Amy Lau So much for the digital revolution. In an amazing slidetackle move, the library has beaten the internet to archiving the Oregonian. While the Oregonian‘s own website makes it nearly impossible to find any of their stories, the Multnomah County Library now has a full database of their archives, including all articles, pictures, illustrations […]
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I Rebuke Thee, Technology!!
Dear “Technology”: Go eff yourself. First, our entire Mercury server went kablooey, and we lost everything we were working on for this coming week’s print edition. (Not that anything we were working on was all that great… but that’s hardly the point!) Second, the blog posting program we use has been acting like my Alzheimer-infested […]
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You Can Legally Unlock Your Phones
Does this mean it’s not “jailbreaking” anymore? As mentioned in GMN, new government rules say that it’s legal to unlock phones like iPhones (although Apple is still within their rights to void warranties and disable unlocked phones with software updates) in order to install unapproved apps or switch data carriers. The new rules will also […]
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Taiwanese CGI News Takes On the iPhone 4
You’ve seen a Taiwanese news channel sum up Justin Bieber’s war with the internet in stunning CGI. You’ve seen a Taiwanese news channel do the same for the Al Gore sexually assault case. Those videos were great (and informative) but neither of them featured Steve Jobs cutting off Apple users’ fingers with a lightsaber. Rectified: […]
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New Google Image Search Reveals Inside of Humpy’s Brain
So have you noticed that Google has redesigned their image search? Obviously I was infuriated with the change, until I took 38 seconds to figure out how it works… then I thought it was okay.BUT GET THIS!!!When I Google image searched my name, here’s what came out! And it just gets better from there! It’s […]
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Free Case or Complete Refund offered for iPhone 4 Issue
In a short press conference, Steve Jobs addressed the rising media shit storm surrounding what some have dubbed “Antennagate.” An apparent design flaw in the new iPhone 4 results in loss of signal when gripped on the left side, most noticeably in areas with poor reception. Jobs began the conference by pointing out that every […]
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iPhone 4: Reception is Perception
Yesterday Apple released an update to the latest version of their iOS operating system to address concerns (have you heard?!?) about the iPhone 4’s infamous “death grip” reception problems. Their fix was to change the way all versions of the iPhone calculate and display signal strength, claiming that the issue arose from the phone displaying […]
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Okay Fine, Tween Julia Stiles, You Know More About Hacking Than Me. HAPPY?
I used to really like tween Julia Stiles, and thought she was cool. Then she became a hacker. Now she thinks she’s all great and stuff. And when I told her I was learning how to hack, too? She totally called me out on it, and totally embarrassed me in front of the whole gang […]
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New Superhero Alert: Spider-Nerd
13-year-old Hibiki Kono of England has invented a Spider-Man style wall-crawling device that uses vacuum cleaners on his hands. Say his jealous classmates, “Hibiki, please come down, so we can beat your ass.”
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Speaking Only For Myself…
…I kinda hope that Obama does shut off the Internet for four months sometime. Or longer. I could use the break.
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Today in Advanced Robotics
Sure, they’ve created robots to vacuum our carpets, have sex with us… even travel back in time to kill Sarah Connor. But it’s inconceivable to me that science has never created a robot… that can do “the robot”! THAT IS, UNTIL NOW! Get funky, Friday! Hat tips to EIT!
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Today in “Fuck YOU, Joe Lieberman”
Okay, guess what Democratic dumbass Joe Lieberman is doing TODAY? His newest hairbrain scheme is to put forth legislation that would give the President of the United States absolute power to SHUT OFF THE INTERNET in times of national crisis. Via… Titled “Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act”, the bill stipulates any internet firms […]