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The Billboard Liberation Front: AT&T and NSA
The Billboard Liberation Front has just released a brilliant new advertising improvement campaign celebrating the innovative collaboration between AT&T and the NSA. This billboard improvement…
The Big Word Project, Dictionary Based Viral Marketing
The Big Word Project is a clever experiment in viral marketing featuring a website that sells English dictionary words for $1 per letter. When you…
The Pirates vs The Klowns, The Leap Day Leap
The Pirates vs The Klowns is a special leap day party taking place this Friday, February 29th at 1015 Folsom in San Francisco, featuring The…
FriendFeed, Aggregate and Content With Friends
FriendFeed is a new social network that aggregates and shares your feeds from various web services. You just add the accounts you use and then…
SXSW Interactive 2008, A Massive Geek Convergence in Austin
SXSW Interactive 2008 starts next week (March 7-11) and the majority of the geek world that I know will be there. SXSW Interactive runs concurrent…
Garfield Comics With Garfield Removed
Garfield Minus Garfield shows what the Garfield comic strip looks like when Garfield the cat is removed, leaving just Jon Arbuckle. The results are often…
ETech 2008, O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference
Next week I head off to San Diego for ETech 2008, O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference, for my third year in a row. Here are some…
Diebold Accidentally Leaks 2008 Election Results
Just just in: “Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early”
TimesMachine, 70 Years of The New York Times Archives
The New York Times recently launched TimesMachine featuring 70 years of their archives available online in an easy to browse format. You can highlight sections…
StrawPoll, A Daily Poll Using Twitter
StrawPoll is a new polling application that uses Twitter created by Rob Goodlatte and Dan Romero. Each day a different question is posted to Twitter…