June 2009
All for Good: Volunteer Opportunities Via API →
if you are not familiar with All for Good, it is a new service that lets you browse volunteer activities and find events based on your location or interests.
Daily Express | UK News :: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: NASA... →
ECSTATIC space officials at Nasa could be about to unveil one of their most stunning discoveries for 40 years — new and amazingly clear footage of the first moon landing.
How to Hack into a Security Camera? | Hacking... →
Just google these strings and select the results.What to do next need not have an explaination.
Porsche and VW Struggle to Combine - NYTimes.com →
PARIS — No one ever said combining Porsche and Volkswagen was going to be easy. But nearly a month after an initial deadline for setting the outlines of the deal, the two German automakers sound as though they are no closer than when they started.
Slashdot Technology Story | Google Mistook Jackson... →
“Web giant Google has admitted it thought the sudden spike in searches for Michael Jackson on Thursday was a massive, coordinated internet attack, leading it to post an error page on Google News.
Atlas Obscura | Wondrous, curious, and bizarre... →
Michael Jackson's Estate is Worth... →
One bright spot in his finances includes music copyrights to 251 Beatles’ tunes as well as his own compositions which are most likely worth $500 million to $1 billion.
Buffett Lunch Brings In $1.68 Million →
It’s not quite as good as last year’s $2.1 million but the Glide Foundation is still excited by the $1.68 million brought in by this year’s charity auction to have lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett
Acer’s Everywhere in the PC World - NYTimes.com →
Ben Bernanke: Federal Reserve audit would... →
its disastrous effect on the dollar, which lost 96% of its value since the Fed was established in 1913
MythBuster Adam Savage Leads Twitter Revolt... →
“a few hours of web surfing in Canada” he was charged a whopping $11,000. AT&T is apparently claiming that Savage managed to download 9 gigabytes in Canada using his USB data connection
Who Exactly Is In Charge Of The App Store?... →
Okay, the situation surrounding the App Store and its approval process continues to get weirder and weirder.
Watchgetting video off the phone is still a bit clunky.
Dark days ahead? →
The world will witness a series of triple eclipses, beginning next month. And astrologers are divided on this rare astronomical event’s effects.
Beastie Boys announce 'Hot Sauce Committee Part 1' →
The band have announced an intimate club show on 6 August at the Congress in Chicago, just after their headlining appearance at All Points West and immediately prior to the band’s Lollapalooza date, and they are also gearing up for the final installments of their expanded, re-mastered re-issue series - “Ill Communication” on 6 July, and “Hello Nasty” on 17 August.
Work begins on world's deepest underground lab -... →
Scientists, politicians and other officials gathered Monday for a groundbreaking of sorts at a lab 4,850 foot below the surface of an old gold mine that was once the site of Nobel Prize-winning physics research.
Why Obama's Geeky New CIO Wants to Put All Gov't...
The Obama administration’s most radical idea may also be its geekiest: Make nearly every hidden government spreadsheet and buried statistic available online, all in one place.
Apple: Paranoid →
Apple’s campus is, according to the article, “a maze of security doors” where employees must swipe their badges and enter codes on numeric keypads — presumably not only to restrict access, but to serve as a record of who was where if any information does leak out. Many work areas are monitored by closed-circuit TV. According to one unnamed employee, “workers in the...
eBay Store - 20th Century Props: Art Deco... →
some cool stuff in this store……
The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed... →
generating data and analysis on personal health is def an interesting space…..
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Noone knows all of that thanks to the sensor system, called Nike+. After each run, she can sync her iPod to the Nike+ Web site and get a visual representation of the workout—a single green line. Its length shows how far she’s gone, and the peaks and valleys reflect her...
Apple’s Management Obsessed With Secrecy -... →
Apple’s decision to limit communication with the media, shareholders and the public is at odds with the approach of other companies, which are embracing online outlets like blogs and Twitter.
Vegetarianism as a Sometimes Thing - Freakonomics... →
The idea that occurred to me was: What if a group of people collectively signed a contract that said one of them would be vegetarian everyday of the year? More specifically, say a group of 7 people signed a contract saying that each of them would go meatless on an assigned day each week. Thus, within the group each member could eat meat 6 days a week, but there would be one vegetarian at all...
Show success before asking for help - MTT - Music... →
The lesson I never forgot: You have to make your own success first, before you ask the industry for help.
hypebot: YouTube Rolls Out 6 Incremental... →
Bulldoze the ‘burbs? | csmonitor.com →
A story last week in the Telegraph, a British paper, describes how the city of Flint, Mich., a former industrial powerhouse now facing depopulation and plummeting home values, is dealing with vacant housing.
The solution? Bulldoze entire districts, returning the land to nature, and concentrate the population in the urban core.
Get a Life, Holden Caulfield - NYTimes.com →
On Wednesday, a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order forbidding publication in the United States of “60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye,” a takeoff on — J. D. Salinger’s lawyers say rip-off of — “The Catcher in the Rye,” written by a young Swedish writer styling himself J. D. California.
Apple Stuck Apologizing For AT&T Yet Again With... →
Anyone who saw the WWDC keynote (now available online), clearly heard the jeers and boos from the crowd whenever one of the Apple execs had to say that AT&T wasn’t yet ready to launch one of the new iPhone features. You can be sure Apple heard those too — and that it wasn’t happy to have to say such things during a keynote in which the majority of those in the audience were AT&T iPhone...
