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I would like to share something not news-related but instead very humorous with everyone. If you do not appreciate humor or refuse to read anything not news or tech-related on this site, then wait for the next tech piece. Otherwise, read on! All in all, it hadn't been a good day. Bad traffic,
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So I was sent a VMware disk image containing the recently-released alpha version of Google Chrome OS and asked to write a review. I can only imagine that I was asked to write this review because of my charm, lack of sarcasm, and tendency to write reviews that don't piss people
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Twitter decided to give a nice Happy Halloween to users today in the form of radically changing the site's design and modifying tweets upon an update containing solely "#trick" or "#treat" tweeted from its standard web client. Below are some screenshots of this temporary feature (for historic pu
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I'm sorry, readers. This article is 100% off-topic and not technology-centric at all, but it is something I feel that I must put out there. You see, I was given a kitten about a week ago by a friend, and there are some things you learn with experience that you feel necessary to pass on to others.
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My rule of thumb is this: if you have to advertise something to the point where I can't go on any site without seeing it, then its either a crap product trying to gain more exposure (after possibly several negative reviews) or its a sham. And in most cases, especially after a little research on t
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Once again, Mashable reports on something that is completely unfounded and false. Below is the original YouTube video Mashable claims could be proof that MJ is still alive, and the "making of" video by the Germans that created the hoax in the first place. "Michael Jackson Alive" Proof It
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So there's a Facebook screenshot floating around in the Blogosphere depicting a woman with a very embarrassing status, as Mashable naively reports. Truth is, a Christian dating website was compromised by 4chan hackers and they used the information to take over the victims' Facebook pages. Scre
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[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="640" caption="Twitter's Population in pie chart form"][/caption] (now that we're right-side-up again...) I've complained about Twitter's spam-to-human ratio many times before but it seems that since those posts, Twitter spam has only continued to spiral
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For about two days following The Coffee Desk's 100th article, the site was flipped upside-down. It's back to normal now, but in case you missed it here is a screenshot: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="421" caption="The Coffee Desk Upside-down(click the image link for the full screenshot
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Email addresses are a bit of an anomaly nowadays: they're used to identify you almost everywhere on the Internet, but they also trigger an almost immediate conclusion about your character when viewed by others. Here is a comparison of a few types of email, and what they say about you right off t
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