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Spider Robinson: Melancholy Elephants
Shared by Nick
Great short story.
Copyright is a hot-button topic these days. Does information want to be free…or just reasonably priced? I discussed copyright at some length 25 years ago—a year before the first TCP/IP wide area network in the world went operational—two years before the first Macintosh went on sale!—in the following story. It won the 1983 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, and ...
May 18 2010
Facebook 'sexiest video' malware spreading virally
digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular
If you get a posting on your Facebook wall telling you "this is without doubt the sexiest video ever! :P :P :P" which seems to be accompanied by a video titled "Candid Camera Prank [HQ]" then don't click on the video: it's a lead-in to malware.May 16 2010
Nick and Emily get engaged!
May 13 2010
The Geek Alphabet
Geeks are Sexy Technology News
As a geek, you definitely know your ABCs, but do you know these? From A to Z, “away team” to “zork,” here is [GAS]’s take on the Geek Alphabet.
All images used for our geeky ABCs are from Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons licenses that allow for remixing. And they’re “share alike,” which means that you’re welcome to use our geeky alphabet – as long as you credit u...
Walrus Attacks Ducks in Rare Footage
Pogi 0062
Walk on water (Liquid Mountaineering)
May 12 2010
Sprint selling HTC EVO 4G on June 4 for $199
May 11 2010
iPad usability is a setback to the 90's
GUUUI - The Interaction Designer's Coffee Break
Jakob Nielsen has conducted a preliminary usability study of the Apple iPad. His findings "revived memories of Web designs from 1993":
- Because of the apps' print media aesthetic users don't know where they can click, which options exist and trigger unexpected actions by mistake
- Common actions are difficult to learn since each application has a completely different way of doing similar things
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Intuit Acquires Healthcare Software Company Medfusion For $91 Million
Shared by NickBusiness software company Intuit has announced the acquisition of healthcare communications software company Medfusion. The cash transaction is valued at approximately $91 million. The transaction is expected to close during the fourth quarter of Intuit’s fiscal year 2010. ...
Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh)
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