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The internet is a great place to find free music, free games, free software, even free sex videos (ie free porn) – all kinds of free stuff is out there. But did you know you can download a ton of free ebooks all legally as well? Okay, you probably know you can and you’ve probably [...]

According to Chris Foresman at Arstechnica.com, future iPhones may be able to protect themselves and warn their users sorta like Lo-Jack.
Apple has applied for a patent on a method to differentiate between authorized and unauthorized users of a particular iOS device. Once an unauthorized user is detected, the device can then automatically disable [...]

Google circa 1959…
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WWII History lesson as told via Facebook’s Wall feature.

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The site sixrevisions.com posted a cool article the other day covering 12 Social Media monitoring tools. Even if you don’t use a lot of social media tools, you can at least use some of these tools to see what folks are saying about your site.  Some of these sites look pretty cool and I’m gonna [...]

Well, it looks like we have a list of exactly who NOT to re-elect come next voting season.  SaveTheInternet.com has a list of 74 Democratic members of Congress who have just signed an industry-drafted letter (yes, re-read that, Congress didn’t even write the damn thing, they just signed it) urging the FCC to abandon [...]

I didn’t realize something could be funny, disturbing and cool all at the same time…

Wired.com reports (read whole article) that Comcast admitted last Friday that, contrary to its former statement to the FCC, it does actually throttle traffic through certain protocols.
Comcast came clean with the Federal Communications Commission late Friday, detailing how it throttled and targeted peer-to-peer traffic — maneuvers it has repeatedly denied.
The cable concern said (.pdf) it [...]

Remember when AOL dropped the ball and accidentally released three month’s worth of search logs of their users…
It amounted to about 20 million searches of its 650,000+ users. Oops.
Well, the fellas over at Something Awful.com went through the log with some scripts and found some interesting users. It’s scary…
When people post on any forum, whether [...]

Digitaltrends.com
Google Launches User-Created Web Encyclopedia
ABC News – 42 minutes ago
By ASHLEY PHILILPS Google, in a challenge to Wikipedia, has created a user-generated online encyclopedia called Knol that identifies its writers instead of keeping them anonymous.
Google develops Wikipedia rival CNET News.com
Google to Wikipedia: “Knol” thine enemy Ars Technica
Computerworld – BusinessWeek – PC World – [...]

Stumbled upon this the other day. I’m sure we’ve all seen the hilarious Mac ads by now. Novell has a series of spoofs geared towards reminding folks that Mac and PC aren’t the only two choices…

If there is one thing that I’ve tried to stay away from in my computer tweaking, it’s been repartitioning a hard drive. Over the years, I’ve formatted, re-formatted and installed many a operating system. But I’ve never re-partitioned a drive. I’ve always tried to stay away from it for fear I’d damage a drive so [...]

http://lug.oregonstate.edu/index.php/Projects/Firefox
Students from Oregon State University painted a huge mural of the Firefox logo on their campus Quad.

New Scientist Magazine is reporting that a team from IBM and Cornell have developed a new anti-spam technique that may help to stop those *wonderful* “Purchase generic drugs from our #1 ranked generic drugs provider” and “have your quicker alleviations. quickly” email messages we all get every single freakin’ day.
From the article:
“A team from [...]