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Got my Ghost On - Whoo Hoo!

Posted in April 12th, 2008
Published in Art, Technology, Music, Fun, Economy

Hot Damn,  I got my NIN Ghosts I-IV today in the mail. I thought these things weren’t going to ship until May so I’m stoked. Yeah. yeah I already have the MP3’s and I already love the album that I’ve been waiting years to hear. So maybe I’m just old school but there’s just nothing […]

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Beautiful Virii And Malware at RSA

Posted in April 11th, 2008
Published in Design, Art, Technology, Geek, Danger, Code

from CRN.com
They’re frightening, yet strangely beautiful. They spread and infect and replicate and continually wreak havoc. While viruses and malware steal copious amounts of information and compromise an untold number of machines every day, these treacherous security threats are unseen to the naked eye. Until now.
For the first time ever, images have been developed […]

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Oooh, you didn’t label your shelves! That will cost you $3.9 million, Thank You

Posted in April 11th, 2008
Published in Code

via Associated Press
Federal regulators on Thursday fined Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Best Buy Co., and other retailers $3.9 million combined for failing to properly label that analog-only televisions will need to be retrofitted after the switch to digital TV next year.
The Federal Communications Commission also handed down $2.7 million in fines to other companies for violating […]

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Free Shipping + save 10-50% at the Best Choice Sale, starting today!

Posted in April 9th, 2008

So I received another marketing email from Macy’s today, and finally I have had enough. The subject of the email is listed in the title of this post. So I’m thinking, Free Shipping, and 10-50% off? Wow, that’s an amazing offer. So I opened the email and read this headline that jumps out from the […]

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Google Unleashes Web Services: Google App Engine

Posted in April 8th, 2008

Google unleashed their Amazon Web Services killer today called Google App Engine. Right now the development kit is limited to Python (and the Django Web Framework built on Python), the Google BigTable database and the GFS file services but this will undoubtedly change the game for Amazon Web Services and the paid providers that have […]

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