January 2010
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20+ Mind-blowing Social Media Statistics Revisited →
The way we communicate online has gone through a sea-change over last few years – Infact, majority of netizens spend most of their time on social media / networking sites. Twitter has been a rage over past 1 year, Facebook has become one of the most visited sites on the web, Professionals are flocking Linkedin and keep their profiles updated. Do you want to know the numbers behind these...
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Why I Don’t Check Voicemail Anymore →
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Voice On The Line →
The era of nuclear anxiety, the Red scare, and covert CIA plots forever changed the way we engage with the telephone. Voice on the Line is an animated, experimental social commentary that explores the ideas of the Cold War and ungrounded paranoia.
Check out more short films from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival now playing in the YouTube Screening Room.
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A College Major Flowchart →
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iBama →
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State of the Union: Official Drinking Game →
State of the Union live on YouTube
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Apple iPad Rumor vs. Reality →
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Apple iPad →
Apple’s iPad announcement earlier this afternoon prompted a score of WTFing across the internet, prompting many to ask, “Are there any women on Apple’s marketing team?” Answer: Apparently not. (Period.)
From Twitter (for what it’s worth, #iTampon is apparently the number three one trending topic on the site.):
tjakabon: “It surfs the web AND stops the...
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I Remember Andrea - High School Reunion Prank →
Comedy writer Andrea Wachner hated the idea of going to her 10-year high school reunion so much that she hired a stripper to go instead, and what followed, she says, was a comical study in human nature.
Reuters
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'Pants on the Ground' ripoff: Detroit's Green... →
The Green Brothers version, 1996:
General Larry Platt’s version, 2010:
I can’t believe no one else picked up on this story earlier…ever since American Idol, everyone I know has been screaming that this Platt phony stole that song from Detroit’s…nay, the WORLD’s greatest hip hop act ever, the Green Brothers.
Everyone in the tri-county...
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Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No →
In celebration of the greatest athletic achievement by a man on a psychedelic journey, No Mas and artist James Blagden proudly present the animated tale of Dock Ellis’ legendary LSD no-hitter. In the past few years weve heard all too much about performance enhancing drugs from greenies to tetrahydrogestrinone, and not enough about performance inhibiting drugs. If our evaluation...
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BREAKING: The New Apple iPad! →
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What comes AFTER the Apple Tablet; Light Blue... →
You’ll soon see Apple’s new tablet or iPad. It will be fantastic, to be sure, but what will come next? Well, how about a touch screen that can work on any surface? Robert Scoble interviews Light Blue Optics’ CTO, Dr. Adrian Cable, and co-founder about what this projector and touch surface computer can do. It is remarkable and you need to see it demoed to understand...
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If You Printed Twitter →
If you printed Twitter …
the seven billion tweets to date are composed of 104,860,000,000 words, as many as 133,000 copies of the the King James version of the Bible.
it would cover 350 million sheets of paper, which is 37 times the number of pages used in bills introduced in the United States Congress since 1955.
the paper would weigh three and a half million pounds, the equivalent of...
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Drink Great Wine on a Budget →
Unless you’re a real wine aficionado, you probably lack the confidence to know which of those bottles of wine on-sale at the local BevMo are a bargain and which deserve the appellation, two-buck-chuck. Mint.com asked two Master Sommeliers to suggest some wines that can stand-in for more well-known (and expensive) bottles. With the right attitude and the handy chart above (click to view),...
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Nanotechnology gives computers a human-like brain →
An organic transistor paves the way for new generations of neuro-inspired computers
For the first time, researchers have developed a transistor that can mimic the main functionalities of a synapse. This organic transistor, based on gold nanoparticles and known as a NOMFET (Nanoparticle Organix Memory Field-Effect Transistor), has opened the way to new generations of neuro-inspired...
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Dress Up Your Firefox with Personas →
Firefox is bringing together all kinds of personalization awesomeness to make browsing better for you!
One of my favorite features in the new Firefox version 3.6 is Personas. You can now instantly change the look of your browser with thousands of easy-to-install themes. You can choose anything from simple designs to colorful patterns to content like Harry Potter, Bob Marley or Lance ...
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Is Bottled Water Really That Bad? Yes →
This expansive graph by Online Education tells you all you need to know about bottled water, as you scroll from top to bottom. Now excuse me while I try to hide my bottle of water. Won’t happen again, promise.
Online Education
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Music For Relief →
100% of funds received will support those affected by the tragic earthquake in Haiti.
Haiti Earthquake News & Resources
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The perfect printable sketch templates for... →
If you are like many developers and design Web sites with sketches before coding, you’ll love this post by Geek Chix, which pulls together more than 20 resources for the ideation phase. One cool template (shown above), for instance, already provides a browser outline.
Now if I could just download some artistic skill to go with it!
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Time-lapse Footage of Flight 1549 Exhumed from the... →
After US Airways flight 1549 emergency landed in New York’s Hudson River last January, citizen journalism provided the first on-the-scene reporting, thanks to Janis Krums’ infamous Twitpic of the crash.
More citizen journalism from David Martin resulted in the following time-lapse video embedded below, of the Airbus A320 aircraft submerged in the Hudson’s icy waters and eventually extricated by...
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How to build an iPhone app that doesn't suck →
Steve Marmon, Stanford graduate student, explains how to build an iPhone app that doesn’t suck.
Stanford University
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Android This Week: App Controls FIOS Remotely; HP... →
Android-based phone owners that are also Verizon FIOS customers now have access to a free app that enables remote control of the service. Once the app is downloaded from the Android Market and activated to a given home FIOS control box, users can use it to browse TV listings, set shows to be recorded via DVR and more. If you’re the type who always rushes out of the house without remembering to...
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Internet 2009 in numbers →
What happened with the Internet in 2009?
How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many more. Prepare for information overload, but in a good way.
Email
90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
247 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
1.4 billion –...
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Twitter Bot Love →
Anyone who has been on Twitter for more than a few days knows that it’s rife with bots — accounts that are run by a computer, rather than a human. But while bots may be pretty easy to come by, it isn’t often that you get the chance to read through the code that makes one tick. Tonight, you’ve got your chance. The bot’s name? Jason Thorton. He’s been humming along for months now, sending out over...
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Living Off Craigslist →
Jason Paul lives off of Craigslist and is documenting the whole thing on his blog.
What does that mean exactly? I have made some ground rules that I will be living by over the year. Here they are:
- I will start with $2,500 that I’ve saved during college - I will have a car, a phone, a computer and cameras to document the trip - I am not allowed to live out of my car - I am not allowed...
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The Best Free Stock Photo Sites →
When designing a website stock photography can sometimes play a big roll. With all the commercial stock photo sites out there, it’s sometimes hard to find the ones that offer quality images free. So I compiled a list of what I believe are some of the best free stock photo websites out there.
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If you know of any other good free stock photo websites...
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NBC Pulls Web Clips of Conan's Most Expensive Bit... →
NBC has gone on the offensive and pulled the web clips of Conan O’Brien’s vengeful “Bugatti Veyron” sketch from Hulu and NBC.com. The move was made to avoid costly fees associated with Conan’s decision to play “Satisfaction” by the Rolling Stones, for his own satisfaction.
The controversial $1.5 million comedy sketch begins with COCO taking pleasure in the fact that even though his...
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David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 minutes →
In this highly personal talk from TEDMED, magician and stuntman David Blaine describes what it took to hold his breath underwater for 17 minutes — a world record (only two minutes shorter than this entire talk!) — and what his often death-defying work means to him.
Called a “modern-day Houdini” by The New York Times, David Blaine made himself a household name...
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How To: Find the Name of That Song →
It happens to all of us, you hear a song somewhere, it gets stuck in your head, but you don’t know the name of the song. Why not try a music recognition services that can help you discover song names without having to google lyrics. You can use them to identify music playing from the radio, TV, internet or CD.
Find song names by humming, whistling or singing
Midomi – If you’ve got a song...
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“When you open iPoo on your iPhone, you’re instantly connected with other users...”
– iPoo | iPhone application | What you do-do when you poo-poo
Wrong.
(via tedr)
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Journalists In Pay Wall Tweet War! →
A tweet war has erupted as a result of the NYTimes.com announcement of a pay wall scheme that will be put into effect by 2011.
The Twitter based conflict is between Felix Salmon of Reuters and Stacy-Marie Ishmael of the Financial Times Alphaville blog. Salmon finds the decision by The New York Times to be a mistake, while Ismael thinks it is a step forward in finding a means to make online media...
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