February 2009
74 posts
MST3K FAQ -- The facts about this FAQ →
Wow! After about 20 years I am *SILL* listed as a contributing author to the MST3k FAQ! I feel so cool, and so old.
January 2009
160 posts
WatchLayoff Tracker - Forbes.com
Ma.gnolia Down →
Google Flags Whole Internet As Malware →
The Best E-Mail Program Ever
(How Google killed... →
“California, the place where Hollywood stars become Governors. The place where...”
– US Pirate Party Docks in California | TorrentFreak
16 Wild Materials You May Find in Future Products →
BD Horror News - Nicolas Cage Attached to 'Ghost... →
The Web Celeb 25 - Forbes.com →
is it just me; or did everyone look at this list and say “huh, who is that” several times? And several people are missing, especially if you consider twitter.
Maybe next year I’ll make this list.
Coming soon: Full-disk encryption for all computer... →
Apple to pay $22.5 million for scratched iPod nano... →
Google's 'online' GDrive will make the PC... →
Innovid Launches New Form Of Video Advertising:... →
HRBot: Human Resource Robot That Spiders Your... →
Rumour: Google to buy Skype →
WatchJonathan Coulton with Leo Laporte
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Lynne Brindley: We're in danger of losing our... →
Alerts: Monster.com Hacked, User Names & Passwords... →
Top 50 Linux Alternatives to Popular Apps →
Here is great list of a Top 50 Linux Alternatives to Popular Apps.
Microsoft “Taskforce” lobbied Wal-Mart to drop... →
Microsoft assigns “taksforces” to fight GNU/Linux adoption (Wal-Mart in this case)
Intel to shut four plants, lay off 6,000 →
Amidst a bevy of bad news in the PC market, Intel Corp. took two corrective steps this week, aggressively slashing prices on chips on Monday and announcing today that it would close four chip plants…
Being Anti-Linux is bad for your business' health →
Obama's new BlackBerry: The NSA's secure PDA? →
Energy-saving bulbs to be tested for UV radiation →
And yet another reason to wait until LED bulbs before swapping out your incadescents
Universal Orlando lays off 70 employees →
Digg announces 10% layoffs, still aiming for... →
Digg CEO Jay Adelson this morning is announcing that the social media site is laying off a “very small” portion of its workforce, but will also be hiring a new direct sales force and head of sales to…
Do police have the right to confiscate your... →
Seconds after BART police officer Johannes Mehserle shot and killed Oscar Grant, police immediately began confiscating cell phones containing videos that have yet to see the light of day. In fact,…
Mozilla Wants to Start Watching Where You Click →
In an effort to better understand how people use the web, Mozilla has launched a new data gathering project for usability studies called Test Pilot. It’s still just a concept, but as an aggregation…
Whistleblower: Bush's NSA spied on EVERYONE →
With video: Rampant spying, especially targeting of journalists. The NSA had access to ALL YOUR COMMUNICATIONS, regardless of who you were or whether or not you were communicating internationally.
Obama wants to know: Why open source? →
President Barack Obama is a smart guy. Where others zig, he zags. It’s perhaps not surprising, then, that he’s been asking around about the benefits of open source, according to Sun Chairman Scott…
Obama Staff Arrives to White House Stuck in Tech... →
If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past.
ACard's ANS-9010 Serial ATA RAM disk - The Tech... →
The ASHPD. AKA: The Portal Gun. →
Yup. Somebody actually made it.
Microsoft Expected to Cut 8,000 Jobs as Profit... →
Microsoft Corp is expected to post a quarterly profit that misses its own target and announce thousands of job cuts this week as the global economic slump hurts even the technology industry’s biggest…
All Major Canadian ISPs Slow Down P2P Traffic →
Wubi - Ubuntu Installer for Windows →
Obama Freezes Salaries Of White House Employees →
President Barack Obama announced on his first day in office Wednesday that he is freezing the pay of the about a hundred White House employees who make over $100,000 a year.
Apple's Real Problem: Netbooks →
Forget Steve Jobs’ health problems. Cheap ”netbooks” could steal the sizzle from Apple’s hot notebook business.
The country's new robots.txt file →
Someone beat me to this. The old robots.txt file for the whitehouse was massive. Pages would also come and go based on statements made then retracted like you can alter facts. They even had entries for 911 - something that we DO want search engines to fine. This is your tax dollars hard at work.
It is very cool the new one is so short, and that it was done in less than 24hrs. Let’s hope it...
Jaiku to become Open Source →
NYPD Wants to Jam Cell Phones During Terror Attack →
I am preparing a commentary on this, but wanted to get it out there.
Court Affirms Wiretapping Without Warrants -... →
Last Freeware version: All Programs (listed... →
This was badly needed! A web site that tracks and let’s you download the last version of a software application that was free before they went commercial and started charging for it. It’s really annoying when someone writes an application, uses the public to debug and improve it, and then it becomes popular sp they start charging for it. (Note this is NOT the same as a commercial...
Apple's iPhone may have outsold Android nearly... →
Economy Profits From File-Sharing, Report... →
P2P defendant: RIAA identified an IP address, not... →
The RIAA is in the news a lot lately, It’s more surprisng that it’s taken years for people to start fighting or the court system to professionaly handle the incredible ignorance of computer technology, or solid evidence agsinst the individual, or using the court system to perform their investigations.
As the next generation of people, who have grown up with ethernet and wireless...
P2P insurer will pay your fines if RIAA sues:... →
I always love it (seriously) when someone starts an insurance company/policy for protecting the average citizen from unlikely but extreme possibilities. When waterbeds were popular and fears rose from landlords that they could cause water damage, waterbed insurance was formed. Former President Clinton and other politicians and lawyers had “lawsuit” insurance (something that we could...
RIAA Expert Witness is “Borderline Incompetent”... →
95% of Music Downloads are Illegal, says IFPI →
The IFPI, known as, the global version of the RIAA, says that 40 billion songs were illegally downloaded in 2008. They’re talking about “three strikes rules” the E.U., France, and now the RIAA are…
95% of Music Downloads are Illegal: IFPI -... →