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Buddy Ruddy — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:53:51 EDT

[www.sketchswap.com]

The Chatroulette of flash sketching.
Minus the masturbation.

#tips

Buddy Ruddy

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Buddy Ruddy — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:52:46 EDT

[www.sketchswap.com]

The Chatroulette of flash sketching.
Minus the penis, but that can be remedied.

#whitenoise

Buddy Ruddy

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Shamoononon — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:24:36 EDT

Happy Paddy's day everyone!!! Remember Murphy's Law, and that the true luck of the Irish comes from hard work!!

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Shamoononon

Amazon Threatens to Dump Two Major Publishers (Read: They Just Lost the Price War) [Amazon]

Jason Chen — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:07:41 EDT

Amazon is getting serious about getting its way with ebook pricing, threatening to do what they did to Macmillan (pull physical and digital books) unless publishers agree to certain demands.

Among Amazon's requirements is that publishers enter into a three-year deal so that no other distribution method (read: Apple) will be able to get lower pricing. This is the same thing Apple is requiring publishers do as well, so if both camps play hardball, publishers need to price books exactly the same with the exact same deals on both platforms. Publishers, since the ebook industry is so new, don't want the three year contracts since they feel it hampers any maneuverability they need as the industry matures.

As background information, here's how Apple screwed Amazon over during the iPad announcement, Amazon's subsequent (pretty much immediate) phone calls to publishers, and Apple's further hatred in the MP3 pricing.

The bottom line is, Amazon is threatening two major publishers (not sure who exactly), but if they're pulling out the nuclear option, it means they are desperate, and really, really serious about this price war. [NYTimes]

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sprice82 — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:00:12 EDT

Rovio on woot for 100$
[www.woot.com]

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sprice82

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Prostate of Grace — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:56:09 EDT

Don't bring a dance to a laser beam fight

I laughed real hard in the middle of this, mostly because I hate Auto-Tune so much.

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#wtf
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#prostateofgrace

Prostate of Grace

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chocorate — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:54:35 EDT

Does Dr. Bernstein think that we're all fat because we read Gizmodo?

I don't want to lose up to 20lbs every month. No. I really can't.

I need to gain weight.

#whitenoise

chocorate

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tomsomething — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:50:53 EDT

It seems MySpace is planning to sell user data. If that matters to you, it might be time to go into MySpace, guess your password, get it wrong (cuz it's been what, six years?), guess five more times, click the "forgot your password?" link, go to gmail to look for the password-reset link, find that it's not there, check your spam folder, again nothing, then remember that your MySpace account is connected to your Hotmail address, go to Hotmail, repeat some of these steps, struggle to answer a cryptic question that you thought you would remember the answer to, call Microsoft support, go through a bunch of stuff, re-gain access to your Hotmail account, click the MySpace password-reset link, change your password to something passive-aggressive, and delete your MySpace account.

[yro.slashdot.org]

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tomsomething

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chocorate — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:48:40 EDT

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 is apparently going to be able to use the CPU and GPU in parallel to play back multiple 4K RED footage while applying effects.
Sounds like great news!

[cs5.org]

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chocorate

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Buddy Ruddy — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:29:46 EDT

[www.milliondollarhomepage.com]

This guy sold 1 pixel/$1 as ad space on his homepage. He became a millionaire based off the idea.

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Buddy Ruddy

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Buddy Ruddy — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:24:37 EDT

/www.thinktechnologies.com/portfolio/demos/Blackhole.html

Anatomy of a black hole.

#tips

Buddy Ruddy

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Buddy Ruddy — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:23:03 EDT

[www.taliesin.edu]

Really cool architectural structures that can be used as student residency at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture.

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Buddy Ruddy

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shadzow — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:14:35 EDT

So if you could add one feature to the ipad what would it be? It can be anything; flash, camera, front facing camera, osx? I actually think my one feature would be the ability to turn flash on/off. So when my battery is low I can turn it off, but when I want to actually enjoy the whole internet I can turn it on.

#whitenoise

shadzow

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Cosmo hears it — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:13:37 EDT

memory [xkcd.com]

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Cosmo hears it

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blerk — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:03:33 EDT

Random thoughts

Windows Phone 7 has no multitasking, so how will pandora, etc keep playing?

I think:

pandora, sopitfy, etc will run as plugins to zune, so we will be able to get streaming internet radio stations.

Or they will run in a way that uses as little resources as possible, so will be allowed to run.

I like option 1 better, though...

#whitenoise

blerk

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John_001 loves Rocket Skates — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:02:56 EDT

Stewart or Colbert?

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John_001 loves Rocket Skates

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Buddy Ruddy — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:58:09 EDT

For those of you who have watched "Primer," you should get a good giggle out of this. [imgs.xkcd.com]

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Buddy Ruddy

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SinaHamedian — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:50:17 EDT

If someone tweaked the lyrics of this song a little, it would have been a fun song for #greatgizwar...

Speaking of which, when's it going to continue? I wasn't a commenter when it started.

#whitenoise

SinaHamedian

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Sandeep Murali — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:48:19 EDT

#whitenoise Ok, so what exactly should a person do in a night club now that he has quit alcohol? I mean, other than looking for hot chicks, of course.

I have never been in a a club without a beer for 30 seconds or more and tomorrow, I'm gonna be in unchartered waters.

Sandeep Murali

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blerk — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:23:21 EDT

Rosa, what time do you go to bed? Lots of your posts are at 12am or thereabouts...

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blerk

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Cosmo hears it — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:17:46 EDT

[www.autoblog.com]
OMG! Flying hovercraft !

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Cosmo hears it