June 2009
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The Pirate Bay sold to publicly-traded Swedish... →
Brokep’s statement is delusional; being acquired will almost certainly kill the site
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Digital Britain: closing down the open internet →
Digital Britain promises to ‘tackle piracy’ online. Extensive powers of blocking, filtering and reducing access to the internet will be put in place if anti-infringement letter writing…
“Let’s say, for example, that you’re a pizza maker, and it costs you...”
– Entertainment Industry Still Insisting That Gov’t Protectionism Is The Only Way To Compete | Techdirt
UK: You Can't Photograph Sensitive Buildings;... →
Boing Boing points to the rather ridiculous news that certain “sensitive” areas of the UK are banned to photographers, but when The British Journal of Photography tried to find out which “sensitive”…
Video Game Companies Still Bitching About Used... →
This has been discussed before, but apparently one of the big topics at E3 last week was video game publishers again being upset about the fact that they don’t get a cut of used game sales. What…
The Very Long Tail Of Facebook Applications →
Earlier this week I published an article about the long tail of Facebook Pages, exploring the distribution of fans among over 1.2 million Pages. Today I decided that it would be a good idea to do a…
On Frank Gehry Being Fired →
Seen over at Subtraction:
“The recent news that the developer Forest City Ratner had scrapped Frank Gehry’s design for a Nets [basketball] arena in central Brooklyn is not just a blow to the…
We know the iPhone isn't cheap, but Billshrink... →
Filed under: iPhone
It’s no secret that in addition to the initial price for the iPhone, that there’s also months upon months of service plans to pay as well. BillShrink.com gave us some…
Another Example of Microsoft’s Branding Magic →
DigiTimes: Microsoft plans to redefine mini-notebooks that Intel has categorized as netbooks with a new term — low cost small notebook PC, according to Steven Guggenheimer, general manager of the…
The biggest argument for bailing out or buying the... →
The biggest argument for bailing out or buying the car companies seems to be that letting them completely collapse would result in massive unemployment across so much of the country that the…
Biologist →
Speaking of physicists, I have been to the future and I’ve read Sean Carroll’s new book.
However, for all you non-time-traveling mortals, you can pre-order it on Amazon.
Project Natal →
Have you ever noticed that when Microsoft makes a product announcement that people actually get excited about, it’s almost always for a product that isn’t scheduled to ship for a year or more? The…
"See, there’s this thing called caffeine. It’s one... →
“See, there’s this thing called caffeine. It’s one of the greatest gifts Mama Earth gave her humans. She hid it in high concentrations inside beans that must be roasted and boiled with water. Fact…
Bookmarklet Upgrades Look how hot this shit is....... →
Why GM failed →
GM declared bankruptcy yesterday and the rush is on to explain what went wrong. Here are a few explanations I found, along with some possible solutions. After 101 years, why GM failed, Peter…
r4ds - Google Search →
Microsoft’s ‘Bing’ Search Engine Debuts, But It’s... →
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I honestly thought this was spam. I figured spyware had been installed on my computer and that this “Bing” thing was stealing my search traffic, but no, its another throw of…
Michael Moore’s advice to Obama on General Motors... →
