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10 Insanely Expensive Nerdy Holiday Gifts - Topless Robot
It is that time of year again, boys and girls: the holidays. Time to spend outrageous amounts of money on things for those nearest and dearest to you. These days, even those of us who are relatively well-off don't have that much to spend. But what if, my friends: what if? What if you were free to drop as much filthy lucre as your grubby heart desired? And not on something sensible like a car or a dishwasher, but something grand and bold and nonsensical?
Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient Mayan city in the mountains of North Georgia believed to be at least 1,100 years old. According to Richard Thornton at Examiner.com , the ruins are reportedly what remains of a city built by Mayans fleeing wars, volcanic eruptions, droughts and famine. In 1999, University of Georgia archeologist Mark Williams led an expedition to investigate the Kenimer Mound, a large, five-sided pyramid built in approximately 900 A.D. in the foothills of Georgia’s tallest mountain, Brasstown Bald. Many local residents has assumed for years that the pyramid was just another wooded hill, but in fact it was a structure built on an existing hill in a method common to Mayans living in Central America as well as to Southeastern Native American tribes. Speculation has abounded for years as to what could have happened to the people who lived in the great Meso-American societies of the first century.
1,100-year-old Mayan ruins found in North Georgia | The Raw Story
Witness The Nerdiest Holiday Crime Ever Committed | Happy Place
Headline is inaccurate. Should read, "Real-Life Freaking Jedi Triumphs In Light Saber Battle." He fought off tasers with the thing. He's a Jedi for true! We just feel bad for the arresting officer having to listen to him try the "I'm not the light saber assault suspect you're looking for" mind trick over and over again all the way to the station.
The good folks at Allegiance are hosting my blog, so after you’re done, feel free to look around. This project is near and dear to me! And if you are already an Allegianite and have LIKED the page on Facebook, then my deepest thanks, and enjoy my blog!
Are you a Takei Merch-anary? - Allegiance
My thanks to Apparent for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote their just-announced Doxie Go — a tiny, portable, wireless scanner that works anywhere and syncs directly to a Mac, iPhone, or iPad. Utterly Mac-like software, and integrates easily with just about any imaginable workflow. Save scans to Dropbox, Evernote, Yojimbo, your iPhone/iPad photo roll, or keep them in the Doxie app. Doxie Go helps you go not just paperless, but wireless. Pre-order now for just $199.
Doxie Go - Scan Anywhere - For Mac, PC, iPhone, & iPad
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March 30 The misleading assault on the president’s energy policies continues. A conservative group’s TV ad claims “we will all pay more at the pump” because the administration “blocked” the Keystone XL pipeline. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell claims that the pipeline “could have brought 700,000 barrels of oil to the market … More >>
Online Advertiser Settles FTC Charges ScanScout Deceptively Used Flash Cookies to Track Consumers Online
For Release: 11/8/2011 Online advertiser ScanScout has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceptively claimed that consumers could opt out of receiving targeted ads by changing their computer’s web browser settings to block cookies. In fact, ScanScout used Flash cookies, which browser settings could not block. The proposed settlement bars misrepresentations about the company’s data-collection practices and consumers’ ability to control collection of their data.There are millions of Batman fans out there on the internet. Many of them will have smart phones, and may be using any number of a vast array of geo-location applications. And I will bet each of them thought they were really cool, ironic and unique when they added “The Bat Cave” as a spot on the map, so they could check-in to it. Go to pretty much any city, in any geo-location site (such as Gowalla, foursquare or Facebook Places) and you will find multiple entries for “Bat Cave”. Although, if I were the kind of person with a secret lair, then right now would be a great time to add it multiple times on geo-location sites. Add it in so many different locations that the bad-guys will have no idea which is the real location.
To the Batcave | Agent-X Comics
These zombies don't just shamble around and moan about braaainz. You can dress them up, change their hairstyles and facial features, and watch them dance. There's even a minigame inside the game that lets you earn "cursed coinage" to buy more cool stuff for your pet zombie. Just don’t ignore your zombie for too long (about a day or so, depending on how much you feed him) or he’ll get depressed and shamble back into his grave. Rezombification is just a few clicks, but you wouldn’t want to put your zombie through that again, would you?
My Pet Zombie for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), and iPad on the iTunes App Store
Anonymity can be both a good thing and a bad thing. It can be a vehicle for a more liberated exchange of ideas or it can unlock the more evil side of human nature. A testament to this is the proliferation of what we now call ‘trolls’. Trolls are people whose actions online are for the sole purpose of causing harm to others, more often than not to cause simple annoyance. Some trolls can be nonsensical, perhaps even a bit amusing.
Trolls Create Mock Memorial Facebook Page for Dead Miners
The Tropism Well, an Ingenious Sculptural Drinking Fountain
The “Tropism Well” is a sculptural drinking fountain that, when approached, bends and pours a pitcher of water . The sculpture is by the UK-based Poietic design studio. An elegant sculptural installation piece, The Tropism Well is both beautiful and intriguing. It is also unashamedly functional, existing simply to quench your thirst. When you approach one it will gently bow down and pour water into your glass. Through the synthesis of nature and technology, these structures explore the relationships we have with objects and spaces that surround us on a daily basis.The tussle over whether Arrington's move to become a VC represented a journalistic conflict of interest has consumed the tech press. Its basic outline is a now-familiar, tedious one—new media versus old media. The New York Times ' David Carr and AllThingsD's Kara Swisher , both old-school journos, have come out against Arrington's situation, while many bloggers have defended him. The most passionate defense came from TechCrunch's best writer, MG Siegler, who wrote on his personal blog that Arrington's investments in startups couldn't possibly color TechCrunch's blog posts, because Arrington doesn't have much say in who writes what at TechCrunch anyway.
Michael Arrington, TechCrunch: How the site changed startup culture. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
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