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20 Apr 2009 12:59

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Culture, Tech: We’re pulling for you, Stephen Hawking! :(

  • I have been lucky, that my condition has progressed more slowly than is often the case. But it shows that one need not lose hope.
  • Stephen Hawking • In a quote on his Web site. The 67-year-old scientist and writer, famous for his brilliance despite being crippled by Lou Gehrig’s Disease, is in a hospital and said to be “very ill.” Fingers crossed, man. Hope you pull through. • source
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20 Apr 2009 10:23

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Tech: Adobe wants to expand Flash’s reach beyond the PC

  • Adobe’s most valuable cash cow has transformed from being the driving engine behind Animutation to being the driving engine behind online video sites such as YouTube and Hulu. source
  • They aren’t ready to settle for that; they want a much bigger piece of the pie – the set-top television market. Adobe’s CEO will address the National Association of Broadcasters today. source
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20 Apr 2009 09:40

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Biz, Tech: Maybe it was a good thing IBM didn’t get Sun, and Oracle did

  • $7
    billion     amount IBM was willing to pay for the technology company source
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19 Apr 2009 20:44

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Tech: The New York Times puts left foot in, out of URL-shortening game

  • An ultra-hip trend It started with TinyURL. Then Twitter came along, making the need for URL shortening services even greater. Between is.gd and Bit.ly and dozens of other URL shorteners, it’s now the cool thing to do. So it only makes sense that the New York Times would get in on that action with NYTurl.com, which some of their developers created. source
  • An ultra-hip trend It started with TinyURL. Then Twitter came along, making the need for URL shortening services even greater. Between is.gd and Bit.ly and dozens of other URL shorteners, it’s now the cool thing to do. So it only makes sense that the New York Times would get in on that action with NYTurl.com, which some of their developers created.
  • Now you see it, now you don’t Unfortunately, the site was getting abused by people using the service for non-NYT-related content, and if you go to the page now, it says, “Taken down for now due to abuse.” When we saw that, we elicited a very loud laugh, because it’s not often the New York Times has egg on their face in a clearly embarrassing way like this. LOL. source
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19 Apr 2009 10:55

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Tech: The Twitter anti-Oprah backlash is in full effect, guys

#herebeforeoprah puts a line in the sand for Twitter fans afraid that it might jump the shark thanks to Oprah. source
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19 Apr 2009 10:39

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Politics, Tech: A Slate columnist chooses piracy over legal movie downloads

  • Pirates aren’t popular these days, but let’s give them this—they know how to put together a killer on-demand entertainment system.
  • Farhad Manjoo • On the sad state of affairs for legal movie downloading. All Manjoo wants is the digital equivalent of Netflix, but the restrictions on movie download services are so high – either not enough of a selection or too many limitations – that he ends up just using Bittorrent instead. • source
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18 Apr 2009 19:14

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Offbeat, Tech: The guy behind Comic Sans talks about his reviled creation

  • If you love it, you don’t know much about typography. If you hate it, you really don’t know much about typography, either, and you should get another hobby.
  • Vincent Connare • The guy who created Comic Sans in the early ’90s. Connare made it for a singular purpose in Microsoft Bob and now the font has become the bane of the man’s existence. He currently works as a typographer for Dalton Maag. • source
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17 Apr 2009 22:05

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Tech, World: The Pirate Bay’s old server is notable enough to be in a museum

  • This is an object of contemporary society and a museum collects such items.
  • Nils Olander • Curator of Sweden’s National Museum of Science and Technology, on the reasoning for putting the server, confiscated in a raid by police last year, in his museum. Despite losing the Spectrial today, it appears that the creators of The Pirate Bay are well on their way to martyrdom. • source
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17 Apr 2009 19:05

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Culture, Tech: Oprah and mikeyy: Two people Twitter users hate, apparently

  • Oprah’s a tweeter! Oprah, as promised, covered Twitter on her show today, giving the site the same sort of mainstream recognition that Jonathan Franzen didn’t want a while back. Some Twitter users apparently don’t want it either; one of the the trending topics today is #unfollowfriday, a reaction to Oprah, Ashton Kutcher and other celebrity tweeters diehards think are overexposing the service. source
  • Oprah’s a tweeter! Oprah, as promised, covered Twitter on her show today, giving the site the same sort of mainstream recognition that Jonathan Franzen didn’t want a while back. Some Twitter users apparently don’t want it either; one of the the trending topics today is #unfollowfriday, a reaction to Oprah, Ashton Kutcher and other celebrity tweeters diehards think are overexposing the service.
  • Mikeyy says “hayyyyyyy” Mikeyy, the Twitter worm that’s been spreading around for the last week, started populating Twitter in another set of mutations, this time welcoming Oprah to the service, trashing Soulja Boy, hitting on Ellen DeGeneres and overall just being a pain in the butt. Mikeyy doesn’t harm your computer, he just annoys you and all your friends because he thinks it’s funny. source
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17 Apr 2009 18:05

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Tech: It’s no iPhone or Pre, but the new Sidekick LX looks pretty sweet

The Sidekick LX has 3G, GPS, Facebook and Twitter integration, and one thing the iPhone doesn’t have – Flash support. source
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