Posts Tagged ‘ This ’

Smack All SOPA Supporters With This Automated Robocall Service [Video]

December 28, 2011
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Smack All SOPA Supporters With This Automated Robocall Service [Video]

This is going to feel good: now you can call all supporters of SOPA and PIPA, the dreadful US internet censorship laws, using a simple web site. Just record your very own message, pay some dollars and fire away. More » Gizmodo

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Square To Beef Up Card Reader Security This Summer (And VeriFone Wasn’t So Wrong, After All)

April 29, 2011
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Square To Beef Up Card Reader Security This Summer (And VeriFone Wasn’t So Wrong, After All)

Yesterday was a big day for hot mobile payments startup Square. The company announced that it received a strategic investment from Visa, giving the company a big stamp approval. And it also announced something that got far less attention: Square will be releasing a new card reader (the thing you plug into your phone)...

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This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: The Fall of Dyna-Woman [Video]

April 1, 2011
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This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: The Fall of Dyna-Woman [Video]

I’m not sure which is more disturbing: how easily Rainn Wilson slips into the role of a washed-up Wonder Woman parody, or just how much skin he’s showing off in said parody. Oh, who am I kidding. It’s the skin. More » Gizmodo

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This Is the Most Beautiful and Terrifying Portrait of Earth I’ve Seen [Video]

February 6, 2011
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This Is the Most Beautiful and Terrifying Portrait of Earth I’ve Seen [Video]

Over the course of 15 years, award-winning photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand crafted the most beautiful view of the Earth I’ve ever seen on the silver screen: Home is an exquisite vision of our world, full of pure bliss—and terrifying scenes. More » Gizmodo

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This New Design for the Post-it Could Solve the Post-it’s Classic Problem [PostIt]

January 1, 2011
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This New Design for the Post-it Could Solve the Post-it’s Classic Problem [PostIt]

It might be a little hard to see, but this is a design for an improved post-it note. The paper is made from wood waste and the end of the note ends in a triangle to prevent the corners from fraying. More » Gizmodo

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START Ratification Will Probably Commence This Year: White House Press Secretary Predictions

December 11, 2010
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START Ratification Will Probably Commence This Year: White House Press Secretary Predictions

Before moving on, let’s take a look at some of the highlights of this article: • The congress, in White House’s spokesperson’s opinion, will stay in session as long as it wants to. And definitely, as long as it’ll take. • Of all the Republicans, two have declared their will for voting in favor...

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[Celebrity] Lindsay Lohan is definitely going to be released from rehab early, maybe this week (Cele|bitchy)

August 16, 2010
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F-ck, I hate it when Dina Lohan is right. And she was right about Lindsay Lohan getting out of rehab early. When Dina told Matt Lauer that Lindsay was definitely going to leave rehab ahead of her scheduled, judge-mandated 90-day treatment, many experts noted that Dina was full of it, per usual. TMZ (subscribe)...

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This Speaker Requires a Safe Listening Distance [Speakers]

July 23, 2010
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This Speaker Requires a Safe Listening Distance [Speakers]

I don’t know what your idea the perfect speaker system is, but for me it’s a cross between a alphorn and a vuvuzela, gigantic and squished. Oh, and not safe to stand near. Good thing there’s the Pnoe. More » Gizmodo

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Charlie Sheen Jail Bound — Chew on This!

July 9, 2009
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Filed under: Charlie Sheen, Brooke Mueller, Celebrity Justice Moments before Charlie Sheen boarded a plane to Aspen today, dude made sure he had the one thing a smoker needs to survive a stint in a non-smoking jail … Nicorette gum. Sheen is due in court in Aspen at 3 PM PT — where he...

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Don’t Step a Toe On This Chinese Farmer’s Land [Weapons]

June 22, 2009
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Don’t Step a Toe On This Chinese Farmer’s Land [Weapons]

Most farmers will just grab a shotgun, or phone the police when confronted with trespassers. Not Chinese farmer Yang Youde though, who fires petrol bombs from his homemade cannon—one time, he even held off 100 people. More » United States – Social Sciences – Organizations – Warfare and Conflict – Weapons Gizmodo

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