The Archives (Monthly)

April 2008

• links for 2008-04-30

  
  

  • iPhone’s coming to Canada… Where’s BlackBerry AK? » BlackBerry Sync | get in sync with the latest BlackBerry news

• links for 2008-04-29

  
  

  • Coolsmartphone.com – Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 in video
  • Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
  • Apple: Apple contractor Foxconn promises 3G iPhone by June, 25 million total
  • From The Magazine : Radar Online : What better mentor for a 10-year-old than Charles Manson? Little Billy seeks life advice, and America’s most notorious killers are happy to oblige
  • globeandmail.com: Scientists link 17 living people to an aboriginal man found in glacier
  • [daily dose of imagery] circular square
  • ‘Orangutan attempts to hunt fish with spear’ by Daily Mail UK – RichardDawkins.net
  • BBC NEWS | UK | England | Lancashire | Boys sentenced over Goth murder
  • Shhh, no one is on Twitter « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger
  • Xobni: Email startup tries to hurry Microsoft-Yahoo merger
  • Hires: Microsoft hires father of Photoshop away from Adobe
  • Apple Retail: Apple Store Retail Employees Getting New Shirts, Slogans, Impatient Attitude
  • Unlocked BlackBerry 9000 Pulled From eBay | RIMarkable
  • Artist repairs spiderwebs, spiders say no thanks – Boing Boing
  • Dial and wire overload: old English bomber control panels – Boing Boing
  • Embraer Commercial Jets ERJ-135

• links for 2008-04-28

  
  

  • Star Trek: Crack Open a Synthehol With Classic Star Trek Bottle Opener
  • RIM developing “Apple Killer” touchscreen BlackBerry? – Engadget
  • Canada set to get Nokia N95 and iPhone by the Summer? | The Boy Genius Report
  • Slashdot | Smartphone Battle Is Shaping Up As RIM Vs. Apple
  • Digg – Why It Sucks to be the Younger Brother [PIC]
  • Techmeme: Twitter gets another round of funding (Charles Cooper/Coop’s Corner)
  • Bloggers offer glimpse of uncensored Cuba – Yahoo! News
  • Cleveland, Ohio – Weather Forecast – The Weather Network
  • WoW – a set on Flickr
  • Twinkle – split screen | Mathieu ‘P01′ HENRI | 20080427
  • Ukraine marks 22nd anniversary of Chernobyl catastrophe – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

• links for 2008-04-27

  
  

  • Student ‘Twitters’ his way out of Egyptian jail – CNN.com
  • Rumor Smashed: Glossy Black iPhone 3G is Just a Third-Party Case
  • PSDTUTS – Photoshop Tutorials and Links – Create a Sleek, High-End Web Design from Scratch
  • OhGizmo! » Archive » That Zune Tattoo Guy’s Got Nothing On This
  • Reno urged to prepare for more quakes – CNN.com
  • NASA – A Stellar Explosion You Could See on Earth!
  • Shenanigans: Dell to Sell XP after June 30, Microsoft to Pretend They’re Selling Vista to Save Face
  • Apple looking to Immersion for haptic technology on iPhone? – Engadget
  • Slashdot | Is Mathematics Discovered Or Invented?
  • BlackBerry’s Quest: Fend Off the iPhone – New York Times
  • Household: De-Clump Sugar with a Slice of Bread
  • Daily Herald | Fillies, Graham rise to the top
  • The Wealth Report – WSJ.com : The $300,000 Watch That Doesn’t Tell Time
  • More consumers stealing gas from gas stations – WalletPop

• links for 2008-04-26

  
  

  • Everything I know about women . . . – Times Online
  • Iron Man’s Suit Defies Physics — Mostly
  • Commuters find love on the Tube | Metro.co.uk
  • The pack of mutant black squirrels that are giving Cambridgeshire’s grey population a taste of their own medicine | the Daily Mail
  • Japan Suicide Gas Attack Forces Mass Evacuation – The Huffington Post
  • Honest College Ad – CollegeHumor video
  • 7 Common Foods That Can Actually Get You High | Cracked.com
  • Exotic Quantum State Of Matter Discovered
  • HOWTO kill/block an RFID – Boing Boing
  • Slashdot | Goodbye To the SPOT Watch
  • Is Keyword Search About To Hit Its Breaking Point?
  • Getting baked before shooting AKs at the Taliban: a bad idea. – Boing Boing
  • Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked – Security Fix
  • The real problem with Google’s Blogger service: Neglect | The Industry Standard
  • First Impression: FriendFeed Is The Social Network For Power Users – Digital Life Blog – InformationWeek
  • Eagle Drags Goat off Cliff Video
  • Ancient Praying Mantis Found in Amber
  • Good-Bye, Cheap Oil. So Long, Suburbia?
  • Numbered drawers – Boing Boing
  • WWW domain country codes of the world – Boing Boing
  • Wheels for paralyzed turtle – Boing Boing
  • NVIDIA VP joins the smack-talk fun, says the Intel CPU is “dead” – Engadget
  • Blackberry 9000 release rumors swirl – Engadget
  • The second-gen iPhone: 3G, GPS, only slightly thicker – Engadget
  • Robots: Creepy 80-Year-Old Japanese Robot Brought Back to Life
  • best of craigslist : Breakup Lesson # 1 – Don’t fark with someone who has naked pics of you
  • ImageShack – Hosting :: hitmanmonkeytx5.jpg

• links for 2008-04-25

  
  

  • has_many :through – Symbols are not pretty strings
  • Lasik Indicator: Eye Surgeries Slow With Economy – Business on The Huffington Post
  • Remember The Milk – Services / MilkSync / MilkSync for BlackBerry
  • MAKE: Blog: Subway vent sea monster
  • ESA Portal – Ship-sinking monster waves revealed by ESA satellites
  • STEPHEN COLBERT – The 2008 TIME 100 Finalists – TIME
  • The Deadbolt Feature – 10 Movies We Want to See This Summer (and 5 That Make Us Nervous)
  • Astrologers fail to predict proof they are wrong
  • Chat: Put Facebook Chat in Firefox’s Sidebar
  • Snipes Gets 3 Years In Tax Case
  • Microsoft: Windows Sales Way Down, Microsoft Makes Less Money (Vs. Last Year)
  • Hi5’s Dev Platform is Rip-Roaring Along [podcast]
  • Slashdot | New “Iron Curtain” for Russian Internet
  • The New Yahoo: Sticky, Viral, And Most Of All, Friendly
  • Eight Years Later, Is Rackspace Finally Going To Try For Another IPO?
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  • Genetic sequencing of protein from T. rex bone confirms dinosaurs’ link to birds
  • Confirmed: Guillermo Del Toro WILL Be Directing The Hobbit! | Filmonic
  • 8 Fictional Cities You Wouldn’t Want to Live in – OMG Lists.com – When we list, the world listens- The Ultimate Pop Culture List Site!
  • Psychic- A Halo 3 Triple Kill – Halo video
  • Simple ‘superlens’ sharpens focusing power – tech – 24 April 2008 – New Scientist Tech
  • BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Human line ‘nearly split in two’

• links for 2008-04-24

  
  

  • Woman comes home to find alligator in kitchen | World news | guardian.co.uk
  • Who Is ‘The Last Cylon’ On Battlestar Galactica? – Screen Rant
  • An appetite for sex : Nature News
  • Hatch of Soyuz capsule nearly burned up; crew was in serious danger – International Herald Tribune
  • Fishki.Net – Обалденная свадебная фотосессия (18 фото) | Фишкина Картинка
  • World War II Aerography on Planes | Funtasticus.com
  • Royal Pingdom » Google domain names – the funny, strange and surprising
  • Tellme | Say it. Get It.
  • Coding Horror: Behold WordPress, Destroyer of CPUs
  • Our Favorite College Sex Columns – Asylum | For All Mankind
  • Facebook Chat Now Works For Everyone
  • The Ozzie Memo: Software is Dead, Long Live the Web
  • Penny Arcade! – Le Twittre
  • Steve Carell on How to Act Brilliant
  • Camera Tech: Sony’s Happy Face Cameras Contort Frowns Into Awkwardness
  • Don’t drink the water! – New York Yankees baseball – NJ.com
  • Dustin Moskovitz: Facebook frayed by founders’ feud
  • Dean Kamen aims to clean water, generate electricity with Slingshot machine – Engadget
  • Japan is almost out of butter – Boing Boing
  • Slashdot | Evidence Of Glaciers On Mars Suggests Recent Climate Activity
  • Ghost luxury hotels, half-built and rotting in the desert – Boing Boing
  • Facebook Platform Faces Rough Road Ahead, Despite Successes
  • T-Mobile Android Phone Release Seen Bringing ‘Avalanche’
  • Sam’s Club, Costco Limit Rice Purchases – Business on The Huffington Post
  • SEOmoz | Google Search Results Missing from OneBox
  • Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital – Yahoo! News
  • Award for funniest person: Tina Fey – Movie opinions- msnbc.com
  • Four Abandoned Stations of the London Underground : Environmental News Blog | Environmental Graffiti
  • YouTube – Stephen Colbert Larry King [1 of 4] 4/14/08
  • Digg / All Categories Podcasts
  • Beauty: Datamancer’s Steampunk LCD Monitor is Another Stunner
  • Earnings: Starbucks quarterly results spill scalds analysts’s laps
  • lonelygirl15 team gets $5 million in venture capital | The Industry Standard
  • Build a customizable RSS feed aggregator in PHP
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• links for 2008-04-23

  
  

  • UK Office of Government Commerce cracks one off | The Register
  • 10 Dumb Ideas that Made A Lot of Money | Credit Card Pundit
  • Science Proves Dull Work Puts Your Brain to Sleep – Asylum | For All Mankind
  • Honda to show off experimental “walking assist device” – Engadget
  • DoD establishes institute tasked with regrowing body parts – Engadget
  • Stupid: Bring Out Your Inner Tool With Peripherals Pants
  • Explainer: Why does Intel think it’s a Web 2.0 startup?
  • Sex and the City, Season Four – Pajiba
  • ASUS replacing Eee PC 900 batteries with longer lasting versions – Engadget
  • Microsoft finally releases new Vista Ultimate Extras, still “ultimate” in name only – Engadget
  • Lightning Review: Sony Ericsson K850i CyberShot Phone (Verdict: Almost Usable, But Not Quite)
  • Freedom Keychain GPS 2000 – ShopCrackBerry
  • Techmeme: Twitter Japan launches, with ads (Daniel Terdiman/Geek Gestalt)
  • xkcd – Mistranslations
  • Tasmania Animoto Style : LOL: The Life of Leo
  • Top Ten Signs You Are Addicted to Your BlackBerry | CrackBerry.com
  • Smartphone Thoughts: Power Woes: It Shouldn’t Be This Difficult
  • Apple files patent for iPhone IM | The Boy Genius Report
  • Expect Nothing! – How NOT to pick up Chicks
  • Techmeme: Ten things to know about Microsoft’s Live Mesh (Mary Jo Foley/All about Microsoft)
  • Microsoft’s Mesh Revealed—Sync All Apps And All Files To All Devices (As Long As They’re Windows)

• links for 2008-04-22

  
  

  • GateWorld Play > News & Features: Continuum Teaser Trailer
  • 30 Reasons Windows Mobile is Superior to iPhone | Mobility Site
  • House Republicans Move To Increase H1B Visa Quota
  • 3G iPhone confirmed in Italy without revenue sharing? – Engadget
  • YouTube – Star Wars (1977) Deleted Scene
  • A world of hemp lingerie? No thanks | Melanie Reid – Times Online
  • Polar Bear Workout
  • Could Welsh scientist end our universe? – icWales
  • ParisLemon: Twitter FAIL Day 3: Communications Breakdown
  • Canada Post Corporation Strategic Review
  • Duct tape saved Apollo 17 moonbuggy, while on the moon. – Boing Boing
  • HD enthusiasts crying foul over cable TV’s crunched signals
  • Facebook Publishes “Insider’s Guide To Viral Marketing”
  • 10,000 People Show Up to Smoke Out in Colorado – Asylum | For All Mankind
  • Scientists: Even Bigger Quake Could Hit Midwest | LiveScience
  • Coding Horror: Everything I Needed to Know About Programming I Learned from BASIC
  • globeandmail.com: Search warrants suggest Tories overspent by $1-million
  • Airplanes: Delta “Cozy Suite” Seats Make Economy Class Semi-Tolerable
  • How We’re Wrecking Our Feet With Every Step We Take — New York Magazine
  • Last Request: Please Don’t Smoke on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
  • YouTube – Fabulous Life of John McCain
  • Stephen Hawking calls for Moon and Mars colonies – space – 21 April 2008 – New Scientist Space
  • Hell is Other People’s Code
  • Do Or Die Week For Yahoo

• links for 2008-04-21

  
  

  • BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Bond car plunges into Lake Garda
  • Professional Warcraft III players to carry Olympic torch in China – Joystiq
  • The NarcoSphere || Mass Graves Revealed of Indian Children in Canadian Schools
  • What we lost (now that web programming is mainstream)
  • Inside Story of Galactica’s Crazy Closers
  • thisisby.us – For One Year, by harrychong
  • Ohio Record Roller Coaster – 420 Ft High, 120 MPH Down…

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