Monthly Archives: April 2010

After Comedy Central cut a portion of a South Park episode following a death threat from a radical Muslim group, Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris wanted to counter the fear. She has declared May 20th “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.” Norris told … Continue reading →

AndroLib, the definitive tracker of Android applications, claims the Android Market has surpassed the 50,000 application milestone. This figure is unofficial as Google has been reticent to disclose actual numbers. During its recent earnings call, Google said it was aware … Continue reading →

April 23 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc.’s iPhone shipments to Japan more than doubled in the past year, capturing 72 percent of the country’s smartphone market, a research firm said. Shipments of the iPhone, which began selling in Japan in July … Continue reading →

via news.yahoo.com If you had taken the S out of the second word of that poster, you can bet your ass the left would be all “racisty outragey,” but hey… It’s Sarah Palin and she deserves it, right? At least … Continue reading →

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And why haven’t these inactive folks been removed from their positions? “Community board members are volunteers, and sometimes they have work obligations,” said Betty Braton, chairwoman of Community Board 10, which covers Ozone Park and Howard Beach. “People let me … Continue reading →

A British family has been banned from staying at a chain of luxury hotels after allegedly requesting not to be served by “people of colour” at a Florida resort. The demand, allegedly lodged by the family on arrival, has emerged … Continue reading →

Yesterday was a big day for social-oversharing site Blippy, which lets members automatically post their purchases to the Internet. The company announced $11.2 million in funding and was profiled in The New York Times. Overnight, at least one Internet power … Continue reading →

Carbon was known about during prehistorical times, of course with less scientific realization about its nature. Carbon was known most familiarly in those times as charcoal and diamonds. Carbon was used to fuse iron into steel, and as the main … Continue reading →

“On one hand, he’s the best attorney general [New York state has] ever had — a guy who transformed the office in a very proactive way and went after Wall Street when no one else ever had or would have … Continue reading →

Since Content ID can’t identify context (like “educational use” or “parody”), we give partners the tools to use length and match proportion as a proxy. Of course, it’s not a perfect system. That’s why two videos — one of a … Continue reading →

It’s happened so often that it’s now a cultural cliche: the gay politician pretending to be straight. In most parts of the nation, homosexuality or bisexuality is a clear electoral liability. Not in Center City’s 182d state House district. There, … Continue reading →

Mr. Obama’s bellicosity is no more attractive than Sarah Palin’s attempts to pit “the real America” against the big-city slickers. And his rhetorical method seems especially discordant coming from a President who still insists, in between these assaults, that he … Continue reading →

You don’t want a million people reading your HTML5 blog. You want members of the HTML5 working groups and key influencers from Google, Apple, and Microsoft reading your HTML5 blog. Likewise, it’s better to have twenty meaningful comments than a … Continue reading →

DAPHNE WYSHAM: Well, you know, four months after so many people gathered in Copenhagen at the climate negotiations, which failed, 15,000 of us have gathered here in Bolivia to really put on the table the concerns that people have around … Continue reading →