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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.
The YouTube Time Machine blasts you through a century and a half of ... Read more »
In the never-ending battle between fantasy and sci-fi, we'll side with the latter every time. (And we'll take a sci-fi convention over a renaissance faire any day of the week, thank-you-very-much.) No virtual playground entertains like one inhabited by robots, astronauts, spaceships and ray-guns. ... Read more »
Among nerdier interests, your writer is very much a fan of Trivial Pursuit. (What other activity would demand the entirely pointless knowledge that Dr. Pepper debuted at the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition in 1904? Sadly, none.) Game-maker Hasbro has lately been working its way into the digital realm ... Read more »
To celebrate the 2010 NFL season's kickoff (and to deflect attention from the NCAA sanctions he brought on his alma mater USC), Reggie Bush is giving away free stuff via social-networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Stickybits. Reggie Bush #RedZones, which began earlier this week ... Read more »
Going to your therapist may no longer require that you get in your car, sit in a stuffy office, or even get out of your pajamas. That's because a new online service called Mentaline now provides users with instant access to therapists, psychologists and life coaches, who deliver their professional ... Read more »
The official website of the Dove World Outreach Center unexpectedly shut down today, just two days before the Florida church's highly publicized Koran-burning event. Dan Goodgame, a spokesman for Web-hosting firm Rackspace, tells the AFP that the church's page was pulled because it "violated the ... Read more »
Last night, Snooki and her impending cirrhosis were driving near Newark, New Jersey, when they suddenly hit heavy traffic. "Ugh stuck in newark traffic is no fun," the diminutive Guidette tweeted. A few minutes later, she bemoaned her choice of ride, tweeting, " Omg why I got a stick shift I will ... Read more »
Defying skeptics everywhere, the gadget with the funny name and an absurdly low price will reportedly arrive in India this January. Rumors concerning the Sakshat -- a minimally priced, government-endorsed Indian Android tablet -- have circulated for more than a year. The device, which was designed ... Read more »
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then maybe we should let dump.fm do the talking. The image-based chat service is the brainchild of Ryder Ripps and the result of his collaboration with Scott Ostler of MIT Exhibit and Tim Baker of Delicious, all three part of the ever-growing group of young ... Read more »
Over the course of the past few months, German politicians and privacy advocates have been waging war against Google as part of an initiative to ensure that citizens' homes aren't displayed on the site's Street View feature. Politicians in small town New York, on the other hand, have Google-related ... Read more »
Apple turned a lot of heads this morning when it unexpectedly opened the App Store to apps created with third-party development programs -- including, apparently, those using Adobe Flash. In a news release posted on its site, Apple declared that it would be "relaxing all restrictions on the ... Read more »
3-D graffiti tech pioneer Evan Roth has gone back to 2-D with 10 minutes of animated GIFs, set to a mix of Girl Talk tracks and called 'Cache Rules Everything Around Me.' A music video that recalls both YTMND and 4Chan, but with a danceable beat, 'Cache' references classic GIF memes alongside the ... Read more »
Victims of cybercrimes are often quite angry about being hacked and snookered. That's not surprising. What might come as a bit of a shock is that most aggrieved blame themselves. According to a survey from Symantec, 54-percent of those who had fallen prey to Internet scams and attacks said they ... Read more »
Tommy Wiseau beguiled millions of film fanatics with his astronomically high-budget (and personally funded) 2003 independent movie 'The Room.' Legions of fans maintain a passionate devotion to the film, which has forged an indelible role as a modern cult classic because of its (supposedly ... Read more »
Highlights from this morning's big tech headlines...
Just hours after the release of iOS 4.1, hackers claim they've been able to jailbreak Apple's latest mobile OS. [From: VentureBeat]
New numbers reveal that, despite the growth of netbooks, 15-inches still reigns as the most popular laptop ... Read more »
If you're a regular reader of Switched then you know by now the addictive power of technology. Gamers in South Korea are being prescribed antidepressants and are dropping dead of exhaustion, Americans routinely pick the Web over sex, and evidence is mounting that too much time spent online can lead ... Read more »
The daily deal site Groupon has been quietly harboring one of the greatest unsubscribe pages of all time. It's been around for some time, but we'd never seen it until now. We don't want to ruin the surprise, but, suffice it to say, we've never felt so guilty about unsubscribing from an e-mail ... Read more »
As part of its ongoing relief efforts in flood-devastated Pakistan, the U.S. military has begun using social media to coordinate the disparate aid organizations in the region. But, even as many international and Pakistani developers and relief workers have latched onto social networking tools, they ... Read more »
Looking to compete with Ford's Sync's messaging technology, GM's OnStar may soon add text messaging and Facebook updates to its on-board communication system. According to The Detroit Free Press, a source claims that OnStar subscribers will be able to transmit text messages and Facebook updates via ... Read more »
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Definitely not rooting for that hoity toity Pekingese, that's for damn sure. #Westminster
I'm, like, okay with being a little crazy.
The time, energy, words, weight lost, nails bitten, scabs picked and nights I've struggled thru for this are easy to judge from afar, right?
Things I won't miss about being a freelancer: incorrectly estimating my taxes and owing a ton of cash at the end of the year.
