Greenpeace has launched a site going after Apple for its environmental practices, which are apparently particularly bad. I find it interesting that they bend over backwards to suggest that Apple’s a great company, and that they love Apple. That says a lot about Apple’s brand power as somehow “nicer” than Microsoft/Dell/etc.
If its environmental practices really [...]
This just in from the “somebody’s got something as big as an elephant” bureau: file sharing giant Lime Wire is contersuing the major labels that recently sued them. Lime Wire alleges — I think quite convincingly — that in their zeal to curb piracy of their product, they’re actually retarding the legitimate growth of numerous [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Delicious Library is a kind of impressive, if thoroughly geeked out, idea: use your iSight camera to scan barcodes from your book, CD and DVD library. Your library is instantly catalogued, and you can share your info with others.
I’m hoping it works with wine bottles, too. And I actually found out about Delicious Library on [...]
Apparently Yahoo! has offered Facebook about $900,000,000 to aquire the company which is, like MySpace, a virtual kegger party that all the grownups are trying to crash.
Nine. Hundred. Million. Fucking. Dollars. And it still might not be enough for Mark Zuckerburg, the 22-year-old wizard behind Facebook’s curtain — not because he’s greedy, it seems, but [...]
Somebody at work flipped this over. It gave me a vision of having a root canal while listening to Kruder and Dorfmeister. I couldn’t decide if that was a good thing.
(Via Coolhunter)
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Want to reduce yourself to an impersonal string of bars and numbers? Hell yeah, you do!
Enter a few simple personal facts about yourself and this site will generate a print-ready barcode that you can take to CSIS, the Army recruiting office, the Department of Homeland Security, your tattoo artist…wherever you want!
Better yet, post it on [...]
A laugh-out-loud piece from Wired about blog culture, including a list of the ultimate fantasy blog posts for some of the more popular ones. But the best bit is right here:
Creating your own blog is about as easy as creating your own urine, and you’re about as likely to find someone else interested in [...]
