Friday, May 17, 2013

Volks-Facebook

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Woah, didn't catch this until catching up on the German computing bi-weekly c't on vacation. They reported that the German governme...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Jim Hornung - †18 January 2013

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This post, unfortunately, is not a joke. One if the founders of this blog, Jim Hornung, passed away in January of this year. Peter G. Neuman...

YouTube Submissions now closed

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YouToube announced that they would be shutting down, as the submission process is now over and they will spend a decade reviewing all of th...

Google Nose

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The new scent sation in search! Of course, they only show roses and a pretty girl, but imagine if you could smell that computer geek on th...

Bing-Bling

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Bing seems to have put up at least two jokes this year: Introducing Bing Basic - "We decided to go back to basics, to the dawn of t...

The Freedom Bay

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In a surprise move, the Pirate Bay has moved to the USA and renamed itself "The Freedom Bay". I suppose they have Freedom Fries i...

Play-Doh 3D Printer

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ThinkGeek has a new product that is soooooo modern: a 3D printer that uses Play-Doh to print. I really want to have one of these, and 50 $ ...
Friday, April 6, 2012

ICANN Announces Surprise Termination of Domain Name Expansion Program; Plans Own Dissolution

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MARINA DEL REY, California (ZAP) -- In a stunning and unexpected announcement, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICAN...
Sunday, April 1, 2012

Google Nude View

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Also reported by the EFF: Google's New "Nude View" Program Raises Privacy Concerns Privacy advocates are calling foul on ...

Creativity Murder

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The EFF reported on April 1, 2012: MPAA Announces Kickstarter Campaign for Film Decrying Internet's Impact on Creative Works In ...

Blog from the Afterlife

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The BBC reports : The Earth has exploded, killing everyone.

Freenode to keep logs for 5 years

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Freenode announces : "In accordance with ACTA [...] All channels on the network will be logged and stored for a period of five (5) ye...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

Review of April Fool's Day Transactions

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Kind of didn't get around to recording what went on in 2011, but I have just learned of the esteemed Review of April Fool's Day Tran...