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Think of the Children: South Korea Apparently Planning to Block Porn on...
The untamed wilderness of the Internet is still something that people across the globe tend to find suspicious. There could be anything out there, after all, and we need to protect the children....
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FISA Gets Thumbs Up From Senate for Five More Years of Creepy Government...
Way back in September we reported that the House of Representatives gave thumbs up to the FISA Amendments Act renewal — allowing the National Security Agency (NSA) to continue to eavesdrop on the...
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Editors’ Picks 12/28: The Name of the Frog Fire King Saga
This week in Editors’ Picks: Rollin gets a new gadget, Ian keeps reading, Glen gets on the book train, and Steven’s pleased with a certain comic. Rollin’s pick: Kindle Fire HD I’m a big fan of...
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Drop the F-Bomb: Dead Space 3 for Kinect Will Have Profanity-Triggered Commands
You know those times when you’re playing a video game and Murphy’s law comes into effect, resulting in incessant cursing at the screen in the vain hope your swearing will cause some kind of positive...
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Geekolinks: 12/28
Watch Jamie Oliver force Gwyneth Paltrow to eat marshmallows (The Braiser) 25 things you might not know about sledding (http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/157172) Yelling at your skiing child...
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White House Petition Seeks to Name John Darnielle From The Mountain Goats...
There’s no experience quite as entertaining as scouring the petition board on the White House’s official website and reading the truly offbeat ones, but sometimes, between the fits of laughter and the...
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Learn the Ugly Facts About the Even Uglier Anglerfish [Video]
We assume the reason people don’t take the time to engage in a thorough, extensive study of the anglerfish is because one can’t go five minutes without getting nauseous looking at the thing. Really,...
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FCC Makes Getting Wi-Fi on Planes Simpler, Will Likely Still Cost Way Too...
Sure, Louis C.K. wasn’t wrong when he chastised folks for complaining about in-flight Wi-Fi connections, but that doesn’t mean they’re wonderful either. Some airlines have them, others don’t, and it...
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The Social Network: Pinterest Sued by Man Claiming Investor Stole His Ideas
Okay, maybe the lawsuit being levied against Pinterest isn’t entirely like the one famously involving Facebook, but it’s close enough that people will inevitably make comparisons. It’s also not like...
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Tweet Seats Added to Minnesota Theater Specifically for Social Media Usage,...
Bits and pieces of theaters being sectioned off for smartphone usage isn’t exactly a new idea, but it’s still depressing whenever it crops up. Call me a purist, but my preference is to engage with the...
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Drop Everything You’re Doing Right Now, There’s a New Charlie the Unicorn Video
People, it just got real. There’s a new sequel to the classic Charlie the Unicorn! Jason Steele as in FilmCow as in SecretAgentBob as in the original creator of Charlie has finally provided a new...
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Geekolinks: 12/29
Gaming’s folk heroes (GamesRadar) Catholic priest says women provoke violence (HyperVocal) Have TV shows replaced romantic comedies in our hearts? (Flavorwire) Piers Morgan’s taking the petitions to...
View ArticleHere’s Everything Wrong With The Dark Knight Rises in Just Over Three Minutes...
A select group of fans weren’t exactly kind to the odd missteps present in The Dark Knight Rises when the move first released. The Aurora shooting tempered things, of course, but the reality is that...
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Report Claims Instagram Lost 25% of Users, Instagram Claims “Nu-uh”
When Instagram announced they would be changing their Terms of Service Agreement, a lot of users got upset and threatened to delete their accounts. One report by a company called AppData says that...
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Foursquare is Changing Its Privacy Policy, Probably Because That Worked so...
Foursquare is continuing to grow despite the very subjective metric that I haven’t seen one of those “Check in Here” stickers at a business in a while. I sort of forgot about Foursquare. Still, they’ve...
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SavePublishing Bookmarklet Lets You Easily Pull Tweetable Quotes
Here’s a problem you might not have realized you had– Have you ever been reading an article you wanted to share on Twitter and had a difficult time finding a nice, short, tweetable quote to pull?...
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Limo Service Uber Will Gouge You on New Year’s Eve, but They’re Upfront About It
Don’t drink and drive. To prevent drinking and driving, companies like Uber offer smartphone apps that can summon classy limos and town cars, complete with driver, to your location. That’s very noble...
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Geekolinks: 12/30
Young mad scientist’s first alphabet blocks (Etsy) Watch Captain Picard walk into a door (The Mary Sue) Most violent/hilarious giraffe fight ever (HyperVocal) David Gregory interviews President Obama...
View ArticleHere’s How We Know the Earth is Round [Video]
We know the Earth is round, because we’ve been told it was round by scientists and we believe them. In case anyone still has any doubts, the folks at MinutePhysics have compiled a handy list of the...
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Hubble Offers Stunning Image Of Supernova Factory NGC 1097
One of the most impressive things about the Hubble Space Telescope is the insight it has offered astronomers and physicists on the varieties of galactic design. The telescope has spotted elliptical...
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