Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
According to German magazine Spiegel.de, The new Samsung Galaxy Tab will cost 799 Euro. The same article also reveals that the much anticipated device does NOT come with an AMOLED screen.
Facebook: Noun.
A popular social networking website that boasts some 500 million active users worldwide.
FB: Verb.
1. Refers to a Facebook tactic to get reluctant users to sign up. In its younger days, when competition with MySpace was still tough, Facebook promised these potential users who are concerned about their privacy that they would have absolute control of their data and only they can decide what they want or do not want to share. After it has secured enough users to dominate the social networking scene, Facebook does an about-face and starts forcing them to share personal data and selling these personal information to third parties, in the meantime making all sorts of wild claims, such as people don’t want privacy, or privacy is outdated, yadda yadda yadda. Because Facebook is now established as the default social networking website, it will only continue to attract even more users.
2. Figuratively, FB can be used to refer any such practice, in which corporations, politicians, or any persons make specific claims they have no intention of sustaining or promises they have no intention of keeping. The primary goal is to secure as many as head-counts as possible.
Examples:
1. Many FBd users on Facebook are boycotting it on June 6th to protest Facebook’s new privacy policy.
2. Learn to BS before you FB.
3. I don’t use Gmail, but at least Google was up front about its use of contextual advertising instead of FBing its users first and then changing its TOS later.
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
If you get an error message, go to NME where the video was premiered.
Almost The-Wicker-Man-esque…why do they stuff Wayne Coyne into that ball of virgina?
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
I’ve been a happy owner of Motorola Ming (A1200) for 2 years now. Running on Linux and supporting J2ME, you have a list of endless applications to put on your already powerful cellphone, and you can tweak till you freak too. That’s why I’ve never given any thought to iPhone. Ever.
Now, with the release of Nokia N900 and Motorola Droid (sold in Europe as “Milestone”. Is that the most pompous name for a mobile phone ever or what), I’m seriously thinking about replacing my beloved Ming. I compiled a comparison chart (taking sources from Nokia, Motorola and Wikipedia) as follows. I was surprised to find that N900 has no MMS support (Droid does), but has an Infrared port that they don’t even bother to list on the specs. Lack of OGG support on N900 is also kinda disappointing. None of the phones have Java Support, and Droid has no TV Out. If you are interested in Droid/Milestone, you should know that according to Wikipedia, “The stock Android operating system restricts applications from being installed outside of onboard memory, in this case limiting application and OS size to a total maximum size of 512MB.”
See the chart below. Note that release date is not definite. If I screwed anything up please leave a comment.
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
Daniel Lyons, aka the Fake Steve Jobs, ex-anonymous blogger behind The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, has some choice words for newspapers:
Faced with their own demise, fearful of losing even more advertising, newspapers have made the huge mistake of becoming ever more timid, more cautious, more in bed with the companies they cover.
It’s the exact opposite of what they should be doing. The truth is, if newspapers want to survive they should go back to doing what they started out doing — muckraking, stirring the shit, calling bullshit.
The case in point? The New York Times.
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
First they want your money because God puts them on TV to spread his Word. Now they want your money because they can talk God into curing your illness. Chicago Tribune is running a story on how some Christian Scientists are writing letters to the Senate offices, promoting a “proposal in the legislation requiring insurers to consider covering the church’s prayer treatments just as they do other medical expenses.”
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Friday, October 30th, 2009
This article was originally published on Dreamsendweb.com on February 19th 2008, a couple of days after Shawn Lonsdale was found dead in his home. For reasons unknown, the article, along with the website, disappeared from the Internet. If the author of the article reads this, I hope you’re doing OK.
Here’s a PDF version of that article that you can download and keep.
The following is a reprint of that disappeared article.
Working on his anti-Church of Scientology documentary, Shawn Lonsdale videotapes in downtown Clearwater. In the window behind him is a sign intended to alert people to his presence. “They think because I’m a nobody and I’ve got nothing that I’m easy to stomp,’’ Lonsdale says.”]
![shawn [Times photo: Ted McLaren] Working on his anti-Church of Scientology documentary, Shawn Lonsdale videotapes in downtown Clearwater. In the window behind him is a sign intended to alert people to his presence. “They think because I’m a nobody and I’ve got nothing that I’m easy to stomp,’’ Lonsdale says.](http://crypticclarity.com/zy/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/shawn.jpg)
[Times photo: Ted McLaren
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
German branch of the Wikimedia Foundation is hosting a panel discussion on November 5th in Berlin to discuss Wikipedia’s deletion policy based on the notability guideline. The German Wikipedia has been under fire for the last few weeks for deleting an article on the organization MOGiS, a citizen’s initiative founded in April 2009 for “victims against Internet censorship” (Missbrauchsopfer gegen Internetsperren).
The entry was deemed “irrelevant” and removed by the administrators citing reasons from lacking of public interest, insufficient media coverage, to absence of reliable source. The decision triggered heavy criticisms from the Blogosphere, as well as the age-old inclusionism vs. deletionism debate.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009

My jaw dropped when this ad appeared on the German technology magazine c’t. The top caption reads: “Lexware reigns.” The bottom one says: “When the bookkeeping is in order, the whole business is in order. All you need is a proper piece of software.”
Lexware is a German software company specialized in personal/business finance software, best known for marketing and selling Quicken.