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Sep 28
2010

Headline Typo Of The Day

Media

While going through my feeds in Google Reader this morning, one headline really, REALLY stuck out at me: The “But Tour”? Oh I’m sure that the right will quickly paint this as more proof of the so-called “Liberal media” and their attempts to smear the good people of the right. CNN did actually correct the […]

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Jul 26
2010

Watch What You Photograph Or You Might Get Questioned

News

As a photographer stories like this really get my blood boiling: A few weeks ago, on his way to work, Matt Urick stopped to snap a few pictures of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s headquarters. He thought the building was ugly but might make for an interesting photo. The uniformed officer who […]

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Jun 23
2010

BREAKING: Judge Dismisses Viacom’s Lawsuit Against Google

News

It’s been three years since Viacom went after YouTube for the Viacom videos being on the site. Today a judge threw out the lawsuit: Today, the court granted our motion for summary judgment in Viacom’s lawsuit with YouTube. This means that the court has decided that YouTube is protected by the safe harbor of the […]

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May 19
2010

Pa. Republican Attorney General Subpoenas Twitter

Science

Via Techcrunch comes a very interesting story out of Pennsylvania. Republican Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate, Tom Corbett, has subpoenaed Twitter in attempts to identify some anonymous critics: The account @CasaBlancaPA, whose owner is identified as ‘Signor Ferrari’ (a criminal in the film Casablanca, played by Sydney Greenstreet) on Twitter, links to this blog in […]

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Apr 23
2010

Republicans Now Worried About SEC Employees Watching Porn

Society

So this morning I read this interesting article: Republicans are stepping up their criticism of the Securities and Exchange Commission following reports that senior agency staffers spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were supposed to be policing the nation’s financial system. California Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House […]

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Mar 23
2010

Warnings Against Viruses On Drudge Have Merits

Science

A couple of weeks ago the right went crazy over this story: The unusual e-mail sent to Senate staffers this week warning them not to visit The Drudge Report for fear of a virus has some critics crying foul, suggesting the missive is the latest attempt by Democrats to stifle dissent in the media. The […]

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Mar 18
2010

It Sounds Like Viacom Was Up To Some Dirty Games

Society

In the ongoing lawsuit Viacom has against Google/YouTube, today we get this interesting revelation: For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately “roughed up” the videos […]

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Feb 24
2010

Warning To The Users Of Internet Explorer 6

Science

You are about to get left behind. Starting on March 13th YouTube won’t care about you anymore: Over six months ago, Google announced it would start phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 on Orkut and YouTube, and started pushing its users to modern browsers. The search giant has now given a specific kill date […]

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Feb 13
2010

Google To Offer High Speed Internet

Science

Finally parts of the U.S. might see some real internet speeds: Google says it will run fiber-to-the-home trials at the astounding data speed of 1 gigabit per second. They’ll sell this service at “a competitive price” to 50,000 people, possibly rising to 500,000 people. It’s at this point that I’d like to toss around some […]

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Jan 14
2010
haiti

Haiti’s National Palace From Google Earth

Science

Google Earth has released an update file you can download here that will allow you to view post-earthquake satellite images in Google Earth and Google Maps. Here’s a view of the National Palace. Click on it to enlarge and you will see the sea of people in the streets around it. (click to enlarge)

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