Category: Headlines
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The yellow areas are the places where there are more grocery store listings than bars. The red areas are the ones with more bars than grocery stores. We can deduce from this that either there is (A) a real lack of grocery stores (or more “supercenters” and fewer market locations) in the midwest, or (B)…
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The Sad Story of RealDVD and Why You’ll Never Be Able to Legally Rip Your DVDs
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Your manuscript is both good and original. But the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. Samuel Johnson
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(Photo by Icon Sports Media) O.J. Mayo was on the Dan Patrick Show this morning and denied ever taking any money before or during his college career at USC. Mayo insisted that he did not receive any extra benefits at USC and felt bad that Tim Floyd has to leave USC over the scandal. Mayo’s…
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Not a bad life’s mission. Also available in t-shirt form from Mat Honan. [via]
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What do you guys think– Information Architects’ Facebook design (above) or the current real deal? Quién es más macho?
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The Internet is no topic like cellphones or videogame platforms or artificial intelligence; it’s a topic like education. It’s that big. Therefore beware: to become a teacher, master some topic you can teach; don’t go to Education School and master nothing. To work on the Internet, master some part of the Internet: engineering, software, computer…
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Another win for Austin – this time it’s the University of Texas’s Ransom Center acquiring the rights to David Foster Wallace’s personal archives. As the release puts it: The archive contains manuscript materials for Wallace’s books, stories and essays; research materials; Wallace’s college and graduate school writings; juvenilia, including poems, stories and letters; teaching materials…
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8-Bit NYC – a Legend of Zelda-esque pixel map of New York with full Google Maps pan/zoom capabilities by Brett Camper – is all kinds of awesome. (Source: http://8bitnyc.com/)
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FONT SNOBBERY: I am loving Lodgecode from YouWorkForThem.
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Frat House Sports posted some pictures of Taylor Mays with a lovely lady last week. We thought we should share them with you. Enjoy. USC Taylor Mays Girlfriend? [frathousesports]
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Government spending hasn’t hurt Austin, Texas, either. It’s the seat of state government and tied for No. 1 on our list of 10 cities best surviving the recession. Jobs have been lost nearly everywhere in the last three years, but between December 2007 and December 2009 the number of jobs in Austin rose by 0.98%;…
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