June 2010
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Rumor: Google to Take On Facebook With “Google Me” →
If Google really is launching a home-grown social network – Google Me – then it will be quite interesting to see how they pull it off. Would such an application make use features seen in other already-released Google products, such as Gmail, Google Profiles Wave, Buzz and Picasa?
I look forward to our Google overlords taking over more of our online lives.
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12 Truly Dysfunctional Families We Love To Hate Or... →
Family is a wonderful thing – on the surface. Dig a little deeper and you’ll discover that every family has secrets they don’t care to share; in fact, every family is a little screwed up. To put it plainly, there are some families that make it their trademark to be screwed up, and have become quite famous for it! Check out these twelve dysfunctional families that make yours look like the Brady...
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“You have brought this to a people who have given the world the Ten Commandments...”
– An open letter to President Obama from Jon Voight.
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Top 10: Female Sex Fantasies →
If you think women don’t sit around fantasizing about very naughty things, think again. Women are experts when it comes to dreaming up the sauciest of fantasies, and they don’t bother limiting themselves to the traditional. The top 10 female sex fantasies covers everything from fetishes to threesomes, and you may be surprised to know that many women want to do more than just fantasize. Some women...
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ASCAP Claiming That Creative Commons Must Be... →
But ASCAP’s blatant attack on Creative Commons (and EFF and PK; both of whom focus on consumer rights, but not undermining artist’s rights at all) shows their true colors. They’re not about artists’ rights at all. They’re about greater protectionism — which is not (at all) the same thing.
Is anyone really all that surprised at anything the copyright cartel...
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A woman's history of vaginal orgasm is discernible... →
The discerning observer may infer women’s experience of vaginal orgasm from a gait that comprises fluidity, energy, sensuality, freedom, and absence of both flaccid and locked muscles. Results are discussed with regard to previous research on gait, the effect of the musculature on sexual function, the special nature of vaginal orgasm, and implications for sexual therapy.
Well there you...
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BP "Burning Sea Turtles Alive" →
A rare and endangered species of sea turtle is being burned alive in BP’s controlled burns of the oil swirling around the Gulf of Mexico, and a boat captain tasked with saving them says the company has blocked rescue efforts.
As if BP is not doing enough, not they are blocking efforts to save the very endangered species they are killing? WTF is wrong with this company and why is nobody...
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Naked woman leads officers on chase →
The chase started in West Jordan when the already unclothed woman left her car, climbed into another car that was running and drove away, McLachlan said.
He said she wrecked that car, then ran off — still naked — into some sagebrush. A police officer spotted her and called for backup, not knowing what to expect from the woman.
When another officer arrived, the woman charged them both, slipped...
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Japanese Theaters to Screen ‘The Cove’ →
In a sharp turnabout, six Japanese movie theaters said on Monday they will screen an Oscar-winning documentary about dolphin hunting in Japan, bowing to pleas from free speech advocates to resist pressure from nationalists campaigning to block its release.
A fringe nationalist group — which calls “The Cove” anti-Japanese for criticizing what they call is a time-honored tradition - has staged...
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“Perspective: BP is billed $69m for cleanup costs, which equates to roughly 460...”
– I’m not sure what’s worse - the fact that the cleanup for this horrendous act is so costly or the fact that it equates to so few songs. Something is definitely wrong with the damages allowed by The Copyright Act.
@tzmartin on the current, devastating oil spill. (via parasight)
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Drug for Sexual Desire Disorder Opposed by Panel →
The F.D.A. staff found that it had effectively increased the number of sexually satisfying events reported by more than 1,000 women with depressed libido, increasing those events by a statistically significant 0.8 per month in randomized, placebo-controlled experiments.
But the staff found the drug had not been proved to increase women’s desire — a crucial element of the diagnosis, which...
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“Complaints of workplace abuse of authority harassment are on the rise. In some...”
– Abuse of Authority in the Workplace: A Form of Harassment. I have witnessed this on several occasions, and expect such harassment to be far more prevalent around the military. By and large, military officers believe they can order their civilian workforce to do whatever they damn well feel,...
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“The shallow assumption of Apple’s buttons is they hate buttons, the deeper...”
– Apple’s Buttons. Spot on methinks.
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rbfigueira asked: Hi,
I would like to know if you are using this theme(scaffoldtheme) with wordpress. I am using wordpress and want use this theme.
Can you please tell me how you do it ? How to setup ?
Thanks
Best regards,
Ricardo Figueira
I would like to know if you are using this theme(scaffoldtheme) with wordpress. I am using wordpress and want use this theme.
Can you please tell me how you do it ? How to setup ?
Thanks
Best regards,
Ricardo Figueira
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iPhone 4 has 512 MB of RAM →
If you were curious about just how much RAM is under the hood of the new iPhone 4, there’s 512 MB of the speedy stuff — twice as much as the iPhone 3GS and iPad.
The extra RAM can be taken advantage…
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iPhone 4 Confirmed to Have 512MB of RAM →
More technically inclined customers, however, still love to know what they have to work with. The original iPhone and iPhone 3G contained 128MB of RAM, while the iPhone 3GS was boosted to 256MB of RAM. Similarly, the iPad contains 256MB of RAM. This discrepancy offers a technical explanation why Apple is not supporting iOS 4 features such as multi-tasking on the original and 3G iPhone —...
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“Everything Android gets right are things the iPhone got right first and still...”
– Big Contrarian → This phone is an asshole.
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'GodFinger' for iPhone Now Out in U.S. →
In GodFinger, you are an all powerful deity who control the people and environment of a small planet. The planet environment is a side view cross section that you can navigate by swiping on the screen and pinch zooming in and out. When the game begins, you are given a very small planet with one inhabitant. As you demonstrate your powers to the inhabitants, they become followers and earn you gold...
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Wordpress 3.0 Released →
Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers,...
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Brontosaurus, RIP →
Did you know the Brontosaurus isn’t actually a dinosaur?
I can unequivocally state that I had no clue this beast was not a dinosaur. Who knew?
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Kan is not a “Japan rarity,” but decent foreign... →
I’m going to break down this post from the WSJ’s Japan blog piece by piece.
In the U.S., the current president, vice-president, first lady and secretary of state are all lawyers.
Sure—the Democratic Party is mostly run (and also mostly financed) by lawyers. But the Bush administration had few lawyers in its ranks; the composition of the cabinet is really determined more by who is choosing its...
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I'll Tell You What's Fair →
Now that DF has achieved a modicum of popularity, however, what I tend to get instead aren’t queries or complaints about the lack of comments, but rather demands that I add them — demands from entitled people who see that I’ve built something very nice that draws much attention, and who believe they have a right to share in it.
They don’t.
MG from TechCrunch has also linked to John’s...
No, Safari Reader Is Not the Beginning of an ‘Arms... →
Jim Lynch: Apple, by adding Reader to Safari 5, is essentially trying to force an ebook style interface onto the web reading experience. It will never work out over the long haul because web…
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Flash Player Update Defaults to Installing McAfee... →
Charles Arthur reports on the latest chicanery from Adobe. They’re reminding me more and more of Real Networks. (Thanks to DF reader Mehran Khalili.)
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Get in Line: iPhone 4 Pre-Orders Start in Japan →
It appears that Softbank is no longer subsidizing the cost of the handset directly (similar to the iPad rollout in Japan). So you will have the option of paying 57,600 yen for the 32GB model or 46,080 yen for the 16GB model, either cash up front, or in 24 payments of 2,400 yen/1,920 yen.
What! You say. That’s outrageous. at around $624 USD for the 32GB model and $500 USD for the 16GB, this...
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Teenage boy arrested for posting manga content on... →
A 14-year-old boy was arrested Monday for allegedly posting pirated ‘‘manga’’ comic stories on the video-sharing site YouTube, in the first police action against such a posting in Japan, police said.
The junior high school student from Nagoya, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor, is suspected of posting contents of four popular manga series such as the blockbuster ‘‘One Piece’’...
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You Are Not So Smart →
You Are Not So Smart is a blog devoted to self delusion and irrational thinking. There’s a lot of research out there suggesting you have no idea why you act or think the way you do. It feels awful to accept such things, so you create narratives to explain your own feelings and behavior.
You are not so smart is one of the more interesting blogs I have run across lately. The premise is unique,...
More People Realizing That ASCAP And BMI Are... →
The Guardian recently had an article wondering if “the internet” was killing the idea of the local music scene with a “local sound.” In discussing that article, Glyn Moody says it’s much more…
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You Know Where Else It’s Hard To Delete Your... →
You know where else it’s hard to delete your account? Mahalo.
Seriously, try to figure it out. You won’t be able to because apparently there is no option to do it on the site itself. In fact, according to these twopages you have to email someone at Mahalo to do it.
Is anyone really surprised that Jason Calacanis is the pot calling the kettle black?
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Judge Stewart Rules: Novell Wins →
The door has slammed shut on the SCO litigation machine. The judge writes in the Memorandum Decision and Order about SCOsource, “Finally, while SCO’s witnesses testified that the copyrights were ‘required’ for SCO to run its SCOsource licensing program, this was not something that SCO ever acquired from Novell.” He totally got it. He noticed Darl McBride admitted that...
“Kim Jong-il: putting the dick in dictator since 1994.”
– North Korea: now even worse. That quote is all too true.
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