Featured Headlines for Tuesday August 5th, 2008
If you saw the previous featured headlines article, then you saw nothing! It wasn’t supposed to be seen and was only a way for me to test the (partially completed) new dashboard. which is coming along nicely; yes I know the site is still looking very spartan, but it’s not really live yet! Beta baby, beta. Anyways, here are the featured headlines for the day, please enjoy!
Entertainment:
Review: ‘Pineapple Express’ kind of pissed me off. It’s more of an overview, then a movie review. If I’m going to see Pineapple express, I sure the hell don’t need an overview! Just tell me how high you got before going to see the damn thing!
Tabula Rasa Community Olympics event
Was pretty cool to read about. I like the game, tho admittedly do not have the time to play anymore 
Oh well, fun is just a time killer anyways!
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Do schools today kill creativity?
A must-see for every parent and teacher. Education guru Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it.
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Video news article | Posted August 9
A must-see for every parent and teacher. Education guru Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it.
Video news article | Posted August 9
A large number of high ranking officials all going before the national press club to discuss what their experiences have been regarding UFO’s and all are willing to go before congress to testify under oath.
Video news article | Posted August 9
Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. against the Vietnam War. Audio.
This speech was released by Black Forum records, a subsidiary of Motown, and went on to win a Grammy in 1970 for the Best Spoken Word Recording.
Technology news article | Posted August 8
Source:Boing Boing
In this final installment of our TCHO Chocolate trilogy, Xeni and Pesco go on a magical mystery taste test tour — think Willy Wonka meets The Trip.
Former NASA software developer Timothy Childs founded the tech-minded chocolate company, and was joined by WIRED co-founder Louis Rosetto.
In previous BBtv episodes we learned about the hacked-together, [...]
Technology news article | Posted August 8
Source:Boing Boing
A study by Dr. Steven Schrader of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in Cincinnati and others concluded that the “nose” of a bicycle seat was implicated in “penile numbness” and erectile dysfunction in bicycle cops. It’s been a decade since I was a regular cyclist, but I’m here to tell you [...]
Technology news article | Posted August 8
Source:Boing Boing
Danny O’Brien’s new essay “Copyright, Fraud and Window Taxes (No, not that Windows)” makes a really good point about the way that people view copying on the Internet: copying is a ho-hum, every day thing (after all, in order for you to read these words, they had to be copied dozens, if not hundreds, [...]
Technology news article | Posted August 8
Source:Boing Boing
The Stonehenge Robotic Clock from Norris Labs is a robot arm that tells time by plucking numbered cards from an array around its body, setting them down in front of itself, waiting, then doing it again with fresh cards. Depending on the time-change, it can take more than a minute to advance by one [...]
Technology news article | Posted August 8
Source:Boing Boing
The Fright Catalog’s Dead Fred runs on two 12V battery and sports four separate motors that allow it to sense passers-by, rise up out of the earth and chase them, howling and growling and dragging its entrails behind it. It’s $2650, so it’s a little pricey for Hallowe’en, but that sum does compare favorably [...]
Technology news article | Posted August 8
Source:TechCrunch
Facebook head of security Max Kelly, a former FBI computer forensics examiner, wrote a blog post tonight addressing the worm attacks on Facebook we wrote about earlier today. His advice to Facebook users: report suspected malware, and try not to share your password with anyone.
Kelly also says Facebook blocked the ability to link to the [...]
Technology news article | Posted August 8
Source:Engadget
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
How very interesting. InvenSense, which is licensing its motion-sensing MEMS technology to Nintendo for that new MotionPlus add-on, has now stated that its Nintendo partnership is “not an exclusive relationship.” InvenSense won’t let slip exactly who else is courting them for the tech, but we have to think the usual suspects (Microsoft, [...]
Technology news article | Posted August 8
Source:Engadget
Filed under: Desktops
Lego computers are about as old as the case mod scene itself, but while many have qualified as interesting, we’ve never seen a truly sexy Lego box before Luke Anderson’s all-black “Lego Computer,” which seems to distill all we’ve ever loved about high-end workstation boxen into lovable Lego form. Bonus points for full [...]
Technology news article | Posted August 8
Source:The iPhone Blog
Jonathan Zdziarski has found what he believes to be a “call home” URL that the blogsphere has been reporting could/will be used to tell iPhone’s (and related Mobile OS X devices) to revoke the certificate of an application, blacklisting — effectively killing — it even if it has already been bought and paid [...]
Technology news article | Posted August 8
Source:The iPhone Blog
MacBox, the developer of PhoneSaber, has given word that they’ve had to pull the app from iTunes after a request from THQ wireless. The chat: friendly. The news: THQ has the rights to Star Wars IP on mobiles. The result: MacBox had to pull the app.
That’s the bad news. [...]
Technology news article | Posted August 8
Source:The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Filed under: Software, iPhone
Newly arrived in the App Store is pTerm, an iPhone port of the PuTTY terminal emulator. It supports SSH and Telnet, among other things, and has a built-in Control key.
But developer Eric Maland has been in touch with us to say that a 1.1 update is already [...]
Technology news article | Posted August 8
Source:Engadget
Filed under: Displays
We’re having a hard time getting stoked about this whole 16:9 trend: the market adoption rate and consumer embrace is uncannily similar to 16:10, which makes us fear some impending heretofore unknown aspect ratio that will hit the scene in a few years and draw money directly out of our wallets for unneeded [...]
Technology news article | Posted August 8
Source:MacRumors iPhone Blog
Far Out Labs has released their ProRemote Light [$39.99, App Store] and ProRemote [$149.99, App Store] applications to the iTunes App Store.
ProRemote is a product that runs on the iPhone and iPod Touch that uses your existing wirel…
Technology news article | Posted August 8
Source:Engadget
Filed under: Cellphones, Gaming
Call it off Sony, no need to throw any precious man hours into making your perennially #2 handheld into some sort of amazing featurephone hybrid, some hacker has already done it for you. Through the amazing wonders of modern thinphone technology, soldering irons and probably a bit of glue, some hacker has [...]
Technology news article | Posted August 8
Source:MacRumors iPhone Blog
DaringFireball.net clarifies that the published blacklist url likely only blocks malicious apps from accessing the iPhone’s Core Location functions. Core Location allows applications to detect the user’s location through GPS and Wi-Fi triangulation….
Technology news article | Posted August 8
Source:Engadget
Filed under: Cellphones
It appears we can all breathe a big sigh of relief when it comes to our iPhone apps. According to John Gruber (Daring Fireball), that suspicious looking URL discovered in the firmware 2.x which appeared to be set to deactivate applications may be something slightly more innocuous. According to Gruber — via “an [...]
Technology news article | Posted August 8
Source:The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Filed under: Steve Jobs, Apple
Steve Jobs has been called a “master showman” whose “reality distortion field” lulls observers into believing they desperately need whatever he’s pitching. However, it isn’t magic that makes him so engaging, but a talent for public speaking combined with ruthless rehearsals.
Still, one need not be a [...]
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- Do schools today kill creativity?
- The U.F.O DISCLOSURE PROJECT
- Martin Luther King Jr, “Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam”
- BBtv: TCHO Chocolate, pt. 3 — The Taste Test Trip.
- Perineum-crushing bike seats give cycle cops "penile numbness" and erectile dysfunction
- Controlling copies isn’t necessarily part of an artist’s livelihood, but getting them accurately attributed is
- Stonehenge robot clock arm tells time by arranging little cards
- Animatronic zombie that rises out of your garden and chases people, dragging its entrails
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