Who says popes are old fashioned? The Catholic church just approved the “Confession” app (which at $1.99 is a bargain compared to the 10-percent-of-income tithe), in which you can “keep track of your sins”—w0000t. Peep the handy sinning checklist system: It’s being marketed as “the perfect aid for every penitent,” and if that doesn’t sell […]
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Secure Yer Facebook
Even if you and your team of lawyers pore through Facebook’s privacy settings every day to see what’s changed, and you diligently monitor your settings to make sure you’re only sharing what you want to share, your content is only as secure as your connection, and most people browse Facebook over an unencrypted HTTP connection, […]
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Short Review of The Daily
I spent some time with The Daily last night, and here’s my review: It sucks. The idea of it doesn’t suck, but the execution sucks sucks sucks. The more I use it, the more it sucks. The interface is just laggy enough to drive you a little nuts. One of the big strengths of iOS […]
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Apple and News Corp’s iPad Newspaper Launches
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and Apple unveiled The Daily this morning. They’re calling this the first publication with daily, original content created just for the iPad. Basically, the first tablet newspaper. Putting aside (for a moment) that this comes from the same company that brings you Fox News, this looks like it could be very […]
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Cart Compass PDX/BarBird
A couple new resources for fat computer nerds web-savvy, food-minded consumers: Verizon customers, there’s another reason to be excited about your new iPhone (I’m just insecurely playing into the meme…I’ve never had a problem with my AT&T service in Portland). There’s a new foodcart-finder app to compete with the Bing/Portland Monthly collaboration. Right now, the […]
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Today in THE GREATEST IDEA EVER THAT I WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN
As you already know, the Portland red carpet premiere of Portlandia is tonight at the Hollywood Theater—and though it sounds sorta fun, I will not be attending because these types of things just seem too… too… ohh, “Dubuque, Iowa” to me, ya know? HOWEVER! I may actually attend if you guys take me up on […]
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Today in Things I Didn’t Even Know to Wish For: 3-D Animated Chick Tracts!
Wow. Hearing Chick-words as spoken dialogue is a treat. (And that Jesus-loving “sissy” is a Tom of Finland character.)
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Science? This Time You’ve Gone Too Far!
In this video, a company known as Fulton Innovation demonstrates their new packaging technique, which uses wireless power induction to make boxes of Trix practically irresistible to your sugar-addicted kid. THANKS A FUCK OF A LOT, INDUCTION! Read more about it here.
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iPhone Coming to Verizon February 10
No surprise here. Verizon announced today that the iPhone will be available on that network starting early next month. Prices are the same: $199 for the 16GB model, $299 for 32GB, with a 2 year service contract. No word yet on data pricing. Verizon has 93 million subscribers, so ending the exclusive deal with AT&T […]
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Amber Case: “We Are All Cyborgs Now.”
I have to admit to occasionally web-stalking local “cyborg anthropologist” Amber Case, whose fascinating work focuses on the interplay of humans and machines. You’ll understand the fascination after you watch this video of her recent TEDWomen talk about our sci-fi reality—the adolescence of our “second selves,” cell phone wormholes, the storage of external memories, and […]
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Anonymous on the Internet No More?
Hazy reports are coming out about Gary Locke’s plan for the U.S. Government to create a universal internet login. I read it first on Engadget: Well, though details are still pretty scant, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, speaking at an event at the Stanford Institute, stressed that the new system would not be akin to […]
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Park Chan-wook’s iPhone Movie
Yet another bid to get me to upgrade to the iPhone 4, despite the fact that the last time I spent several hundred dollars on the original iPhone—money that could have gone to shoes—it backfired. That slow-ass, buggy-as-hell internet phone sucks ass, and does not make me want to fork over another $200 to the […]