Monthly Archives: July 2008

LA Times: Revision3′s Web TV Runs On Star Power

Kevin Rose, Patrick Norton, Gary Vayerchuck, Jim Louderback and crew are subjects of a Revision3 profile in the Los Angeles Times entertainment blog. Interesting facts such as “Revision3 hosts occupy about a dozen of the top 100 Twitter spots” and … Continue reading

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Twittering the California Earthquake

Twitter was first on the scene again when an estimated 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck near Los Angeles today. “So, now people tweet first and then run for safety?” one amused onlooker commented on Feedalizr. read more | digg story

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5.8 Earthquake in Chino Hills

Shook pretty good here in Irinve thought too!  Hope everyone is ok. USGS Website

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Comic-Con 2008

On Friday, July 25th, I took the day off work and traveled to the San Diego Convention Center for the 2008 Comic-Con via Amtrak trains.  When I first got to the San Diego train station, there was a massive nerd … Continue reading

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Scrabble Sues Scrabulous

Hasbro, which sells the Scrabble board game, has sued over the wildly popular knockoff on Facebook called Scrabulous Knew it was coming.  But come on, this is pretty lame.  Link to article form cnet.

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Woman kills self prior to foreclosed home being auctioned

Balderrama faxed a letter to her mortgage company at 2:30 p.m., telling them that “by the time they foreclosed on the house today she’d be dead.” The mortgage company notified police, who found her body at 3:30 p.m. She left … Continue reading

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Playstation at Comic-Con

I will surely be stopping by this booth.  I hope to come back from Comic-Con with lots of loot! Each morning from 9:30am to 12:00pm, we’ll be holding BUZZ! Quiz TV competitions on the stage, come test out your knowledge … Continue reading

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Hacker Avoids Conviction

From dvorak.org/blog A teenager from New Zealand who was accused of stealing millions of pounds has been let off without a conviction, despite pleading guilty to hacking into computers around the world.

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Blurred Out: 51 Things You Can’t See on Google Maps

For all of the places that Google Maps allows you to see, there are plenty of places that are off-limits. Whether it’s due to government restrictions, personal-privacy lawsuits or mistakes, Google Maps has slapped a “Prohibited” sign on the following … Continue reading

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Microsoft faces lawsuit over Silverlight

From C|Net In a suit filed July 2 in San Francisco Federal Court, Gotuit charges Silverlight infringes on several of its patents and seeks an injunction against the software maker as well as damages and attorney’s fees.

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