bloglog » Tuesday 08 July 2008
08 July 2008
custom made chandeliers - bling bling, you're dead
08-07-08
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telecom amnesty opponents back new amendment
08-07-08
13:00
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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "With the telecoms all but assured of amnesty for their participation in illegal spying, there's now one last amendment in their way — the Bingaman amendment. Because President Bush is unwilling to sign FISA reform without immunity, and because Blue Dog Democrats fear for their reelection unless FISA reform as a whole passes, most compromise positions are already off the table. So the new amendme
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bernanke says fed may extend wall street lending
08-07-08
12:59
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ARLINGTON, Va (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday the U.S. central bank may keep an emergency lending facility for big Wall Street firms open past year-end while it seeks to restore financial market stability.
john mayer heads up north
08-07-08
12:59
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wapo: lara logan's 'tabloid' tales are true
08-07-08
12:58
GMTCBS foreign-affairs correspondent Lara Logan has granted an interview to Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz to acknowledge her messy personal life. Logan laments how she became "tabloid fodder," but she's telling Kurtz that the basic facts of the story are true:
[L]ast November, she broke off an intense relationship with another journalist in Baghdad. Soon afterward, Logan started dating Joseph Burkett, a federal contractor stationed in
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square enix releases ipod rpg, song summoner
08-07-08
12:58
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Filed under: Portable, RPGs
Square Enix has a surprise RPG for the handheld gamer. No, it's not on the PSP or DS. Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes is an iPod exclusive RPG with a rather unique twist. You'll be able to transform your music collection into "Tune Troopers" that you can use in battle. Even cooler: you'll be able to level up your "Tune Troopers" simply by listening to the same song you created them on your iPod. You'll need the help o
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check-cashing worker found shot dead in se houston
08-07-08
12:57
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Police are trying to find out who fatally shot a man who worked for a check-cashing business.
wallbot is watching you...
08-07-08
12:51
GMT"What we've invented is a way to induce charges on the wall using a power supply located on the robot....The robot carries with it positive and negative charges, and when the walls sees these charges it automatically generates the opposite charge. The robot can then clamp onto those charges." Scientists have robots climbing the walls.
southern college accepts dwarves
08-07-08
12:51
GMTSCAD Shorts, playful videos that stretch the imagination are from The Dandy Dwarves, an eclectic group of students who formed a video production company while attending Savannah College of Art Design. Each month the dwarves will release a brand new video short like the recent Scribe Conjures Alternate Dimension. It?s up to us to create fitting, descriptive, and creative S-C-A-D titles for each new video.
involver replaces banner ads with custom video widgets
08-07-08
12:50
GMTBanner ads suck. That’s why everyone is replacing them with more interactive marketing campaigns, reeling people in with videos, RSS feed content, and other socially integrated ways in which to merge with a site’s ongoing conversations. Involver (formerly RapOuts), is the latest to replace the banner ad with an interactive video widget that [...]
vivaty scenes make aim and facebook chat virtual worlds
08-07-08
12:50
GMTVivaty is an online virtual world that has just launched a new segment called Vivaty Scenes, which is a new way for users to personalize their virtual “rooms” and subsequently socialize with friends. Given that online virtual worlds and instant messaging now go hand-in-hand, it’s great that Vivaty is utilizing existing socialization platforms for [...]
matt cutts q&a (video)
08-07-08
12:50
GMTDanny Sullivan of Search Engine Land did an interview with Google's anti-web spam boss Matt Cutts at the SMX conference on June 3rd. The issues they talked about in the first half of this (the second half likely won't be live until some days later) include:
The dark craft of creating fake stories to get backlinks (the "13 year old steal's dad's credit card to buy hookers" incident), and Google's reaction to it. Matt: "... to have that land
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elgato shrinks eyetv digital tv dongle, now macbook air-friendly [tv dongles]
08-07-08
12:49
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Elgato has shrunk the tech in their Mac-friendly USB TV tuner dongles so that the latest EyeTV DTT Deluxe is much smaller. And as a result, it's now compatible with the MacBook Air's low ground-clearance. It's got a digital tuner inside that can do full HD, so it's just for those of you who can get DVB-T or Freeview, and apparently packs better image-processing for a less noisy picture. It also leaves the mini-DVI slot unblocked on an Air, and co
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fanboy is now a real english word, says merriam-webster [dictionary]
08-07-08
12:49
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Yes, it's official: you now can be a fanboy by the power of Grayskull and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, which says the word is now part of the English language. They arrive a little late, because the Oxford English Dictionary in the Apple's Mac OS X Leopard running on my Apple iMac 24" shows it, and so does the dictionary on my Apple PowerBook 17"?running Apple's Mac OS X Tiger?and also the automatic orthography corrector in my Apple
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a widescreen nintendo ds is "purely rumor and speculation" [video games]
08-07-08
12:49
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Here's the deal. Yesterday an advertisement was floating around showing a Nintendo DS that had bigger, wider screens. They didn't look quite 16x9 as the gaming blogs were claiming, and the whole ordeal could have been a pretty quick Photoshop blunder by a third party software designer. Anyway, a lot of people ended up running the story, so I thought we should let you know about it in the remote case that a.) someone at work was talking about a wi
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