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xkcd – A Webcomic – Marshmallow Gun What kind of gun do you have? (tags: marshmallows xkcd ghostbusters humor) Daring Fireball Linked List: Apple Wrongly Rejects iPhone App for Use of Private APIs Just in case you thought Apple was you know fair about rejecting apps. (tags: apple software iphone) BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | […]

Op-Ed Columnist – Cars, Kabul and Banks – NYTimes.com What are the three big things Obama has to take care of in the first year or so. (tags: obama politics recession bailout banks automotive afghanistan) Arts, Briefly – Lightsaber – $240,000. Satisfaction – Priceless. – NYTimes.com "On Thursday a lightsaber wielded by Mark Hamill in […]

Schneier on Security: Remote-Controlled Thermostats Encryption and encoding stops all hacking attempts, of course it does. No the men in lab coats believe you too. (tags: security encryption) BBC NEWS | Business | Boeing postpones Dreamliner again How long are they going to keep delaying this aircraft? (tags: boeing dreamliner aircraft airplane airlines) When was […]

Firefox, Chrome virtually tied for JavaScript speed | Webware – CNET Firefox and Chrome basically the same at JavaScript rendering. I switched back to Firefox after a few weeks with Chrome, it was nice but FF was better and more stable. (tags: firefox chrome google javascript browsers internet) Official Gmail Blog: Really new in Labs […]

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Chinese police arrest protesters Just in case people thought the Chinese actually believed in political rights. (tags: china politics humanrights) BBC NEWS | Business | White House 'agrees' car bail-out $15bn for the car companies. (tags: automotive bailout business congress whitehouse bush)

Official Google Mobile Blog: New AdWords options for iPhone and G1 Now you can create specialized ads for full HTML web browsers running on mobile platforms (a la – iPhone and Android). (tags: google android advertising mobile cellphone iphone marketing internet search) Tech Trader Daily – Barron’s Online : Microsoft: To Unveil Zune/Danger Device At […]

Link by Link – The Freedoms That Technologies Help Bring – NYTimes.com This is just silly. Egypt wants and has apparently gotten Apple to disable the GPS in the iPhone, so that they can't tag military bases. Because it's so hard to have your own GPS unit and walk up to the base, or use […]

Enigmail: A simple interface for OpenPGP email security PGP for Thunderbird. (tags: thunderbird pgp security software privacy cryptography encryption opensource mozilla gpg enigmail openpgp gnupg)

BBC NEWS | Business | US job losses surge in November 533,000 jobs lost in single month. (tags: usa business recession job job_losses) BBC NEWS | Health | Intelligent 'have better sperm' Intelligence correlates closely with better sperm. (tags: sperm gender research science intelligence genetics) Penny Arcade! – We Are Gathered Here Today "His death […]

"Prop 8 – The Musical" starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and many more… from FOD Team, Jack Black, Craig Robinson, John C Reilly, and Rashida Jones Wow, just wow. (tags: prop8 politics humor video comedy jackblack marriage samesexmarriage california religion culture music funny economy) Coding Horror: The Problem With Logging Is logging always useful? […]