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Thursday: Happy Birthday Bugs

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Posted on : 29-Jul-2010 | By : dre elmore | In : daily headlines

Bugs Bunny is 70 Years Old
According to Bugs Bunny: 50 Years and Only One Grey Hare, he was born in 1940 in Brooklyn, New York (in a warren under Ebbets Field, famed home of the Brooklyn Dodgers). According to Mel Blanc, the character’s original voice actor, Bugs Bunny has a Flatbush accent, an equal blend of the Bronx and Brooklyn dialects (of the New York Accent).

Today vs 10 years ago vs 20 years ago
Music is terrible these days! Modern movies are all special effects and no story! Kids only want to read about Harry Potter and blood drinking sparkle fairies!

Top 10 foods you should never eat on a first date
10. Spaghetti-Yes, we all saw Lady and the Tramp, but that was a cartoon and they were dogs. In the real world, spaghetti is a romantic deal killer.

The Best Magazine Articles Ever
The following are suggestions for the best magazine articles (in English) ever. Works are arranged in chronological order. Stars denote how many times a correspondent has suggested it.

5 Stupid, Unfair and Sexist Things Expected of Men
We know the many ways sexism hurts women. But we don’t talk as much about how sexism hurts men.

For Apple Followers, It’s a Matter of Faith, Academics Say
Apple is the new religion, say several academics. It’s not a matter of rationality, it’s a matter of faith.

Wednesday

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Posted on : 28-Jul-2010 | By : dre elmore | In : daily headlines

The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved
by Hunter S. Thompson. Illustrations by Ralph Steadman.

Old Spice guy cast in Jennifer Aniston film
Whether he’s on a boat or a horse, one thing is certain: the Old Spice guy is on a roll.

The science fiction that turned into science fact
Jetpacks and flying cars, teleportation and time travel: Tom Chivers on the movie inventions that are now part of life.

Mars Mission Brings Severed Hand, Weird Sex, to U.S. in Sci-Fi Epic: Books
When having zero-gravity sex in a spacecraft crammed with sensitive equipment, astronauts should practice some form of emission control.

Apple refreshes Mac desktops
Apple refreshed its all-in-one iMac line with new chips from Intel Corp and better graphics.

Tuesday: The cool and beautiful Audrey Tautou

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Posted on : 27-Jul-2010 | By : dre elmore | In : daily headlines

href=”http://rulesformyunbornson.tumblr.com/page/42″ target=”_blank”>Men should not wear sandals. Ever.
1001 Rules for my Unborn Son.

Bright objects float away from space station
Two objects drifted away during astronauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Kornienko’s six-hour assignment.

Apple Store Down, New iMac and new Mac Pro likely to Launch
The Apple Store is down for maintenance. This means that the rumored new iMac, new Mac Pro and new Cinema Display we reported earlier about could be indeed true.

Ringtones Uncensored Pro simply tells you who is calling on your iPhone
No Tie Software is offering a new service for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users. Their just released app Ringtones Uncensored Pro 6.1 you’re able to know who is calling and without needing to remember which song corresponds to which contact. Every caller can be assigned a unique Talking CallerID ringtone using Ringtones Uncensored. Talking Text-to-Speech Ringtones can be as professional as fun.

Monday: Kings of Leon are Wimps; Billy Corgan is a Badass

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Posted on : 26-Jul-2010 | By : dre elmore | In : daily headlines

Kings of Leon cancel gig after pigeon poop attack
The Sex on Fire group attempted to play on as the birds let the bandmates know what they though of their music, but when bassist Jared Followill was hit in the face three songs into the set, the act left the stage at the Verizon Amphitheatre.

Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan Collapses Onstage
Almost immediately after falling, Corgan rose back to his feet and kept on playing. The lead singer and guitarist later commented on the incident on his Twitter page.

What’s Lurking In Your Stadium Food?
Mold in ice machines at six stands at Miller Park in Milwaukee. A cockroach crawling over a soda dispenser in a private club at Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh. Food service workers repeatedly ignoring orders to wash their hands at a stand at Detroit’s Ford Field.

Federal judge says you can break DRM if you’re not doing so to infringe copyright
A judge in a New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Appeals Court has ruled that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s ban on breaking DRM only applies if you break DRM in order to violate copyright law.

Fraternity of the Wired Works in the Wee Hours
New York Nightowls, a sort of study hall for entrepreneurs, freelancers and software developers who gather at 10 every Tuesday night and stay as late as 4 a.m.

Apple Posts Motorola Droid X Death Grip Video
AntennaGate continues, and Apple is determined to alienate every single other mobile tech company in the world in order to prove that its iPhone 4 antenna really isn’t that big a deal.

What The Font?
Submit an image to WhatTheFont to find the closest matches in our database. Or, let cloak-draped font enthusiasts lend a hand in the WhatTheFont Forum

Friday: If iPad were a dish, there are no problem.

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Posted on : 23-Jul-2010 | By : dre elmore | In : daily headlines

Let’s start a new life with iDish
It was the time, when I was eating sashimi at a bar, fiddling with my iPad. A slice of Tuna accidentally dropped on the iPad. At that time, I hurriedly got rid of the sashimi, wiped it off, Later I found that suddenly. In the first place, If iPad were a dish, there are no problem.

‘Walking Man’ of Silver Lake, Marc Abrams, dies at 58
Abrams earned nicknames such as the Walking Man, the Silver Lake Walker, the Reader Walker and the Walking Doctor because he has been taking long walks through Silver Lake since moving there in 1980.

Brewing Coup Against Microsoft CEO
enior Microsoft executives, disenchanted with the company’s stagnant stock, have been secretly discussing how to kick Chief Steve Ballmer, and maybe the board, to the curb.

More than 100 ‘Earth-like’ planets discovered in past few weeks
The discovery was made by the space telescope Kepler which has been scanning the skies for planets that are orbiting stars since it was launched in January last year. The breakthrough raises the tantalising prospect that we may not be alone in the Universe.

No one takes Ange’s iPhone for a ride
Thankfully, Apple provides a service to iPhone users called MobileMe, which allows them to pinpoint the location of their phones on a map. There have been several cases around the world in which people have used the service to track down thieves.

App helps San Fran police track stolen iPhone fast
A man accused of swiping an Apple iPhone out of a woman’s hand in San Francisco may have been shocked when police found him only nine minutes later. It turns out the phone had been tracking his every move.

The Guy From Maroon 5 Finds “new” band called “Animal Collective”
Anyways, after that he got offended that he was not an indie rocker but a mainstream rocker and people were tweeting about his lack of knowledge into the indiesphere. After all we’re “cynical indie snobs” and he’s a fucking popstar.

‘Darth Vader’ Robs Bank on Long Island
The thief entered a branch in Setauket at 11:30 a.m. and demanded money from a teller. But instead of using a light saber, “Darth” threatened the teller with a semiautomatic gun.

Thursday: Roger Ebert Loves Salt

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Posted on : 22-Jul-2010 | By : dre elmore | In : daily headlines

Salt
“Salt” is a damn fine thriller. It does all the things I can’t stand in bad movies, and does them in a good one. It’s like a rebuke to all the lousy action movie directors who’ve been banging pots and pans together in our skulls. It winds your clock tight and the alarm doesn’t go off for 100 minutes.

Google Image Search gets an Upgrade
Not too shabby.

Google quietly kills its once-hyped Nexus One phone
With the eyes of the technology world squarely on Apple’s iPhone 4, Google quietly announced it will stop selling the Nexus One, its first and possibly only foray into the smartphone world.

Stonehenge’s newly discovered second henge
Science happens in funny places. In this case I was in the back of a truck as number-crunchers in Vienna piped back massive amounts of data to a field near Stonehenge. And what the archaeologists saw made them very excited.

Wednesday: Monster Stars and Sharp Objects

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Posted on : 21-Jul-2010 | By : dre elmore | In : random

Astronomers detect ‘monster star’
Viewed today, the star has a mass about 265 times that of our own Sun; but the latest modelling work suggests at birth it could have been bigger, still.

Megan Fox makes first public appearance since her secret wedding
Megan Fox has made her first public appearance post marriage by turning out for a charitable award function in Los Angeles.

Columbia University vs. The Murdoch Effect
This week, the president of Columbia, Lee Bollinger, wrote a specious opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, crying that American journalism, dying in the free market, needs to be bailed out by government support.

Apple posts big quarter on iPad, iPhone, Mac sales
Strong debuts for the iPad tablet computer and the new iPhone powered gadget maker Apple to a record quarter which blew past the expectations of Wall Street analysts.

Jennifer Aniston granted restraining order
Jason R. Peyton was detained by police in Santa Monica, Calif., last week with duct tape, a sharp object and love notes he’d written to Aniston, court records show.

Tuesday: No Suits

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Posted on : 20-Jul-2010 | By : dre elmore | In : daily headlines

Bad Connection: Inside the iPhone Network Meltdown
What’s more, some current iPhone users who wanted to upgrade wouldn’t get the subsidies that new customers enjoyed. Incensed iPhone fanatics vented their fury on Twitter. “AT&T has been one disappointment after another.” “Is AT&T trying to squeeze more money from us poor suckers?” And they punctuated their complaints with a hashtag — the Twitter convention for grouping conversations — that became an eight-character protest slogan: #attfail.

Policing the Web’s Lurid Precincts
Ricky Bess spends eight hours a day in front of a computer near Orlando, Fla., viewing some of the worst depravities harbored on the Internet. He has seen photographs of graphic gang killings, animal abuse and twisted forms of pornography. One recent sighting was a photo of two teenage boys gleefully pointing guns at another boy, who is crying.

Apple, Antennagate, and Why It’s Time to Move On
“There’s an awful lot of hoopla about that iPhone antenna.” Why yes, there is. And while there’s much to criticize about Apple’s response, we’re glad to see they’ve stopped pretending the problem doesn’t exist.

MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code
The Apple Macintosh combined brilliant design in hardware and in software. The drawing program MacPaint, which was released with the computer in January of 1984, was an example of that brilliance both in what it did, and in how it was implemented.

Warning signs removed at griz mauling site
Two researchers who tranquilized and studied a grizzly bear hours before the animal killed a hiker near Yellowstone National Park removed warning signs as they left the site, an investigation has found.

Times loses almost 90% of online readership
Less than three weeks after the Times paywall went up, data shows a massive decline in web traffic.

Monday: “I’m Jack Ryan, and I Don’t Have An Appointment”

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Posted on : 19-Jul-2010 | By : dre elmore | In : daily headlines

A hidden world, growing beyond control
The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.

The Evolution of Steve Jobs

The Good News About Mel Gibson
FOR Fourth of July weekend fireworks, even Macy’s couldn’t top the spittle-spangled eruptions of Mel Gibson. The clandestine recordings of his serial audio assaults on his gal pal were instant Web and cable-TV sensations — at once a worthy rival to Hollywood’s official holiday releases and a compelling sequel to his fabled anti- Semitic rant of 2006.

Presenting: The Top Five Mel Gibson Internet Creations
Mel Gibson’s recently leaked rants are gross and terrible, for sure. But they’ve also allowed the Internet to put its creative energies to good use — right? Here are the top five instances of proverbial lemonade that the Internet has made out of Mel Gibson’s racist lemons.

The Leo DiCaprio Interview
Did that include playing Robin in Batman Forever? There’s a rumour you screen-tested for it…
I never screen-tested. I had a meeting with Joel Schumacher. It was just one meeting and, no, I didn’t end up doing it.

The Best Quote about Leo DiCaprio I’ve Seen All Week
“DiCaprio’s only 35, but he’s become a vastly different actor in his post-pretty-boy phase, and always seems to play guys who have a dead wife, a sweat-gland malfunction and a really urgent need to find the toilet.”

Friday: What Will Apple Say?

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Posted on : 16-Jul-2010 | By : dre elmore | In : daily headlines

Top 5 Apple iPhone 4 Press Conference Predictions
Is there really a problem with the iPhone 4 antenna? Apple is about to answer this question Friday, at a hastily announced press conference at its Cupertino campus. Meanwhile, millions of iPhone 4 customers (and tech pundits) are playing the guessing game running up to Friday’s event. What does Apple have to say about the antenna issue and what will it do – if anything?

I’m Actually Happy With My iPhone 4
I am. I have no doubt about it. I had to buy an overpriced bumper to stop the reception issues. That sucked. But now I’m happy.

NYT: Second Software Update To Fix iPhone 4 Reception
According to the NYT, a “person with direct knowledge” of the iPhone 4′s design indicated that the device’s reception troubles would be fixed by a second software update—one different from the iOS 4.0.1 update made available earlier today.

Apple Knew of iPhone Issue
Engineers Aware of Antenna Risks Before Release, but CEO Jobs Liked Design.

Chuck Schumer, raising the bar. Nevermind that $42,000,000,000 trade deficit thing.
iPhone 4′s reception woes, wherein bridging the area where the metal bands meet (affectionately dubbed “the spot”) results in a dramatic loss in signal strength, have been widely covered in the media over the past few weeks. Apple acknowledged the concerns publicly with a letter to customers where they concluded that the issue was not with the phone, but rather that they were being too generous in the way the software communicated signal quality as bars. After an update to iOS, the bars are in fact different but the problems persist. Most recently, Consumer Reports stated it was unable to recommend iPhone 4 because of the significant design flaw, despite listing it as the highest rated overall smartphone they’ve tested to date. The latest wrinkle in the story has been an open letter to Steve Jobs from Chuck Schumer, yes — United States Senator from New York Chuck Schumer, in which he questions the adequacy and transparency of Apple’s response to customer concerns. Apple will be holding a press conference at 10AM tomorrow in San Francisco to address the matter.

Windows Phone 7: Don’t bother with this disaster
Microsoft’s demos of its great mobile hope shows Windows Phone 7 to be only a tepid knockoff of a 2007-era iPhone

Pink rushed to hospital after stage stunt goes wrong
The star fell from a harness that suspended her above the stage onto a steel barricade during last night’s show concert in Nuremberg, Germany.

I was Russell Crowe’s stooge
And so Kellie and I dressed up for a night on the town and went to the football, where we met Russell, his son, Charlie, Charlie’s nannies and several of Russell’s friends, all dressed down for a day at the football. Though Russell was charming and everyone friendly, my wife and I had felt so foolish – such dolled-up commoners in the rich man’s shed – that upon returning home that night we agreed to play along with Russell Crowe no further. His world was no place for us.

Danzig is Not Amused
During his interview with Glenn Danzig for our current cover story, Brother Bennett had the delightful experience of breaking the news to Glenn that the fellas over at Igloo Tornado made a comic of him and Henry Rollins as … roomies with special affection for each other. (Read the Deciblog interview with artist Tom Neely here.) Needless to say, upon discovering Henry & Glenn Forever, Glenn was less than jazzed. Word got over to Igloo Tornado of Glenn’s reaction and instead of joining the witness protection program, they re-created the scene in a comic strip entitled The Final Blow. (Heh heh.) Click through for the fun and the healing power of a roast beef foot-long.

6 Boring New England Destinations Made Awesome by H.P. Lovecraft
There’s a long tradition of authors embracing and claiming a piece of the American landscape that their fiction can feed off of and become synonymous with. While Stephen King will forever own Maine, there is one sickly, horrifically-imaginative individual from Providence, Rhode Island, who will remain the King of New England until the stars are right and the Great Old Ones return. This man is H.P. Lovecraft: the man who launched 1,000 horror/sci-fi writers and metal songs.