Saturday, February 20, 2010

Odds and Ends 8

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MASHABLE.COM -- Guy to be locked in a box for a month - hope there's a bathroom in there.

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MASHABLE.COM -- Consumers Lose as Redbox Delays New Releases 28 Days for Warner Bros. - Stupid Warner Bros. - forcing more delays on people wanting to watch their movies. They think it will sell more. Good luck with that.

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NEWS.COM -- ShadyURL makes URLs entertainingly suspicious - makes little short URLs no one would like to click on. For instance, the short URL for this blog would be http://5z8.info/trojan_y3c9t_openme.exe ... I guess that's not really shorter, though.

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ENGADGET.COM -- Google gains clearance to buy and sell energy, continue taking over the world

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ICANHASCHEEZBURGER.COM -- Just a funny picture. - I wanted to post to Facebook, but Facebook is being stupid.

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SETHGODIN.COM -- Quieting the Lizard Brain

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SEATTLETRANSITBLOG.COM -- Senate votes to open up transit lanes - Hey, free for all. (Almost). Why not? Ugh.

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Duck with injured leg inspires boy born prematurely (who had a stoke) to walk.



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Do people not think anymore? Sure, I get being angry - to a point. But it's when you stop being angry and start getting incredibly stupid that I am just left speechless. What was going through this guy's head? There's absolutely no way this makes his day better.



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Google Goggles prototype that lets you take a photo of something and get a translation back. So far, only German to English and small bits of text at a time, but huge potential here. Similar technology to Evernote, probably.