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CBS Aquiring CNET For $1.8 Billion
Today CBS announced that it plans to aquire CNET for $1.8 Billion, which includes websites like News.com, ZDNet, Download.com and Webware. Marshall Kirkpatrick has a…
Monochrom and BLF: The Great Firewall of China at Google
monochrom and The Billboard Liberation Front recently joined forces up to create “The Great Firewall of China” at the Google headquarters in Mountain View as…
Website & Corporate Logo Mashups
Streeter Seidell and Amir Blumenfeld recently created a series amusing Truth In Website Logos for College Humor. Mario Amaya created some interesting corporate logo mashups…
The Walking Beast, A Giant Robot Spider
MoltenSteelMan created “The Walking Beast”, an amazing giant robot spider that walks around on eight legs. Here’s a video of it in action at Burning…
World of Warcraft Machinima Music Video For The Beatles’ Song ‘I’m Only Sleeping’
Olibith created a really cool music video of The Beatles’ song “I’m Only Sleeping” using machinima from World of Warcraft. via Nick Douglas
The Making of the Logo For Phil Bronstein’s New Blog
Don Asmussen, who draws the “Bad Reporter” comic for the San Francisco Chronicle, explains in great detail his process for creating a blog logo for…
Comic Book & Cartoon Characters as Senior Citizens
Donald Soffritti has a great series of illustrations showing what some superheroes and supervillains might look like in their old age. Along these same lines,…
Bill O’Reilly Freaks Out — ‘We’ll Do It Live!’
A video of a younger Bill O’Reilly freaking out off camera on Inside Edition in the early 1990s has been making its way around the…
San Francisco Proposal For George W Bush Sewage Plant
The Presidential Memorial Commission is a group of San Francisco citizens, including ex-mayoral candidate Chicken John, who are submitting an ordinance initiative for the ballot…
ReadAir, A Google Reader Desktop Client Built on Adobe Air
ReadAir is a really nice Google Reader desktop client for both Mac and Windows built on Adobe Air. Here’s more on ReadAir from dailyApps and…