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14 May 2009 22:03

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Tech: How many people were screwed by a #googlefail moment?

  • 14% of Google users couldn’t get on because of glitches source
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14 May 2009 21:27

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Tech, World: Guatemala arrested someone for posting this Tweet

  • Primera accion real “sacar el pisto de Banrural” quebrar al banco de los corruptos. #escandalogt
  • @jeanfer • Who was arrested for “inciting financial panic.” The banks are at the center of the controversy in the country. Jean Fernandez’ post, by the way, also translates into English: “The first action people should take is to remove cash from Banrural, and break the banks of corrupt people.” • source
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14 May 2009 08:13

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Tech: Gmail now lets you transfer your old e-mail piles to Gmail

  • No word on if they plan to do the same with physical letters. One of the few major sticking points for non-Gmail users to switch to Google’s superior-in-every-way free e-mail service has been the inability to drag your old mail with you. Until now. New users can now push mail from their old services (AOL, Yahoo!, Hotmail and a ton of others) to their new accounts fairly painlessly, right within Gmail. Good show, Google! source
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13 May 2009 23:44

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Culture, Tech: Steve Jobs has probably never had a portrait this cool before

Steve Jobs as art
  • Dylan Roscover’s Apple fandom knows no bounds. In this type-driven treatment, using classic Apple typefaces, Roscover looks back on Apple’s “Here’s to the crazy ones” ad campaign.source
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13 May 2009 23:04

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Tech, U.S.: Creepster of the day: “Mr. Online Suicide Instigator”

  • It is really creepy stuff. If you read the chat logs, it makes your hair stand up on the back of your neck. [This person] certainly knows how to push the right buttons.
  • Celia Blay • A British woman who informed authorities of a creepster who masqueraded around online as a young girl, convincing people to join her in a suicide pact and arranged to let her watch on a webcam. Blay helped narrow it down to a Minnesota man who works as a male nurse. William Francis Melchert-Dinkel, 46, admitted to instigating five suicides, although he never actually watched the videos. He’s also suspected in a sixth in Canada. Creep. • source
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13 May 2009 18:29

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Politics, Tech: The tale of #twitterfail and how honesty might have helped

  • The problem with the setting was that it didn’t scale and even if we rebuilt it, the feature was blunt. It was confusing and caused a sense of inconsistency. We felt we could do much better.
  • Twitter Creative Director Biz Stone • On the actual reason Twitter removed that @replies feature the other day – functionality was only part of the reason. The real reason is that there was some technical stuff that was slowing down the site. (And as users of the site’s search function, we’ve noticed. Sigh.) Now, everyone’s just a little ticked off and Twitter forgot the lesson that they should know better than anyone else – people complain on Twitter a lot, and honesty is the best policy. • source
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13 May 2009 09:39

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Tech: Twitter apparently took a cue from the Facebook playbook

  • Retweet this if you disagree w Twitter’s decision to hide replies to ppl you don’t follow. #fixreplies
  • A current retweet floating around Twitter • After the announcement that Twitter would hide replies from people you don’t follow yesterday, a decision that seemed arbitrary and caused many people to shake their fists in anger. However, compared to a Facebook dramabomb, this is comparatively nothing. • source
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13 May 2009 09:20

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Tech, U.S.: The Hubble rescue mission continues for Shuttle Atlantis

  • The goal Astronauts from Shuttle Atlantis are up in space attempting to fix the Hubble Space Telescope, a 19-year-old beast of technology which needs new batteries and gyroscopes, a new camera and pointing mechanism, and a 300,000-mile oil inspection. source
  • The goal Astronauts from Shuttle Atlantis are up in space attempting to fix the Hubble Space Telescope, a 19-year-old beast of technology which needs new batteries and gyroscopes, a new camera and pointing mechanism, and a 300,000-mile oil inspection.
  • The perils Well, beyond the fact that they’ll be chilling outside attempting to fix a broken telescope via spacewalk, there’s lots of space junk in that part of the orbit, and if a piece hits the shuttle, NASA might need to send a rescue mission. Scary. source
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13 May 2009 08:38

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Tech, World: The European Union gives Intel a good reason to cry

  • $1.45 billion record fine for breaking antitrust laws source
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12 May 2009 23:05

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Tech, World: The woman who named Pluto lived to see one last vindication

  • It has now been satisfactorily proven that the dog was named after the planet, rather than the other way around. So, one is vindicated.
  • Englishwoman Venetia Phair • Who, as an 11-year-old girl, named the planet Pluto in 1930. She named the planet for the Roman god of the underworld and suggested it to her grandfather, who talked to some people, and then they talked to more people, and eventually, the name stuck. Phair died April 30 at 90. • source
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