My LinkedIn Life (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago | Technology
Today we’re announcing a partnership between LinkedIn and Twitter – and new features that we think are going to make both Twitter and LinkedIn more powerful for you. These new features will be rolling out gradually over the next couple of days. The idea is simple: When you set your status on LinkedIn you can now [...]
The Official Google Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
We're happy to announce today that we have signed an agreement to acquire AdMob, a mobile display advertising company based in San Mateo, CA. AdMob is a great Silicon Valley story — founded in 2006 by Omar Hamoui when he couldn't find good ways to generate traffic for his mobile site. Over the past few years, Omar and his talented team have built a thriving company with great mobile advertising...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago | Technology
In an interview yesterday, Nvidia CEO revealed two things: First, their sleek tablet prototype, which looks just like my wet dream Apple Tablet concept : Simple, thin, and omfgIwantone. Then, he declared his enraptured love for all things Apple: [In my home we are] all Apple. Apple uses the best technology for their [computers]. Apple says to their customers: if you buy a computer from us you can...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago | Other
Holiday season air travel just got a little less crappy—freebie access starts today, and runs through to January 15. Read on for the full list of airports, and info on free Wi-Fi promos from Yahoo and Microsoft, too. You may also remember that Google already said it would foot the bill for Virgin America Wi-Fi during the same period. The catch? Once you log into the network, you'll be pestered...
jkOnTheRun (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago | Technology
The holiday season is rapidly approaching and it’s always a delight when companies give back to us in the spirit of the season. Our friends at GottaBeMobile are pointing out not one company giving back, but three. It seems that Google is filling up 47 airports in the U. S. and flights on Virgin Air, [...]
OS X Daily (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago | Technology
Mac OS X 10.6.2 has been released, for most Mac users this is great news because it fixes over 40 problems and bugs, including the rare but very problematic user account deletion bug. If you have an official Apple Mac then go right ahead and update to Mac OS X 10.6.2, but if you [...]
The Plum Line (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
In a move that will intensify the coming war over how to treat abortion in the health care bill, more than three dozen House Dems have signed a letter to Nancy Pelosi firmly pledging to vote against the bill if it contains an anti-abortion amendment. A source sends over a working copy of the letter [...]
core77.com (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
Kibardin Design's suh-weet Deep Forest chair is the opposite of all of the "holey" chairs we've been seeing lately; it's made from 374 dowels, joined and shaped into a comfortable seating surface. As you might guess, this amount of craftsmanship doesn't come cheap--the chair goes for 4,399 Euros. (more...)
FactoryCity (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
Image based on Kevin Van Aelst’s original. Since it’s apparently all the rage to design your own features for Twitter now, I figured I’d build on my success with the hashtag and crank out a few more. All of these are simple conventions for adding more standard metadata to a post in a specific, uniform way. The Slasher First, [...]
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
Hey ladies! Congressman Pete Sessions of Texas thinks you should pay more for your insurance because you chose to have all that crazy plumbing with its nook and crannies down there instead of a good old fashioned American penis.
/Film (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago | Entertainment
A-Team fans rejoice, it appears that there will be at least one nod to the classic '80s action franchise in Joe Carnahan's upcoming modern remake. The Official Dwight Schultz Fansite has the word that Schultz, who played "Howling Mad" Murdock in the original series, was recently in Vancouver filming a cameo part. He even had some kind words to say about District 9's Sharlto Copely, who plays...
the How-To Geek (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
Gateway Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
He was screaming “Allahu Akbar” Janet. Janet Napolitano told an Arab audience today that anti-Muslim sentiment will not be tolerated. FOX News reported: “This was a terrible tragedy for all involved,” Napolitano told reporters in the United Arab Emirates’ capital Abu Dhabi. “Obviously, we object to — and do not believe — that anti-Muslim sentiment should...
Just Jared (Free subscription) | yesterday | Entertainment
Demi Moore looks golden in Balmain’s leather and metal mesh dress on the December 2009 cover of W Magazine. Here are some interview highlights from the 46-year-old actress: On being labeled a “cougar” for marrying 31-year-old Ashton Kutcher: “I’m certainly not the first person to be in a relationship with a younger man, but somehow [...]
Makezine (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
The deceptively simple coil proves incredibly useful in the world of electronics - the inductor's ability to store energy in an electromagnetic field is the key to making transformers, electromagnets, and many more components work. It truly is an awesome device! I knew little of how inductors worked before starting out on this vid. In fact, none of the circuits I've built ever called for them specifically....
