September 2009
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Hardware Hackers Create a Cheaper Bedazzler →
ptorrone writes “Hardware hacker extraordinaires Ladyada (Adafruit Industries) and Phil Torrone (of MAKE magazine) have just published an open source ‘Homeland Security’ project, a non-lethal…
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How To Play Poker With Your Rock Band Guitar →
An anonymous reader writes ‘Sean Lind over at PokerListings has written a really interesting piece on how to configure Rock Band (or Guitar Hero) instruments to use them as controllers for playing…
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“The Carlton Football Club has advised Brendan Fevola and his management that it...”
– I wonder if Judd said “either he goes or I go”? Further details on the Carlton website.
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“To rub salt into the wound, Melbourne Storm’s Under 20 team are playing in...”
– Ah good, I missed Mogambo last time around. parano1a on League Unlimited rants about Nine Melbourne’s coverage of NRL Grand Final day.
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Man Goes Into Business Delivering Costco To... →
Groceries on the Upper East Side and Upper West Side of Manhattan are expensive. How expensive? One guy with a truck has started a business delivering cheaper groceries. One catch…
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Infamous Domino's Where Gross-Out Video Was... →
Remember that Domino’s Pizza, the one in North Carolina where Kristy and Michael recorded themselves doing gross things to the food? The Charlotte Observer has reported that the location…
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Gameboy Color Boot ROM Dumped After 10 Years →
An anonymous reader writes “Costis was able to dump the elusive boot ROM from the Gameboy Color by using various voltage and clock glitching tricks. The boot ROM is what initializes the Gameboy…
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United: Bad Toilet Timing Leads To Delay, Arrests →
Two passengers were arrested on a United flight from LA to New York after one of them jumped up and ran to the bathroom after being instructed to remain seated by a flight attendant.
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Has the Glory Gone Out of Working In IT? →
An anonymous reader writes to wonder if the glory has gone out of IT. One blogger remembered his first impression upon entering a profession in IT that made it seem like the place to be, with a new…
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Bad PC Sales Staff Exposed →
Barence writes “An undercover investigation has revealed how Dell’s online sales staff take liberties with the truth when trying to sell customers new PCs. One member of staff told an undercover…
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Photos Emerge of East Cleveland’s Cross-Dressing... →
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man asked to leave table bec he was touching... →
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Breaking down Big Day Out 2010 by the chart
So the Big Day Out 2010 lineup is here and is the case with most festivals, the reaction from the public is mixed. If there are two major complaints with the lineup, they are that it’s too recycled (featuring too many internationals who have recently toured) and that it features too many of the “same old” local acts. With the lineup now out, it gives a good chance to analyse the...
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AU Government To Build "Unhackable" Netbooks →
bennyboy64 writes “In what may be one of the largest roll-outs yet of Microsoft’s new Windows 7 Operating System, Australia’s Federal Government decided to give 240,000 Lenovo IdeaPad S10e netbooks…
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“I just struggle thinking that when asked ‘What do you want on your toast?’,...”
– Chris Walton on the name that is enraging a nation. (via mUmBRELLA).
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AP Publishes Reporter’s Notes About Roman Polanski... →
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Trent Reznor creating a video game? →
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Kings Island amusement park drops offensive... →
An Ohio amusement park has disassembled a distasteful Halloween display that caused offense among parkgoers.
The display featured skeletons dressed as many recently (and not so recently)…
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CNN Reporter Hit By Tear Gas in Pittsburgh... →
The protests in Pittsburgh by self-described anarchists, coinciding with the G-20 Summit, have led to arrests, violence and this unbelievable but true video.
Today things are calmer,…
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““To sit here thinking that I could have (an estimated) $15,000 in my bank...”
– A comment regarding compulsory student unionism from article The death throes of student newspapers.
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Everything I Know About Journalism I Learned from... →
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Grab N Go Espresso baristas charged with serving... →
Would you like girl on girl action with your coffee?
Five baristas at the Everett Grab n Go coffee drive through in Everett, Washington have been charged with prostitution after offering…
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Soundbite: Nick Denton Reveals The Secret Behind... →
One interesting thing about biggest recent Gawker Media scoops — Pink phone (Gizmodo, yesterday), Scientology marketing vid, Erin Andrews peephole, Microsoft tablet, Josh Hamilton falls off…
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Penn & Teller: Magicians by night, detectives by... →
Las Vegas magicians and Bullshit! hosts Penn & Teller have inked a deal with ABC for an hour dramedy based on their real lives. To make it a little more interesting, they’ve added a…
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High-Tech Gadgets Can Pose Problems At Mexican... →
TechnologyResource writes “Going across the border will be a more ‘interesting’ experience since Customs and Border Protection will now be checking laptops, digital cameras, cell phones and any other…
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Google SideWiki Brings Comments To Everyone →
Rophuine writes “Google has launched a product called SideWiki. It takes the form of a plug-in to Firefox and Internet Explorer which allows users to mark up the web by adding comments which can be…
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Anus Burgers Run Wild Across America's Restaurant... →
We got a tip from someone today with a funny pic of a misspelled McDonald’s sign at the University of Missouri campus in Columbia, MO. We thought we’d do a Google search to see if this was…
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DilbertDailyStrip/~3... →
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Google Sidewiki: Danger →
Google just introduced Sidewiki, which enables anyone to comment on a page using Google’s toolbar.
I see danger.
Google is trying to take interactivity away from the source and centralize it….
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Google’s Sidewiki is a bad idea – very bad →
With the launch of their Sidewiki toolbar addition Google’s “do no evil” mantra gets yet another slap upside the head. Even though it was only announced mid-morning the news of Google’s…
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Mothers, don't let your daughters grow up to be...
Random girl at label party on Friday night: Hey, I saw you talking to the boys in *Band* before, do you know them?
Me: Yeah, I'm their publicist. They're nice dudes.
Random girl: OMG they are incredible, I heard they're doing a north Queensland tour next year.
Me: Haha, yeah, I'm the one organising it.
Random girl: OMG LOL RLY? Well, don't tell the boys but there's a whole group of us that are going to go on tour with them.
Me: ...
Random girl: It'll be SO MUCH FUN, I can't wait.
Me: (pleasantly) Well, that's great that you'll be paying to get into each show on the tour & seeing a bit of the country.
Random girl: Oh no, we're just going to hang out with the boys.
Me: (darkly) Honey, if you and your friends do anything to distract or irritate any of the band members or tour staff, I assure you your life will become very unpleasant very quickly.
Random girl: (laughs nervously)
Me: Not even close to joking.
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Nine Scientifically Proven Ways to Get Retweeted... →
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Men duped in money-doubling scam →
PROMISES that special chemicals could duplicate money have allegedly duped three Victorian businesses.
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The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles →
Just in case you are travelling to America any time soon, here is a variety of hamburgers of different sorts.
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The Rise of the Professional Blogger →
while no one would deny that blogging has lowered the barriers to self-publication by average citizens, the free-wheeling fraternal spirit of blogging has become increasingly subject to market disciplines. As a result, as Web critic Nicholas Carr told me, blogging has evolved to become “a lot more like a traditional mass medium.”
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Why cash flow matters →
Here’s a simple description of why cash flow is the most important financial measurement in business.
Cashflow positive means: More ‘actual’ cash money is coming in than is going out. It…
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Phishers introduce 'Chat-in-the-Middle' fraud... →
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ASCAP Says Apple Should Pay For 30-sec. Song... →
CNet reports on a new money battle brewing between those who generate music and those who profit from selling it on the Net. “Songwriters, composers, and music publishers are making preparations to…