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Google Homepage Christmas Doodle Sings Jingle Bells 25 Dec 2011 | 07:34 am
Google wishes you Merry Christmas Happy Holidays with an interactive Christmas Eve homepage doodle. You click on the lights, and notes play. Once you complete the “puzzle”, the Google letters animate,...
Find People and Old Acquaintances on Zopeo 3 Dec 2011 | 08:04 am
Terry Brown from Zopeo.com wrote in to talk about Zopeo, a new startup whose goal is to allow you to find anyone, anywhere. Read on for more. Here’s what he says: This website will help you to find ...
Mobile Productivity: Being Productive On-the-Go Thanks to Mobile Devices 2 Dec 2011 | 06:44 am
As technology has advanced over the past decade, many people are turning to digital solutions for enhancing productivity. Modern smart phones offer a variety of productivity software, with an emphasis...
ClimateGate II Emails Dumped 23 Nov 2011 | 09:03 am
Remember the original release of (depending on your perspective) emails hacked or released by a whistleblower regarding global warming research alleged to have been tampered with? Well, now the same f...
4.74 Degrees of Separation Between You and the Rest of Humanity 22 Nov 2011 | 08:10 am
You know how it’s commonly said there are six degrees of separation between you and anyone else on the planet? Meaning you know a guy who knows a guy … who knows the guy (six times). It’s based on a 1...
Crowdsourced Occupy Wall St Ad on TV 17 Nov 2011 | 04:13 am
Perhaps unhappy with media coverage of late, Occupy Wall St. has come out with an ad being shown on national networks (ESPN, Bloomberg, CBS Sports, Fox News and others). It seems to be either make or ...
Head of ChronoPay Arrested in Russia? 16 Nov 2011 | 08:37 am
DigitalCashNews tweeted that the head of ChronoPay, an alternative payment system, was arrested in Russia, being accused of orchestrating a DDoS attack on a competitor. The tweet links to threatpost.c...
Is Bitcoin Flawed? Microsoft Research Says Maybe 15 Nov 2011 | 08:59 am
Microsoft Research has identified what it thinks may be a flaw in the system: Namely, there’s an incentive for miners not to forward Bitcoin transactions. See here for the MS paper and here for basic ...
Nginx: A Faster Alternative to Apache 15 Nov 2011 | 08:40 am
Most websites use a combination of the Apache webserver and PHP. But Nginx (pronounce “engine-x”) can be a lot faster than Apache, especially for serving static files. Combine that with using PHP-FPM,...
11:11 on 11/11/11: What Were You Doing? 12 Nov 2011 | 08:11 am
Eleven minutes past eleven o’clock on the 11th day of the 11th month of the 11th year only rolls around once in a 100 years. So what were you doing at that time? Do you know anyone who was born on a...
