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05 May 2010 21:38

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Offbeat: University of Utah kids learn the hard way about dirty words

This dirty joke got some student journalists in hot water. After this image was thrown up on Fail Blog, the school HELD THEIR RECORDS. Now they can’t graduate. source
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05 May 2010 21:23

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Culture: Happy Cinco de Mayo. Here’s the awesome “Machete” trailer

    What a perfect movie for the current political climate. “Machete,” originally a fake trailer in the “Grindhouse” double feature, has a new trailer with a lot more stars (we now have our Lindsay Lohan and Robert de Niro connection for “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon!”) but a plot that remains true to the original, funny, awesome idea. Danny Trejo is still Machete, and this film is still a quote-unquote “Mexploitation” film directed by Robert Rodriguez. For the win. source
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05 May 2010 20:41

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Tech: Scribd switching to HTML5, kicking Flash while it’s down

  • We are scrapping three years of Flash development and betting the company on HTML5 because we believe HTML5 is a dramatically better reading experience than Flash. Now any document can become a Web page.
  • Scribd co-founder and chief technology officer Jared Friedman • Revealing the company’s plans to ditch its Flash-based distribution mechanism for HTML5. Why is this a big deal? Well, they’re about to turn hundreds of thousands of print-focused PDF documents into Web pages. This is a big deal for the future of the Web, because it’s yet another fairly large platform that’s about to switch away from Adobe’s software. Even Adobe, recently eviscerated by Steve Jobs, sees the writing on the wall here. source
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05 May 2010 20:31

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World: Spam your condolences: Nigeria’s president dies after long illness

The soft-spoken Nigerian president, Umaru Yar’Adua, went missing from the public eye for nearly six months before his death due to health issues. source
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05 May 2010 20:25

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U.S.: U.Va.’s men’s lacrosse program troubled beyond that shocking murder

  • eight number of players (out of 41)
    that have been arrested or charged
    for alcohol-related offenses; some
    have gone to jail
  • 60 days the length of suspected murderer
    George Huguely’s suspended
    sentence after a drunken scuffle
    with a police officer source
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05 May 2010 20:13

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Tech, U.S.: The FCC twists, turns its way through the net neutrality wormhole

  • before The FCC planned to use
    its weight to move
    carriers to follow net
    neutrality rules it created.
  • then A federal court said this
    wasn’t legal and that
    Congress should make
    a net neutrality law.
  • now The FCC now plans to …
    regulate the Internet like the phone system. How
    wacky! source
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05 May 2010 20:01

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U.S.: Pssh, tourist. Times Square suspect has been to Times Square before

Faisal Shahzad went with his family and a bunch of other blurry people. In other news, his tie to the Taliban is becoming a little more plausible. source
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05 May 2010 14:07

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Tech: Rube Goldberg would be proud of this Google Chrome ad

  • OMG OMG THAT’S FAST! This Google Chrome ad was shot using a 2700 fps camera to show how fast the rendering speed of the pages were. And in every case used here, it was faster than lightning. This advertising campaign is nothing but win. source
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05 May 2010 13:10

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U.S.: Oops: The U.S. closes a loophole in its no-fly list

  • 24
    hours     the size of the
    intervals     airlines used
    to re-check no-fly lists
    before today
  • yes
    sir     Times Square suspect Faisal Shahzad managed to board a plane before the list was updated
  • two
    hours     the size of the new intervals to check for individuals with “special circumstances” source
  • » Our take: Why aren’t they using a high-security equivalent to Twitter to do something like this? Why isn’t it updated to the minute? It seems silly that it’s not.
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05 May 2010 12:05

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Offbeat: “Will it Shred?”: The poor iPad sucks as a skateboard, just an FYI

  • Oh, the agony. This awesome parody of the “Will It Blend” series of videos takes an iPad and tries to turn it into a skateboard. We bet it would’ve worked better had they turned the thing upside down and skated on the non-glass side.
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