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Netflix Coming to iPhone Summer 2010

Jun 07, 2010 No Comments

At the 2010 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference Netflix CEO Reed Hastings confirmed that the Netflix application for the iPhone is coming this summer for free.

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Rock Your Ugly, a.k.a. I don’t give a $#%@

Jun 07, 2010 No Comments

Men and women are becoming alarmingly shallow and lazy in our expectations of the opposite sex and the marketing campaigns of ourselves. Where is the excitement? The adventure? The romance? The soap?

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HTML5 and Web Standards

Jun 04, 2010 No Comments

Every new Apple mobile device and every new Mac — along with the latest version of Apple’s Safari web browser — supports web standards including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript

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Statistical manipulation yields a net increase of 20,000 new jobs.

Jun 04, 2010 No Comments

Today, President Obama heralded the creation of 431,000 new jobs. He neglected to mention that 411,000 of those jobs add no value to the economy, build no wealth, and represent statistics manipulation to create the tele-prompted headline. The stock market was able to disseminate the figures that didn’t make it into the President’s speech, and quickly responded by tumbling over 300 points.

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Now I sit me down in school

Jun 04, 2010 No Comments

Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule
For this great nation under God
Finds mention of Him very odd.

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Lisa finds Heaven in Springfield’s new Mapple Store

Jun 04, 2010 No Comments

Lisa Simpson finds Heaven in Springfield’s new Mapple Store. I think this video is trying to say that Apple users are arrogant, uppity and filled with megalomania. I am must be missing the point.

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AT&T Versus the Data Hogs

Jun 04, 2010 No Comments

AT&T announced Wednesday that it would start offering metered data plans for mobile device users rather than a $30 all-you-can-use monthly plan.

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NY Post: How not to save news. Bad gov’t ideas for journalism.

Jun 04, 2010 No Comments

The Federal Trade Commission says it wants to save journalism. In a just-released “staff discussion draft” of “potential policy recommendations to support the reinvention of journalism,” the agency only circles its wagons around old newspapers and their fading business models.

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Stressed Facebook CEO Has ‘Nixon’ Moment

Jun 04, 2010 No Comments

Watch Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg as he fields questions during an interview at the D: All Things Digital conference. The interview was reminiscent of the infamous Frost/Nixon interviews. Zuckerberg resembled a burger under a heat lamp as he sweated profusely while being questioned about recent privacy failures.

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