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11 Nov 2009 22:29

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Tech: Dear Wolfram Alpha: Working with Bing is actually smart

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  • Wolfram Alpha is a smart idea that has been neutered by bad decision-making – charging an embarrassingly-high price for their iPhone app, treating copyright like something they can control. Well, now they have something to grasp onto: Bing. While their searches aren’t all that useful by themselves (too insular), combined with a decent general-purpose search engine, it starts to feel like a killer app. This specific execution is why people got excited about the product at launch. Not the $50 iPhone app.source
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11 Nov 2009 10:53

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Offbeat: Laid-off journalists in need of a pick-me-up, see this post

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  • Journalists are nothing if not a bunch of clever bastards. And this anonymous Toronto Star employee, looking to protect the interests of editors and copy editors, may be the most clever bastard we’ve seen in a while. (Hat tip Clint Howarth.)source
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03 Nov 2009 10:38

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Culture: Ricardo Autobahn takes the Girl Talk mashup concept to a new level

  • Here’s a fun game: Watch this music video – built from clips from TV shows and movies – and spend hours figuring out what pop culture clips this clever bastard (who goes by Ricardo Autobahn) used. It’s like Girl Talk for movies, except significantly more cerebral. source
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24 Oct 2009 17:09

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Offbeat: The movies are one letter off, but these jokes are mostly ON.

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22 Oct 2009 09:59

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World: Clever mail-tracking bastards of The Guardian, we salute you

The Royal Mail was about to go on strike in the U.K., so The Guardian dropped a satellite device in the mail to see what happened. This is innovative journalism. source
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07 Oct 2009 10:57

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Tech: Daily poll: Google’s constant logo changes, clever or annoying?

  • Today, Google changed their logo to a barcode to celebrate the anniversary of the first barcode patent. (It turns 57 today.) Now, we think it’s cool and awesome and everything, but Google has been doing this a lot lately. Which compels us to ask a fairly obvious question: Are they overdoing it? Vote above.source
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03 Sep 2009 11:31

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Politics: Animation as politics: Why a health care public option is necessary

  • This animation follows the mold of the Obama penny videos from a while back. Clever YouTube animation used to argue a political point. This one, however, leans left.source
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27 Jun 2009 13:28

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Biz, Offbeat: This Pringles ad is so entertaining, we can’t stop clicking on it

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  • If all ads on the Internet were like this one, we’d click them every single time. However, we’d get nothing done. Thanks Pringles!source
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22 May 2009 12:47

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Sports: Chauncey BIllups: Off Kobe’s back, into my hands, nothing but net

  • Billups apparently has been practicing his underhanded playground basketball techniques lately. Because Kobe didn’t see this one coming at all.source
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17 May 2009 08:54

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Music: Danger Mouse goes the blank-CDR route with his new album

  • “For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will.” Uber-popular producer Danger Mouse, who also moonlights as half of Gnarls Barkley, was having legal problems getting his latest album out, so he came up with a novel solution to its release. So, instead of letting the label get in the way, he’s releasing the packaging of “Dark Night of the Soul” – an elaborate 100-plus-page book with a blank CD, presumably for purposes of putting the torrented album onto. Clever, but he has a history of this. source
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