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Bert & Ernie Gangsta Rap

Thanks to Jeff for the hint to this video.

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Sat, March 21 2009 » Video » Comments Off

Twitter Premium accounts a hoax

It seems as if April 1st has come a little early to the users of Twitter, the micro-blogging social networking site.  A recent blog post announced that Twitter was going to offer premium services on a monthly basis. The website BBSpot “reported” in a post that Twitter’s CEO announced premium accounts for fees ranging from [...]

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Fri, March 20 2009 » tech » Comments Off

Mac gets cracked in under 10 seconds.

Just because your computer is a Mac doesn’t make you safe from attacks that can get into your system.  That was proven at the CanSecWest convention’s PWN2OWN contest in which a Mac running Safari was cracked in under 10 seconds. Charlie Miller, who is a security researcher, could not discuss many details due to the [...]

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Thu, March 19 2009 » tech » Comments Off

App Store Lets A Logo Slip

In recent months the Apple App Store has been said to hold back listing of applications for the iPod Touch and iPhone for many reasons.  Somehow the logo for the app iCount slipped by. As you can tell, there is a reason why Apple pulled the iCount application from the App Store  once it realized [...]

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Wed, March 18 2009 » tech » Comments Off

Family Guy & Star Trek TNG

I just to make myself perfectly clear:  I am not a fan of Star Trek.  I am, however a fan of Family Guy.  For all of you fans of Star Trek TNG above is a shot of an upcoming Family Guy episode that has all of the cast reuniting. Peter and the Family head to [...]

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Tue, March 17 2009 » misc. debris » Comments Off