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For those of you who haven't been invited to beta-test Twitter's redundant waste of time new ReTweet feature, I've got the full skinny here: you're not missing much, and nothing innovative is brought to the table here at all. Twitter's Retweet (beta) feature: note the "ReTweet" link next to th
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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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So somebody sends me this: http://quaoar.ww7.be/ms_fud_of_the_year/569458-microsoft-attack-linux-retail-level-probably.html Words cannot describe the rage I feel as a result, but read on for a pretty decent attempt. Get The Facts V2 So Microsoft has been both sued and accused of falsifyi
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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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[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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So Nintendo is nearing the release of The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks pretty soon, and I have some things to get off my chest about this. I've read all the information about this latest Zelda title, and Nintendo appears to be raping the series yet again. First: I'm A Zelda Fanbody I star
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...and that is the best advice any marketing, web design, or (GUI) programmer can ever have. We rant about this philosophy of web darwinism here a lot, and there's a very large reason why: the Web, like everything else in society, is not raising the intelligence bar. Instead, we are all plummeti
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Privacy Policies: You know they're there (hopefully), you know what they're basically trying to convey to you, yet most of us never even read them besides a one-time skim to make sure some new service isn't trying to pull one over on us. I got bored one day (on the toilet, no less) and started l
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So I think most geeks or curious people in general have checked out @Microsoft's long-unused Twitter account, only to find a skimpy amount of followers and no tweets to speak of. Today, that changed in what is apparently Microsoft's effort to get in on the Twitter marketing business (as 1 out of
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I don't know about you, but I just love to mess people. Since our humor pieces tend to get more hits than our serious articles, I decided to put together a step-by-step guide for how to mess with people in general, as well as specific targets you'll get the most fun out of. We've tweeted most of the
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