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August 2008
3 Awesome Sites for Stumbling Across the Best of... →
StumbleUpon is a popular service that helps millions of people find interesting sites all over the web. Everyday thousands of sites are submitted to this service. We highly recommend…
Looking at Chess Futures? Bet on This Norwegian... →
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35 Places To Download Free, Legal MP3s - Sorry,... →
In the interest of helping our readers stay out of jail and avoid massive fines, here are a bunch of places you can get tunes without fear of finding a summons in your mailbox. There’s plenty of…
Utagoe Live 100 Is FriendFeed for Video Streams →
If FriendFeed displayed only video, it might look like Utagoe Live 100. The service lets you track live video streams from all of your friends on one screen. Tokyo-based Utagoe just…
A Hardware Mashup Device Running Linux →
jonniee writes “Mike Riley over at Dr. Dobb’s takes a look at ‘The BUG,’ from Bug labs. It’s a Linux-based, Java-programmable electronic base with I/O ports for connecting BUGmodules — individual…
Govtweets: Election Coverage One Random Thought At... →
It’s not enough that you watch the political party conventions on TV, read the political coverage in newspapers, and the reactions in blogs. Some people are not reacting on blogs, they are…
Sidney playing at the beach with Capt. Bill and... →
Sidney playing at the beach with Capt. Bill and Robyn.
Another swimmer wearing Omega →
Looks like Michael Phelps is not the only swimmer phenomena who’s wearing Omega. Laszlo Cseh (4 times silver medalist in Beijing, 3 times European record holder, 3 times European champion, Bronze…
Colleges Tell the RIAA They Have Better Things to... →
With blazing fast speeds, college campuses are often used by students to download all the music they’d like. For the past few years the RIAA has been lurking around college campus intranets and…
Another Y Combinator clone, in Lexington, KY →
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Update On The TechCrunch Tablet: Prototype A →
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Google is Now Largest Investor In Geothermal... →
Google, which has an interest in affordable power to run its growing numbers of server farms, is heavily investing (through Google.org) in research into the development of geothermal power.
Finally I can post here!! →
I’ve wanted one of these for about 6 months now, and finally found one in good shape and at a reasonable price, so I can now make my first post in the Anonimo forum - with my 2004 Militare handwound…
8Tracks Creates Virtual Mix Tapes [Mp3] →
Web-based service 8tracks remixes 30-minute MP3 playlists for personal listening or sharing with friends. 8Tracks offers all of the basic functionality of previously covered Muxtape, with…
Nose Gel Dispenser Is Fun for the Whole Family Or... →
Since I already have the breast-shaped gel dispenser installed in my shower, I think I may get this 9-inch-high Nose Shower Gel to put it in my kitchen and dispense lime Jello Mello. Too…
Amazon Mechanical Turk - Wikipedia, the free... →
I was up first and we hooked into and landed this... →
I was up first and we hooked into and landed this 58 1/2 inch Bluefin Tuna. Around 100lbs. Took me about 25 minutes to land the fish. To say I was tired would be an understatement.
Video: Upcoming version 1.1 of Last.fm’s iPhone... →
Last.fm, one of the truly great online music sites, has an iPhone app, but I find it somewhat lacking. It seems to have most of the features it needs, but for whatever reason the app just doesn’t…
250 GB Challenge & 5 Tools To Monitor Your... →
With Comcast announcing a 250 GB cap on its broadband service and Time Warner trialling a tiered service with limits that range from 5 GB to 40 GB, we’ve decided to challenge people to break those…
Tap Tap Revenge gets new music (and ads) to rock... →
Tap Tap Revenge held the mantle as the most downloaded application on Apple’s App Store for a while. It’s a solid Guitar Hero-like music game that utilizes the iPhone and iPod Touch’s touch…
HOW TO - make a paperclip puzzle →
Sergey wrote up this neat instructable on making a simple puzzle from paperclips -
As a kid growing in Soviet Russia before Perestroika began, there were not that many toys, games and crafts…
Statistics: Online Music Apps →
To complement the poll we ran this week about streaming music sites, we sourced data from comScore about the Internet Radio industry. comScore’s data shows that the big Internet companies…
LimeWire doubles music library; almost no one... →
LimeWire’s DRM-free MP3 store will soon begin offering more than twice as much music as it currently does, thanks to a deal with independent music distributor The Orchard. The company’s contributions…
The 5 Best Free File Hosting Services To Store... →
People have a love and hate relationship with file hosting sites. Some file hosting sites are really handy and make sharing data even simpler than sending a file via email while other services spam…
Tech Making Traditional VCs Obsolete →
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Kempler Named COO Of A&R Labels →
Jeff Kempler has been appointed to the newly created position of COO of A&R Labels, North America, UK and Ireland, at EMI Music.
Skype Turns Five →
While it can sometimes seem like Skype has been around forever, today only marks the 5th anniversary of the popular VOIP client. When it was first released, Skype marked a huge improvement in…
Napster To Holders: Ignore Dissidents, Re-Elect... →
Napster (NAPS) this morning mailed a letter to shareholders advising them not to vote for three dissident investors - Perry H. Rod, Thomas Sailors and Kavan P. Singh - who are seeking seats on…
Weekend Project: Mint Tin Amp (PDF) →
Build a pocket amplifier for your headphones and put it in a “curiously strong” minty case. Thanks go to Warren Young for the original article in Make Volume 4 View the PDF
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Apple and AT&T Discussing Official Tethering... →
Gizmodo reports on an alleged email Steve Jobs sent to one of their readers. The email was in response to a complaint that AT&T is not offering a tethering option for the iPhone, even though it is…
Does Silicon Valley Face an Innovation Crisis?... →
Claire Cain Miller / Bits: Does Silicon Valley Face an Innovation Crisis? — Judy Estrin, who has built several Silicon Valley companies and was the chief technology officer of…
Does Silicon Valley Face an Innovation Crisis? →
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Art: Change Arrives on Tiptoes at the Frick... →
Current renovations at the beloved Frick Collection offer the brief chance to see the museum and its contents in a completely different context.
How to Download MP3s From Streaming Music Sites →
Your favorite music sites let you listen to songs all day for free, but only as a stream — if you want to load one of those songs onto your iPod and take it with you, you’ll have to go buy it. But…
Android Market: a user-driven content distribution... →
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75 Adobe Fireworks Extensions-It is better than... →
We all know how powerful and how great Adobe Photoshop is, we know that all the best graphic designers use it, we also know that Photoshop when mastered lets you create amazing art.Sadly, we also…
From John at Bathys : Need your feedback on the... →
Aloha Everyone,
Lots of little projects underway over here..some starting to emerge from secrecy…
Today we held a meeting to look at a potential new design for our bracelets. As some of you…
Teensy Weensy Amp Brings Hi-Fi to the Desktop and... →
Desktop speakers are not usually known for being particularly high quality. That’s because you’re not powering them properly. NuForce’s Icon Desktop Amp will juice up your desktop audio, be it a 2.1…
Gallery: Bell Labs' Greatest Hits →
: Photo: Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs’ decision to abandon basic physics research marks the end of a brilliant chapter for the iconic institution. Many of the Labs’ most famous discoveries,…
IFC's Conversation with Muxtape's Justin Ouellette →
Nashville blogger Yewknee has posted two IFC videos of a independent music web panel that features Muxtape’s Justin Ouellette, Vimeo’s Jakob Lodwick and Idolator’s Maura Johnston. (I’m…
Mozilla Extends Lucrative Deal With Google For 3... →
Mozilla, the organization behind the popular Firefox web browser, has extended its search deal with Google for another three years. In return for setting Google as the default search engine on…
iTunes.fm? →
Image via CrunchBase, source unknown I just read a really good post from Read/WriteWeb with more speculation on what is coming with iTunes 8.0 software next month (click the link…
Dalai Lama Admitted to Hospital →
The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader was admitted to a hospital in India with “abdominal discomfort” but doctors said there was no cause for concern.
Gardiners Bay Looking North At Gardiner’s Island... →
Gardiners Bay Looking North At Gardiner’s Island (via fredwilson)
Aug. 28, 1963: Road to Redmond Walks on Water →
1963: The world’s longest floating bridge, the Evergreen Point bridge, opens. It connects Seattle with communities on the east side of Lake Washington.
Pontoon bridges have been around since…
We Need To Kill The Business Card Once And For All →
The business card needs to die, and everyone knows it. They’re clumsy, easy to lose, and virtually useless as one of the last bits of information that we pass non-digitally (they kill trees,…