May 2010
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New Orleans bakes a Thank-You cake for BP
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April 2010
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Steve Jobs Email Reply Generator
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March 2010
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The iPad May Change Computing, Just Not Your Life
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Ugg, you're breaking your feet!
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CapSee: CAPS LOCK notifier for OS X
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Nike Bauer Hockey Sticks: May be harmful if...
Bauer Hockey Corp. is recalling the Nike Bauer Supreme One50 composite hockey stick JR-52 due to excessive lead levels detected by Health Canada. An estimated 7,657 of the sticks were sold at sport equipment stores across Canada. They carry the UPC number 440004249959. The yellow and black hockey stick is distributed under the brand name “Nike Bauer.” The excessive...
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Apple Banning Screen Protectors in Retail Stores?
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How to: Get your 1984 Mac running Snow Leopard
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Anatomy of Apple Design
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The iMaxi: someone had to do it
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February 2010
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'Rent The Podium' plan working well for the U.S.
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D'oh, Canada! The Vancouver Opening Ceremonies,...
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Nokia and Intel Unite to Create New Mobile OS
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Apple Releases Aperture 3 With Faces and Places...
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The Whale Whisperer: Astonishing bond between...
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iPad already influencing e-book market
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Avatar & Hurt Locker lead Oscar Nominations
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Linux Foundation: mobile Linux needs "magic" to...
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It's About Time! Neil Young Wins First-Ever Grammy...
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January 2010
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Bill & Melinda Gates donate $10 BILLION towards...
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Airport screening for 'Flying while Muslim'
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YouTube videos now available in HTML5
We haven’t exactly been secretive about our distaste for Adobe’s Flash Player here at TUAW. Flash on the Mac has traditionally been a terrible resource hog, and while the pre-release of Flash Player 10.1 alleviated (to an extent) Flash’s inordinately high CPU usage, many of us still dreamed of a golden age when Flash would be supplanted by something else, especially if that...
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Bill Gates has a blog!
via thegatesnotes.com Seems kind of nice. I’m sure he’s got a lot of interesting things to share! Prepare for some eyestrain, though. Posted via web from The Hyacinth House | Comment »
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The Jack Bauer Security Advisory System
via buddytv.com Much easier to understand than the one from Homeland Security. Posted via web from The Hyacinth House | Comment »
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Nichelle Nichols: MLK kept Uhura from leaving Star...
via scifiwire.com After all these years, Uhura is still one of the strongest Black characters ever created, yet she almost became a mere footnote. Posted via web from The Hyacinth House | Comment »
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Final Season Of 'Lost' Promises To Make Fans More...
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Seth Meyers explains the Jay-Conan debacle
via thrfeed.com It’s all so clear now . Umm … yeah. Posted via web from The Hyacinth House | Comment »
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Crash test: 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air vs 2009...
via boingboing.net Cars are now much safer than they were 50 years ago. Posted via web from The Hyacinth House | Comment »
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Oxford cops use riot shields for peaceful...
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Photos from the devastating earthquake in Haiti
via boston.com Sometimes Mother Nature can be a bitch. Posted via web from The Hyacinth House | Comment »
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Irony: Anti-piracy agency uses unlicensed font in...
via boingboing.net Boing Boing: Hapodi, the French agency that’s in charge of the country’s new anti-piracy scheme (if someone you live with is accused of three acts of infringement, your whole household is taken offline and added to a list of address to which it is illegal to provide Internet access) has been accused of pirating the font used it its logo. The font designer is talking...
How to post photos on the internet
via marco.org A spoof of how bad most online photos are. (via CameraBag) Posted via web from The Hyacinth House | Comment »
Unintended Innuendo
name my Posterous blog The Hyacinth House, in homage to The Doors: check set up autoposting to my Facebook page: check have Facebook tag my posts as “Posted to the Hyacinth Ho”: HILARIOUSLY PRICELESS!!! Posted via email from The Hyacinth House | Comment »
How to Sleeveface
via boingboing.net Seems like so much fun! Put those old LPs to good use. Posted via web from The Hyacinth House | Comment »
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Anne Frank protector dies at 100
via cnn.com Miep Gies, who ensured the diary of Anne Frank did not fall into the hands of Nazis after the teen’s arrest, has died. She was 100. Gies was among a team of Dutch citizens who hid the Frank family of four and four others in a secret annex in Amsterdam, Netherlands, during World War II, according to her official Web site, which announced her death Monday. She worked as a...
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Shocking: McGwire admits to using steroids
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That looks like a comfy ... WTF?
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"Avatar" leaves audience depressed, suicidal
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Office 2010: The Movie
via boingboing.net Very high production values and full of in-jokes. Nice to see Microsoft can have some fun at its own expense once in a while. Posted via web from The Hyacinth House | Comment »
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Is "wind chill" a bogus statistic?
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Best (Worst?) FAILS Of 2009
via huffingtonpost.com Very nice collection, although some are painful to watch. Posted via web from The Hyacinth House | Comment »
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Obama May Crash Premier of Lost Season 6
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Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of all time
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Shocking: Best Buy Optimization Is A Big Stupid...
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February 2009
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FBI reopens Tylenol tampering case
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Man pulls out 13 of his own teeth with pliers...
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Surgeons remove healthy kidney through donor's...
via cnn.com “Removing the kidney through a natural opening should hasten the patient’s recovery and provide a better cosmetic result,” Montgomery said. Posted via web from The Hyacinth House | Comment »
Pomegranate Phone
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U.S. Plans $500,000 Cap on Executive Pay in... →
“That is pretty draconian — $500,000 is not a lot of money, particularly if there is no bonus,” said James F. Reda, founder and managing director of James F. Reda & Associates, a compensation consulting firm. “And you know these companies that are in trouble are not going to pay much of an annual dividend.”
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iLife '09 begins move to Intel-only mainstream... →
In the very fine print of the System Requirements section of the iLife ‘09 page at the Apple online store you’ll find: “GarageBand Learn to Play requires an Intel-based Mac with a dual-core processor or better.” One can’t help but suspect that this is the start of more of the same to come.