Aggregation Assault
Comin’ at ya with a weeks worth of stuff… A little more than the usual bulleted list…
I’ve only had a select few parking tickets in my life. But the annoyance of parking enforcement is just a fact of urban life. It’s nice to see that car belonging to the secret service tasked to detailing Jenna Bush was towed due to unpaid parking tickets… [Baltimore Sun]
I love Skype. We’ve been using it at our office this year with mixed results, but the service shines for video calls and especially international calls. Hence why I was somewhat surprised, but not really, to see that Skype handles more international calls than AT&T. [Ars Technica]
There’s no skirting around this issue… Florida student suspended for farting on bus. [Washington Examiner]
The downfall of print media is definitely looming across the country. I feel kinda bad for the employees, but not the companies who could have taken more steps to embrace the progression that’s becoming their downfall. Take a gander at this interesting piece that details 5 things a print publication can do to avoid extinction. [Mashable]
Not sure who of you know about the lawsuit going on between the AP and Sheppard Farily concerning the creation of the iconic poster utilized in Obama’s campaign. It’s a legal / copyright thing that you may or may not be interested in… But here’s a story about the current status of the battle and a new little twist involving the DMCA. [Ars Technica]
It’s nice to know that I’m equipped for a life of crime… Apparently Blackberry is the phone of choice for criminals and gangs… [Gizmodo]
You want a look into our possible near future? Robots may be taking care of elderly in five years… Go to the link and look at the picture that shows the upside to this… [Gizmodo]
Back to vehicular tickets… But I’ve now found out that if I’m ticketed in Oregon that they won’t accept payment for fines in the form of urine soaked coins… [Oregon Live] damn…
Stories and Old Spice
Some good stories this week that you may or may not have known about…
- 17 Million prople stopped buying CD’s in 2008 [Ars Technica]
- Virginity rates by collegiate major [forwardon]
- Charlotte Bobcats seeded 7th in NIT [Onion] – Pacers must not have been invited…
- Google Offers 500,000 for free on Sony Reader [Mashable]
- Drunken vomiting in UK caught by Google Streetview [Gizmodo]
- Spinal Tap returns, and gets photoshopped [Photoshop Disasters]
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been a fan of the Old Spice marketing campaigns for a few years… The new Tony Stweart add is pretty funny [link], but my favorite is the one below that was usually cropped for time…
It’s the line “and we’ll buy you a stick of something that smells like wildflowers and shame”
Five weekend stories
Just some stories from over the weekend…
- If you buy a stun gun on vacation in Bulgaria, don’t use it on people at school… wait… who goes on vacation in Bulgaria? [Daily Mail]
- Rocket Scientists + Lasers = Mosquito Death [WSJ]
- Kindle sort-of hacked… Amazon invokes DMCA like a typical hardware D-bag [CNET]
- Does Society Benefit from Behavior-Based Ads? [Mashable]
- Periodic Table of Typefaces [Lifehacker]
Aggregation before the fire
Just a few posts I gathered while some image processing experiments are in the works…
- Jenga Pistol – we need this for Colorado [Gizmodo]
- Google Voice is coming, and I may like it a lot [Mashable]
- Buffalo Bills Acquire Final Piece Of Sh*t Of The Puzzle [Onion]
- Colbert vs Firefly in ISS Namming Contest [Gizmodo]
- Photographs of Mid-Century Playground Rockets [BoingBoing]
aggregation tuesday
Hightlights of a last weekends top five RSS entries – the best is last…
- The benefits of corporate presence in social media [Mashable]
- Learning from social media blunders [Mashable]
- Ikea solar lights [Gizmodo]
- Dump Truck Wheelie [Jalopnik]
- Camouflaging self at Ikea [Gizmodo]
Aggregation
Some random stories that I came across… Must click through from excerpt for links…
- If you do one thing today, look at this image: How much do you like Wolverine? [Geekstir]
- Uh, We Almost Got Asteroided Yesterday [Gizmodo]
- Study: globalization correlates with altruism, cooperation [Ars Technica]
- New anti-fencing bill would turn eBay into eInvestigator [Ars Technica]
- 20 of the Best Web Comics [Mashable]
- Car Smashes Through A Mac Store and Vindicates Windows Users [Gizmodo]
- CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years [onion]
- Guess What Happens When a Car Thief Calls 911 To Brag [Jalopnik]
- 85+ Tools & Resources for Freelancers and Web Workers [Mashable]
random internets 090227
Random stories from my small sphere
- Stupid policy in action: Microsoft defends “Don’t ask – Don’t tell” for Xbox live members
- Just read the first paragraph: Kindles and “creative machines” blur boundaries of copyright
- Feline exercise
- A writeup on 15 twitter directories
A good way to waste at least 10 minutes
A lot of trailers were posted on Apple Trailers since I left work yesterday… A Denzel-Travolta vehicle… Some independent drama/comedy starring Zooey Deschanel and John Goodman among others… An anti-poverty film. A yoga documentary. Seth Rogen in a different mall cop movie… The Dragonball movie everyone’s been waiting for (except me that is)… And to top it all off – a new Matthew McConaughey vehicle.
