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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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When I was a kid, I would take foods that tasted really good by themselves and mix them all together - sometimes in a blender. And it was fucking nasty. I look at Google Wave as Google's technological way of repeating the same experiment: take Docs, Orkut, Gmail, Wikipedia, and IM, stick the
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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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[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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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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Spam - something we can all identify with, right? Well lately, Gmail's spam filter let a few slip into the inbox of the email account for this site, and I decided to take the opportunity to get a few laughs out of it in the same manner as Mark's recent Wikipedia trolling. So it all starts with
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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" caption="The Typical Wikipedian"][/caption] So Wikipedia has always seemed like a goldmine for getting funny reactions from people via trolling, and they sure didn't let me down in my own attempt. This isn't a regular techie piece, but rather a humorous parody o
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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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Joining the ranks of Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and (the currently-unconfirmed reports of) Jeff Goldblum, Richard Nixon died today while suffering from what witnesses say was a "minor heart attack". This is the fourth celebrity death this week, and the third today. Our very reliable witness
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