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Siri Fun

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So we don’t have a lot of time to do most things on this site, but we had to share this lovely discovery we had whilst playing with my new iPhone 4S.   Directions: Siri will censor any word you put an asterisk into. Try it out.  

BREAKING: Yahoo Sells Delicious!

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After months of Yahoo treating the bookmarking site like a sink full of dirty dishes that nobody wants to clean, Delicious has been purchased by the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen to become a part of their new company AVOS. Full information direct from Yahoo below.   Yahoo! is excited to announce that [...]

To Infinity and Beyond: SpaceX

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Facing the retirement of the NASA’s iconic space shuttle program later this year, questions have risen as to how we are going to get payloads and astronauts into space.  The current answer is to “buy seats” from Russia for $50,000,000 per person.  Yet, there is hope for those who think depending on our old space-race [...]

One Minute News: April 12, 2011

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To Infinity and Beyond: Virgin Galactic

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Imagine taking a field trip with a red, frizzy haired teacher.  After you all shuffle into the bus she pulls a lever and the bus transforms around you into a space ship.  “BLAST OFF!!!!” she yells.  All of a sudden you find yourself “swingin’ through the stars” and “take your second right past Mars.”   [...]

Bad Updates: New Skype Sucks

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I tend to believe that an updated computer is a happy computer. Being up to date (almost) always means being more secure and less buggy. This is just how it is in the hi-tech world we live in today. I am currently running on the beta build of Chrome 11 (in this instance, though it [...]

Search With Your Voice: Chrome 11

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Ladies and gents, if you are on the beta version of Google Chrome, today you have been updated to version 11. With it brings a happy new logo, but wait there’s more! You now can search with your voice!   For the web designers out there just add “x-webkit-speech” to your input html. For the [...]

Traditional News Sources Going Viral?

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On February 10th I found myself bored and alone.  Using the well known time-waster StumbleUpon I began surfing the web until I got caught in the intricate web of user-posted videos known as YouTube.  After watching a fox dive feet into the snow to catch its prey over and over, I noticed an alert bar [...]

Dr. Walrus & Friends: Ch. 2

Title of tonight’s chapter: “Of Holograms and Hamburgers”   Tonight the Doctor learns about live motion holograms, lunar liquids, space travel, and has a chat with his dear friend Hobo Hogan.

Dr. Walrus and Friends: Pilot Episode

Welcome to our new show! Join the Doctor, Dan Bush and John Amos every (x) (units of time) to inform and discuss with Dr. Walrus about splendid things that can be found through this wonderful Internet. In this Pilot episode, we teach him about the end of the Universe, the innovations of helicopters, the Halloween [...]