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July 16th, 2008

Here Comes Everybody

Here Comes Everybody

After hearing Clay Shirky’s brilliant speech at the Web 2.0 Expo, I just had to grab his first book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations.

I wasn’t disappointed. Read More

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By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment

July 16th, 2008

The Cure for AIDS is… Lupus?

Researchers at the University of Texas Medical School believe they may have found a weak point in the human immunodeficiency virus. Read More

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By Mike Abundo -- 2 comments

July 16th, 2008

WordPress 2.6: Google Gears of War

Now this is how software should be upgraded! WordPress 2.6 ships with a plethora of cool and useful new features, minus the usual backward compatibility headaches. I just installed it on my personal blog, and it’s already making my life easier. Read More

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By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment

July 12th, 2008

Secret Firefox Features!

Firefox Automated Commenting

We all know about Firefox 3’s biggest new features, from the awesome bar to the memory efficiency — but did you know about the automated commenting and the future pages? Check out five new Firefox features you probably don’t know about.

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By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments

July 12th, 2008

Google Lively Does Not Make Me Lively

I like to think I’m an okay gamer. I’ve been playing video games since the Atari 2600, so I can move fairly well within virtual worlds. I can Crippling Slash enemy monks in Guild Wars just as well as I can hoverboard with friendly girls in There.

Maybe that’s why my expectations of Google Lively might seem a little high. Given that games are bigger than movies, however, those expectations could soon become merely average. Read More

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By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment

July 12th, 2008

iPhone 3G: Will It Blend?

Once again, I’m so glad I don’t own an iPhone. As if to commemorate the great iPhone 2.0 activation snafu, Blendtec blends an iPhone 3G.

Will it blend? Hell, will it activate?

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By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments

July 12th, 2008

Goodbye ZoneAlarm!

ZoneAlarm

I was a loyal ZoneAlarm firewall user for years. Despite its annoying prompts and resource-hogging, I stuck with it through multiple versions. Even after ZoneAlarm developer Check Point foolishly dropped the software’s cool red-and-yellow logo for the boring green-and-blue one, I still stuck with it.

Today, I uninstalled ZoneAlarm, and I am never installing it again. Here’s the sequence of events that led to this painful breakup. Read More

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By Mike Abundo -- 3 comments

July 10th, 2008

Gouken in Street Fighter IV?

The new anime trailer for Street Fighter IV features Gouken, the master of Ryu and Ken. Note that it is not April 1st. Read More

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By Mike Abundo -- 3 comments

July 7th, 2008

Hentai Rape Tentacle Generator

To borrow a phrase from Samuel L. Jackson, I have had it with these motherfucking snakes in this motherfucking ocean. That’s okay, though, because the Anaconda is a proposed 23-foot wide, 620-foot long generator that harnesses ocean waves to power a thousand homes. No big-ass rubber snakes in the ocean yet, but miniature versions in wave tanks are showing promise.

Yes, it looks like a giant robotic hentai rape tentacle. Get used to it, because you might see these long dongs floating across the ocean soon.

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By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments

July 3rd, 2008

Firefox 3 Download Day Certificate

Firefox 3 Download Day Certificate

Despite being inexcusably unprepared for the server load, the Mozilla Foundation made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours. Firefox 3 Download Day scored an official tally of 8,002,530 downloads, exceeding their goal of 5,000,000. Read More

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By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments