October 2010
112 posts
“More than half of all businesses (54%) said that they would not be in business...”
– e-NC and SNG Release Broadband Findings for North Carolina | Strategic Networks Group (via publicknowledge)
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Mom kills baby for interrupting game of Farmville →
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Limewire Ordered to Shut Down Permanently →
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“There is unexpected beauty hidden everywhere in this world — one just has to be...”
– Nathan Walton
I'm homeless and this is why I have an iPad →
jchiappa:
This makes you rethink what it can mean to be “homeless.” It is pretty amazing when you think about it.
go:
Gizmodo traced the vagabond lives of two people who chose homelessness, but rely on technology to allow them to function in the world.
I’m homeless, very homeless, dirt broke and all, but I still own an iPad and a MSI Wind u130 netbook. These, I feel, are essential tools…...
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Firesheep In Wolves’ Clothing: Extension Lets You... →
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“Bill Gates is a very rich man today… and do you want to know why? The...”
– Dave Barry
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“As Obi-Wan sez: ‘Use the web, Luke!’”
– Larry Masinter, Xerox Corporation
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Top 10 Specialty Web Browsers You May Have Missed... →
mozilla:
10 specialty web browsers apart from the mainline ones - Firefox, Chrome and Opera. Some are WebKit or Gecko based so will share a similar codebase with the other major browsers.
Cracking the Facebook Code →
How does the social media giant decide who and what to put in your feed? Tom Weber conducts a one-month experiment to break the algorithm, discovering 10 of Facebook’s biggest secrets.
60 percent of Apple’s sales are from products that... →
“The underlying capability of the computer era is actually programming–which...”
– Douglas Rushkoff (via mattan)
Teach a man to fish….
IPv4 Net addresses now 95 percent used up →
infoneer-pulse:
The final stages of the squeeze are arriving: of the 4.3 billion Internet addresses possible with today’s Net mainstream technology, 95 percent are gone.
That’s the word Monday from the Number Resource Organization, a group representing the world’s five regional Internet registries (RIRs) that dole out the numeric addresses.
“This is a major milestone in the life of the...
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