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Best of the Rest: North Korean Beer Ad, Camera-Killing iPods?

by Thomas Houston on July 7, 2009 at 06:31 PM


There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
  • Now making the rounds of the Web: North Korea's first ever television ad -- a strange, two-minute clip for Taedog River Beer, "pride of Pyongyang." [Foreign Policy]
  • Word online is that Apple will be bringing a camera to the iPod. Does this spell the end of the point and shoot? [Wired]
  • Tame that Facebook overload with these eight tips to mastering the social network that you just can't escape. [Geeksugar]
  • VLC, a video app known for handling almost any movie file you can throw at it, just hit 1.0.0. Get the newest version here. [TUAW]
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Tags: beer, bestoftherest, northkorea, top

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