Posted on November 30th, 2009 by Administration
We have rounded up some of our favorite items from our 2009 LandoftheFreeish.com reviews for the second-annual Freeish gift guide. We’ll do one a day for the next several days, covering media (music/games/DVDs), gadgets and stuff, books, novels, non-fiction, and comics/graphic novels/art books. Today, it’s gadgets!
Duct Tape Bandage:
Nothing butches up your wounds like an official [...]
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Posted on November 30th, 2009 by Administration
Geekologie’s superb “Evolution of Storage” infographic traces the history of data, music and photo storage from the wax cylinder to the 2TB hard drive. I think I’ll print this out and hang it on the wall of my office, for the same reason poets kept skulls on their writing desks*: “this too shall pass, all [...]
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Posted on November 29th, 2009 by Administration
Good thing the PlayStation 3 dropped in price. The US Department of Defense ordered 2,200 more of the consoles to crank up their PS3 supercomputer, currently consisting of 336 of the devices in a Linux cluster. According to the official Justification Review Document (cache link) required for the purchase of the PS3s, the game platform, [...]
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Posted on November 28th, 2009 by Administration
“Understanding scam victims: seven principles for systems security” by Cambridge University’s Frank Stajano and Paul Wilson is an excellent look at the principles involved in “short cons” (confidence games that only take a few minutes to “play”) and how they can be applied to information security. The authors examine the mechanics of scams demonstrated in [...]
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Posted on November 27th, 2009 by Administration
Here are a few that stood out over the others…
Samsung 50″ 600Hz 1080p Widescreen Plasma HD Television, model no. PN50B650, for $1,044 with free shipping. (This price appears during checkout.) That’s $79 under our October mention (which included a wall mount) and the lowest total price we could find by $93. It features a native [...]
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Posted on November 26th, 2009 by Administration
Posted on November 25th, 2009 by Administration
This is an interesting optical illusion. The four rows of diamonds appear to be colored with different shades of gray, but all the diamonds are identical. In fact, the diamonds aren’t solid gray, they are tinted with a gradient (lighter on the top, darker on the bottom).
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Posted on November 25th, 2009 by Administration
PITTSBURGH – Pittsburgh City Council has tentatively approved paying $50,000 to settle a free speech lawsuit filed by a man cited for giving a city police officer the middle finger.
Thirty-five-year-old David Hackbart, of Butler, made the gesture at a driver in April 2006, then did it again when someone yelled at him — realizing only [...]
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Posted on November 24th, 2009 by Administration
Amazon has Curb Your Enthusiasm: Seasons 1-6 for $79.99 with free shipping.
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Posted on November 24th, 2009 by Administration
Pre-releasing on Black Friday is the t shirt design, “Hope is Fading Fast”. This is actually the first item releasing without the Freshjive brand name on it. Read the recent post on the World’s Got Problems blog regarding how the Obama administration is maintaining continuity with its disgraced predecessor.
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Posted on November 23rd, 2009 by Administration
Microsoft is ready to pay Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. to remove its news content from Google, according to the Financial Times. Microsoft has also approached other “big online publishers” with similar deals.
“One website publisher approached by Microsoft said that the plan ‘puts enormous value on content if search engines are prepared to pay us to [...]
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Posted on November 22nd, 2009 by Administration
Posted on November 21st, 2009 by Administration
It won’t affect your PS3, Wii, TiVo, or other licensed YouTube partners, but Google’s streaming video service will start blocking API access to TV-connected devices as of Dec. 2. The COO of set-top box maker Popcorn Hour writes that the firm tried to negotiate with YouTube to retain the service, but YouTube/Google seems to be [...]
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Posted on November 20th, 2009 by Administration
It was simply a case of the right bulbs going out at the wrong time. But passers-by couldn’t be blamed for thinking a smirking prankster, or something much darker, was responsible when they looked up at the neon sign for Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, N.Y., which then displayed the ominous phrase “I’m hurt.”
When The New [...]
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Posted on November 19th, 2009 by Administration
An article in The American Journal of Forensic Medical Pathology entitled “Use of a pig model to demonstrate vulnerability of major neck vessels to inflicted trauma from common household items” describes all the ways you can stab people with stuff you’re allowed to take through airport security, like pens and plastic knives.
Commonly available items including [...]
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Posted on November 18th, 2009 by Administration
Visualizing empires decline by Pedro M Cruz, who explains: “The data refers to the evolution of the top 4 maritime empires of the XIX and XX centuries by extent. The visual emphasis is on their decline.” Here’s more on the data and methodology.
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Posted on November 17th, 2009 by Administration
A few years back, I remember seeing a fascinating study that showed that how a company responds to a problem or a mistake is more important to customer loyalty than not making any mistakes at all. That is, customers felt more loyal to companies that screwed up, but handled it well, than companies that never [...]
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Posted on November 17th, 2009 by Administration
The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the availability of Fedora 12, the latest version of its free open source operating system distribution. Fedora 12 includes a robust feature set for desktop users, administrators, developers and open source enthusiasts alike. New enhancements available in Fedora 12 include [...]
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Posted on November 17th, 2009 by Administration
A new conservative children’s book titled Help! Mom! The Radicals Are Ruining My Country! prominently features Nancy Pelosi as an evil villain. Author Katharine DeBrecht, whom you may have seen on Fox News, explains:
When Nancy Pelosi was elected Speaker of the House all we heard was how wonderful it was that a mother and grandmother [...]
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Posted on November 16th, 2009 by Administration
The Cray XT5 supercomputer known as “Jaguar” has finally clawed its way to the title of fastest computer in the world.
Sitting back at No. 2 on the Top500 list of supercomputers for more than a year, Jaguar overtook IBM’s “Roadrunner” according to the twice-yearly list that will be unveiled Tuesday at the SC09 Conference in [...]
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