a TACACS+ daemon under Debian Linux. A good starting point for any TACACS+ installation.
intoDNS →
intoDNS is a great web-based tool which checks DNS and mail servers health. It can tell you a lot about your DNS servers and the status of secondary’s, etc.
TACACS+ User guide →
One of the most comprehensive developers guides for installing and configuring a TACACS+ server.
Ubuntu Manpage: tac_plus →
tac_plus man page for the TACACS+ daemon for Linux.
TACACS+ daemon →
Decent TACACS+ package to be used with Linux for performing centralized authentication on network infrastructure devices like routers, switches, etc.
Orange juice's deep, dark secrets →
Last year, I linked to an interview with Alissa Hamilton, author of Squeezed: What You Don’t Know About Orange Juice. Hamilton’s book has now been released in paperback, and Smithsonian blogs…
Unicorn Meat →
This canned meat product from ThinkGeek costs $10 and is an ‘excellent source of sparkles.’
Music industry spokesman loves child porn →
A music-industry speaker at an American Chamber of Commerce event in Stockholm waxed enthusiastic about child porn, because it serves as the perfect excuse for network censorship, and once you’ve got…
Mac App Store, Software only running with Apple... →
A Mac developer who was worried about Rixstep’s warnings about OSX 10.7 having a Mac App Store and requiring applications being signed by Apple, wrote in to the big boss man himself for some…
Innocent Man Jailed Must Break Code of Silence to... →
Alan Sudduth’s cousin was a gang leader, and we know how they feel about snitches. So he swallowed the truth instead, until — after 15 years in prison — someone else confessed to his crime. Now…
Fox News: Jon Stewart’s Punching Bag →
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are long gone. Fox News Channel is Jon Stewart’s new enemy No. 1.
“A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame...”
– John Burroughs (via realheadsknow, kari-shma)
Apple iPhone grabs 72% of Japan's smartphone... →
Apple’s iPhone is big, big, big in Japan, where it accounts for 72 percent of the country’s smartphone market, a market slice that makes it pretty clear where Apple’s going with its…
Super Slow Motion Footage of the Apollo 11 Saturn... →
Great footage and wonderful narration by Mark Gray.
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trustworthiness_of_beards.jpg (5500×1299)... →
It’s true.
Has Gizmodo Broken the Law With Its iPhone Story? →
Ian Betteridge has an excellent post examining the legal implications of the stolen next-gen iPhone affair, including citations from the relevant sections of the California code. Betteridge…
What's up, dock? Henge ships low-cost MacBook... →
Filed under: Accessories, MacBook
I’ve often heard an excuse from people who refuse to even consider a MacBook or MacBook Pro when they’re in the market for a laptop. The story goes like…
World's most costly beer: The one that led an... →
Filed under: Rumors, iPhone
More on the ongoing saga of the wayward next-gen iPhone. Gizmodo just posted their version of the story behind the story: They say that an Apple…
Gizmodo Has the Purported Next-Gen iPhone in Hand →
It’s been an open secret to those of us in the racket that Gizmodo purchased this unit about a week ago, from those who claimed to find it. That this belongs to and was made by Apple is almost…
Interesting Fact About Your Farts! →
The Only Tea Party Stat You Need to Know →
The percentage holding a favorable opinion of former President George W. Bush = 57%.
NSA Chief Loves His iPad →
“Wonderful.”
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Fool Me Once Browser Extension/App →
Wow, I need to remember never to come back here again.
I know I’ve had this reaction more than once when landing on a site. Some web sites behave badly, it’s annoying.
Eric’s recent tweet…
Soyburgers laced with neurotoxins →
PeaceLove sez, “Shocking Mother Jones article about a Cornucopia Institute report on how many of the most popular veggie burgers are made with hexane, a neurotoxic byproduct of gas refining.”
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Neurotoxic soyburgers story came from... →
Looks like I got spoofed: the study in this morning’s post about neurotoxins in soyburgers turns out to have been funded by an anti-vegetarian, pro-meat lobbying group, the Weston A Price…
‘House’ Season Finale Filmed Entirely With Canon... →
Greg Yaitanes, director of the episode, thinks the footage looks better than that from their regular cameras. Update: Another WordPress site craps out. Google has it cached, though.
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Microsoft Outsourcing IT Services →
Todd Bishop: Infosys Technologies Ltd. will manage Microsoft’s internal IT services worldwide under a three-year deal announced by the global outsourcing company this morning. According to an…
Twitter Reveals ‘Promoted Tweets’ Ad Plan →
Claire Cain Miller, reporting for the NYT: The advertising program, which Twitter calls Promoted Tweets, will show up when Twitter users search for keywords that the advertisers have bought to…
Apple refreshes MacBook Pro family with Intel Core... →
This transition from the last crop of Core 2 Duo chips (which Apple introduced in June of last year) to Intel’s Core 2010 chips has caused quite the unprecedented wait, but at last…
Texas Stadium Implosion Captivates YouTube [VIDEO] →
Texas Stadium, the longtime home of the Dallas Cowboys, was demolished early this morning — and construction workers invited the public to view (and film) the event live.
As a…
Man-in-the-Middle Attacks Against SSL →
Says Matt Blaze: A decade ago, I observed that commercial certificate authorities protect you from anyone from whom they are unwilling to take money. That turns out to be wrong; they don’t even…
America blackmails the world on ACTA transparency →
Michael Geist sez, “The U.S. Trade Representative issued a release just prior to the launch of the New Zealand round of ACTA [ed: The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty…
Jean-Louis Gassée Gets It →
Jean-Louise Gassée: Who, in his right mind, expects Steve Jobs to let Adobe (and other) cross-platform application development tools control his (I mean the iPhone OS) future? Cross-platform…
The Truth About Mac Maintenance: Do you really... →
This is the story of how my Macs have treated me, and how I treat them in return. I don’t intend to imply this is the case for every user out there, just what I’ve experienced…
Markos Moulitsas on the iPad →
Non-geek writers are far more likely to get it — to see how the trade-offs lead to a new type of experience. Moulitsas writes: For me, all I care is whether a device makes my life easier. I could…
Everything You Need to Know About Fast Food... →
The avg daily calories for an American is the one stat that really blows me away
Dear Journalists: There Is No Cyberwar →
At the beginning of April, we noted that director of national intelligence, Michael McConnell, who’s now consulting for some firms that would profit greatly from a re-architecting of the internet, is…
Institutions Will Seek To Preserve The Problem For... →
We already wrote a detailed analysis of Clay Shirky’s recent writeup on complex business models. However, a few of you have sent over Kevin Kelly’s recent post about Shirky’s piece that also…
GMail Labs adds nested labels, better message... →
Filed under: E-mail, Google
Hopefully you’ve checked out GMail labs before. It’s packed with slick additional functionality that you can bolt on to your Web mail client like these 10…
Survey results: Americans insist on government... →
The Economist asked Americans: “What is the best way to cut the deficit?”
5% said, “increase taxes.”
62% said, “reduce government spending.”
OK, said The Economist. “Here is a list of…
Report: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld kept detainees in... →
Did George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld keep prisoners in Guantánamo whom they knew were innocent, for PR reasons? “Colonel Wilkerson, who was General Powell’s chief of staff when he ran the State…
Britain’s Digital Economy Bill Causes Outrage →
The UK’s Labour Government, shortly before midnight last night, finally managed to push through its Digital Economy Bill. It’s a controversial and wide-ranging piece of legislation…
Draconian UK Digital Economy Bill passes: huge... →
The Digital Economy bill, known on Twitter as #debill, passed today. The short version is that this thing makes the DMCA look like a warmup act. Cory’s traveling, but you can expect his thoughts…
Congressman: Air Marshals cost $200 million per... →
Paleoconservative Republican Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr. has called for the abolition of the Air Marshal Service, arguing that more air marshals have been arrested since 9/11 (for crimes like…