February 2008
The Gober Blog →
Hmm… interesting
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Confirmed: Yahoo Design Innovation Team Axed →
The entire design firm has been let go. The team had been working on next generation design projects. This week, more than 1,000 Yahoo employees have been let go, including the entire design team.
eating lunch at a pub and drinking some brown ale, good times
7 Lies You'll Hear From Salesmen At Electronics... →
Future Shop is a Canadian consumer electronics retail chain. Charlie used to work there, and has now passed along the 7 most common lies he heard salesmen use on unsuspecting customers. Whether you have a Future Shop in your area or not, you’ll find these lies familiar. (We ran into a lot of them back when The Wiz was still in NYC, in fact.)
Atheist Sees Image of Big Bang in Piece of Toast →
Excitement is growing in the Northern England town of Huddlesfield following the news that a local man saw an image of the Big-Bang in a piece of toast. Atheist Donald Chapman, 36, told local newspaper, “The Huddlesfield Express” that he was sitting down to eat breakfast when an unusual toast pattern caught his eye.
Google to switch away from XMPP →
cbarrett: I’ll be writing a full blog post about this later, but wow. How lame.
John McCain Votes In Favor Of Torture →
The Senate voted today to ban the CIA from using torture on suspected terrorists and the most famous POW in the Senate voted against the bill…thankfully the measure passed, but for McCain, it was a show of pure cowardice.
Indiana Jones IV Trailer! →
YesYesYesYesYes! YES! Indy says: “It’s not as easy as it used to be” Yeah, but damnit it looks good. Specially that scene in the military depot (probably Area 51) from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Bad, Bad, BAD Idea
I’m glad this is “currently unavailable”.
50% Of All BitTorrent Downloads are TV-Shows →
Reports show that 50% of all people using BitTorrent at any given point in time do so to download TV-series, quite an impressive number. In total, over a billion TV-shows are downloaded every year, and this number continues to rise.
5 Ways Hollywood Tricks You Into Seeing Terrible... →
Movie studios rarely worry whether the film they’re producing is “good” or “bad” or “technically pornography”. There’s only one driving motivation: box office. So what do you do when you’ve made a movie nobody will pay to see? Lie.
AppleTV take 2 is awesome
Apple TV Take 2: an in-depth review (part 1) →
A look at how the refreshed Apple TV compares as a living room media player and source of HDTV content, what’s new in Apple’s ‘Take 2’ software upgrade, and how well the device achieves its goal of bringing iTunes media to home theaters in its second try at inventing itself.
LEGO Monty Python Beats LEGO Star Wars, With a... →
One of the first entries is an instant classic: the “Bring out your dead!” skit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (video after the jump.)
Miyamoto: Wii Fit is Not Designed to Make You Fit →
” I don’t think Wii Fit’s purpose is to make you fit; what it’s actually aiming to do is make you aware of your body.” Right, sell a million & then admit that. Oh Shigeru-san…
Bush: "The Terrorists are Coming! Give me... →
Bush on terrorist surveillance: “In order to be able to discover enemy — the enemy’s plans, we need the cooperation of telecommunication companies. If these companies are subjected to lawsuits that could cost them billions of dollars, they won’t participate; they won’t help us; they won’t help protect America.”
Parts of Nearly Extinct Tiger Openly Sold in... →
Parts of the Sumatran tiger, a critically endangered species, are being openly sold in 10% of 326 retailers surveyed across the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
What NOT to name your furniture store
In Korea you can see some strange signs, and this is one of the funniest I’ve seen. My guess is that they just pulled something random off of an Internet search engine that somehow related to wood furniture.
Michael Eisner Declares the Writers' Strike is... →
Appearing tonight on CNBC, former Disney boss Michael Eisner said the three-month strike by the Writers Guild of America has finally been resolved, not that everything will return to normal.
Writers Guild reports tentative deal to end strike →
The long and bitter Hollywood writer’s strike that has wreaked havoc on television schedules and led to millions of dollars of lost income for the entertainment industry may soon be over, according to the heads of the Writers Guild of America.
Yahoo to reject Microsoft bid →
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Yahoo plans to reject Microsoft’s takeover bid, saying it “massively undervalues” the company.
The Sun Also Sets-Global cooling ahead? →
“Canadian scientists are seeking additional funding for more and better ‘eyes’ with which to observe our sun, which has a bigger impact on Earth’s climate than all the tailpipes and smokestacks on our planet combined. And they’re worried about global cooling, not warming.” ENDQUOTE What about Al Gore’s so-called “Global Warming...
Yahoo! between a rock and hard place →
The company’s board must choose between selling to Microsoft or forming a difficult alliance with Google.
Pirated by iTunes, Artist Turns to BitTorrent →
The Flashbulb, aka Benn Jordan, became so outraged when he discovered that iTunes was effectively pirating his music, that he uploaded copies of his latest album to BitTorrent. TorrentFreak caught up with Benn to learn more about the decision to stop distributors and ‘coked-up label reps’ from getting all the cash.
Top 10 Celluloid Hotties →
Lately, Hollywood movies are full of some of the sexiest eye-candy ever made. From Alba to Jolie, with some McGowan and Bellucci thrown in for good measure, the last decade on Planet Film has been ruled by the Babe.
B&H Photo Video Pro Audio- The Mother of all... →
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my mbp battery sucks
40 signs you really are a lousy PHP programmer //... →
Google: Microsoft Deal Bad for Internet →
In Google’s first public reaction to Microsoft’s unsolicited bid for Yahoo, it says the merger could pose a threat to the internet, and could stifle openness, innovation and protection of privacy online.
Microsoft to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion →
Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn (£22.4bn) in cash and shares. WTF?
