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Stephen Fry on the beauty of "incorrect" language and the stupid futility of (20)
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The latest Stephen Fry podcast, "Language," is an outstanding rant on the absurdity of being a pedant about the English language, that most glorious, reeling drunken bastard of a tongue that has neither academy nor dictator to rule on "correctness" and so has blossomed into a million variegated subforms in every corner of the globe. Fry excoriates people who insist on "correctness" in language, and urges us all to speak in ways that entertain and ...Shared by andy (29) Andy Jackson (58) Brian D. Johnson (21) Carol (146) Ciaran (27) Dennis Laumen (30) djspark (86) Gwyn (38) jeremy (99) joshjs (18) Kate (24) Lynne Thomas (40) Mark Whiting (13) Nathan Manley (35) Nathaniel Dean (41) punkin3.14 (39) Richard Bradshaw (32) Sam Dodge (63) Sid (31) Stephanie (25)Contribute comment - Holy shit. I just showed a prospective housemate through the house who made Wednesday Addams look like an extrovert. (1)
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Amazon's Best Selling MP3 Album For 2008 Was Available Legally For Free (13)
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As some of you may know, in a week and a half I'm giving a presentation at the music industry MidemNet conference, focusing on how Trent Reznor's various business model experiments highlight the future of the music industry. I'll be putting the final touches on my presentation this week, and it's great to find one additional data point: the top selling MP3 download on Amazon last year was Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts I-IV album, which ...Shared by aches (25) ax0n (90) Bananalope (21) Dan (47) Dennis Laumen (30) Gregory Cohen (27) Jarred (77) John Magnus (25) johnynek (15) Nathania (66) Rob (39) Ross (17) Srivatsn (36)- Srivatsn said: This works for one-off publicity stunts but will it work on a regular basis if every artist in the world switches to this model? If people just went to Amazon because it was more convenient then this cant sustain itself but if people were generally honest... colour me surprised
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As Rumored, Apple Gives Record Labels Variable iTunes Pricing In Exchange For Ditching DRM (7)
onAs was rumored last night by Greg Sandoval at News.com, it appears that Apple has worked out a deal with the major record labels (being confirmed as I type) where they will give up DRM (which is the direction they've been moving towards anyway) in exchange for variable pricing of music -- which they've been salivating over for years. This has been a major source of contention between Apple and the record labels. Steve Jobs ...Shared by Crutis (37) Dan (47) Dennis Laumen (30) Dr. Ernie (52) Erik J. Heels (40) Jarred (77) Matthew (13)Contribute comment
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What real-time keynotes need (VentureBeat wins Apple keynote race bigtime) (10)
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You will read TONS of stuff about Apple’s keynote. I’m watching it right now on several screens. Why? Because in real time everyone is putting up slightly different stuff. Venture Beat has a friendfeed room where you can watch in real time like a chat room, or you can view it standard threaded style. That is very cool. Especially when compared to TechCrunch’s live coverage, which makes you refresh the page manually. So 1994. What, ...Shared by Alard (30) Dennis Laumen (30) Jamieasp (49) Jason Shellen (104) Jesse Stay (120) Joe Dawson (98) louisgray (180) Nicholas (84) patrickj (88) Rebecca (39) Wojtek (18)Contribute comment -
iPhoto Gets A Facelift (12)
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Apple’s Phil Schiller announced at the Steveless keynote at Macworld today (CrunchGear is liveblogging it) that a new version of iPhoto will include facial recognition software. The feature, called Faces, lets you put a name to face, then it tries to find other images with the same face and lets you confirm whether the software got it right. I really hopes this works, because I simply don’t have time to tag the 7,000 images in ...Shared by 88michael (28) Atul Arora (230) Bucky (40) Chandoo (30) Dan (28) Daniel (42) davecurry (48) Dennis Laumen (30) Mike Fruchter (838) Rick Klau (73) Rolf Schewe (37) Shaw (44)- Rick Klau said: This is one of the features of Picasa that totally rocks. Let me ID over 1k faces from my pictures in about an hour... really powerful stuff. Would be neat if iPhoto and Picasa were compatible in how they label faces so that they each supported the other's markup.
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Simon Pegg and Robert Weide Ask Fans NOT to Buy Their Movie on DVD (4)
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It’s typical for movie stars and directors do interviews and press to promote the release of their latest movies on DVD, but actor Simon Pegg and director Robert B. Weide are asking fans NOT to buy the Region 1 DVD of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People. It’s not a marketing gimmick, reverse psychology or anything like that — Weide and Pegg made big compromises in the final cut of the film under the ...Contribute comment -
Ziggo zet nieuwe stap in uitrol docsis 3.0 (1)
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Ziggo lijkt zich klaar te maken voor de overstap naar het docsis 3.0-protocol. Nadat vorig jaar het netwerk van de kabelaar al werd opgewaardeerd naar docsis 2.0, heeft de internetaanbieder nu een flink aantal docsis 3.0-modems besteld. De nieuwe modems moeten het naar alle waarschijnlijkheid voor zowel bestaande als nieuwe klanten mogelijk maken om hogere snelheden te bereiken. Eind vorig jaar...Contribute comment -
Ex-Atos-topman Kieboom wordt CEO bij Logica (1)
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Wilbert Kieboom geeft vanaf februari 2009 leiding aan Logica Benelux. Eerder was hij topman bij branchegenoot Atos Origin, waar hij de enige Nederlander in de raad van bestuur was. Kieboom volgt bij Logica Paul Schuyt op, die in december zijn vertrek aankondigde.Shared by Dennis Laumen (30) montes (1)Contribute comment - Word Warriors - Bringing good words back from oblivion (1)
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Amazon's Best-Selling Album Download of 2008 Was Available for Free (48)
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In March 2008, Trent Reznor's Nine Inch Nails released the first part of Ghosts I-IV via BitTorrent, and released all four albums under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Even though fans could easily get free versions of the album, Ghosts actually went on to become the best-selling album of 2008 on Amazon's MP3 store. Sponsor Radiohead's In Rainbows, another high-profile album which was available for free for a limited time in late 2007, ended ...Shared by Aaron (39) Alex (28) Alexandre Gamela (51) Andrew Acomb (41) Aram Zucker-Scharff (31) Bryon (37) Chuck Lawson (13) Dan (28) Daniel McKenzie (38) Darren (40) Dennis Laumen (30) Derek van Vliet (18) Devlin D (38) doransky (59) Erez (11) Erik C. Thauvin (63) Farzin (55) Garrett Camp (196) Ghosthead (143) Henk-Jan van der Klis (30) IceskYsl (50) Jane (28) Jason Switzer (0) Jay Barcelo (1) Jeff (23) Johan Ronnestam (5) kosmar (33) kskobac (24) Leximo (1042) Lloyd Doppler (50) Michael (35) Michael (76) Michael Sherrin (40) mndoci (40) Nicolas Gosset (159) Oncle Tom (23) Paul Vereijken (46) Philippe Martin (9) raurublock (32) Rick Powell (34) Sean Blakey (17) Seynaeve (67) StevieB (95) sumidiot (9) Ted (25) Tim Hoeck (71) Tim Hoeck (48) tjd1 (37) Toby (57) Wayne (63) yudai hanza (20)- Seynaeve said: Etant donné que l'album était gratuit: c'est le seul que j'ai acheter en 2008.Et visiblement je ne suis pas le seul à être aussi stupide.NIN avec GhostsI-IV est "best selling album of 2008" sur amazone.com !!!Vu la population Européenne qui écoute NIN, ca ne risque pas d'arriver sur amazone.frPS: Tout ca est à mettre en nuance étant donné le peut d'importance qu'a amazone dans la vente de musique face à iTune.
- Toby said: Maybe the real reason for this is that NIN continues to innovate instead of recreating the same old mass-produced crap.
- Devlin D said: Make a product people are willing to pay for...and guess what. THEY'LL PAY FOR IT!!! Whoa, crazy.
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2008 in photographs (part 2 of 3) (37)
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2008 has been an eventful year to say the least - it is difficult to sum up the thousands of stories in just a handful of photographs. That said, I will try to do what I've done with other photo narratives here, and tell a story of 2008 in photographs. It's not the story of 2008, it's certainly not all stories, but as a collection it does show a good portion of what life has ...Shared by Alex (37) AndRea (31) C.M (32) Celi (13) Chrono (17) Dan (26) Dennis Laumen (30) Duncan Robson (23) DVD (30) enrique (30) Fredrik Hansson (32) Garret Heaton (46) girlanachronism (47) hellokinsella (14) Ian D (23) Jared Aiden Wolf (22) Jeroen (19) Joan Carles (30) Karthick R (25) Markus Kniebes (22) Mo (40) molgar (33) moonboy (25) Mr.Boof (14) mwilliams (35) panos (21) Piotr O (22) Pradeep (33) rd (28) Riaz (12) shreya (16) tkhwang (7) Tomi (32) Trace W (20) vaughn (21) Waldemar Schott (37) zar (24)- Piotr O said: This part includes my favourite photo of the years, #8.
- girlanachronism said: See all three parts. Amazing stuff.
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xkcd - A Webcomic - Converting to Metric (501)
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- chrishathaway said: Please ignore the cursing... the rest is just too funny to pass up.
- Chris said: the Mass one is the best i think. Also the -40 one is a lie :P
- Wilch said: Funniest one yet. Seriously, why hasn't the US converted to meteric yet?
- trip said: 4.1kg - Cat (with caption) :D
- Lee said: Finally a metric conversion chart with useful references.
- Tiago Rodrigues said: Loved this one: 1.70m Summer Glau
- Jason said: This is right on the money!
- Beck said: I like!
- zemlanin said: Split goes "Clink"
- Alex Hansford said: I love XKCD - we're printing a selection of them, framing them and putting them up around our flat. This one might be a contender for the kitchen! :o)
- burndive said: 40C -- nice.140kph -- I now know fear.170cm -- well, naturally3L --HWAAAA?
- Joseph Z. said: A handy reference chart that everyone should have.
- forcey said: 呼唤一个反向的版本...
- Waldemar Schott said: 200kg YOUR MOM220kg YOUR MOM (INCL. CHEAP JEWELRY)223kg YOUR MOM (ALSO INCL. MAKEUP)
