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Internet Users Rejoice — SOPA is Dead
After several months of animated protests by the online community, Lamar Smith, the sponsor of the “Stop Online Piracy Act” has decided to withdraw the bill. Continue reading
Wikipedia Will Be “Blacked Out” for a Day to Protest SOPA
It looks like we’ll be getting a chance to witness history — on January 18th, Wikipedia has announced that it’s going to “black out” its US site for 24 hours. Continue reading
SOPA, The Bill that Could “Kill the Internet” Comes Closer to Passing
H.R. 3261, also known as SOPA has definitely been under scrutiny by the tech world. The concern is that SOPA could bring US internet censorship to dangerously draconian levels. Continue reading
Celebrity Twitter Accounts Hacked
Yesterday morning, the Fox News Twitter account posted breaking news that Bill O Riley is gay. To me this is no new news at all but to everyone else this comes as a complete surprise. It turns out that several celebrities have had their Twitter accounts hijacked, accompanied of course by phony posts desecrating their “good” name. Among the victims includes Britney Spears posting about the size of her vagina, Rick Sanchez posting about how high he is on crack... Continue reading
Buying An iPod Touch Can Be Hazardous To Your Wallet
Not going to lie here. I picked up a 16GB iPod Touch from Apple on Black Friday for a pretty cheap $279 after taxes. I’m hooked. Addicted. I can’t put the damn thing down. It seems I also managed to go on an app buying spree. Hit the jump to see all the shit I bought/downloaded off iTMS in a three day period. I feel eerily similar to Lisa Simpson.
New Gates/Seinfeld Microsoft Video Released
Microsoft has released the latest Seinfeld collaboration video entitled “A Family Affair.” It stars Gates and Seinfeld at a family’s dinner table. The ad is an improvement over the painfully dull first video they did, but it still needs some work. I think the problem lies in the fact that the video is over four minutes long. No one spends that much time on YouTube let alone on Microsoft, so perhaps it should try shortening these videos. Either way, take... Continue reading
ELPA warns geeks of the carbon dioxide they give out
Japanese company ELPA has introduced a meter that plugs between your AC and your electric appliance to measure the amount of electricity drawn out. Apart from just measuring the usual energy consumption over time in Watts, it also tells you how much you should be expecting to pay – in terms of yen according to standardized Japanese power charges. What’s more is that it calculates the amount of Carbon Dioxide incurred, so you can call that up with a button... Continue reading
