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TSA Ends Practice of Screening Individual Electronic Items
Dave Bullock just tipped me off to the fact that my blog post about TSA’s recent requirements for electronics items to be individually screened at…
Laughing Squid Passes 10,000 Feed Subscribers Mark
According to our FeedBurner feed count Laughing Squid now has over 10,000 subscribers to our RSS feed. It’s really quite a milestone for us. Here’s…
City Neighborhood Posters by Jenny Beorkrem & Ork Posters
Ork Posters has a really cool series of typographic city neighborhood posters created by Chicago graphic designer Jenny Beorkrem. Here’s one of San Francisco.
$99,000 Canon 1200mm f/5.6L EF USM Super Telephoto Lens
B&H in New York is selling a rare, used Canon 1200mm f USM EF Super Telephoto Lens for $99,000. It can shoot clear photos from…
Google & Twitter Join Forces To Cover Super Tuesday
Google and Twitter have joined forces to provide coverage of the Super Tuesday primary elections. When people post updates to Twitter about voting they will…
Barack Obama Has A Posse
When Shepard Fairey posted his wonderful Barack Obama poster last week, many people of course made the statement “Barack Obama Has a Posse”, in reference…
Flickr Users Concerned About Possible Microsoft Takeover
In response to Microsoft’s unsolicited acquisition bid for Yahoo, many Flickr users are expressing concern for what might happen if Microsoft is successful. They have…
Donate to Improv Everywhere to Help With Server Expenses
Improv Everywhere has been getting quite a bit of exposure recently, especially with their recent “Frozen Grand Central” mission. They could use your help to…
Instapaper, An Easy Way To Save Web Content For Later
Instapaper is a cool new free web service that makes it really easy to save web content you come across to be read later when…
The Legendary Life-Size Mousetrap Madness FUNdraiser
This Sunday, February 10th there will be a special fundraiser for the Life-Size Mousetrap at Amnesia in San Francisco (the mousetrap itself will not be…