August 2009
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@shitmydadsays on Twitter →
I can’t belive i have only just found this but it has restored my faith in Twitter. Just so funny! I think i could listen the dads words of widom all day.
[update] this one is awesome too @CTABusDriver
via TechCrunch
I hate the word 'units'
It’s the most stripped-back souless way to describe anything. Using it you canĀ reduce anything - human beings, art masterpieces, even entire galaxies down to the most meaningless nothing. At the utterance of that word, everything that something stands for is stripped away by association with the word ‘unit’.
To that end the word is successful, that was it’s whole pupose...
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Nokia Booklet 3G Netbook →
Glad that Nokia is finally entering this market. It looks like a Nokia, the design follows the current Nokia aesthetics. They have also avoided going in at a base level and the specs make for impressive reading, with comms being handled by bluetooth, N flavour Wi-Fi, 3G, HSDPA, and entertainment covered with HD ready screen and HDMI out.
via Gizmodo
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Cash machine offers Cockney slang →
via MSN News
They didn’t have to do this, but im glad when companies go the extra mile. Bravo!
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7 best magazine cover tech innovations →
A nice piece about magazine covers that pushed the technological boundries. I wish i could get my hand on that E-Ink cover. Love the thousand year story.
via TechRadar
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Major labels are introducing their own file format →
,via CrunchGear
*Slow Clap* That’s fantastic it really is. So we go back to the days of 2 good songs, lots of filler and the higher price tag again do we?
And ontop of this Apple are working on a competing format as well. Brilliant. This can only go well.
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Hacker pwns National Identity card in 12... →
Yah, there you have it UK gov. Dont EVER go saying something is unforgeable, you’ll look silly in… well about 12 minutes it seems.
Fucking idiots
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Other Companies Should Have To Read This Internal Netflix Presentation, via TechCrunch
I want to work for a company that shares this ethos…
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If You Could See Google Street View In Video, It Would Look Like YellowBird, via TechCrunch
Its very rare that i see something so mindbendingly revolutionary. This has completely blown me away, both now and at the thought of the future possibilities. Truely truely EPIC.
Bravo yellowBird
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