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Funny Street Art from Oakoak, Playful and Cute

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 05:30:20 -0400

OakoAk isn’t your typical street artist. His work isn’t a political or sociological commentary on life and he doesn’t spend hours on end painting extravagant murals. Like Sandrine Estrade Ball, another street art has humor built into them, they take what the city gives to them and creates a witty st

The 3.0 kernel is out

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 05:30:18 -0400

Linus has announced the release of the 3.0 kernel. “As already mentioned several times, there are no special landmark features or incompatibilities related to the version number change, it’s simply a way to drop an inconvenient numbering system in honor of twenty years of Linux. In fact, the 3.0 mer

When Lawn Nazis Attack

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 01:30:32 -0400

Last year I had a little run-in with the town authorities over my garden. Fortunately, it ended well. However, for other people around the continent troubles with the local lawn nazis seem more severe, possibly involving jail time! Some of you may have heard of the woman in Oak Park, Michigan who fa

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Russia Classifies Beer as Alcoholic

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 01:30:29 -0400

BBC News: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a bill that officially classifies beer as alcoholic. Until now anything containing less than 10% alcohol in Russia has been considered a foodstuff. ★

Absolut Vodka ads | #302

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:42:36 -0400

Advertise here with BSAOne of my all time favorite ad campaigns is the one from Absolut Vodka with the creative ads that started to pop up back in the 80′s. In fact, it was probably those specific ads that got me interested in advertising in the first place. I just love all the creative ways they in

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Infectious Disease Stress Balls

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:30:20 -0400

With all that’s going on in the world today, stress relief is very important so why not have some fun with it. The Infectious Disease Stress Balls come in several colors and offer you a chance to squeeze some stress out of your daily routine as you pretend that your hand is being consumed by a rare

And The Most Popular â€˜Damn You Auto Correctâ€™ Text Of All Time Is â€¦

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:30:24 -0400

We’ve written about Damn You Auto Correct before, namely because it managed to eloquently capture the modern zeitgeist of text-based communication failures. I mean this stuff sucks! Just this morning I sent a dm to the wrong person because of Seesmic autofill text and just two hours later had to del

Failbook: Oh, Dadâ€¦

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:30:24 -0400

Too funny to un-friend, Failbook.

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Gregor Mendel's 189th Birthday - (Global)

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:30:21 -0400

Date: Jul 20, 2011

Chinese counterfeiting extends to full-blown fake Apple retail stores

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:30:21 -0400

Extremely detailed knock-off Apple retail stores, complete with blue t-shirt-wearing employees claiming to work for the company, have been discovered in China.

Funny Source Code Comments

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:30:17 -0400

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Epiphany

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:30:50 -0400

TPM Reader JB took one look at this quote from James Murdoch in today’s phone hacking hearing before Parliament and had an epiphany: And I’m not saying that somebody should have told me. To my knowledge certain things were not known. And when new information came to light, with respect to my knowle

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Restaurant Can Be Sued For Serving Meat To Vegetarians

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:30:49 -0400

On August 10th, 2009, 16 people in Edison, NJ ordered vegetarian samosas from Moghul Express, an Indian restaurant on the town’s almost-exclusively-Indian Oak Tree Road. The customers were devout Hindus. They did not eat meat for religious reasons, so they made sure to ask Moghul Express several tim

Android SDK has the Gravity of the Death Star as a Constant

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:30:48 -0400

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Limiting Beliefs â€“ Donâ€™t Cling to the Suckers

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:30:25 -0400

One of my friends has been single for for the last few years. She never tried online dating and even amongst our suggestions and ideas, she balked at the idea. I always wondered why, because I knew it couldn’t hurt and isn’t it like, 1 in 3 people meet people online? It’s not that far fetched. As sh

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A Year of the NY Times' Site

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:30:20 -0400

“Due to an errant cron task that ran twice an hour from September 2010 to July 2011, I accidentally collected about 12,000 screenshots of the front page of the nytimes.com.” Via Doobybrain.

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Google+ app for iPhone now available

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:30:19 -0400

Google promised that iPhone users would soon be getting a Google+ app of their own, and it’s now here. Not surprisingly, it looks a lot like the Android app, including views of your main stream and nearby users, sharing via Circles, and support for the Huddle group messaging feature. It’s not a univ

The Good Olâ€™ Days of 20 Years Ago

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:30:18 -0400

Teen Nick will start re-broadcasting some 1990s hits like “Doug,” in response to a groundswell of nostalgia on Facebook from fans who grew up with the shows.

Teen Kills Parents, Hosts House Party with Bodies Inside: Cops

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 04:30:18 -0400

Tyler Hadley, 17, is arrested after the “merciless” killings

Google+ vs Facebook [comic]

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:30:26 -0400

Via the talented Beatriz Torres aka Zirta. All the top social media happenings. Permalink | Leave a comment »