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The History of The FAIL Meme
Rocketboom presents “The History of FAIL”, giving some background on the FAIL meme, you know, the one that Slate just found out about. It’s the…
Tr.im, Quickly Create Super Short URLs With Statistics
Over the last few weeks I’ve been using tr.im to quickly shorten URLs that I post to Twitter. It that provides all kinds of great…
Robots Don’t Know Anything About Twitter, A 24 Comic by Doc Pop
Last weekend at 24 Hour Comics Book Day at Comic Outpost San Francisco Doc Pop created the wonderful comic “Robots Don’t Know Anything About Twitter”…
Missing: Invisible Bicycle, If Not Seen, Please Call
Invisible Bicycle flyer by Doc Pop from his fine art meetz lulz at the LOL Arts Show. See Previously: – LOL Arts Show, A Benefit…
Rackspace Cloud Hosting: Sites, Files & Servers
Today Rackspace Hosting, the company that we use for our web hosting servers, announced a series of new cloud hosting services at a special live…
Phishing Scams in Plain English
Our friends at Common Craft have posted another really informative video: “Phishing Scams in Plain English” See Previously: Evil IRS Tax Refund Phishing Scam
The Squid List: iCal, Mobile Version and Twitter
Here’s a few features you may not be aware of for The Squid List, the San Francisco Bay Area art, culture & technology events list…
The 700 Mole-Men Project
In “More Information Than You Require”, the new book by John Hodgman, he lists the names of 700 Mole-Men. In honor of this The 700…
John Hodgman, More Information Than You Require
John Hodgman, noted author, humorist, Daily Show resident expert, Hobo historian and faithful PC user, has a new book out “More Information Than You Require”,…
23 Tubes 1 Bowl, An Experiment With Leftover Toothpaste
Steve Vigneau took a bunch of expired tubes of toothpaste, squeezed them all into one bowl, mixed it up and then brushed his teeth with…